Saturday, April 28, 2007

A better part of my day at the theater

Today, I had to wake up at 10 because I had to be at a burial service for my paternal grandma at 11. It was out in the suburbs, and it was about a 45 minute drive, so we had to leave about 10:15. She passed away Feb. 1, and was cremated. We threw some of the ashes of Peanut Butter Ridge on Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, the same place where some of my paternal grandfather's ashes are. But the rest we buried today, in the cemetary across the street from the montessori school she founded. After the burial, we went out to brunch. I had a chocolate crepe. Afterwards, my aunt inquired about getting someone to speak to the montessori kids (she now runs the school) about the Department of Peace, which I am promoting through the Peace Alliance. I volunteered myself. She also said maybe I could talk to the high school kids at the high school that my cousins went to. Now I have to find a date between now and their graduation when I can come talk, and prepare something. At about 1, we headed back to town, and we got back at around 2. I mowed my dad's lawn (I had been with my dad ever since he picked me up at my mom's at 10), and then went to the theater for rehearsal at 4. It was possibly the shortest rehearsal ever, with us jut running one song. We were done by 5:30. Nobody's getting used to that though, as tech week is next week. I then walked to my mom's, and played computer games here until 7:20, when I walked back to the theater to go to their hit show that is now closing after 7 years. I think I'm the only company member of the theater that's never been in it. Anyway, on the way there, there was an ambulance and firetruck stopped with their lights on, but I didn't see any action. I got to the theater at 7:40, and waited around until two castmembers of the show that I'm rehearsing for now showed up. The fiancee of another of my castmembers (and a member of the cast of the show we were about to see) was there, and it turns out it was his birthday. This was like the fifth time I've seen the show, but the first in two or three years. It was really funny. When it was over, I hung around a little and talked to a few people (there were quite a few company members and/or castmembers of the show I'm rehearsing for in this show), and then when they all went off to the bar that all the people from the theater always go to after rehearsal/shows, I walked home, as I can't go in the bar. When I got home, I looked at new posts on Engrish.com, one of my favorite websites. It is so funny. It's mis-translations, if you will, of Japanese/Chinese text into English. Now I am too tired to do anything more, so I am turning it in for the night.

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