Daily Update

I went to the first showing of the Shakespearean plays on Friday evening. They were nice. My camera ran out of battery moments into the first play, so I was annoyed. It cramped my style, but whatever. I helped out with the set. I decided to decorate exclusively with shimmering fabric. The fabric created an enclosed space that hugged the stage, livening the atmosphere, and bringing a free flowing attitude to space. That only helped the attitude of both plays. I pinned the streaming fabric to the black static curtains that were already there, thus breaking the monotony of the usual church stage. Don't forget the curtains above, which is where my work started. Drooping curtains, dancing from the top-front of the stage, slowly lowering to the back, and then down to the floor. The plays were 'much ado about nothing', and ' Midsummers night dream'; both of which deal with ideas of 'hooking' people up. My idea for the set came from Baroque Europe, where almost all paintings have an outrageous amount of fabric/cloth, and winged Cupid babies, with their bows and 'love arrows'. The Cupids were the subject of the plays, so I felt that the free flowing fabric could be the subject of the set. I think it turned out quiet handsomely. I've added a picture to my blog, if interested.

After the play a bunch of us went to Enzo's Pizza in the Village. Then we went over to Lindsay's house to enjoy some of her birthday cupcakes with her. Someone pulled out some sparklers from the 4th and some of the kids pranced around in the street for a little bit. I didn't participate cause I knew they were illegal in this city, and didn't want a repeat of what happened last year.

I finished the 6th installment of the 6th Harry Potter book finally. It left many questions that still need to be answered in my head. Now I kind of understand why people get so anxious to find out more. Good thing I didn't take interest in the series until the last book came out. I stayed up way to late listening to it. 1 became 2, 2 became 3:30 and by 4 I had to yell at myself, cause when I was in school I vowed never to do late nights like that again, unless 'proper reason' was present. But this night it wasn't. So I slept for a three hours.

Early on Saturday morning I had to bring Jeff to the airport, at 7am. For some blasted reason jeff feels it necessary to always get the earliest flight possible, then only asks for a ride the day before. (And although I may have done that in the past I've repented of my ways, as much as possible.) Lets just say that Good thing that I had turned my phone off of silent mode as soon as I agreed to this torture; cause somehow, someone turned my alarm off without my conscious self knowing. Luckily after 3 repeated phone calls, I woke up. After the airport trip I decided to stop at a few stores before I went home again to catch up on all my lost sleep. I went to Costco and was going to get new tires put on my car, but they didn't have my size. jerks. So I went inside and they had the 7th installment of the Harry Potter series, so I purchased one for myself and dove right in as soon as I got myself home.

The heat was trying to kill me, it attempted to do so all day long. After my shopping adventures I had to recover from the heat with a cold shower. Its effects only lasted a little while. I tried dousing my misery with a cold milkshake and burger from Jack-in-the-box, but it didn't really work like I wanted to. It just made me feel sickish. I stopped by Josh's place, and it was an oven too. Shortly after messing some of his music library up which was on his computer, I left.

My room mate Jim moved out today. By the time I got home Jim had hired a group of guys (who didn't speak english) and they had moved almost everything down to an extra large moving truck on the street. His empty room looks much larger after he vacated it. Now we just need to find someone to replace him (soon!).

In the evening I went back for more Shakespeare. This time I was armed with my camera. I got plenty of pics. After it all a group of us, after much deliberation, decided to go to Wendy's for food, and then to the grocery store for food for tomorrow's eating festival. As there were four of us who were trying to decide, it took a while, and after we decided on the order of our visits, we then invited more people to come with us on our hunt for food. It was fun, and it lasted late into the night.

You know how I've been trying to clean my room for a while? Well, I finally got a chance to. I was cleaning and listening to HP at the same time. Again, like last night, I cleaned room late into the night. This night was more reasonable though.

Church was average. The bishopric is trying to take over the Elders Quorum, and i think Plewe is oblivious to it I think. After words Josh and I were making food at my place. Well, preparing it anyway. We were all going to make our own pizza's. Mmmm Mmmm good. Plewe actually came over to do some of his homework too. That was a nice surprise. The food was good, of course. But I must admit, the best part was the desert: Fruit Pizza. At first I didn't Love it, but probably cause I was full from other food. But after a bit, I Really started craving the soft delectable cookie concoction. It was a glorious spongy soft sugar cookie, heavily smeared in the most delightful cream cheese frosting, then topped with a succulent medley of raspberry, blueberry, peach, and kiwi fruits. It is amazingly addictive! I kept having more and more and more, until I went into a sugary fit where I just started shaking randomly. I flung myself into bed and drooled myself to sleep dreaming of the next chance I would get to eat more of this 'Fruit Pizza' Delight. Another 'Mmm Mmm Good'. We also hung out and were watching the Cooking channel for a while. They were having Cake contests, and Iron Chef stuff. Like usual people would slowly trickle out during this all. Just as the last guests were trying to leave, Josh convinced everyone to watch a show called '12 Angry Men'. It was about a jury deliberation, showing both fairness, rationalization, and stereotyping behavior at each side of extreme. Quite interesting I must stay.

I'm still listening to Harry try to get out of trouble and save the day, and my co-workers argue about professional sports.

Lunch was sponsored by In N Out.