1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? Presented at a conference. Went to New York City.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I actually can't remember if I made any, but I shall make some for the new year for sure.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No, but my sister-in-law Rosie and my brother Michael are expecting their first child (Cruz Antonio Thomas) before the year is out.
4. Did anyone close to you die? Nope.
5. What countries did you visit? None. I was in Talla-classy most of the year.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? Two roommates for the whole year.
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? November 4th. Election day. I spent the day excited and on edge, and I spent the evening with friends watching the results come in and drinking gin.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Getting my Master's Degree / Finishing my thesis.
9. What was your biggest failure? I have had a lot. Mostly I would say my teaching is the biggest failure of the year, but there is much to learn, time to grow, and I will get better.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Yeah. Weirdly enough I threw out my back at the beginning of summer and had to go to a chiropractor and get it fixed. Much better now, though.
11. What was the best thing you bought? My book-organizing software. Now I won't buy things I already have. I have so many books; it was about time I found some way to catalogue them.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? So many people! My friends Mike and Brandee got married, and my friends Isaac and Christina got married. I am so happy for both couples, though I was unable to go to the weddings since I am stuck down here in South Georgia. But also my friend Wahima, who moved to the Big Apple this summer and is making her way in a big new city.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? My parents and everyone else who voted Yes on Proposition 8 in California, Proposition 2 in Florida, Proposition 102 in Arizona, and the Adoption Ban in Arkansas.
14. Where did most of your money go? Costco Wholesale. I love that place.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? My production this summer of A Midsummer Night's Dream
16. What song will always remind you of 2008? This is absurd, but "Low" by Flo Rida, featuring T Pain.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Sadder
b) thinner or fatter? Fatter
c) richer or poorer? Poorer (Yikes. 3 for 3. Not good. Tallahassee did not do me right this semester.)
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Watching movies. Visiting my friends.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Teaching.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? With my friends and family in Los Angeles and with my parents in Colorado.
21. Did you fall in love in 2008? About this. I mean, technically no, I guess, but I sure did a good job convincing myself that I was. Maybe I should just chalk it up to a "yes."
22. How many one-night stands? One.
23. What was your favorite TV program? "Slings & Arrows."
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? I don't think so. Maybe.
25. What was the best book you read? Easy: the one-two punch of Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter: on the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery? Joshua Schmidt's musical adaptation of Adding Machine.
27. What did you want and get? A boyfriend, but then I didn't want him after all as it turned out.
28. What did you want and not get? For the boy I loved to love me back. A PhD program that paid attention to me.
29. What was your favorite film of this year? So far it is Tarsem Singh's The Fall. But there are many more movies to see and I will see them all in Los Angeles when I get there!
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 27 and I cannot remember what I did. It was Spring Break, so most everyone was gone for the week. I did take a trip to a dairy farm that week, and that is one of the highlights of my year. My friends Kate, Ruth and Maria and I had a delightful time and a goat chewed on my shoulder.
31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? A better car.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? Polos and jeans.
33. What kept you sane? Fabulon: my new favorite website. Ryan. Liz.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Neil Patrick Harris. Zac Efron. Adam Sandler.
35. What political issue stirred you the most? The billion dollar bailout debacle.
36. Who did you miss? Michael Stablein. Wahima.
37. Who was the best new person you met? The queers I met at ATHE this year. Such great people: Michelle and Cassidy and Glenn and Brent and Nick and Jennifer and David.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008: You must take care of yourself. Sometimes you need to make decisions that other people do not like so that you can have time for yourself.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: No song lyrics this year. 2008 has been pretty rough. I am hoping for a better year next year.
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11 December 2008
03 December 2008
Seen This Yet?
My favorite is Jenifer Lewis. I fricking LOVE her. But you will probably recognize a lot of people, including the love of my life Neil Patrick Harris.
05 May 2007
Questionnaire from Julie. I Must Be Bored.
1. You and Jesus go out to dinner - who pays?
Jesus. I've given that man a lot over the years. I figure he owes me one.
2. You suddenly have to flee the country and adopt a new name... what would it be?
Wow. I haven't thought about this before. It would be a name from a movie. I name everything after movies. Maybe Bill Holden.
