Hee Hee. I have a slight headache.
It happens when I cry.
And who can go see Rent and not cry?
I just got back from Rent. My seventh time.
Let's recap:
London
Los Angeles
New York
Orange County
San Diego
San Diego
and now, Orange County
I saw the show with Angie, Kevin, and Cathy - none of who had seen the play.
They loved it. Kevin was blown away - it was the first time he had seen any show on stage like that - a Broadway style show.
The crowd was awesome tonight - plenty of Rentheads, but respectful ones - they cheered appropriately but quieted down so we could hear the show.
God. I love Rent. I honestly think this could be my all time favorite show.
"I've longed to discover something as true as this is...."
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
its been how long?
Ok, so its been a few weeks
of
fleeting thoughts
"I should blog about that..."
but back to school,
unpacking,
catching up on tv,
laundry,
vacuuming,
and getting my generation 4 Sims through college...
well,
its time I blogged.
So - in love with Joan of Arcadia,
and so angry that I have only 8 more episodes left,
and then I know it will end,
with no real ending,
a story with a phenomenal cast,
and a great story...
canceled.
grrrrrr..........
Its so easy to gossip about someone,
when they don't seem like someone,
just a fleeting thought,
a passing person in your life,
and how much does it suck,
when that person becomes more permanent in your life,
and you have to face that they're real
multifaceted,
and you are forced to see them,
and then your opinion is changed
a bit of shame,
a bit of wondering how to have handled it differently...
screwed up
make it better
Europe was awesome. I loved it.
I can't wait to go back,
although it just reinforced
how much I wish we had a Universal Translator...
quite possibly the most useful gadget in all of star trek...
These free form blogs are kind of fun.
Sometimes I feel like talking in fragments,
instead of paragraph form
does it piss you off?
Its kind of fun,
you should try it,
seriously.
of
fleeting thoughts
"I should blog about that..."
but back to school,
unpacking,
catching up on tv,
laundry,
vacuuming,
and getting my generation 4 Sims through college...
well,
its time I blogged.
So - in love with Joan of Arcadia,
and so angry that I have only 8 more episodes left,
and then I know it will end,
with no real ending,
a story with a phenomenal cast,
and a great story...
canceled.
grrrrrr..........
Its so easy to gossip about someone,
when they don't seem like someone,
just a fleeting thought,
a passing person in your life,
and how much does it suck,
when that person becomes more permanent in your life,
and you have to face that they're real
multifaceted,
and you are forced to see them,
and then your opinion is changed
a bit of shame,
a bit of wondering how to have handled it differently...
screwed up
make it better
Europe was awesome. I loved it.
I can't wait to go back,
although it just reinforced
how much I wish we had a Universal Translator...
quite possibly the most useful gadget in all of star trek...
These free form blogs are kind of fun.
Sometimes I feel like talking in fragments,
instead of paragraph form
does it piss you off?
Its kind of fun,
you should try it,
seriously.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
To be so brave...
Holocaust survivor killed in Virginia Tech shootings trying to save students
Matti Friedman, Canadian Press
Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Liviu Librescu survived the Nazi Holocaust. He died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a killing spree at Virginia Tech - a heroic feat later recounted in e-mails from students to his wife.
Librescu, an aeronautics engineer and teacher at the school for 20 years, saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre, which coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day. His son, Joe Librescu, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his mother received e-mails from students shortly after learning of her husband's death.
"My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. "Students started opening windows and jumping out."
The gunman, identified as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, an English major and native of South Korea, killed 32 people before committing suicide, officials said, in what was the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.
Librescu, 76, had known hardship since his childhood.
When Romania joined forces with Nazi Germany in Second World War , he was first interned at a labour camp in Transnistria and then deported along with his family and thousands of other Jews to a ghetto in the Romanian city of Focsani, his son said.
According to a report compiled by the Romanian government in 2004, between 280,000 and 380,000 Jews were killed by Romania's Nazi-allied regime during the war.
"We were in Romania during the Second World War, and we were Jews there among the Germans, and among the anti-Semitic Romanians," Marlena Librescu told Israeli Channel 10 TV on Tuesday.
After the war, Librescu became a successful engineer under the postwar communist government and worked at Romania's aerospace agency. But his career was stymied in the 1970s because he refused to swear allegiance to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime, his son said, and he was later fired when he requested permission to move to Israel.
After years of government refusal, according to his son, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened to get the family an emigration permit. They moved to Israel in 1978.
Librescu left Israel for Virginia in 1985 for a year sabbatical, but eventually made the move permanent, said Joe Librescu, who himself studied at Virginia Tech from 1989-1994. The elder Librescu, who was an engineering and math lecturer at the school, published extensively and received numerous awards for his work.
"His work was his life in a sense," his son said.
In Romania, the academic community mourned Librescu's death.
"It is a great loss," said Ecaterina Andronescu, rector of the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, where Librescu graduated in 1953. "We have immense consideration for the way he reacted and defended his students with his life."
At the university, where Librescu received an honorary degree in 2000, his picture was placed on a table and a candle was lit. People lay flowers nearby.
Professor Nicolae Serban Tomescu described Librescu as "strong and dignified."
"He had a huge affection for his students and he sacrificed his life for them," Tomescu told AP Television News.
Matti Friedman, Canadian Press
Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Article tools
JERUSALEM (AP) - Liviu Librescu survived the Nazi Holocaust. He died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a killing spree at Virginia Tech - a heroic feat later recounted in e-mails from students to his wife.
Librescu, an aeronautics engineer and teacher at the school for 20 years, saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre, which coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day. His son, Joe Librescu, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his mother received e-mails from students shortly after learning of her husband's death.
"My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. "Students started opening windows and jumping out."
The gunman, identified as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, an English major and native of South Korea, killed 32 people before committing suicide, officials said, in what was the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.
Librescu, 76, had known hardship since his childhood.
When Romania joined forces with Nazi Germany in Second World War , he was first interned at a labour camp in Transnistria and then deported along with his family and thousands of other Jews to a ghetto in the Romanian city of Focsani, his son said.
According to a report compiled by the Romanian government in 2004, between 280,000 and 380,000 Jews were killed by Romania's Nazi-allied regime during the war.
"We were in Romania during the Second World War, and we were Jews there among the Germans, and among the anti-Semitic Romanians," Marlena Librescu told Israeli Channel 10 TV on Tuesday.
After the war, Librescu became a successful engineer under the postwar communist government and worked at Romania's aerospace agency. But his career was stymied in the 1970s because he refused to swear allegiance to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime, his son said, and he was later fired when he requested permission to move to Israel.
After years of government refusal, according to his son, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened to get the family an emigration permit. They moved to Israel in 1978.
Librescu left Israel for Virginia in 1985 for a year sabbatical, but eventually made the move permanent, said Joe Librescu, who himself studied at Virginia Tech from 1989-1994. The elder Librescu, who was an engineering and math lecturer at the school, published extensively and received numerous awards for his work.
"His work was his life in a sense," his son said.
In Romania, the academic community mourned Librescu's death.
"It is a great loss," said Ecaterina Andronescu, rector of the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, where Librescu graduated in 1953. "We have immense consideration for the way he reacted and defended his students with his life."
At the university, where Librescu received an honorary degree in 2000, his picture was placed on a table and a candle was lit. People lay flowers nearby.
Professor Nicolae Serban Tomescu described Librescu as "strong and dignified."
"He had a huge affection for his students and he sacrificed his life for them," Tomescu told AP Television News.