There, out in the darkness...

This weekend was excellent.  I won't talk much about Thursday and Friday, beyond saying that on Thursday I was mistaken for a Latino (... really?) and on Friday I had Innocence Project training and went to the best GGSS party so far.  The guy whose house we went to used to be a bartender or something, and he had all of the most professional-looking ingredients that you could possibly have.  It was more like chemical engineering than drink mixing, and it was awe inspiring.  In general, I've found it amazing how accomplished everyone is at everything here.  If someone pulls out a guitar, they actually know how to play it REALLY well.  If someone sits down at a piano, it's a safe bet that you can start a three-hour singalong.  If someone mentions offhand that they used to do pageants, it'll turn out that they were legitimately in the Miss America pageant representing an entire state.  

You were a physics major in undergrad?  Oh, you worked for Fermilab.  Of course you did.  

Also on Friday our director surprised us with beer and cupcakes before rehearsal.  

Aren't we a fun cast?  We're a fun cast.  

The perspective of the shot also makes it looks like I have an enormous hand.

On Saturday morning, like on most Saturday mornings, I had no plans for Saturday evening besides doing homework.  This quickly changed due to Mike's Three Laws of Law School:

1.  Mike will do all his law school homework but will never use it as an excuse not to do something else.

2.  Mike will accept all fun-sounding social invitations, except where such invitations would make the application of the First Law absolutely impossible.

3.  Mike will protect his sleep schedule, as long as such sleep does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.  

So while building something in set crew, one of the girls in the cast asked if anyone would like to go see Les Mis with her and some other people because she had an extra ticket.  For free.  At the Kennedy Center.  I raised my hand and offered to fight anyone who wanted to go more than I did. 

Two minutes later I got a text from Wallace Hornady saying he'd be in DC all afternoon.  I went home, took a shower, put on some theater clothes, and booked it to Chinatown where I met Hornady and Chris L. for dinner before heading over to the show.  

I've wanted to see Les Mis since I first heard the soundtrack sometime during Freshman year of college.  I sang the Stars for my audition for Curtains.  My expectations were extremely high, and I was not disappointed at all.  The set was amazing, the cast was great, they did things with integrated scenic projection that I didn't think were remotely possible (internal monologue: "What's Javert doing on that ledge?  There's no trap door... he's not wearing a harness... NO WAY! WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?").  

After the requisite post-show drink and discussion, I made it back to the apartment around two and got right to sleep in order to start building sets again this morning.  And now it is time for that homework I've been planning on doing... yay learning.    

But before I go, I'm just going to leave this right here....