big bad idiot

kie, kio, kial: same as previous entry

so today was interesting, i must say.
i got up at like 8 to go to oregon ridge ot be the woodsman in miss helen's own adaptation of "little red riding hood", or "Rotkäpchen" as the germans say. right. baltimore actors theatre also runs a school (k-12), and the kids from the school can participate in these kiddie shows, done for pre-school and day-care type kiddies. the story goes that mom & dad give random nameless girl a gift of a red cape, and she is thereafter known as little red riding hood. blah blah blah clever big and/or bad wolf, song here song there, what big teeth you have et cetera et cetera until dad (the woodsman) comes in and after a hilarious chase scene, subdues the wolf. THE TWIST: the wolf confesses that he has no teeth and therefore cannot eat people. there's also a little romantic sub-plot between the wolf and granny. it's interesting, lemme tell you.

i was running late, so i didn't stop for gas. i figured i would go after the play, to the nearest gas station, which is about a mile away from the theater.

well, friends, that was a mistake. i didn't make it more than about 500 yards from the theater when i freaking ran out of gas. i mean, getting a flat tire is one thing. at least you didn't do it on purpose and there was probably little you could do about it. however, when you run out of gas you have no one to blame but yourself. so there i sat, waiting for the aaa guy. luckily, under my aaa plan, they'll come and give you a gallon of gas if you run out. the only downside was it took over an hour for the guy to get there. then when he did get there, his gas can was empty. luckily i had the journal club article (which i was supposed to dicuss at 12, until this little misadventure) to pass the time. it's actually a really good article. read it here. note: this might not work if you're not on a university network. i have no way of testing this at the moment for obvious reasons.

i've never run out of gas before. i've come close. dangerously close in fact, but never actually sputtered to a halt. it makes me wonder what kind of gunk just went through my engine that for so long had been harmlessly floating on the top of the tank and only now was sucked in and semi-combusted.

so that was my morning adventure. i finally got back to campus around 1:30 to grab lunch. silk road just makes the best god damn dumplings money can buy, i tell you what. last night i went swimming. swimming is a fun, challenging, low-impact exercise. i think i'll work that into my routine. also, according to pete it burns 800 calories per hour. much more than my current exercise routine, which consists of walking to my car and driving where i want to go.

i have to go back to the stinking theatre tonight for jekyll rehearsal. i'm glad the show is starting soon. i'm eager to make back all the gas money i spent on rehearsals....