3. Pick one state in the U.S. to get rid of permanently?
Texas. Peace out. They can obsess about themselves in their own country. They do anyway.
4. You wake up as the opposite gender. What's the one thing you wanna do?
I think I'd probably masturbate.
5. Luke Skywalker or Han Solo?
Han. I'm not into blondes.
6. Toy you always wanted but never got as a child?
I seriously can't remember. I always wanted more legos, but I think I always saved up and bought them...
7. If you were this question, what would you ask?
When is the last time someone took your breath away?
8. The last time you laughed until your stomach hurt:
With Ryan, Alison & Julie the last time we went toBrothers the Warehouse.
9. What is the last movie you saw that actually scared you?
Final Destination. Don't lie. That shit is scary. I also get scared every time I watch Apocalypse Now. I never expect that fucking tiger to jump out at me.
10. Stupidest thing you've ever said out loud?
The list is pretty long. I can't remember. I say stupid shit all the time.
11. You're sentenced to death and it’s the morning of your execution: what do you want to eat?
Gin.
12. What's something that most people do that you've never done?
I've never been to New York and I have no excuse.
13. Before you die you want to go to...?
Back to Europe.
14. What’s the last thing you ate?
I drank a glass of juice. I'm turning into Shelby from Steel Magnolias
15. A wild animal you'd like to have as a pet?
A fucking wolf. That would be awesome.
16. A drug you'll never try?
N/A
17. If you were an animal, what would you be?
A bird. Maybe a goose or an owl.
18. If you had to marry someone you knew at the age of 12, who would it have been?
Oh my. That was what? The seventh grade? I think my closest friend was Michael Rodarte (I wonder if he's gay now. Probably.)
19. What's something a lot of people don't know about you?
I used to know how to play the piano. But now I don't.
20. First celebrity crush?
Matlock. And Hercule Poirot. Crimefighters are hot.
21. What's a weapon to suit your personality, habits and abilities?
Just give me a cigarette and let me burn people.
22. Best flavor of runts?
The red one.
23. Favorite breakfast bread style (pancakes, waffles, toast etc...)
Coffee cake. Yum. But I won't eat it. People with body dysmorphia don't eat things like that.
24. Favorite movie?
Network. Have you seen it? If you haven't you're missing out.
25. Worst way to die?
There aren't any that are good. But I don't want to die quickly, that's all I know.
26. Grossest injury you've ever seen?
When I cut the end of my middle finger off on Christmas Eve 2005. That was hot.
27. The worst injury you've ever had?
Nothing that bad. Except when my mother ran over my foot with the family car.
28. Favorite thing about Thanksgiving?
This quiz asks a lot of questions about food. I think this questionnaire has body dysmorphia. My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is stuffing. And gravy. I am all about gravy.
29. Sport you hate the most?
Basketball. I know the men are half-clothed and all that, but it's so boring.
30. What state in the US do you want to visit?
New York. It's time I went.
31. What's something you think would be sweet to know everything about?
Mandarin Chinese. I wish I spoke it.
32. Favorite Actor/Actress?
Lately, I'm all about Meryl Streep. My new favorite actor is Neil Patrick Harris.
33. What's one phrase you absolutely detest?
"I don't think the character would do that."
34. What makes an awesome party?
Prince.
35. What's your favorite material possession?
My books.
36. What's something that most consider an insult but you enjoy having said about you?
Does being called gay count?
37. Favorite kind of dog(s)?
Beagles. God help me those things are cute.
38. Favorite carnival food?
What is this? I have no idea.
39. Morning or night person?
Night. Mornings are for people who went to bed early.
41. Weirdest Ebay purchase?
I've never done this.
43. Its Saturday at 3am. Where are you?
Writing a paper, usually.
44. Who's your favorite friend/friends to go out with?
My boyfriend.
45. Worst job you've ever had?
I dug weeds for one day for a property manager when I was fifteen. Never again.
46. What's something your friends make fun of you for?
Being a snob is a frequent jab. And they're usually right.
47. Favorite cereal?
Golden Grahams.
48. Book you could read repeatedly?
Michael Cunningham's Flesh & Blood and Lewis Thomas's The Lives of a Cell.
