Good morning, all! I survived my trip to Miami University although I'm sure I've infected everyone I met with this cold. Yesterday, I felt terrible, but today, after 10 hours of sleep, I'm feeling pretty good.
I arrived in Oxford around 10:45yesterday morning, went to the Theatre Dept office for a visitor's parking pass, and then spent an hour in the Music Library looking at Appalachian folk song collections and talking to Barry, the librarian, who's taking my manuscripts into the library's collection.
At 11:50, I met Liz Mullenix, director of the MU Theatre program and we drove uptown to meet Janet Stuckey for lunch. Janet is the MU Library peron in Special Collections who's receiving all of the things I'm shipping. There is one crisis: they don't want a ton of books I've sent because of financial crises in the Ohio State educationbal system where the fools keep pouring the money into athletics while removing funding elsewhere. So, part of this is downsizing linbraries. I don't understand exactly what's going on, but the school libraries can no longer possess multiple copies of books, so a lot of books on Sondheim, Weill, musical theatre, etc. that are already in the collection are being rejected. I don't know how this bodes with signed editions, since a lot of books are signed, so I need to call Janet and address that issue.
After lunch, I met Janet at the library, she showed me what's been done so far with what I've sent and I spent the afternoon going through two cartons of questions: one was a simple "toss it out" response and the other was a filled box of correspondence. So I went through the items, commenting on who was the sender, how they related to my life, and Janet wants me to begin a history of these people as a reference guide.
After that, I met Liz and Gion of the Theatre Dept with a few students and a new acting teacher, my friend Steve Wilson, whom several years ago I tried to bring in to audition for the NYMF production of The Brain From Planet X, but he was on tour playing the Dick Van Dyke role in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (bringing up yesterday's Sherman Brothers). This year I tried to land him the role of Nicky Arnstein for the Lyric Stage of Dallas' production of FUNNY GIRL, but he was playing Superman in a production at Cincinnati's Playhouse In The Park! It was a really good visit, and I had a lot of fun.
I got back here, feeling poorly, watched tv with Jo, and went to bed around 10.
Today, I've got to call some friends and I need to purchase a new watchband, although I have no idea where. DR Ginny, any advice?
DR cillaliz, are you sure that Bristol Palin's "surprise envelope" wasn't prompted by her vicious homophobic coments on Facebook? A rotten apple doesn't fall far from a rotten, narrow-minded redneck tree.
