People have been swinging at me for years...

...but they always seem to miss.

 So it's been a month I guess?

It's been a pretty good month.

First of all, I just came from the annual Sanford Syse award ceremony where I walked away with the "Best Actor" award for the 2010-2011 academic year. I won it for my portrayal of Sheridan Whiteside in "The Man Who Came to Dinner".

Wow. Very flattering. Very awesome. It's also more than a little bewildering. While I've always been interested in theatre, I honestly never imagined I'd ever win an award like this. In the past, I've been lucky to get bit parts, small comedic rolls, ensemble etc... and this year has simply been one huge pile of unexpected awesomeness. When you don't have a lot of confidence in what you're doing, to then have a group of people tell you they think you were the best out of all of them is... well... its ridiculous.

The other reason this is beyond my comprehension is that I really thought the person I was up against was going to win. I saw Taylor as Uncle Peck in "How I Learned to Drive" and was flat out blown away. He was amazing, and I didn't have a whole lot of confidence that others would view either of my leading roles this year as comparable. It's really hard to judge your own performance sometimes, and to think that I won it over his performance doesn't exactly make sense in my head.

Don't look an award horse in the mouth I suppose. This will probably be something I'll be proud of until I die however. Again, very, very, very cool.

More good news? My final thesis is done. My 40 page epic titled "The Welfare State and Declining Population of Japan" is done.

And yes, its a very, very boring read. Unless you have a passing interest in increasing pension costs, declining fertility rates, and the necessary tax burdens an aging population must bare, I can't say I'd really recommend giving it a read.

I must have read over 3,000 pages when gathering research for this stupid thing. I've read everything from 200 page dissertations on the Birth Control Movement in Japan, the history of the Welfare state in Argentina, to case studies on the Bubonic Plague in China in the 19th century.

In a very weird way, I've probably learned more from this paper than I have from any other class in recent memory.

Long story short, I got my paper back and I got an "A" on it.

I feel like this journal entry is kind of dissolving into one big "pat-myself-on-the-back-aren't-I-great" session but... well, I don't really have a response for that. it does feel good though to have something I've worked so hard on be well received.

Also: Game of Thrones.

*slow clap*

Well done HBO. Well done.

Tyrion, Jon Snow, Ned, The Hound, Bran, and Jaime!

Very excited to see the new episode tomorrow. I really hope we get some more Syrio Forel.

"All men are made of water. Did you know this? If you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die..."

First day of training at BWW. My boss seems really really nice and it seems like it will be a great summer job. Hopefully, I'll get behind the bar fairly soon, but for now I'm satisfied being a server. On top of that, I am still working at Sholom home (where I am writing this at the moment), and start rehearsals for the Hudson House's dinner theatre on the 16th.

Looks like I'm going to have an eventful and busy summer before I jet off to wherever it is I'm going next.

Other little notes or things about life being terrific:

-Waking up and reading Nietzsche in bed for two hours before I decide I need to do anything.
-Rediscovering Settlers II and Civilization's IV.
-Getting to watch Bill Maher's show now that I have HBO.
-Craig Ferguson and his wacky shenanigans.
-The Masquer's scrapbook is going to be bad-ass.
-The rest of the award ceremony was really fun.
-Been kind of writing something? We'll see.

That's all for now intertron. I'll try and get back to updating more than once a month.