We no longer live in Baltimore.  The house is (kind of) empty, the truck is loaded and currently en route to Vermont.  I managed to make it down to Baltimore around 7:30 pm on the Bolt Bus, so that I could help finish off the packing and loading, which had been going on all day. […]

Last night I decided to take a walk. I headed down Broadway, past Lincoln Center and into Columbus Circle. That’s where I was propositioned by the old prostitute. Now, let me be fair here: I don’t KNOW that she was a hooker. All I know is that she was probably in her sixties, she wanted […]

Tomorrow is the big day. The move back to Vermont. Although I am here in New York, I am sending my family down to help load and drive the truck. The truck that I reserved over a month ago. The truck that U-Haul told us today was no longer available. I don’t understand this way […]

If you have been reading my blog regularly (hi Mom!) then you may know that my laptop died a horrible death just before I came to New York.  It was very bad timing, and I was kind of freaking out about it.  This blog entry is a tribute to my wonderful friends, who are the […]

The first beer I ever had was at a frat party in college. It came out of a cheap keg, and it tasted the way I imagined pig urine would taste. I had two sips and quickly put my red plastic cup down on a bookshelf and went looking for something else to cleanse my […]

So last night I went out for a few beers with some folks from the opera. Except there was one problem: I don’t drink. The first question I got was “oh, are you a Mormon?” When I told them that I was not, they struggled to understand why I don’t drink. And my answer (I […]

So google has this new thing out called Google Scribe. It takes auto-complete to a whole new level. Scribe purports to know what you are thinking and will fill in whole words and phrases based on what you have previously typed. You can play with it yourself here: http://scribe.googlelabs.com/ Now personally, I often find auto-complete […]

Things I have seen this week: 1) A man sitting on the street with a sign that said “Hungry Jew,” yelling “Shalom!  Hey, how bout some food!?  Shalom!” 2) A woman going down on a guy in a car parked outside the apartment I am staying in.  The car was pulled about half over, and half […]

I got paid today! Well, I got a per diem check anyway. This is good, as I only had $7 left, and I’m hungry. I went straight to my trusty Suntrust ATM that I had used last year, so I could deposit my check. But it wasn’t there. I tried to locate an ATM online, […]

So I have now had two days of rehearsals here in New York City.  I’m a cover, which, for those of you not in the know, is basically an understudy.  What it means for rehearsals is that I sit behind the people who are singing, and listen.  I follow along in my score to make […]