We bought a toaster oven today. It replaced our other toaster oven which died a horrible death yesterday. Instead of buying the "Krup" toaster, we spent a few extra bucks and bought the Black & Decker. Sweet...

I'm really looking forward to directing Act I, Scene 9 from Angels in America (part 1: Millennium Approaches). Good stuff... if you haven't read Tony Kushner's Angels in America, I highly recommend it.

No word yet on my books...

Oh yeah, my roommate and I bought the Playstation 2 game "SSX" about a month ago... it's a wonderful snowboarding video-game with choice graphics, a wonderful & intuitive control scheme, plenty of replay value and lots of extras to earn. One very, very strange thing... on the different menu screens, a voice in the background says "select board," "select character" or whatnot. But when the voice is saying "select character" it pronounces it like... well, like the "ch" was pronounced like the beginning of "cherry". So it's saying "select character" but pronouncing the "ch..." It's very odd... and quite funny (especially late at night).