Wow, I have not posted in so long that Xanga started stalking me and sending me reminders :)

Still in Chicago! I just got back from a trip to LA where I reunited with Deni-do pal Patrow.

holy h, there is a building down the block from my office being demolished.  i'm not sure if that is what it is, but i can feel this building shakin it up. like it just started 5 minutes ago.... wierd!  The building on the corner used to have a cute little diner, Cambridge House, that had awesome potatoe cheese soup.  And the day I got hired at this job the boss took me over there for our final 'interview' and to make my offer.  A great diner, potatoe cheese soup, and a historic moment in my personal Chicago history is now being jackhammered apart, piece by piece, to make condos.

The last time Vanessa (my improv friend & office neighborhood lunch buddy) and I met there, we had a great waitress whose personality would have fit a highway patrol officer.  "Young Lady!" she said as the cue to state our orders. Fantastic, right?

Ok, well in the time it took to write this, my building stopped shaking, so I think we're all right now.  Regular updates:  Writing 5 show at Second City has come together really well & is fun & funny.  4 more fridays.  Conservatory level 5 show is being developed in class, & yesterday our teacher used my song as an inspiration to the format of the whole show!  Basically, it involves characters at starbucks, buses, trains singing monolouges to introduce scenes and is 2-3 steps away from my original song, but still. The original idea was all the different people in starbucks singing. yay!  Louie is still my BF & April 9th we are doing a 20 minute sketch show as part of a sketch comedy series at an improv theater here.  I am a little too busy right now, but that will slow down as my conservatory class is over in May. :) 

i WAS on B E T!!  Wow, so Lamorne was back from his finalist trip to NYC today, and i guess last Thursday was his special on BET where they showed his 'story' and the tape he made that i mentioned in my last post. And he said that they showed the clips of me and 2 others in our second city class talking about why people should vote for him. Is that crazy or what?  awesome, cross "appear on b.e.t. " off the list folks. there is a 2 minute recap tomorrow at 5 and they annouce the winner Saturday at 7, so i am going to tape it & see if they show it again, if not he said he'll get us a copy.  i guess they used the part where i say 'lamorne helps white people understand black people stuff' or something.  

I got a penguin shaped humidifier & the steam shoots out of the beak. 

So basically, could things be more awesome? oh wait that's impossible.