Mother-Fucking Airlines

The South-Park episode comes to mind where Mr. Garrison invents the travel machine that requires you to be probed in the ass whilst sucking off the controls. I feel like that right now. NEVER FLY AMERICAN AIRLINES. I flew them awhile back, got bumped, but was compensated 300$ in a coupon. That isn’t that bad, an airline screws you over and then they compensate you, but that means you have to fly on the airline that screwed you over … again. So here I am sitting in Chicago O’Hare, definitely avoid this airport like the plague, no Wi-Fi at all, I am pirating this signal by hanging out in front of the admiral’s lounge. But, back to the conundrum. Because of American’s inability to manage their time on the run way I was delayed 10 minutes out of LGA this morning, and then we ended up circling Chicago for 30 minutes before landing because we were 10 minutes late. So add that up to a 40 minute delay with a 48 minute layover and you get missed connection. I tore ass down the K concourse only to see them closing the door on my connecting flight. The less-than-cordial gate attendant felt no pain for my troubles, booked me stand by on a 2:30 flight, which was delayed until 3:30, but I do have a confirmed seat on a 4:30 flight.

Wicked Bitches, wicked wicked bitches. All I want to do is get out of this bloody airport. I am going to avoid O’Hare like the plague from now on, and now that I have no AA tickets to use, I am swearing off of them forever as well.

Back From Home

My girlfriend’s college graduation brought me back home this weekend. I just got back from a red-eye, so I am rather groggy. I just got done with my performance and art final which was rather interesting. But back to Laramie, this year Fordham put on The Laramie Project and did a rather fine job. I found it rather ironic that Tectonic Theatre Project is a group of New Yorkers that went to Laramie, Wyoming to explore, and here Fordham’s New Yorkers were repeating the same experiment. To an extent. My opinion is biased, I have seen the professional production, I saw the premeiere in Laramie and in Denver. I know several characters in the production, and was actually at a choir concert where Matthew Shepard was as well. It was a personal experience for me. But, sometimes I find that the actors here in the program treat everyone that they consider to be uneducated with a southern, country accent. It isn’t right and it isn’t accurate. News organizations send their anchors to Wyoming and Colorado to learn diction-free English; we have no accents whatsoever. It was incredibly annoying to hear these two actresses carry on in a southern drawl. I felt that it was lazy: a poor assumption on their part.

Aside from graduation I had the chance to go out and experience Laramie nightlife. In a word: Awesome. Don’t get me wrong, NYC is great, but a massive Grey Goose martini should cost way more than 6 bucks. Enough said. I have a new vice and it comes in the form of a frosted bottle.

Update: Before I hear about how Martini's must be made with Gin, I could not agree more. Sometimes you just need a variation. For the record, nothing is going to beat Bombay Sapphire, dry, a little dirty with 3 olives.

Done

With time to spare a really solid draft was produced. Not quite what I expected the original to be, but I think that I came to some interesting conclusions. It is now time to edit and write my presentation before tomorrow. I have a hunch that Mr. W_____’s class is going to be canceled because everyone is going to be putting the finishing touches on these papers. But that still leaves Ballet and Modern to contend with. Time to crack open a cold one with some cold pizza to celebrate.

Finals

The difference between a BA and a BFA is generally that the BFA is a more performance-oriented degree. Granted there are differences between the two beyond that, but generally speaking colleges granting a BFA are more or less expecting their recipients to go on to perform professionally. All in all by the end of the program here I will have racked up over 125 semester hours of technique class with the rest of the degree made of dance-specific classes and electives (where my politics come in). One of the classes that we take our third year focuses on dance history, and more specifically the Black Experience in Modern Dance. Unfortunately many of the professors lowball the level of intelligence that dancers may have, we are supposed to be able to count to 8 right? Well Ms. W______ expects significantly more from us. The final two weeks of the class consist more or less of 20 pages of analysis that I am plowing through the moment. As of right now 19 hours and 15 minutes until the masterwork is in. make that 19 hours and 14 minutes.

About Godot

“En Attendant Godot” was one of the first successful plays by Irish playwright Samuel Becket. It is of the absurdist/existential genre. It revolves around two characters: Vladimir and Estragon, in their process of waiting for Godot. Many have suggested that Godot was euphemistically used for God; however, I do not think I am God/Godlike/Godly. I name myself thus in me being an unknown, an anonymice, someone that you know is out there for sure, but you don’t know who they are and what they are going to mean.

About Me

I am a 4th year student at a Jesuit University in a major city. I live in the Residence Hall; too expensive to live off campus, and to further subsidize the experience I am a Resident Assistant on an upperclassman floor. And last year I was an RA on a Freshman floor. This has provided to be an interesting experience. I am sure that you will learn more about me if you read this at all. If no one reads this then hey, it will just be a series of journal entries gone awry.

Ok, I was going to go for the anonymity thing, but I revise, I go to Fordham University, the only Jesuit U. in NYC. I think it will be more interesting to talk about this specific experience rather than to have some random University to go off on. As well I am enrolled in the Alvin Ailey BFA in Dance program, my other prurient interest is in politics. I expect my ramblings to run the gamut from the experience in the dance world to the experience in the political world. I am in the middle of finals and paper writing right now, and hope to post some of my thoughts as well as starting to build my Blog roll fairly soon here.