We were warned in the days before the Hurricane struck that Rutgers never closed. Early on September 16th, a Thursday, the school canceled classes for the day, and eventually the school would cancel classes for Friday.
I woke up in mid-morning to torrential rain beating the screen on the dormitory window. I was living on the [...]
Charles and I intended a relatively modest night of heavy drinking. We called over to Polly and then Kelly and told them to expect to have some fun with us, and they agreed they would, and the four of us met up at the bar at the corner. The bar was crowded. It’s a neighborhood [...]
MR. F arrived in town from Indiana. He wanted to party. Since MR. F and Charles are both graduate students, neither of them worried much weeknight about partying as neither had any obligations. I worried a lot about partying on the weeknight; the office expected me in at 9. I did the sensible thing and [...]
The first community theater production outside of the high school drama club that I involved myself in was Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. I had long fancied Oscar Wilde when I joined the cast as a lighting crew. No doubt part of Wilde’s appeal was his dandyism, the persona of erudite elitism mixed [...]