Day Three: We arose at 6:00 to get out to our first gig. This gig consisted of three workshops and a show, which was exhausting, however, we did get a very good picture out of it! After those shows, we ate lunch at the school and drove cross town to another show where we did yet another show and workshop. Finally, we rented skis on the way home. It was a very busy day.

Day Four: We slept. We skiied. We ate a "Mountain of Love" (Secret VQ recipe)

In other news, a friend pointed out that my photo has poped up again on gizmodo. Of course I guess since these things just get into the wild there is no stopping them. Oh well, at least you all know the truth!

That's the news, the next day or two we will be taking it easy: Bumming around town, hiking up by the NOAA, indoor rock climbing, and performing traditional VQ traditions. Our final show is in a coffee shop on Friday, so some good resting to be had before that!

Not sure if today is actually day two, maybe three? I can't tell yet. My day got off to a great, albeit still surreal start. I checked my email this morning to find that the only email I had was from a Thai college reporter who wanted copies of my Gender Neutral Housing photos. Very odd. But hey, now I can say that I've been published internationally.

Carrying on from where I left off yesterday, we got to the tour house and I was once again stunned. It is amazing (see pictures). Just a great place to spend tour. From the stories I hear it sounds like I've been spoiled silly on tour houses. So far no one has gotten sick from the altitude (Just over a mile, so not bad). I am however somewhat sick with some kind of allergies or sinus infection, but the show must go on!

Last night, we went into Boulder to "Illegal Pete's", for burritos. They were ok, but the steak was no Chipolte (Although they have those here!). After that we went to the most quaint thing I've ever seen. It was a teahouse that was shipped over from Tajikistan. In a sister city trade, Boulder got this tea house in exchange for an internet cafe. It was just amazing to see (no pictures, Sorry!)

We finally made it home and rehearsed for our corperate show and workshop today at Tier 3 communications which turned out to be a very...interesting experience. It was a lot of fun to get to watch someone that wasn't us perform. Plus a bunch of lawyers doing improv is just hilarious.

We also went and found another geocache on top of a nice vista today and I cooked some hamburgers and we hung out tonight. REALLY long day tomorrow with lots of shows!

Well it's hard to explain the past 24 hours. It has all kind of been some type of surreal, absurd theater performance. New Haven suddenly decided to warm up to me...literally. The weather was great, sunny and 60+. It was also a nice treat to enjoy the town without my normal college routine. I took part of the VQ geocaching, which was great. And we all had lunch and dinner together. Dinner was a fiasco though. This is about where things got extremely weird...

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After a fantastic hiatus, I'm back. More blog, more pictures, and more blah! That's right this weeks buzzword is "Blah" in honor of my disdain for the amount of commitments I have managed to acquire this semester. As is time-honored tradition for me, my first day back (Sunday) I managed to not arrive back in my room until after midnight due to theater meetings. But let me handle the various fronts one at a time.

School: Classes started up again yesterday, and I am just now in the middle of picking ("Shopping") classes for this semester. I think I am down to 5, with a simple decision between stats classes to be made. My schedule is in some respects better this semester, and worse in some. I rather enjoyed having all my classes back-to-back in the morning last semester, now they are more spread out. I'm excited to check out my other two classes this afternoon as they are the two I am most excited about.

Theater: Over-committed might be an understatement. It's really not as bad as it sounds, but it comes in waves. I am Lighting Designer for Equus and then Master Electrician for the Freshman Show the week after. Those are the February shows and then there are April shows after that. I was hoping ot leave more time for YDN work (and class work for that matter), but it should be very fun working on those shows.

Photos: Oh is photo going to be exciting this semester. One of my editors got a 12-24 lens for Christmas which I hope to play around with some. In addition, I now have a tripod and flash (Wireless flash), so look for some shot playing around with that this semester.

Photos and VQ: To summarize our winter tour I have presented two "Prom" photos on my photoblog. The first is one I had a lot of fun with in Photoshop. When we shot it, we were just playing around having fun. But the spot color seemed like an appropriate way to take it in photoshop. The second one is very cool as well. A very simple, endearing picture which is simply awesome because of their expressions.

For the full album you can go to facebook!

Well that's the news from Yale. I look forward to another great semester here, lots to do (I haven't even started IM Basketball yet!). If anyone's looking for an intern, let me know Otherwise, till next time.

Everything is pretty much in motion for the semester. A usual routine as sort of cropped up. Go to classes, do homework, with intermittent practices and IMs in between. Some small news this week...

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