49. What's the meanest thing you've ever done?
I do inappropriately unkind things all the time. Is there a scale? I sometimes tell a story of something really mean that I did after my girlfriend in high school and I broke up, but I don't want to repeat it here. It was really mean.
50. If you were drafted into a war, would you survive?
I sure as Hell would.
Jesus. I've given that man a lot over the years. I figure he owes me one.
2. You suddenly have to flee the country and adopt a new name... what would it be?
Wow. I haven't thought about this before. It would be a name from a movie. I name everything after movies. Maybe Bill Holden.
3. Pick one state in the U.S. to get rid of permanently?
Texas. Peace out. They can obsess about themselves in their own country. They do anyway.
4. You wake up as the opposite gender. What's the one thing you wanna do?
I think I'd probably masturbate.
5. Luke Skywalker or Han Solo?
Han. I'm not into blondes.
6. Toy you always wanted but never got as a child?
I seriously can't remember. I always wanted more legos, but I think I always saved up and bought them...
7. If you were this question, what would you ask?
When is the last time someone took your breath away?
8. The last time you laughed until your stomach hurt:
With Ryan, Alison & Julie the last time we went to
9. What is the last movie you saw that actually scared you?
Final Destination. Don't lie. That shit is scary. I also get scared every time I watch Apocalypse Now. I never expect that fucking tiger to jump out at me.
10. Stupidest thing you've ever said out loud?
The list is pretty long. I can't remember. I say stupid shit all the time.
11. You're sentenced to death and it’s the morning of your execution: what do you want to eat?
Gin.
12. What's something that most people do that you've never done?
I've never been to New York and I have no excuse.
13. Before you die you want to go to...?
Back to Europe.
14. What’s the last thing you ate?
I drank a glass of juice. I'm turning into Shelby from Steel Magnolias
15. A wild animal you'd like to have as a pet?
A fucking wolf. That would be awesome.
16. A drug you'll never try?
N/A
17. If you were an animal, what would you be?
A bird. Maybe a goose or an owl.
18. If you had to marry someone you knew at the age of 12, who would it have been?
Oh my. That was what? The seventh grade? I think my closest friend was Michael Rodarte (I wonder if he's gay now. Probably.)
19. What's something a lot of people don't know about you?
I used to know how to play the piano. But now I don't.
20. First celebrity crush?
Matlock. And Hercule Poirot. Crimefighters are hot.
21. What's a weapon to suit your personality, habits and abilities?
Just give me a cigarette and let me burn people.
22. Best flavor of runts?
The red one.
23. Favorite breakfast bread style (pancakes, waffles, toast etc...)
Coffee cake. Yum. But I won't eat it. People with body dysmorphia don't eat things like that.
24. Favorite movie?
Network. Have you seen it? If you haven't you're missing out.
25. Worst way to die?
There aren't any that are good. But I don't want to die quickly, that's all I know.
26. Grossest injury you've ever seen?
When I cut the end of my middle finger off on Christmas Eve 2005. That was hot.
27. The worst injury you've ever had?
Nothing that bad. Except when my mother ran over my foot with the family car.
28. Favorite thing about Thanksgiving?
This quiz asks a lot of questions about food. I think this questionnaire has body dysmorphia. My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is stuffing. And gravy. I am all about gravy.
29. Sport you hate the most?
Basketball. I know the men are half-clothed and all that, but it's so boring.
30. What state in the US do you want to visit?
New York. It's time I went.
31. What's something you think would be sweet to know everything about?
Mandarin Chinese. I wish I spoke it.
32. Favorite Actor/Actress?
Lately, I'm all about Meryl Streep. My new favorite actor is Neil Patrick Harris.
33. What's one phrase you absolutely detest?
"I don't think the character would do that."
34. What makes an awesome party?
Prince.
35. What's your favorite material possession?
My books.
36. What's something that most consider an insult but you enjoy having said about you?
Does being called gay count?
37. Favorite kind of dog(s)?
Beagles. God help me those things are cute.
38. Favorite carnival food?
What is this? I have no idea.
39. Morning or night person?
Night. Mornings are for people who went to bed early.
41. Weirdest Ebay purchase?
I've never done this.
