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Voting schtuff

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For anyone in Louisville having trouble filling out their absentee ballot (or for people who will be in Louisville for the election but know nothing about politics), I found this site remotely useful:

http://www.wave3.com/global/Category.asp?c=57805

Granted, all I had to go off was a 30 second blurb from each of the candidates, but I felt like that was better than picking people at random, given I know NOTHING else about them.

Also, for people *anywhere* in the states who are doing absentee ballots, if you don’t have yours yet then get on the ball! Send in the application like…yesterday, and call the county clerk offices and nag and nag (that’s what I did, I sent in my application in August, then started nagging them a couple of weeks ago. Turns out my application never made it in, so they had to mail me a new application to sign and send back, and then my ballot. This took a little under 2 weeks). Time is short! Take care of it asap!

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Plug ‘n Chug

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I wanted to plug some cool links to some of my closest friends’ artistic endeavors.

First up, for those with a short attention span, I recommend Brendan’s Anacrusis, a constrained writing project in which he writes short stories that are exactly 101 words long, 5 days a week. You can also get it as a newsfeed from

For those with a much longer attention span you must explore The Little Blue Penguin, Dave’s site of wonderful writings, including Just Something, his serial novel.

For the glasstistically inclined, look at Ken’s stuff, because Ken’s stuff is awesome. Congratulations to Ken for getting a for-real job as a glassblower.

For the musical types, D Flo’s skills as a composer are boundless. Be sure to check out his requiem (it comes in 3 parts), which was his final senior composition. It is awesome, though the recording quality is somewhat poor (if anyone has good sound editing skills and knows if there is a way to fix this, please let me know).

For the theatrical sorts, you must look at Carleton’s website, and see his latest production photos from the shows he designed lights for. He is the best lighting designer who has also been my boyfriend ever!

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A little of my own

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Once upon a time, there was a river, and a field, and a great green pipe. Wertle emerges from the pipe for the second time and approaches Siddhartha, who is tending to his ferry.

“Is it my turn to be the ferryman?”

“No, you haven’t even left the city yet.”

“But…but I used the whistle!” She waves it desperately in the air.

“I’m sorry, but it doesn’t count.”

”Drat.”

“Why so disappointed? You knew that before you came.”

”Yeah, I know.”

“At least there are no Cyclopes in this version.”

“Yeah.”

Wertle climbs back into the pipe and disappears.

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I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck and a jar of angry bees…

Tech week is crazy-busy, but I am still enjoying things. We’re doing much more building of props this week, which I prefer much more than prop shopping. It’s great to see all the big props finally coming together.

The master electrician taught me how to solder today, and how to wire the candle effects for some candelabras. It was very exciting and a good skill to add to my list-o-abilities, I’m glad I was able to learn. I’ll definitely post pictures of the candelabras, I’ve worked quite hard on them the past few days.

Time for bed, work in the morning.

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Turtle Eggs! (maybe)

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Today, Carleton and I went on a walk at a nature preserve. It was very pleasant and brisk, and we had some interesting finds, one being a nest of reptile eggs, likely turtle eggs (I only make this assumption because the nest was on the bank of a pond, I know nothing of New England turtle species to make a guess of what kind).

I at first plucked up what I thought to be a small, deflated ball, only to realize that it was actually the leathery egg of some reptile. We soon found more half-buried beneath the sand where the first one lay on the surface. Now, it’s awfully close to first frost, and I don’t know enough about the nesting habits of turtles to say if the eggs were still kickin or if they were drowned in the recent rains or what. Nonetheless, it was still an exciting find, and we recovered the eggs that were poking out and went on our way.

We also found several lively frogs, a woodpecker, a few finches, and a dragonfly that let me hold it as if to say “Look at this pose! Aren’t you sad you didn’t bring your camera? HAHAHAHAHA!!”

This week is tech for Guys and Dolls, so I will be absent and chained to the theater. Have a good week, all!