Deck out the Flies

This from my friend Marianna: a newly adorned fly.

The Entertainment

So, it's been a month or two, and I've barely posted. What have I been up to? Many things, I'm afraid, but for this post, I will tell you about only one of them:


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This weekend, the RUDE MECHANICALS present:

THE IDIOTS KARAMAZOV

by

CHRISTOPHER DURANG and ALBERT INNAURATO
(No, it's not by Dostoyevsky, but the characters don't know that!)
Produced by Lauren Michniacki, with Al Duncan
Directed by Kate Hutchens

LYDIA MENDELSSOHN THEATRE
Friday, March 31 at 8pm
Saturday, April 1 at 8pm
Sunday, April 2 at 2pm
Tickets: $3 students, $5 everybody else; available at the door and MUTO

songs - chaos - poetry - guns - dead birds - resurrections - epilepsy - transfiguration - wheelchairs - flailing artists - altar boys - drug addictions - love - family - patricide - good ole' wholesome irreverence

FEATURING: Sarah Tristano, Greg Kovas, Julia Garlotte, Matt Lisiecki, Alison Velasco, Dina Vovsi, Virginia Corrigan, Maggie Shapiro, Arielle Ornstein, Ian Krieg, Drew Martin, Nishant Kumar, Russell Matthews, Lauren Michniacki, and Christine Ovaitt

Written early in Durang's and Innaurato's careers, this team effort from the two Yale graduate playwrights is a sort of retaliation against the heaping spoonfuls of literature anddrama they were made to read - more or less willingly - in their college years. Constance Garnett, the translatrix that brought the Russian classics to the Anglophone world, narrates her slightly revamped version of what she intends to be The Brothers Karamazov, but she gets a few things wrong... Enter the rest of the Western Lit. canon: Chekov, Turgenev, Hemingway, Barnes, Nin, Dickens, and plenty more. Flirting with the absurd and including some incisively comic musical numbers, this play examines some questions about real life while twisting it with the world of fiction.

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It is a full-length play that I have been rehearsing for since the beginning of February. I admit that if I were to write a play, it would never have been this one. However, it can get quite funny, and if you enjoy the random and irrational, you may enjoy this play just for that alone.

Goofiness

A couple months back, I started experimenting with different ways of walking. I think part of the reason originally was the thought that it might exercise different muscles, but I don't really think about that anymore. It's just more fun walking around my dorm if I can do it backwards and sideways. But today, I realized that despite all my time walking backwards and sideways, I hadn't had much practice opening doors when I wasn't facing them. So just now, I decide to take on a new challenge: I would approach my dorm room door backward, place the keycard into the slot behind me, enter my entry code with my back still to the keypad, and then push the handle down and back cheerfully into the room. I didn't really expect it to work the first time; reflecting my keycode so I could enter it backward was almost certain not to work right away, or so I thought. But to my surprise, the door opened when I pushed down the handle, and I backed into the room on the first try.

Running backward is also fun, though it really is necessary to look over your shoulder if you're going to do that. :-)

My Nerdiness Rating

Tri-Lamb Material 73 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 52% Dork

For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better than half in Nerd and Dork, earning you the coveted title of: Tri-Lamb Material. The classic, "80's" nerd, you are what most people think of when they think "nerd," largely due to 80's movies like Revenge of the Nerds and TV shows like Head of the Class. You're exceptionally bright and smart, and partly because of that have never quite fit in with your peers or social groups. Perhaps you've realized, or will someday, that it is possible to retain all of the things that you like about being brilliant and still make peace with the social cliques around you. Or maybe you won't--it's really not necessary. As the brothers of Lambda Lambda Lambda discovered, you're fine just the way you are and can take pride in that. I mean, who wants to be like Ogre, right!? Congratulations! THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 86% on nerdiness You scored higher than 21% on geekosity You scored higher than 87% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

I'd say the most annoying thing about tests like this is trying to discretize continuous values onto a low-res set of options. Even just slightly higher resolution would be good. There were several where I fell directly in the middle.

As to the results... I've considered myself a nerd for some time, so I'm glad to be able to put a numerical value on it. ;-) I'm a little disappointed that my geekiness is quite so low though, and I wish my dorkiness had fell just the other side of 50%. Anyone want to post comments with revisionist quiz results? ;-D

Quote of the Day

"I don't remember when my body parts started cracking."

What does it mean?