43. Its Saturday at 3am. Where are you?
Writing a paper, usually.
44. Who's your favorite friend/friends to go out with?
My boyfriend.
45. Worst job you've ever had?
I dug weeds for one day for a property manager when I was fifteen. Never again.
46. What's something your friends make fun of you for?
Being a snob is a frequent jab. And they're usually right.
47. Favorite cereal?
Golden Grahams.
48. Book you could read repeatedly?
Michael Cunningham's Flesh & Blood and Lewis Thomas's The Lives of a Cell.
49. What's the meanest thing you've ever done?
I do inappropriately unkind things all the time. Is there a scale? I sometimes tell a story of something really mean that I did after my girlfriend in high school and I broke up, but I don't want to repeat it here. It was really mean.
50. If you were drafted into a war, would you survive?
I sure as Hell would.
05 December 2006
Star-Love
Have I mentioned in the last week how much I love Neil Patrick Harris? I'm crazy about him.
20 May 2006
I Keep Thinking About Him
Neil Patrick Harris is probably my favorite stage actor working right now. I would see him in anything. He's such an exciting performer. I keep thinking about his work in All My Sons. It was such a powerful, quietly brilliant turn. And that makes me think of his stellar work in The Paris Letter: a play that I think still needs a bit of fixing, but in which Harris did the most amazing, intricate work.
I wish I could meet him. He might be my new favorite actor. Maybe I'll troll the streets of Westwood on show nights...
I wish I could meet him. He might be my new favorite actor. Maybe I'll troll the streets of Westwood on show nights...
16 May 2006
All My Sons
I'm not a voracious Arthur Miller reader or anything (mind you, I have his complete works sitting on my desk, but have I even cracked it?), but I just had to see All My Sons down at the Geffen Playhouse. It's Neil Patrick Harris (whom I love) and Len Cariou and Laurie Metcalf and the ads are everywhere and it's getting fabulous reviews and it was sold out on a Tuesday. So everything was set when Ashley said she wanted to go and Elizabeth said she wanted to go and we had a party.
The show is brilliant. It's wonderful and powerful and timely and deeply moving and all of those things you say about really good theatre when you're lucky enough to catch some (it's hard, I find, in this city, though you'd think it wouldn't be.) I totally loved it and I thought it was profound and human and masterfully directed and performed.
So get a ticket if you still can. You will not be sorry. I promise. And if you love theatre and you're in Los Angeles you really have to go. Shows like this don't happen here very often.
The show is brilliant. It's wonderful and powerful and timely and deeply moving and all of those things you say about really good theatre when you're lucky enough to catch some (it's hard, I find, in this city, though you'd think it wouldn't be.) I totally loved it and I thought it was profound and human and masterfully directed and performed.
So get a ticket if you still can. You will not be sorry. I promise. And if you love theatre and you're in Los Angeles you really have to go. Shows like this don't happen here very often.
15 December 2004
Post for J. Reynolds "Some things stay the same / Like time / There's always time"
I was thinking today about "She doesn't look at me. They never do. How can they. There are long lines of people all the time."
Today after I left Jamba Juice there was a woman with a stroller talking to a female companion about this store "Memories" that had God only knows what in it. As I walked past I sang "Memories" from Cats, and thought how freaking odd I must seem to this lady, to whom I was obviously singing. She answered back with the next line from the song. I didn't look at her; I had sunglasses on anyway. I just kept walking.
I applied for a day off in January to go to Las Vegas for a friend's birthday. The form said "Reason for request of time off." I asked my supervisor what she usually writes and she said "Personal." I wrote "Vegas, baby!"
My vacation day was approved.
Last night I saw Jon Robin Baitz' new play called The Paris Letter. It's really really good and needs a lot of help. It's three hours and has hardly any order at all. He does a lot of things wrong... he usually does. But I always ADORE Act I of his shows. Usually he ruins them in Act II with an upbeat ending that makes. no. sense. This one ends the way it should, but lacks focus and dramatic intention. The characters are masterfully drawn, though. I could fix it if I had the chance, but it's Jon Robin Baitz and he doesn't know me from Adam, so that won't be happening. I wonder how come no one else fixes the show, though. Ah well. Neil Patrick Harris is in the show and he's naked for like four minutes... no shit. He's kinda hot: nice body, a little skinny. The other guy in it: Josh Radnor is also naked in it and he's way hotter. Both are excellent in the show. I forget the other actors' names. Ron Rifkin is the lead more or less, but he just plays "irascible old man." Radnor is the most brilliant talent in the show. Hopefully he goes far... and hopefully he reads this and invites me to coffee. I wish I could fix this play. I know exactly how to do it.
