–Monday, 2-6-2006:
This morning we had to be up rather early for a lec-dem we were supposed to do at Utah State. By the way, I’ve now learned that Logan isn’t a crazy, small town, it’s a really, really spread out mid-sized college town. The fact that there is near civilization a long ways away does nothing to help with the fact that our hotel is in the middle of nowhere. Did I mention it has a highway address? Oh, and, in back of it is a trailer park.
Regardless, Becca, Leo, Chad and I were called to do a lecture-demonstration, with Monica leading, for an “arts and civilization” general ed class at USU. This is not normal. We’ve never done this before. We decided we would do improv and have the class manipulate the phrases and the steps according to their class content and prompts from Monica. We were up on a stage in front of 900 freshmen, and we were given words relating to love, hate, civilization and nature by the students. We then had to make up movement that correlated and then phrases individually and then with the four of us. By the end, the students had us doing the robot and spirit fingers as I tried my best to do movement somewhat related to “indoor plumbing.”
Despite what it might sound like from my description, it went really, really well, and the students actually really, genuinely liked it. It went so well, in fact, that Monica is going to ask Denise to add this type of activity to our roster of offerable outreach so we can do it more often.
After the lec-dem, we asked if we could be driven to a grocery store and our wonderful drivers/presenters took us. I was therefore able to waylay one of my larger fears of being here: no food.
Then I napped. For four hours. Have I mentioned I seem to sleep a lot, and never feel rested?
Then, we had tech. Tonight was my night to teach warm-up, and I finally got to try out a combo on everyone I’ve been playing around with for a while. The stage and theater were freezing, though, which kind of blew, cause it’s pretty impossible to warm up when you’re frozen. Maybe it’s because it was 18 degrees here today. For real. Also, there were flies everywhere on stage today… we can’t figure out/imagine where they’re coming from.
The theater provided us with unexpected, really good food. That ruled. The stage is crazy small. That’s kind of bad.
I’m back in bed. We’ve been watching TV and I’ve been taking care of business since we got home at about ten. Starr (my wedding photographer) wants Jerry and I to write a little bit about us and our relationship and wedding so she can submit us to Seattle Bride magazine, which I think is pretty cool. So, tonight I took care of most of that and a lot of other, backlogged emails… though not all of them, because there’s always just too many. Sigh…
So then, off to bed.