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Posted by O. on May 23, 2010 in
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Geekiness It has been a busy week, the school year is winding down for the kids and me. Also there have been a lot of birthday parties and festivities to attend. There were three birthday parties this weekend alone. Next week is commencement, and all the pomp and circumstance that goes with it. For me, commencement is just another part of the rhythm of the school year. For my students it is a very big deal, as you can imagine. It seems like just when I really get to know the students, they are seniors and on their way. It always great to here how those that have graduated are doing. Although it seems like my students from W&L are doing things like going to be lawyers or getting degrees not in theatre. My students from Bradley are all in theatre. Although I think that will change with the new crop of W&L kids. They seem more theatre-y, we’ll see how they do.
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Posted by O. on Apr 26, 2010 in
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Family biz Well, It’s been a while since I have posted, which seems to be my standard intro to these entries. So it seems that I keep having a conscious or unconscious fight with either my attention span or my to-do list. Am I
There has been a lot that has happened in the last couple of weeks. My Daughter McKelvey held(with help from Ann and I) a fundraiser to raise money for the Arts program at her school.
We went as saw Wicked, McKelvey’s class did a famous person tea. Where they dress up like a famous person that they researched. Then they read a speech that they wrote format the point of view of their famous person. It was pretty neat to see.
Arden’s class had an Easter Egg hunt at our house( because we were the only ones that lived close to the school). That was fun. Liam and I hid all the eggs, which took a long time since we hid 10 eggs for each kid in the class. That’s over 170 eggs.
I also went to Kansas City Missouri for a conference. I was a part of two panel presentations and did a small presentation on the 3d Printer I made. They all went over pretty well. It’s odd to think I am comfortable talking in front of a crowd like that, when I used to run from that like my dog from a bath.
Pictures of the aforementioned events are here.
we took the family on a trip to Richmond yesterday. We went to see the national tour of Wicked. It was my first time seeing the show, but not the first time I heard the music. My kids have been obsessively requesting the CD since last spring. It great to finally see the book scenes. The staging was fun and had a really good pace. It was interesting how it seemed that more book scenes were in the second act, or at least half the songs in the second act were short reprises of previous songs. I liked how they integrated the existing elements from the Wizard of Oz movie. In that way it departed from the novel, but was understandable considering more of the audience would be familiar with the original movie than Gregory Maguire’s version.
But of course I can’t just watch a show like this, I was constantly figuring out how they did it. Seeing which set pieces repeated, seeing how they use projection, looking for the person onstage that clips Galinda’s harness everytime she gets in or out of her flying ‘bubble circle’. That being said, I don’t feel that it takes away from my enjoyment of the show. I really think I may have enjoyed it more.Although McKelvey was rapt the whole time. Perhaps a show like this can’t be enjoyed more by anyone other than a little girl.
McKelvey thoroughly enjoyed herself. Although Arden had to keep asking questions to keep up with the plot, I think she also had a fabulous time.
Afterward we went out to dinner, in the Carytown section of Richmond. It had some cool shops and a bunch of different restaurants. It reminded me of areas of Chicago or Brooklyn. I wish we could have taken a block of it back to Lexington.
So I loved the show, and while watching it figured out how to do it at W&L.
Without hiring a flying company.
Posted by O. on Feb 23, 2010 in
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Geekiness One reason I started this blog was to explore this new media thing. I was interested in how this worked. I had already made static webpages, but this was something new. I enjoyed slogging thru the process of installing and setting up a fresh Wordpress blog. It caused me to learn how it all fit together.
Another reason was to try and get myself to write more. I have never been comfortable with writing. If you knew me in Highschool you would have said I was not comfortable talking to people. I was always very quiet and it took me a long time to warm up and feel comfortable expressing myself. Which in high school is hard anyway.
But nowadays, I have more confidence in putting words on the page. I just have to figure out a system to make it more efficient. I have lots of typos and then I go and correct them, which messes up my train of thought sometimes. Also I need to work out a regimen so that I actually write more. It seems to slip down the priority list with family, and work taking up time. Plus I need to stop wasting time on other stuff.
But as I find myself doing less designing at school, I need to have a place to put my creative energies. Maybe I can do that here…
