turns out i was a vampire myself
WELL. What a last couple of days it has been. Before I talk about that, however, I must state for the record that my position of Bringer of the Good Crack? Is so very much confirmed forever and ever, amen. I've had one of those glorious days when I do NOTHING but sit around and be a bum and perhaps watch copious amounts of S1 'Friday Night Lights' (I'm about 3/4 through and IF YOU SPOIL ME, I WILL CUT YOU). During this time, Sister was spinning in the next room while occasionally drifting by to see what I was watching. When I moved upstairs for the night, I drifted past her spinning wheel to see what she was up to and caught her already on Ep3 of FNL.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! My powers are INDISPUTABLE. NO ONE can withstand my awesome.
Kind of like how no one can deny that Jared and Jensen are in love now that the CRAZY AWESOME videos from Chicago are being uploaded and I promise, that's all you'll hear on the subject from me but OMG it had to be said. ;) ANYWAY. I keep forgetting to post because I keep telling the story to RL friends and that y'all are still hanging. :)
Basically, the day rocked pretty hardcore. There were four other prospectives there besides myself, which reduced the pressure tenfold from the start. First on the agenda was to sit in on an undergrad course- I went to a small one on Renaissance theatre taught by the prof I'd been in contact with earlier, who turned out to be pretty cool. After class, we got taken out to lunch at an on-campus restaurant (like, a REAL restaurant, with cloth napkins and waiters and the mind BOGGLES that this is what happens when you have a football team that wins games). Three of the professors came with us and we were all asked the inevitable, So what sort of research are you interested in?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I should have TOTALLY expected it and yet I had NOTHING. I kind of rambled on about how I was still interested in the themes of my undergrad thesis and by the third time I went through it, it sounded pretty decent but WOW was I floundering in the beginning.
I eventually got to sit next to Frank, the prof whose class I sat in on and got to talk about the Globe with him, as it turns out he's on the architectural board and has been since day 1. So, AWESOME. I may have geeked out a wee bit about my love for the place, but mostly kept it in check and said sensible things about the Mark Rylance era vs. Dominic Dromgoole but then I happened to mention being at the Globe just after the Doctor Who episode aired and guys, I kid y'all not when I say that he SWOOPED as much as one can while sitting side by side and was all, Oh! I haven't seen it! Has it aired in the US yet? Does it air here? WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME??? *chortles*
I was SUAVE, y'all. I explained about how it had aired this summer and was Great Fun* and assured him the DVDs were coming out soon. At his urging, I even promised to email him that info (and have already done so, never fear). But, yeah. HA! XD!!
After lunch, we walked back to the theatre department and were given a tour of their kickass facilities by one of the grad students. We also got to sit and talk with three more students for another hour before heading over to a grad class. We knew we were in for a treat when we were directed, not into a classroom, but rather into one of the black box rehearsal spaces, where there was a circle of chairs, tango music playing, and FIVE BOTTLES OF WINE. The wine was left over from some function earlier in the week and the tango was to be our topic of discussion, as the students had read an ethnography of Argentinian tango for class that week. We were treated to a demonstration by the professor and one of the students (who was a professional dancer for years before entering the PhD program) and then got to stand and give it a go ourselves.
So, yes, they WINED AND DINED US, and proceeded to SHOW US HOW TO TANGO. If this is grad school? SIGN ME UP. After the class, we had been given comps to see their production of 'The Physicists', a play I wasn't really familiar with before seeing it. In many ways, the play itself was a bit of a mess, but some of the students in the cast were AWESOME and guys, that SET. The COSTUMES. They DRIPPED with money. It made me WEEP for how little we had to work with in comparison at Haverford, but that's a post for another day. It was a good day that left me with a lot to think about and the hope that I made a good impression.
Saturday I met up with cisic to go to the Marlowe Symposium hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre, which turned out to be pretty kickass. I managed to steer clear of the Wrath of Kahn, EVEN WHEN he was like, TWO FEET away from me and maybe we walked up the stairs side by side at the lunch break and I remained UNSCATHED. There were some interesting panels but the highlight for me was definitely when some of the actors from the Company came and performed a selection of Marlowe's poetry. Michael Mulligan is SO VERY MUCH my current Company boyfriend and actually maybe has been since I saw him in Don Juan two seasons ago because YES, he IS that good. He read four of the poems Marlowe translated from Ovid and DUDE. HOTNESS. As awesome as Aubrey Deeker later was as Hero, my favorite part of the 'Hero and Leander' reading was definitely Michael's quizzical reaction to the description of H's lustrous and flowing hair, as AD's is currently very short for his role as Hortensio in Shrew. Oh, how I giggled and tried to be subtle about it, as C had nabbed us front row seats because she is Awesome and a true equal in Dorkiness. ;)
* Ok, no one will get this, but back in my days as a member of the League listserv, the Scarlet Pimpernel fans had much fondness for this phrase. This is because there used to be a giant poster outside the Minskoff that featured a larger than life Douglas Sills in his role of Sir Percy, lounging beautifull in a chair in his study. On the poster was text from a review of the show: "Great fun!" In a brilliant and happy accident (one assumes), someone had put that text right between Mr. Sills elegantly lolling legs. AWESOME. So yes, every time I use the words Great Fun, I am imagining that spectacular poster and the delight it brought to so many members of the League in its glory days.