Tonight Allan and I saw The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at The Grove and we both liked it. It snowed at The Grove at precisely 7:00p--definitely worth the $3 of parking with validation. Plus I did Christmas shopping. Hooray. Almost done.
Oh, and I ran into Nathan Fillion who used to play Joey on "One Life to Live" and then was on "Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place." HOT. I didn't really run into him, but I did walk past him at a distance of about two feet and then turn and stare at him. I've run into other people at The Grove, but I stared at Nathan Fillion.
Quote of the day:
"I heard Mike Steger booked a McDonald's gig."
"Can you still recognize him with the white makeup and the big red shoes?"
Oh yeah, I finished Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, the politics of which are questionable. It's Neil LaBute. This play reads like a shocking episode of primetime television. It does a lot of things right in a lot of ways, but after watching Jon Robin Baitz' play, I was just reminded that Baitz is a very very talented person who needs help with his work. LaBute will never be anything more than somebody who thinks all people are basically assholes. Baitz has more talent in his little finger than LaBute has in his whole upper torso (I can't speak for the lower half).
Today after I left Jamba Juice there was a woman with a stroller talking to a female companion about this store "Memories" that had God only knows what in it. As I walked past I sang "Memories" from Cats, and thought how freaking odd I must seem to this lady, to whom I was obviously singing. She answered back with the next line from the song. I didn't look at her; I had sunglasses on anyway. I just kept walking.
I applied for a day off in January to go to Las Vegas for a friend's birthday. The form said "Reason for request of time off." I asked my supervisor what she usually writes and she said "Personal." I wrote "Vegas, baby!"
My vacation day was approved.
Last night I saw Jon Robin Baitz' new play called The Paris Letter. It's really really good and needs a lot of help. It's three hours and has hardly any order at all. He does a lot of things wrong... he usually does. But I always ADORE Act I of his shows. Usually he ruins them in Act II with an upbeat ending that makes. no. sense. This one ends the way it should, but lacks focus and dramatic intention. The characters are masterfully drawn, though. I could fix it if I had the chance, but it's Jon Robin Baitz and he doesn't know me from Adam, so that won't be happening. I wonder how come no one else fixes the show, though. Ah well. Neil Patrick Harris is in the show and he's naked for like four minutes... no shit. He's kinda hot: nice body, a little skinny. The other guy in it: Josh Radnor is also naked in it and he's way hotter. Both are excellent in the show. I forget the other actors' names. Ron Rifkin is the lead more or less, but he just plays "irascible old man." Radnor is the most brilliant talent in the show. Hopefully he goes far... and hopefully he reads this and invites me to coffee. I wish I could fix this play. I know exactly how to do it.
Tonight Allan and I saw The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at The Grove and we both liked it. It snowed at The Grove at precisely 7:00p--definitely worth the $3 of parking with validation. Plus I did Christmas shopping. Hooray. Almost done.
Oh, and I ran into Nathan Fillion who used to play Joey on "One Life to Live" and then was on "Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place." HOT. I didn't really run into him, but I did walk past him at a distance of about two feet and then turn and stare at him. I've run into other people at The Grove, but I stared at Nathan Fillion.
Quote of the day:
"I heard Mike Steger booked a McDonald's gig."
"Can you still recognize him with the white makeup and the big red shoes?"
Oh yeah, I finished Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, the politics of which are questionable. It's Neil LaBute. This play reads like a shocking episode of primetime television. It does a lot of things right in a lot of ways, but after watching Jon Robin Baitz' play, I was just reminded that Baitz is a very very talented person who needs help with his work. LaBute will never be anything more than somebody who thinks all people are basically assholes. Baitz has more talent in his little finger than LaBute has in his whole upper torso (I can't speak for the lower half).
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