Things are moving along quite nicely. After living in the new place for a week with nearly no furniture (except my new awesome bed), Alex and his dad brought up a big load of furniture yesterday that they are kindly lending to us. Now, we have a sofa and chair in the living room, the table and chairs in the kitchen and a few other odds and ends. We are still quite a way off with getting some necessities, but I think we might try to run to Ikea next weekend with his parents' van to pick up a few cheap but cool things. Primarily, I need to get a small desk and nightstand for my room and a coffee table for the living room. And a TV stand. (Thanks to Dad and Barb for sending all my bedding--I got the comforter in the mail yesterday!)

Speaking of TV, the cable/internet guy came today and installed our package, so now we are successfully plugged in. It's been difficult not having internet for the last week, so this will be a great improvement, especially on the job hunting front. I've been working all day today, and I'm totally jealous of Alex who is sitting at home at this very moment indulging in a TV/internet extravaganza.

Yesterday was my first time meeting Alex's dad. After we finished moving the furniture in, he took us out to lunch at this great Argentinian restaurant. He's really cool and is very interested in the arts, so we talked quite a bit about my internship. They are excited that I will be going to their house for Thanksgiving...they seem to really love houseguests!

Right now my high school friend Alan and his entourage are in town, so we've been hanging out. We went to a hip diner on Thursday night and I showed them around the midtown/Times Square area. Unfortunately, there is a strike occurring on Broadway at the moment because the stagehands keep making more and more ridiculous demands. So, all Broadway shows (excluding all of ours and the other non-profits) are cancelled until further notice. This is apparently loosing the city of New York approximately $18 million per day in revenue. Our plans to see a show this weekend were thwarted by this.

Hopefully it will be over by next weekend because I have free tickets to see the new hot play, August: Osage County.

Some bad news for MTC...apparently we had to cancel The Starry Messenger, our spring show with Matthew Broderick. It was going to be absolutely huge, and they were planning to make a movie of it afterwards, but apparently there are some "scheduling conflicts". I actually just found out about this today from news online, so I don't know any details or what we are going to do to replace it. Tomorrow's going to be a very interesting day at work, no doubt.

Oh, and the other night I was walking past Rockefeller Center and they were putting up the big tree! There was a crane and all these men on platforms setting it up. The season is drawing near...