A handful of things I just felt like listing…because they made me feel good.

1) This Story is awesome. A 51 year old man saved an 18 year old guy, who was suffering a seizure and had fallen onto a subway track, by jumping on him and pinning him down flat so the train passed safely over them without hitting them. Wow. Wow! A true hero.

2) I’ve recently discovered that I can download the podcasts of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! From NPR, and I’ve been listening to them on my Treo! Educational, informative, and funny as hell!

3) Speaking of downloading things, I have also downloaded a new book that I’ll be reading on my Treo. It’ll be my first “eBook” experience, so I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes! 🙂

4) Speaking of my Treo: I have an awesome new Treo phone! It’s a Palm/Phone/Emailer/Web Browser all built into one, and I love it!!

5) On Sunday we took the kids to Zap Zone, a place where you can play Laser Tag! Laser Tag, if you don’t know, is high tech cops and robbers, where you skulk about a giant life-sized labyrinth of shadowy corridors and ramps wearing an electronic vest and carrying a “phaser”, and try and zap your opponents! Oh my God, did we have fun! First it was me and Max -vs- Jeanne and Maggie, then it was me and Maggie -vs- Jeanne and Max. So much fun! Jeanne even said it was a little therapeutic: apparently she got to work out some nice issues by zapping me over and over! We had the whole place to ourselves, and spent 1/2 hour running around playing spy. A while ago I posted about us playing ninja in the house…and all of those skills came in handy at Zap Zone!

6) Last night we did a reading of our Spring show at Williamston Theatre, and it’s going to be great. A great team of designers, and a wonderful cast and director have been assembled, and I’m looking forward to having them all in the building, and creating what I think is going to be a beautiful, beautiful piece of theatre.

7) Also, we scheduled auditions for the show after that, our Summer show, Flap, a world premiere comedy! Those are in about two weeks, and will be fun – it’s always nice to put together a team!

8) Before those two shows, though, we have our very next one, Fully Committed. On Tuesday, we begin rehearsals. Can’t wait!

9) Just read through my Friends List on LiveJournal, and it was nice to see so many nice things happening in people’s lives! Babies, new pets, poems honoring writers and the anniversaries of their works; What a nice start to the new year!

10) Tonight, when tucking in my 8 year old, she asked if I would help her with a play that she’d written. She wants two of her friends to be in it, and she wants to direct it. “I want to practice”, she said, “Because when I grow up I want to be a director, like you.” And then I was killed from the sweetness. I mean, she’s 8, so tomorrow she’ll want to be an astronaut and Friday she’ll want to be a gardener. But tonight, tonight she wants to be like me. That’s a pretty amazing, humbling…terrifying…amazing feeling.

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.
-Mark Houlahan