Translation: Hasta La Vista College Ryan Attends.
I'm finally done with school; kind of. In 2 hours, I go do my last broadway show (time for train-of-thought: last week was my Tony Spectacular, with the world premiere of Spelling Bee and an exclusive interview with the producer of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ruth Hendel. I think it went extremely well; I played only the four nominated musicals and gave info on each of them. Then, I watched on Sunday as the Tonys played out [best award shows ever, thanks to the live performances and singing]. I was very nervous as my least favorite won 6 of 11 nominations [Light in the Piazza], but Spamalot did come away with the big victory, though I favored Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I truly believe that, unlike most years, all four of these musicals could become popular, along with Little Women, which was not nominated) and then next week I do some Baccalaureate Choir stuff for a little pittance of money. But for all intensive purposes, I'm done.
My first year academically wasn't fantastic, but I had a great time doing sports broadcasts (on-air play-by-play and color-commentary)(lots of hyphens in that parenthetical statement) and my music show.
Now I go home for free-lancing for the Herald and lounging for myself.
I had a very tough final week. The closest person in my life to my, my role model, my grandmother died Sunday morning. In essence, I lost her 6 years ago when she started showing signs of Alzheimers, so this was really a release. But there was always a futile hope that it would all just go away and she would be better, but now she's gone. So my freshman year began and ended with the deaths of my grandmothers. Unforgettable.
I need to end the post here, before I cry...how do you show tears in a blog? ```` Does that work? Sure, from now on, when I cry, I'll go ````. And if it's a sarcastic cry, I'll go ~~~~. That works.
6/10 = The Cubs rocked the Red Sox in Boston's first ever appearance at Wrigley Field, 14-6. Greg Maddux pitched great and hit a home run, his fifth of his career in his 310th win. Jeremy Burnitz hit 2 homeruns.
Random Factoid: Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell starred in the 1989-1994 TV Series on NBC, Quantum Leap. If you look during Seinfeld's TV pilot season, the NBC offices have a picture of QL.
Pip Pip.
