I don't want to think back to The One Thing I Know I Should Have Done..I don't want to sit across the table from you wishing I could run...

Mid-size thoughts that don't fit on Twitter and don't add up to a blog of their own ::

Driving is essentially piloting a giant chunk of mass that weighs thousands of pounds at high speeds between and around other speeding chunks of mass within feet (or sometimes inches) of one another, with enough combined potential energy to destroy all the moving parts involved, the people controlling them, several innocent bystanders and still have some left over to create a really interesting spray of glass and plastic - how long did it take for that activity to become so boring we had to look for things to keep us entertained while we did it?

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I dug out a document that I wrote to the other members of the HUGE Board in '09 and was surprised at:
- the sheer number of run-on sentences I use
- how many things we've stuck to along the way
- the fact that I've never shared it publicly.
I printed copies for the cast and volunteers. I want them to know who they're working for, what the vision is and when we aren't keeping to it. I may post it in the HUGE blog as well but there's plenty of HUGE announcements coming that I don't want to take away from.

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Going to the ReUse Center to grab a door frame and will probably walk out of there with a few other things as well - someone PLEASE get the red theater seats pictured HERE (scroll to the bottom) and I will find a place for them. I will build a balcony if I have to.

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I am constantly delighted and freaked out by people asking my/our advice about starting a non-profit.
Sure, we have a building but I will be the first to tell you that there's a lot of things we did the hard way or the just-plain-stupid way. But then I run into people that tell me that they talk about the stuff that HUGE does as a company that are things they never would have thought of - and it reminds me that not having the normal training for the job sometimes makes you the best candidate.
That would be true of basically my entire theater life, especially in the tech booth.
I want to go teach that to techs but most of them are in "schools" learning "the right way" to do things and getting "good jobs" out of the deal so it's hard to come in and tell them the occasional moment of brilliance is a good trade off.

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I'm teaching my Improv For Nerds class today and I'm super excited by it - even though it further blurs the start/end of the Nerd Season (remarkably different than either Duck or Wabbit Season...found that out the hard way...) and I will come home hoarse and frenetic from trying to cram in hundreds of hours of training and several years of insights in the space of 2 hours.