Could've Licked the Liberty Bell

Last Saturday, I found myself with an entire day off and took advantage of the time to go to Philadelphia.  I was able to spend a casual day in the Independence Hall area, visiting the Hall and nearby buildings along with the Liberty Bell.  After I saw the stuff downtown, I went to the Edgar Allan Poe house just to see what it was.  There wasn't much there in terms of artifacts, but the house was well-preserved.  It was very pretty, but also a great place to tell ghost stories and the people that worked there were extremely welcoming and friendly.  I very much enjoyed my day and the fact that I'm close enough to do this sort of thing.  Now if only Boston were a bit closer...

Picture time!

Title quote is from an episode of 'How I Met Your Mother'

Independence Hall

Revisting an pose from when I didn't have to reach down to hold the handle

Edgar Allan Poe cellar.  Creepy.

   

Jersey: Weeks 1 and 2

Okay.  I have now been at the Shakespeare Theatre for two weeks.  The first week there was not a whole lot going on for me.  I spent a lot of time waiting for essentially nothing.  The second week was extremely busy.  We're rehearsing from 10-10 every day with lunch and dinner.  The good news is, we staged the entire show and put the whole show together after one week of rehearsals.  The bad news is, there's not much time to work on show stuff (much less anything else) outside of rehearsal.

My second show starts rehearsing this week.  The girl who is stage managing this one will be my assistant for the next one and it's all the same actors (different directors).  There are days we'll be rehearsing for both plays in the same day.  Eventually, the actors will be taking both the shows to various places around New Jersey (there's a third stage management intern that will be traveling with them; I'm not going to do any traveling).  It'll be interesting to see how it all works out, but I'd say we've made good progress so far!

The atmosphere up here is wonderful, although I've been told that Madison is not like the rest of New Jersey.  Whatever the case, I'm enjoying this little borough.  Here are some of the things I have run into up here.

Passed these folks on the way to the post office.  You know, no big deal.

This is my first picture of a chipmunk next to my successful picture of a chipmunk.

I met this guy on my dinner break one night.  He was in our kitchen.

 

Goof Up

Too funny not to share...

I received an email today, boldly proclaiming that my pictures from graduation were ready and I could order a professional shot of me with my diploma in front of various fake backgrounds.  The thumbnails in the email looked odd, so I went to the site and quickly realized what the problem was: it's not me.  The girl in the photos is actually the girl who graduated directly before me.

So.  If anyone wants pictures of the music major that went before me, I can hook you up ;)