homecoming weekend

hi! let's do the obvious thing and have a little breakdown of what's been going on recently.

academics
my three classes are going well. this is the time of the semester where things start to kick into gear, the end of what freshmen call the "honeymoon phase." in my communication criticism class, we have been asked to select a "communication artifact" to analyze. i've picked a series of south park episodes called "imaginationland." it'll be rough, it'll be challenging, but it'll be fun and possibly destroy a part of my soul. ON TO THE NEXT! my media class is rocking my world, the way i use technology/media, and even how i see symbols and everyday life. these new ideas are foiled perfectly by writing for media. it's been fun.

extracarricular (basically, improv)
hey, remember that one time i said i was doing improv and had been selected to play on a new troupe? WELL! after months of deliberation, we have named ourselves "post script ambiguity." what does it mean? why did we choose it? you'll just have to come see us play! we practice about four hours a week, and have recently been clicking along pretty well. our first show is next friday, october 10. if you're in the area, come see us! also-- checkout the WheatonIMPROV website and look for my picture and bio under "players." i'd be much obliged.
i'll be performing in a sketch show for the class of '83 with four of my fellow improvvers this weekend, and a couple of guys will be working from a sketch i wrote!
improv has been great to and for me. i can't begin to say how thankful i am for the people, the affirmation, the challenges, the community i seem to have fallen into. i look forward to performing with them.

i've helped my friend anna put on a study abroad meeting by making some posters for her and being available for questions during the meeting. i miss australia a bit, which leads to...

i'm applying for a job with the study abroad program in australia. it's scary, but i've got to start somewhere.

life, in general
man. i'm a crazy awesome mess. from time to time i get weirded out by things, especially since a cold front has struck in the last two days. i constantly have to remind myself that no, i am not a junior, yes, things happened during freshman year which was not a year ago... i'm in a perpetual time warp. semesters abroad will do that to you! but, i'm loving it. i need to take more time to commemorate the passage of each day, something i regret about september and hope to reinstate for october. preemptive nostalgia is not helped by all the alumni wandering around with BABIES and such.

i've started to attend an anglican church called Church of the Resurrection, which is really different from my upbringing and kind of a new thing on the whole for me. i could write a really long passage (probably a dissertation) why i've started to go there, but i'll spare you. i just find it odd to look back on my church experience over the past few years-- when i left for college, liturgy of any kind made my heart queasy. by sophomore year i attended an orthodox easter (pascha) service, and after flirting with non-denominational all last spring, i'm starting to actually like the liturgy a little.

and with that, i leave you-- gotta go work on a sketch show and then analyze "imaginationland"'s plot structure. i hope all of you are well.