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Theatre and Conversation and the Art of Conversation

In an effort to make my blog more interesting, and not just a play-by-play of my
life, I’m trying to discuss more topics, not just events. Bear with me, it might
be a little strange.

I really, really hate how theatres are underfunded throughout the country.
Specifically here, ‘cuz that’s what’s bothering me the most right now. The shop
staff and I have spent the past week battling old, disfunctional equipment when
we should be focusing and cueing. I look around at the other departments and see
newish, nice, functional equipment. Why is it unacceptable for everyone else to
learn their art (and yes, I would say that science is an art) on out-of-date
tools when it’s just fine for us? This outrages me. The majority of the
instruments that we use are over 25 years old. TWENTY-FIVE. There is practically
NOTHING LIKE THEM left in the professional world. I can understand needing to
developing coping skills yadayadayada, but PLEASE. How can you find it prefectly
acceptable to pay money to watch movies and go to the theatre, but you don’t
think it’s “appropriate” to spend money to educate the people whose products you
so enjoy? I’m really disappointed in Knox as an institution for letting this
situation get so bad. I could ramble a lot more, but you probably don’t want to
hear it. That said, if you do want to hear it, just ask me about it
sometime, especially in the next week or so, then you’ll get it GOOD.

You know, one of the things I miss most about living with K, and IMSA in general
really, is the good conversation. That’s not to say that I don’t find that kind
of thing at Knox, but it really does seem to be in a lesser proportion than IMSA.
I suppose that’s why I hang out with a lot more IMSA people than some “funny”
people would say is “healthy.” Or Something. I mean, not to mention the fact
that I already knew them, which doesn’t hurt, I know how to talk to them.
I’m not worried about what they might think and more often than not, we wind up
sitting in the library ’til midnight talking and enjoying each other’s company.
So little of that seems to happen around here. I can’t help but wonder if it has
something to do with the fact that, for a lot of people here, such an emmersed
academic environment is completely new to them. They busy exploring other
aspects of their newfound freedom. I think that’s why I get along with L as well
I as I do. She can have fun AND be smart. (Just not necessairly at the same
time ;P) I miss conversation. A lot. I miss connecting to people the way that I
used to. Chatting over meals in the caf in the middle of a huge group may be
“social” (and the closest thing that I get to “social”) nowadays, but it’s just
not the same. We should do more “sleep-overs” like we did last year. I miss that
too. Especially the “pants-less” part. heeheehee

I just noticed that Knox Theatre has me using the “re” spelling now. Damn. I
apologize for the ramblingness and excessive “quotation marks” – if you expected
high prose, this is NOT the place to be.

On that note, I’m going to go read other people’s blogs now and then see if I
can see the aurora boreilas (I don’t have to know how it’s spelled to see it!)
I’m really really jealous of you, H. *changes desktop to href="http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/dbgallery/1/skysong2.shtml">“Song of the
Sky”*

“I love you. I love you. You’re an angel. I love you.” *walking on air*

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z.html:

If you find an Atheist in your neighborhood,
TELL A PARENT OR PASTOR RIGHT AWAY!

You may be moved to try and witness to
these poor lost souls yourself, however
AVOID TALKING TO THEM!

Atheists are often very grumpy and bitter and will lash out at children or they
may even try to trick you into neglecting God’s Word.

Very advanced witnessing techniques are needed for these grouches. Let the
adults handle them.

So I had a good idea tonight, and like many a good idea, it could potentially
mean a lot of work (but a good reward in the end!) I’ve been doing a lot of
thinking about American politics lately, and more than anything else, it really
bothers me how many people don’t vote. Only about 30% of Americans vote and even
few youger people do. It takes maybe an hour of your year and can make SUCH a
difference. ANYWAY it kinda came to a head tonight as I was sitting at the Knox
for Dean meeting. It seem to me that a lot of people, teens especially, don’t
vote because the don’t know how to get registered and how to vote by absentee
ballot (in the case of college students away from home etc.) It also seems that
a lot of people don’t vote because they don’t know for whom they want to vote.
So it seems that the logical thing to do is hold some information sessions. I
suggested the idea of having an evening with someone from the county on hand to
register voters here, an information session about how to vote by absentee
ballots (before the registration in case they can’t absentee it in their state)
and then hold a forum to inform people about the canidates.

The last bit is by far the trickiest, but I would think, the most important. I
finally landed on the idea of having the different political organizations on
campus present their canidate of choice. The format would have to be something
like “5-10 minutes” and “no talking about other canidates” to encourage
straight-foward policy discussion, and try to discourage opponent-bashing.

To do this is obviously going to take a lot of planning, and I’d like it to
happen before the primaries in March. This means that it will have to happen end
of Janurary/beginning of September. A few people vollunteered to help this
evening, which is GREAT. What I’m doing right now is looking into voter
registration programmes like “Rock the Vote” etc to see what other people are
doing. We’ll need to talk to the other political organizations on campus to
enlist their help, get the information gathered about getting absentees
registered and contact the county about getting voters locally registered. I
would also like to talk to student life and maybe union board to get thier
backing. A pipe dream would be to open this up to the local community at large
and get the citizens voting too. I mean, in the end, I don’t care who you vote
for, as long as you vote.

If any of you guys have any brillant ideas or want to help out in any way,
please tell me. I fear that rep term is going to eat me, so we’re going to need
all the help we can get.

I just made a *fantastic* dinner. Ramen (none of the “flavor packet!”,) peas, carrots, rice and some chicken/chicken broth. SOOOO good. Much Much better than the caf. I’m glad that I went grocery shopping. (Not to mention the Eagle going-out-of-business sale so everything’s CHEAP.) Try it, it’s yummy.