Catch-Up; and Elections

Okay, yes, it's been a couple of weeks. About a week after I last posted, "Lear" went up, the weekend of October 23-25. It was actually pretty good! A lot of people came out to see it too, which was great. We had good numbers on the Saturday matinee, which is always the worst attended show, and the Friday and Saturday nights we had to put out more chairs to have enough seats. I like to think that I did my publicity job well.

And ever since then it's been catch-up time for classes, labs, seeing friends, so on. It's been kind of a crazy few weeks, but also nice in a way.

Apparently Mark Warner visited Cville on Sunday for a rally, and once again I didn't know until the day after. It's nice that politicians come to this town in their campaigns, though it is extremely blue (something like 75%?) so it's a guaranteed base of support.

Tuesday night I did some work before heading over to a friend's for a pretending to do homework while watching election returns party. I stayed long enough to watch Obama's Hyde Park speech, then drove home. A few apartments in the neighborhood were obviously having real parties, and I recall hearing the chants of "O-BA-MA" as I fell asleep. Not nearly as exciting as the evening other friends of mine had, who live in NYC and Chicago, another more lively places, but still... it was kind of crazy.

I'm really glad that the voter-registration folks will no longer be hounding Grounds.