March Madness, Theatre and Stuff

March Madness sort of snuck up on me this year, but it's yet again time to break out the Bucky icon. The Badgers are playing Florida State, and since they're a 12 seed up against a 5 seed, I don't think Bucky's going to get much air time this year.

Amongst the general insanity, it's been two weeks of fabulous theatre for me. I ventured down to NYC last weekend to see a cast that included Simon Russell Beale, Sinead Cusack and Ethan Hawke in both The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard. Both productions were stunningly good, and I don't say that lightly. (I generally hate Chekov, but this was a new translation by Tom Stoppard with a fabulous cast and it managed to be both funny and utterly tragic.)

Tonight, the Sweetie and I saw Travesties, another Stoppard, at Toronto's own Soulpepper theatre. It was amazing. A really great cast and just a crazy smart, funny play.

Yesterday, I got my trib copy of Lace and Blade 2. Actually holding a physical copy of a book I'm in is a trip. (I played geek and brought it into work to show my pals.)

And speaking of work, one of my co-workers had to take a picture of me this week for an article in our company newsletter. (I'm now not only a one person training department, I'm also a one person video production department. For the same money of course. Economic downturn, belt-tightening, blah blah blah. But at least I like my job, for all that it's kinda nuts.) But just for fun, I asked her to take a pic I could post here, on account of my new look:
( Behold the P with long hair and glasses... )