For my own information and edification

I was pretty on top of my elected officials in the old neighborhood, but realized I hadn't looked it up for the new house yet.

So, here are the people who represent me (supposedly):
My US Senators are Mark Dayton and Norm Coleman (I knew that without looking it up)
My US Representative is Martin Olav Sabo (I also knew that without looking it up, although I usually blank on his name and just remember "the three name guy")

I am in district 58(A) which means
My state representative is Joe Mullery
My state senator is Linda Higgins

I am in Minneapolis Ward 4, so my city councilperson is Barbara Johnson

Now, I need to do some homework on a few of those to find out who much they truly represent me.

And in closing, I could name at least three cabinet-level departments, and could've guessed at about 5 more.
The full list:
Agriculture
Commerce
Defense
Education
Energy
Health & Human Services
Homeland Secuirty
Housing and Urban Development
Interior (Gale Norton I hate you!)
Labor
State (bend over a little farther Powell)
Transportation
Treasury
Veterans Affairs (I had NO idea this department existed)
Attorney General

And of course, the Veep sits on the cabinet as well.

Thus concludes your civics lesson for the day.

Boring you with my life - look away, there might be content

I was wildly uninspired last night in my efforts to choreograph "Too Darn Hot". It's odd, too, because the arrangement is spiffy.

So, instead, I read Stephen King short stories, colored my hair, and waxed my dreadies.

And then killed another two hours doing half-hearted, half-assed choreography. Really, just staging. Or staring.

So, I got up toodamnearly this morning and started in. Apparently, my motivation keeps morning hours. Merely walking down the stairs to the basement (I have a whole room just for choreographing!), I had a fun idea. I ended up choreographing 2/3's of it in a bit over an hour (that is fast for me).

And if you're wondering what I do all day at work, today at work I choreographed. It takes repeated bathroom-breaks and abandoned stairwells and a zoned-out faraway look in the eye - but it can be done.

so, it's ready to go for tonight. This weekend, I need to choreograph/stage the remaining numbers in the show in prep for next week:
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
We Open in Venice
Cantiamo D'Amore
Another Op'nin

Of those, only "Cantiamo" is really dancy. The rest are just a lot of staging and movement coordination. If next week stays on schedule, we will have the whole show roughed out (movement wise) in the first three weeks of rehearsal. Giving us three more weeks to workWorkWORK.

Random notes:
- I'll be doing an auditioning workshop with the kids sometime in early November, likely.
- Our housewarming is looking more likely for November at this rate.
- I'm so damned grateful I don't have to figure out a Havana sequence or a Crapshooters Dance. "Too Darn Hot" is big, but not THAT big.
- I'm feeling a lot more positive about the show, obviously.
- After rehearsal, a party at Timmy & Jen's.
- Tomorrow I would like to work on the house. I should choreograph. I have a CVG meeting. Then a trip out to Fest. And the evening possibilities include a birthday party (my hair is newly REDDED), the Ministry of Cultural Warfare show, or dinner wiht the Festies at my favorite Chinese restaurant.
- Sunday includes more choreography, a matinee performance of a friend's show, possibly "Shaun of the Dead".

And I keep thinking about this idea of "living purposefully". It's gaining psychological ground.

Found funny!

( From somethingawful.com - Prequels that Should Never Be Made )