Tim Comes Back Today

Written in the morning:

Tim is supposed to come back today. The roommates and I have been trying to think of some kind of good natured prank that we could pull on him. He's been away on a boat with Second City and his room has been empty this whole time. No subletters. But we've had fun saying that while he's been gone that we've been using his room to house hookers.

We could have a couple of actors play the part of hookers and be in his room for when he arrives. But that would take actual work in finding two willing ladies to do that, and we also don't know exactly when he's arriving today. We could rearrange his furniture but that got vetoed. We thought about putting his childhood stuffed animal into a weird sexual position with some other stuffed animal but that was deemed too cruel. We could fill his room completely up with balloons. This would probably result in each roommates passing out in trying to blow up that many balloons. We've come up with lots of idea but none of them felt quite right.

In the end we'll probably not do any sort of prank. Hopefully he won't think the lack of a prank is any reflection on how much we've missed him.

Later in the evening:

We settled on getting Tim a cake. I went to Jewel and picked out a cake. I decided to purposely make the cake a "cake fail." This is a reference to the blogs cakewrecks.blogspot.com and failblog.org. Check out the sites to get an idea as to what I'm talking about. Above is the cake we got Tim.

In case you can't quite make out what it says, it says "Welcome Back Tim. Picture of boat."

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

This morning was a hard morning. I partied last night and I paid the price in the hour after I woke up. Felt, which has been at the 10:30pm slot at iO for a couple months, unexpectedly got to be moved up to 8pm last night. The 8pm show that bumped us from our normal slot couldn't go on because too many of that cast were out of town. This meant being done with Felt at 9:30pm and being able to party since there was no need to be at work the next day. I went to the Holiday Club for socialization and karaoke.

Normally I'm not much of a drinker and I hardly ever feel the impetous to buy hard liquor. But I decided to try it out and ordered whiskey & soda for myself. I didn't get too drunk, but I was nice and tipsy by the end of the night. I got to sing one karaoke song but most importantly I had fun talking to friends. I lasted until last call and then went home.

I had quite a headache this morning.

Though I thought I had adequately rehydrated myself before bed. Thankfully I was prepared; I had already stocked my fridge with Starbucks Frappaccinos (caffeine!) and Gatorade (rehydration plus electrolytes!). Unfortunately it look about an hour of pain for these two things to combat the headache. You know when the headache is bad when you're in the shower pressing your forehead to the cool surface of the tiles for temporary pain relief.

The rest of the day was great. I went to Thanksgiving dinner at Jay & Mel's place near the neighborhood of Ravenswood Manor. The gathering was small but perfect. I got to watch Tropical Thunder for the first time (pretty funny but not amazing) and the dinner was very delicious. Afterwards we played Uno and Totally 80s Trivial Pursuit. Like most board games, it was great at first but then became something of a chore towards the end. We combated that by giving overly helpful hints to the answers so that we could finish the game. Because, I mean, you just HAVE to finish the game, right? You can't just quit because you're triptophan tired, right? Right. I'm glad we agree.

All in all, it was a pretty nice Thanksgiving.

Somewhat Uneventful November

Why haven't I blogged more often since the election? Because nothing really noteworthy has happened to me really. I guess I could have switched over to blogging daily about the minutiae of everyday life but I didn't. I dropped the ball on that possibility.

Sorry.

But it's never too late to try. My new goal is to try to mix it up - sprinkle in the noteworthy posts in the hopefully comic takes on the mundanies of my everyday dealings.

Updates

Beatbox
I've been in a couple shows this month and I'm getting gradually better at free-style rapping. I'm hardly an adequate cipher, but from where I started, I've gotten better. Baby steps.

Also, the past show I was in was super fun and I had a blast in. I was in some fantastically fun scenes and I was pretty good (for me) at rapping.

PennyBear
We've finally started rehearsing again. It's felt like it's been forever since we last met and fortunately there isn't much dust to cast off ourselves. We've been coming up with some fun new exercises to create material and some of the material looks promising.

We've got a show coming up in December. We open for Williams & Martinez's sketch show on Dec. 19th. We also got word that we got into SketchFest again! Our show is Jan. 15, which is a Thursday. The second Thursday of the festival. Later in January we'll be flown down to Florida for the Gainesville Improv Festival to teach sketch writing workshops and to do our show down there.

CSz
Still a lot of fun and I'm doing okay at reffing. I had one so-so time at it that was full of stepping all over my tongue to get words out of my mouth. But I followed it up with my best (my opinion) reffing yet.

iO
Our team has two new additions to it as players and we've got a new coach.

Roommates
Tara was part of another SNL showcase; this time they were looking for writers for the show. The showcase was good and, again, Tara did great.

Ryder is coming back this Sunday. This is both good and bad. Good because he'll be back. Bad because now I have to kick out the whores who we've been using his room as a brothel.

Before and After

Back in the spring of this year, during a PennyBear meeting, we got to talking about the Before & After category in Wheel of Fortune. We came up with a super long version and decided to try it out as a sketch. We tested it out at the Playground and as expected, it didn't do too well.

Somehow this past week I've gotten on a roll of putting different long versions of Before & After in my status on Facebook. It's quite sick how much fun I have in creating them. Here they all are now, for your viewing pleasure.

• Nike air supply room with a view to kill bill volume 2 legit to quitters never win lose or draw four score and seven years ago.
• Taco Bell South side walk the walk-er Texas Ranger Rick Springfield, Illinois lottery winners circle jerk-y boys don’t cry the beloved country.
• Steven Tyler Perry's House of Payne Stewart.
• Tomorrow Never Dies Hardcastle & McCormick Center for the Performing Arts & Craftsman Tools of the Trade.
• Jumping jack flash gordon's fish sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me, myself, and Irene Dunne.
• Final fantasy island music man on fire woodrow wilson phillips head screwdriver.
• Chew the fatman and little boys on the sideways and means committee.
• Sexiest man of the year of the dragon ball z cavaricci.
• rock around the clockwork orange chicken dance dance revolution.
• It was the best of times it was the worst of times new roman holiday inn keepers of the faith hill side strangler.
• The Chicago seven up yours with a rubber hosea.

Historic Night

Obama wins!!!!!!!

This is a great moment in American history. I can hardly believe this is actually happening.

Election Night

Ah, I can't take it!!! Indiana is too close to call. Virginia, which every site I visited said it was going to go blue, is too close to call and leaning McCain. Noooooooooo! But Florida is leaning Obama but it's still too close to call. Same for North Carolina.

Election Day

I'm SO EXCITED!!!!!

It's finally here and I'm at work right now and I have no urge to do any work at all. All I want to do is check out the election coverage on TV and keep refreshing fivethiryeight.com.

Last night Tara, Scott and I watched the live poll results of Dixville Notch, NH. For those that don't know, Dixville Notch is a town in northern New Hampshire that historically (since 1960) has their primaries and general elections at midnight. All of the registered voters gather in some hall, fill out their ballots, and then at midnight drop the ballots into the ballot box. If all of the registered voters have voted, then the town can close the polls and count the votes. This usually happenes a minute after the polls open. Last night the count was 15 for Obama, 0 for Nader ("sorry Nader" the guy said), and 6 for McCain. It's a landslide victory!!! Dixville Notch hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1968.

After that, our apartment had a fun time of doing bits about that town's name.

Me: You know who I haven't seen in awhile? Dunbar Dixville Notch.
Tara: You know who I haven't seen in awhile? Jon Dixville Notch.
Scott: You know which actor I haven't seen in awhile? Dixville Van Dykesville Notch.