A quick jump across country
So I'm back home again, and have been for about 4 days, but have been dead broke and working constantly so pretty unsocial, but here's the update on the goodness:
So the trip out to NYC took approx 23 hours of travel time, made 3 hours longer by a delay at LAX. Took the train to LA then flew out to Laguardia. Spent my 3 hour layover talking to this old guy from the Bronx who was coming back from Hawaii with his daughter's cats & dog. He was having a hell of a time getting someone to go check on them. We talked about the city for a few hours and smoked in the little glass case.
For some reason I have baby karma with planes. I'm always positioned adjacent to a screaming and/or kicking 2 year old for my flight...
Got into NYC about 10 am and cabbed into town, to be interrupted by the St. Paddy's parade. Got out and hit the subway to get up town. Went to lunch at Cafe Swish with Timmy and talked about relationships and life and the idea of living the Bohemian life as opposed to the reality of being constantly broke and hungry.
Tim gave me a random tip on one of the interview questions: The baseball one. Apparently there was a tyurn of the century writer named Ring Lardner who wrote, among other things, several plays about baseball. So two months after resigning myself to accepting that question as just a baseball question I'm searching the stacks of the New York Public Library for anything involving Ring Lardner!
After giving up on that I went down to Chelsea to actually locate the Atlantic so I didn't get lost in the morning, then on the way back uptown wound up sitting next to John Lithgow on the #9! The conversation went basically like this:
Me: Excuse me, are you John Lithgow?
John Lithgow: Yes, yes I am.
Me: Wow! What are you doing on the subway?
John Lithgow: I need to get Uptown.
Me: Makes sense... My names Matthew. Do mind if I ask you something?
John Lithgow: As long as it's not about TV.
Me: No, no, I'm interviewing for the Atlantic Theatre tomorrow. You worked there for a while, right?
JL: Yes, about 10 years ago.
Me: What do you think of the place? Any advice?
JL: Oh they're fantastic there. Absolutely great... Oh this is my stop...
I got off there too. 50th street. Right in frond of Kaza'a Applebee's. Decided to stop in and see if she was working. She was, sort of. We headed down to the Village for a few St. Paddy's drinks and talk. Went to Jeckyll and Hyde, which is sort of an adult, twisted Chuck E. Cheese with talking skeletons and mummies on the walls, but they had Guinness on tap! Then over to Marie's Crisis to listen to this incredible songwriter to his thing, followed by showtune singalong. Timmy joined us and we headed out again for $2 fallafel and another bar which reminded me a lot of the Library, but bigger. Turned in early so's I could sleep for the interview.
The Interview went increibally fantastic! I got there early and was buzzed in. Met with Brandon Thompson, thier current admissions guy, who's younger than me. We talked about the program, looked around the building, talked about my homework (it was just a baseball question!) and all in all really god a great feeling about this. He said I should expect to hear from them in a few weeks, when thier current director gets back from the UK!
So after St paddy's I had $5 to live on until I got home. A lot of reading and eating of pasta/rice and talking with Tim! The got in the plane with a new baby kicking my seat and headed home. Life is good.
Reader's Digest version:
The trip was great, the interview was great, and with exception of money woes, life is great!
So the trip out to NYC took approx 23 hours of travel time, made 3 hours longer by a delay at LAX. Took the train to LA then flew out to Laguardia. Spent my 3 hour layover talking to this old guy from the Bronx who was coming back from Hawaii with his daughter's cats & dog. He was having a hell of a time getting someone to go check on them. We talked about the city for a few hours and smoked in the little glass case.
For some reason I have baby karma with planes. I'm always positioned adjacent to a screaming and/or kicking 2 year old for my flight...
Got into NYC about 10 am and cabbed into town, to be interrupted by the St. Paddy's parade. Got out and hit the subway to get up town. Went to lunch at Cafe Swish with Timmy and talked about relationships and life and the idea of living the Bohemian life as opposed to the reality of being constantly broke and hungry.
Tim gave me a random tip on one of the interview questions: The baseball one. Apparently there was a tyurn of the century writer named Ring Lardner who wrote, among other things, several plays about baseball. So two months after resigning myself to accepting that question as just a baseball question I'm searching the stacks of the New York Public Library for anything involving Ring Lardner!
After giving up on that I went down to Chelsea to actually locate the Atlantic so I didn't get lost in the morning, then on the way back uptown wound up sitting next to John Lithgow on the #9! The conversation went basically like this:
Me: Excuse me, are you John Lithgow?
John Lithgow: Yes, yes I am.
Me: Wow! What are you doing on the subway?
John Lithgow: I need to get Uptown.
Me: Makes sense... My names Matthew. Do mind if I ask you something?
John Lithgow: As long as it's not about TV.
Me: No, no, I'm interviewing for the Atlantic Theatre tomorrow. You worked there for a while, right?
JL: Yes, about 10 years ago.
Me: What do you think of the place? Any advice?
JL: Oh they're fantastic there. Absolutely great... Oh this is my stop...
I got off there too. 50th street. Right in frond of Kaza'a Applebee's. Decided to stop in and see if she was working. She was, sort of. We headed down to the Village for a few St. Paddy's drinks and talk. Went to Jeckyll and Hyde, which is sort of an adult, twisted Chuck E. Cheese with talking skeletons and mummies on the walls, but they had Guinness on tap! Then over to Marie's Crisis to listen to this incredible songwriter to his thing, followed by showtune singalong. Timmy joined us and we headed out again for $2 fallafel and another bar which reminded me a lot of the Library, but bigger. Turned in early so's I could sleep for the interview.
The Interview went increibally fantastic! I got there early and was buzzed in. Met with Brandon Thompson, thier current admissions guy, who's younger than me. We talked about the program, looked around the building, talked about my homework (it was just a baseball question!) and all in all really god a great feeling about this. He said I should expect to hear from them in a few weeks, when thier current director gets back from the UK!
So after St paddy's I had $5 to live on until I got home. A lot of reading and eating of pasta/rice and talking with Tim! The got in the plane with a new baby kicking my seat and headed home. Life is good.
Reader's Digest version:
The trip was great, the interview was great, and with exception of money woes, life is great!