It's Columbus Day! By which I mean to say Indigenous People's Day. In my old days of blogging on Livejournal, recently revisited in a conversation recollecting my ten year friendship with my friend Vinny, this would call for some serious politicizing in the vein of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States". But I don't know, just go read that.
And since it's Columbus Day, that means it was recently my birthday. I guess depending on the year I would have approached that negatively or positively. But let's remember a positive memory.
Like my 19th birthday, following the debacle that were my attempts to get into college (my admissions list Bard, Hampshire, Sarah Laurence, Eugene Lang, and Emerson, uh yeah not exactly too many safety schools) I was doing an eight week workshop in acting for film at New York Film Academy, and living with my brother's friend on the Upper East Side. For my birthday, all of my classmates came to my apartment, surprised me with a birthday cake and sang to me (something about that always gets me) and celebrated. Considering how difficult a year 18 had been, it was the best birthday ever, feeling the love and warmth of being surrounded by new friends and my brother, it made the future seem more possible.
Which turned out to be true, as things are definitely going pretty well. I guess I want to acknowledge how happy I am with where I'm at. It's taken me a long time to get here, but as my friend Steven pointed out over birthday observance beers "I've grown up". I have friends. A steady relationship. The beginning of a career. I have so much to be thankful for.
The friends and the relationship in particular come as something of a surprise, as their both things I struggled with as a younger person. But I'm not that person, I guess I'm a grown up now, sort of.
And this is a good time to acknowledge that. Hey, it's another "I feel good about myself" post, but this one is birthday themed. So yeah, happy fucking birthday to me.
There's a bunch of other stuff, but I need to go grocery shopping so let's him them quickly.
First, did you buy your tickets to Uncle Vanya? It's been great seeing this show come together, and if you missed it last time, don't make that mistake again! Get your tickets on Goldstar http://www.goldstar.com/events/chelsea-ma/uncle-vanya or from http://www.apollinairetheatre.com/!
After that, listen to my podcast, which I need to blog about since I feel like I've made a lot of progress as a broadcaster and audio engineer which will soon be reflected in the episodes I'll posting in the near future. Find it here! http://www.buzzsprout.com/7119
And while we've been doing podcast stuff, we've been recording music so check that out too. http://soundcloud.com/mike_handelman
Have a happy holiday! Just don't go oppressing any more indigenous people's. Read Howard Zinn instead.
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