absolute, utter hilarity

i received the most surprising of all possible voicemails this afternoon and could not stop laughing for a good five minutes after.

one of my college theater professors left a message asking if i would be interested in guest lecturing one class in a couple of weeks - intro the theater is going to be learning how to be a critic and she figured i was a great person to invite into the class to talk to them about how i became a critic.

?????????

i love it. of course i'm going to do it - it's much too fun an opportunity to pass up. i wouldn't describe myself as a theater critic as of yet, but hey - it'll be very neat to do. but surreal, as i myself only took the class a few years ago - junior year, i believe? yep, first semester junior year. and the first theater review i ever wrote was for that class ... about dear shenandoah shakespeare (who will, might i add, be performing either "two gentlemen," "henry iv," or "the importance of being earnest" at uvm on the night of my birthday - who's there? oh wait. it's me) ...

anyway. i wish there had been a camera in my car as i made the drive up to burlington today - postcard moments were had by the handful. driving up one particular stretch of route 7, the golden light was hitting the trees at just the right angle, making them glow. gorgeous. while there's a substantial part of the foliage in southern vermont that has already fallen, it's still peak season farther north ... can we just forgo the harshness of winter and live in a state of perpetual autumn?

pure pop didn't have matthew jay - i think i might have to do an online purchase for this one.

i made myself feel better with josh rouse's "1972."