And that should bring me back to the present! Tomorrow I have plans to meet up with westerly for lunch and MORE Friday Night Lights before meeting my choir girls for the LONG AWAITED dinner we've been trying to plan since this summer. That, and someone needs to remind me to return some overdue library books. Flist, that is your charge. If I incur a fine, it is ALL on you. ;)
HAHAHAHAHAHA! My powers are INDISPUTABLE. NO ONE can withstand my awesome.
Kind of like how no one can deny that Jared and Jensen are in love now that the CRAZY AWESOME videos from Chicago are being uploaded and I promise, that's all you'll hear on the subject from me but OMG it had to be said. ;) ANYWAY. I keep forgetting to post because I keep telling the story to RL friends and that y'all are still hanging. :)
Basically, the day rocked pretty hardcore. There were four other prospectives there besides myself, which reduced the pressure tenfold from the start. First on the agenda was to sit in on an undergrad course- I went to a small one on Renaissance theatre taught by the prof I'd been in contact with earlier, who turned out to be pretty cool. After class, we got taken out to lunch at an on-campus restaurant (like, a REAL restaurant, with cloth napkins and waiters and the mind BOGGLES that this is what happens when you have a football team that wins games). Three of the professors came with us and we were all asked the inevitable, So what sort of research are you interested in?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I should have TOTALLY expected it and yet I had NOTHING. I kind of rambled on about how I was still interested in the themes of my undergrad thesis and by the third time I went through it, it sounded pretty decent but WOW was I floundering in the beginning.
I eventually got to sit next to Frank, the prof whose class I sat in on and got to talk about the Globe with him, as it turns out he's on the architectural board and has been since day 1. So, AWESOME. I may have geeked out a wee bit about my love for the place, but mostly kept it in check and said sensible things about the Mark Rylance era vs. Dominic Dromgoole but then I happened to mention being at the Globe just after the Doctor Who episode aired and guys, I kid y'all not when I say that he SWOOPED as much as one can while sitting side by side and was all, Oh! I haven't seen it! Has it aired in the US yet? Does it air here? WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME??? *chortles*
I was SUAVE, y'all. I explained about how it had aired this summer and was Great Fun* and assured him the DVDs were coming out soon. At his urging, I even promised to email him that info (and have already done so, never fear). But, yeah. HA! XD!!
After lunch, we walked back to the theatre department and were given a tour of their kickass facilities by one of the grad students. We also got to sit and talk with three more students for another hour before heading over to a grad class. We knew we were in for a treat when we were directed, not into a classroom, but rather into one of the black box rehearsal spaces, where there was a circle of chairs, tango music playing, and FIVE BOTTLES OF WINE. The wine was left over from some function earlier in the week and the tango was to be our topic of discussion, as the students had read an ethnography of Argentinian tango for class that week. We were treated to a demonstration by the professor and one of the students (who was a professional dancer for years before entering the PhD program) and then got to stand and give it a go ourselves.
So, yes, they WINED AND DINED US, and proceeded to SHOW US HOW TO TANGO. If this is grad school? SIGN ME UP. After the class, we had been given comps to see their production of 'The Physicists', a play I wasn't really familiar with before seeing it. In many ways, the play itself was a bit of a mess, but some of the students in the cast were AWESOME and guys, that SET. The COSTUMES. They DRIPPED with money. It made me WEEP for how little we had to work with in comparison at Haverford, but that's a post for another day. It was a good day that left me with a lot to think about and the hope that I made a good impression.
Saturday I met up with cisic to go to the Marlowe Symposium hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre, which turned out to be pretty kickass. I managed to steer clear of the Wrath of Kahn, EVEN WHEN he was like, TWO FEET away from me and maybe we walked up the stairs side by side at the lunch break and I remained UNSCATHED. There were some interesting panels but the highlight for me was definitely when some of the actors from the Company came and performed a selection of Marlowe's poetry. Michael Mulligan is SO VERY MUCH my current Company boyfriend and actually maybe has been since I saw him in Don Juan two seasons ago because YES, he IS that good. He read four of the poems Marlowe translated from Ovid and DUDE. HOTNESS. As awesome as Aubrey Deeker later was as Hero, my favorite part of the 'Hero and Leander' reading was definitely Michael's quizzical reaction to the description of H's lustrous and flowing hair, as AD's is currently very short for his role as Hortensio in Shrew. Oh, how I giggled and tried to be subtle about it, as C had nabbed us front row seats because she is Awesome and a true equal in Dorkiness. ;)
* Ok, no one will get this, but back in my days as a member of the League listserv, the Scarlet Pimpernel fans had much fondness for this phrase. This is because there used to be a giant poster outside the Minskoff that featured a larger than life Douglas Sills in his role of Sir Percy, lounging beautifull in a chair in his study. On the poster was text from a review of the show: "Great fun!" In a brilliant and happy accident (one assumes), someone had put that text right between Mr. Sills elegantly lolling legs. AWESOME. So yes, every time I use the words Great Fun, I am imagining that spectacular poster and the delight it brought to so many members of the League in its glory days.
And that should bring me back to the present! Tomorrow I have plans to meet up with westerly for lunch and MORE Friday Night Lights before meeting my choir girls for the LONG AWAITED dinner we've been trying to plan since this summer. That, and someone needs to remind me to return some overdue library books. Flist, that is your charge. If I incur a fine, it is ALL on you. ;)