Living arrangements

It is my place.

No I don't own it, but the contract is in my name, and my money is paying the rent. Because I'm not sharing it with anybody, my word is the final word. I get to choose the furniture, the pictures, the color, and what channel the TV is on. This feels great.

Having a calm, quiet, and personal space to come home to each night after working in the theater environment is huge. This is going to work out wonderfully.

Here is a tour of my apartment:

By car I am between 5 and 10 minutes from work. There are a lot of lights.

By bike its about 15 minutes.

I haven't walked yet, but I imagine around 45 minutes.

From downtown? About a 15 minute walk.

Katie and I had such a fun shopping spree in ikea to buy everything so that it would fit in my car for the drive and I could build it once I got here. She also helped me choose which pictures to hang up, and gave me ideas for how to organize it all. Thanks Katie!

A Comedy Tonight!

The show I'm working on right now is called The 39 Steps. It is based on the Hitchcock movie, but the play is a comedy. The rehearsal process has been pretty awesome. At least 5 times a day we all get sidetracked/knocked off task for like 10 minutes because everyone in the room is laughing so hard.

This is the teaser for the show when it was on Broadway:

Is this real? Am I really getting paid for this?

Exciting opportunities.

One of my "goals" while I'm here is to go to a game of each major team here in Cleveland. They have the Browns, Indians, and Cavaliers. Last week I got a group together and we all went to the Browns last pre season game. It was a little last minute to pull it together, but it was the only game I could go to. Every one of their home games are at 1:00 on Sundays.

We all met up and walked (yes, walked. That's how close I live to downtown Cleveland) to the stadium. I was so excited!

As you can see, we were really high up, but we each paid $11.50. I think it was a great deal.

At first it was really hot, but when the sun went down it was absolutely perfect. At one point I caught myself thinking, "I am perfectly content right now". I love moments like that.

(Maureen, Chris, Andrew, Ben, me)

The 5 of us work for 3 different entertainment companies in town, but we all know each other from Porthouse (the theater I worked at the summer of 2008). Andrew is the guy in the middle who I didn't know well but will be moving down the hall from me in a few days.

After the game (THE BROWNS WON!) there were fireworks. Watching fireworks with Chris was so much fun. He kept up a running commentary, my favorite quote being, "wow, I love that one. I could watch that one all night long."

They really were great fireworks. I saw things I'd never seen before.

In all, it was an amazing night. Chris and Maureen later said, "experiencing things like that with you is like experiencing them for the first time all over again because you are so excited."

Guilty.