Day 31: Today, I improvised

Day 31: Today, I improvised, originally uploaded by hambox. Behold the trucker-hatted face of exhaustion, as tonight, we kicked off our annual Labor Day weekend improv frenzy. I don’t share a lot about improv theatre here, my bloggie — I am well aware of the hyuk-hyuk, Whose Line Is It Anyway, “I heard LAMPSHADE!” reputation…

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the old college try

I had to listen to it during my commute first (to see how much I came across as an asshole), but I now release to you the news that the first of the two podcasts in which I participated is online. It sounds great! Here are ways to get to it: Nest of Vipers blog…

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Day 30: Today, I ironed

Day 30: Today, I ironed, originally uploaded by hambox. “TODAY, I ___” project with Ã…sta. One picture a day for August, foto/photo group. Very rarely will a garment gain enough status in my wardrobe so that I’ll actually deign to get out the Sunbeam. However, I have learned to love pressing with regards to constructing…

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Day 29: Today, I tasted chocolate

Day 29: Today, I tasted chocolate, originally uploaded by hambox. “TODAY, I ___” project with Ã…sta. One picture a day for August, foto/photo group. Most who know me know my party line regarding chocolate: not crazy about it, particularly when it is uncut — that is, alone without nut nor biscuit nor Snicker. And fruit-choco…

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Day 28: Today, I remembered my dad

Day 28: Today, I remembered my dad, originally uploaded by hambox. “TODAY, I ___” project with Ã…sta. One picture a day for August, foto/photo group. My father died a year ago today. That’s dad and me at an Old-Tymey photo booth at Legend City in Arizona. I love that big, fake mustache and that googly-eyed…

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Day 27: Today, I brainstormed

Day 27: Today, I brainstormed, originally uploaded by hambox. Although the environment in which we work is, in effect, panelled with blackboards (physicists are sort of like that), it’s a rare thing when two savvy web gals get to erase some equations and do some chalkin’ of their own. That’s a chart (albeit a non-ironical…

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Day 26: Today, I ate ice cream with a friend

Day 26: Today, I ate ice cream with a friend, originally uploaded by hambox. Note how friend’s pinky is so delicately extended. Ben and Jerry’s sure is rocking the 70s, Free to Be, You and Me look on their table tops. “TODAY, I ___” project with Ã…sta. One picture a day for August, foto/photo group.

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Day 25: Today, I puppeteered

Day 25: Today, I puppeteered, originally uploaded by hambox. Yup. I learned to improvise using puppets. And that night, I attended an improv show during which audience members drew characters which were scanned, animated, and cast in on-the-spot, realtime, improvised cartoons. And what did you do on 8/25/07? “TODAY, I ___” project with Ã…sta. One…

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