Excited for Annette Vee’s visit. My journalism students have to submit a story by midnight tonight. @setonhilluniversity

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Someone seems to have slipped this over my transom. Thank you, #foodsubstitutefairy whoever you are!

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Overflow seating for the 50th anniversary of the canonization of #elizabethannseton @setonhilluniversity

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Today’s lunarbaboon… there might be something in my eye.

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August Wilson Trifecta (Two Trains, Ma Rainey and Fences on the same day)

Fences was performed in the backyard of August Wilson’s boyhood home.

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My 1951 day DuoLingo streak was fun, but…

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York Plays 2025: Five cameras, adding up to ~100 hours of footage.

Five cameras, adding up to ~100 hours of footage. I’m almost at the halfway point of editing 35 short videos from the 2025 York Plays, presented in Toronto by a troupe of hundreds of performers in June. The event was a textually faithful but theatrically creative staging of some 50 plays that were performed as…

I may have mentioned that I have a daughter who does things. Her next is “To Battle: A Fight Play.” August 1-10.

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“If music be the food of love, play on!” I may have mentioned that I have a daughter who does things. Twelfth Night opens tonight!

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Touch Me Now: York Plays 2025

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York Corpus Christi Pageant, Toronto, June 7

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Spring 2025 Final Grades Submitted!

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The Missing Will, by Agatha Christie (WAOB Audio Theatre)

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The Big Boy Graveyard

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Pater Noster Passenger Elevators

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My crowd simulation handles 2000 capsule NPCs at 130fps. I’m really pushing my coding skills.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

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Midterm Grades Spring 2025: Posted!

I planned ahead pretty well this term. I like the pace in all my classes.