Post Partem

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Well, Bob’s big event is over. All that remains to be done now is writing up wrap notes for whomever takes this position next year, since it seems unlikely that I will be returning. I drove up to Park City for the Awards Night celebration on Saturday. Because it was snowing pretty heavily, I called [...]

On Altered States

Friday, January 27th, 2006

“But the drug experience is just a neat metaphor for what we all know and understand twenty-first century life to be: a single continuous altered state. In this day and age, you don’t have to be a fancy philosopher to realize that reality is endlessly medicated, managed and manufactured. We can see this in our [...]

Snow Day

Friday, January 27th, 2006

So, I’m skipping the drive to Park City today because it’s been snowing all morning and I just don’t trust my sister’s car getting up the canyon without incident. Plus, I’ve spent too much money this pay period (Burning Man tickets, several days of driving and eating in PC, rent to my parents, student loans) [...]

Meeting your heroes

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

So… The Guest Services Department was a bit understaffed today, and since I don’t have all that much to do I volunteered to help out. Later this afternoon I’ll be escorting Rosie O’Donnell and family into a screening of All Aboard: Rosie’s Gay Cruise. A few hours after that, I get to escort the entire [...]

Picspam from Sundance

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Okay, lots of picspam to share from the weekend! You can see the whole album, complete with captions, over here at my Flickr account. I’m leaving the captions off this entry if anyone wants to test their celebrity-naming skills, but if you click on the picture, you’ll be taken to my Flickr stream which will [...]

Hitting home

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

I woke up this morning to really sad news from Michael at Salt Lake Metro. Our Arts & Entertainment editor, Eric Tierney, passed away last night. Michael told me it was kidney failure, but Valerie from The Center said that she was told it was liver damage from a good friend of Eric’s (apparently, he [...]

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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

From the Volkswagen of America sponsor patio on Main Street, Park City.

Drive by…

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

So, I’m sitting in Sundance House in Park City using one of the workstations to check in. It’s mad crazy fun and there’s so much to tell, but it’ll have to wait until I’m back home with my own computer. Some highlights… saw Rufus play, twice. I’ve also run into him around town a couple [...]

The Ongoing Saga of My Family and Hospitals

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Well, I guess it had been nearly a whole month, we were overdue for another surgery in the family. This time it was Jacki who had to have emergency surgery to remove her gall bladder yesterday. It’s been some problem with the GB that has been giving her a lot of pregnancy-like symptons (she’s the [...]

The Party

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

So, I just got back from the Volunteer/Staff party kicking off Bob’s Event. I was having a pretty good time at first, until I ran into L. I haven’t seen him in a few days because he’s been up in Park City setting things up. Well, we were chatting about things and he revealed that [...]