Kansas one more time.

Hi folks,

It's been a good long time since we've posted on here. Shame on us!

What's new?

Nothing too crazy honestly. It snowed a bunch in Chicago today.

It was Matt Kula's birthday last night and I went out there and hung out with him and celebrated...and it seems that I have been celebrating a lot this week. From hanging out with old improv friends (but they are still current friends) to hanging out with people from Amanda's work, all of that.

Classes are going well for both of us. Improv is amazing and I'm anxious to keep moving forward and finding something that places me in the city so I can pursue it more.

I'm headed out to Kansas on Tuesday for another ten day jaunt. Last trip highlights: poison ivy, 80 degrees, and ticks. Kansas can be great when its warm, but when it gets too warm all of the ticks and chiggers wake up. And working in the woods with a lot of poison ivy, it almost becomes inevitable that you'll get it. This is, as far as I can recall, the first time I've broken out from it. It's not as bad this guy: YIKES.

It apparently just snowed like a foot there, so it will most likely have all melted by the time we go and be a muddy mess. I love spring.

I'll also be celebrating my birthday out there. I'm not hugely into my birthdays, I never have been, but let me tell you, I'm not looking forward to it. Luckily, a coworkers birthday is on April 1st, so him and I plan to celebrate.

So hard to recap everything that's happened recently. Most importantly, my computer broke and is being sent back to best buy geek quarters for assessment, hopefully they will send me a new computer or most hopingly just send me a credited amount so i can go and buy a new one. So that will happen hopefully sometime in the middle of when I'm in Kansas. Maybe I'll try to throw out a blog about the happenings there via the Super 8 hotel lobby.

I made a new life goal to never eat another cookie. Why torture myself you ask? Because whenever I eat a cookie, I eat 40 cookies. They are my weakness. So I'm staring the beast in the face. Problem is: Super 8 has homebaked cookies that are delicious.

That's all for now.

Kev!n

PS - for a great new blog about film please see: http://pinkstononfilm.blogspot.com This is an old friend of mine who was a cinema studies major who is currently saving the earth reviewing films. Pretty good stuff.

new shoes!

on the car.

kevin had to work in morris yesterday, some kind of training thing. while there, he took advantage of the walmart and got two new tires for george. because the night before, he left a show at IO (where he just started taking improv classes on sunday) to find a flatty. so, he and his friend kevin walsh put on the little donut and were victorious.

also, i have started my acting class at profiles theatre. it is lovely. we are learning about caring. and how to be humans.

i love peanut butter.

kevin loves kansas.


(that last one is a lie.)

it's all a disguise!

at work today i learned a very important fact that might change your entire view on life. i know it changed my entire view on life. so. tell everyone you know! speak the truth to your children! let us not give way to another generation of lies and deceit!!!

but first, a few pictures from my most recent adventure:

Xanadu . . . with dynamite.

and by dynamite i mean tiffany. because her initials are TNT. duh.
she got to go on! and i got to see her! (thank you Mary Ellen and Roger!)



now. for the important stuff.

the eggplant is not a vegetable. it's a fruit. and not only that. . .



it is a berry.

what i come home to

going MY way...

Things are, that is.

So, I called COSTCO to setup an eye appointment so I could get my balls checked out so I can get some new contacts. The ones for my eyes, not as in people connections. So I called them, and they are like...blah blah, we're all full for the weekend. So I say..well, why don't you just put me down in case someone cancels. And viola, ten minutes later, some stranger calls me. And ta-fricking-dah. It's COSTCO. I'm in. 4:30 pm.

Amanda is leaving tomorrow to Plainfield so she can be a judge at the speech competition at the Weeg. So I'll miss her. But, I say....heck no. I'm not sitting around by myself. So I texted good old RAAB Silver. I was like, I'll go see mes an improv show. Yous wants to gos. He says nos, but he knows of a friend who is having a promo for a magazine at a bars tomorrow. So I'll be going to that for awhile.

ALSO, a huge THANK YOU to Allyson for emailing me a headshot. I signed up to audition for Mission IMPROVable on Monday. So, why not check them out here if you are bored: Do-do-do-dodo. (That's the mission impossible theme if you didn't notice)

However, do not. I repeat do not watch their (not they're) youtube videos. I can give you your time back for reading this blog, but not for watching bad youtube videos.

