The strike is off; we have a regular day tomorrow. Luckily regular Tuesdays are Voice and Shakespeare SS, and I think I'm only doing MacBeth with Dixie and The Wife; no comedy for me...

Worked on my Berowne monologue with Ian today, and it went so well we barely used the whole twenty minutes. I've said it before out loud, but since it wasn't on the internets it doesn't count: the strike was awesome. It was like actually working, not doing bullshit core class busy-work like day-before-they're-due word lists and twenty-minutes-before-class movement pieces. Of course it's not like the core classes are useless, but working with Dixie and Ian has been so much more professional and worthy; I don't feel like I'm wasting my time and money on those pieces. I'm literally dreading doing sonnet work tomorrow, and it's only going to be ten/fifteen minutes of text-based floor work. I could do it with my eyes closed - hell, I probably will.

At least we get Stage Combat back on Wednesdays; Prince and I have got to get our Matrix fight in gear now that classes are back on.

In other news, Seann and I rented Hulk: Ultimate Destruction on Thursday and it's totally awesome. It's like Spider-man 2, but instead of swinging around the city you smash things. Everything(s).

Also Oblivion came out last Monday and has pretty much made the 360 decision for me; once I get paid for the Hamlet gig and get my tax return, so sometime after the tour.

Speaking of the tour, Alex got the ok from ACTRA so she should be joining Dave and I under the Black Sheep Theatre banner on our tour of the Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon Fringe Festivals. We're doing a show by my friend Tom X. Chow called 'Can't Get Started.' It's funny. And poignant. But mostly funny.

I watched Princess Mononoke Saturday night too, which I hadn't seen in a while. Gorgeous film, it still makes me gasp sometimes, especially the last half-hour. Plus that goddamn Forest Spirit/Deer God face is the creepiest/prettiest thing ever.

I've also started working on New Unity, the third evolution of the Monolith series. The goal this time is to simplify the story and make it more realistic by confining the narrative to one or two characters and really locking down things like governmental organisation, place locations, etc. It's funny that even after eight years of work I can still easily take this thing down directions I hadn't initially thought of, some major and some not-so-major. Big changes for this iteration are: Tom is the only narrator, the outside invader has been replaced by internal colonial unrest, and the character voices are more individual and adult. One thing that's going to be tricky is maintaining a probable level of realism while serving the plot; something that's always been an issue since I'm not a physicist or a fighter pilot. I do play a lot of Wing Commander though...

Time to sleep, got to be fully alert to read sonnet 29 on my back for half an hour tomorrow.