I also headed up to the neo-futurarium today on my bicycle to meet with a guy about a class that I missed the first session of because I was in Kansas. Everything is great and I'll be working on a few pieces for this class for awhile. It sounds fun, so why not.

Also, lastly and lately, while I was sitting here the girl across the hall came home...and I think she had a friend with her and was being silly. But, she started beatboxing....she's NOT BAD.

Kev!n

gettin' cultured

i'm seeing plays. which is extremely exciting.

first, i saw Great Falls last week with adrian (my friend who i'm learning how to be friends with because he says if i don't answer/return his calls, we are done being friends. i'm doing well, so far). then The Seafarer at Steppenwolf with this guy:it was good. and mediocre. and beautiful. in that order
(the acting. the dialects-ugh, jill, you would have thrown your program at the stage. the set/the feeling of being in a real theatre again.)

it was a fun night. we had thai food. and we were happy.

next week i'm going down to urbana to see my paige & friends in Necessary Targets. then kevin and i have to see brendan's Desire Under the Elms at the Goodman before the 17th. rachel/kristen/kevin/maybe brendan and i are going to see Our Town at Lookingglass sometime (because rachel loves ross, and he's in it). and finally, allyson might join me to see Somer Benson's show at Profiles after my class is over, because i get 1/2 price tickets. then there are still two more krannert shows that nothing would stop me from seeing.

plus, i bought some polka dots.these are all good things.

I'm amazing.

Because I'm totally capable of eating an entire cucumber a day, not only once, but two days in a row. Luckily I'm out of cucumbers. I may have made myself sick of them if I ate another one.

Kansas is well, Kansas. The weather has been ok. It's pretty cold in the morning but by 2 it warms up. And then we leave. So, we don't really get to experience the warmth. The archaeological provenience that we are working on out here is terrible. Terribly boring. Boringly terrible. No...there has been worse. We worked on an farmstead that had a long period of inhabitance from like 1870s until 1960s when the government used its 'imminent domain' technique and bought the land out from under some farmers.

Every morning I wake up, have a bowl of cereal, and then meander to the van where I chit chat and crack a couple of snappy jokes. Afterwards, I fall asleep for about 30-50 minutes until we reach the work site. That has been the trend, until today, we had to stop in at the archaeologists office on base. Which usually results in about a hour more of down time. So today, I slept for two hours before we actually started working. So....technically, I got paid to sleep for two hours today. Oh, I always fall asleep on the way home as well, which is about 30-50 minutes as well.

And so, today I went out to dinner with Chris, or X, or Turnstyle, or now 'Bottles'. All the same guy. We went to La Fiesta. Amazing Mexican food place (in case you couldn't guess by the name). I had Vegetarian number two. As odd as it sounds, I can't order meat from Mexican food restaurants anymore. I just don't do it. Tangent Alert! I remember the last time I did: it was with Kevin Schneider about two years ago when we went to Dos Reales on Prospect. This was probably around the time I met Amanda and thought nothing of her (I love you madly dearest). He convinced me to get the Burrito Bravo, and it takes a brave man to consume that whole thing. It was pretty delicious. This was also around the same time that Kevin and I sat around for an entire day and watched baseball. However, back to Vegetarian number two: cheese enchilada (standard, but good), spinach burrito (my first, and amazing), and a mushroom quesadilla (ab fab). Oh and the salsa and chips were great too. Afterwards we walked to the liquor store next door. Basically I was on an anthropological quest because you happen across the most interesting characters at liquor stores. Locals abound! We met a lovely student from Kansas State who knew a lot about alcohol. After learning a spell about tequila, X saw some moonshine (mason jar packed and everything). Soooo....he has never had it. I'm afraid its going to be a lot like that alchohol Amanda and I had at Mina's and Mieshkov's in Serbia (what was that called by the way?). It's peach moonshine. We'll see!

Therefore, plans for the rest of the night include a boardgame with Turnstyle, Nicole and Kathleen. Moonshine included (cups and ice brought separately).

Tomorrow is the last field day before I venture back. YES!

Kev!n