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Tonight, I’m interviewing Raoul Bhaneja for The Butcher Block. Thanks to Jimmy for helping make it happen!

I randomly found out he’s doing a one-man version of Hamlet in NYC this week (the 19th, 21st, and 25th–I have ticket for the 25th), and I thought it might be keen to see if I could swing an interview. The director, Robert Ross Parker, is co-founder of the Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company (one of the most entertaining, innovative, unique troupes I’ve had the fortune to discover), and as Jimmy has strong ties to the company through his podcasting shenanigans, he was able to forward my email to Robert, who contacted Raoul. Jimmy is like a ninja or something. I got an email back from Raoul one hour and two minutes after sending Jimmy my message! Zounds!

From the brief phone conversation Raoul and I had yesterday to set up the interview, it sounds like he’s involved in some awesome projects. His schedule is fairly tight, as he’s escaping the city on the weekend to shoot scenes for Warehouse 13–something I’m very interested in, as it’s co-written by Jane Espenson, one of my favourite TV writers. Amusingly enough, it co-stars Joanne Kelly, who played Bianca on the Dresden TV show. Small world!

Raoul also mentioned that Paul Blackthorne is in town, filming episodes of Lipstick Jungle, and that he expected Paul to come to one of his performances. If so, he said he’d pass my name along. Who knows–maybe I might end up snagging an interview with our Harry! :D

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PHEW! If you’re like me and you have a ridiculous Firefox tab addiction that must be quelled with Tab Mix Plus, never fear! The dev version is compatible with FF3. This just saved my life, insofar as a convenient internet browsing tool can have any influence on one’s vital status.

I’m amused that I’ve blogged more about Firefox 3 in the past day than I have about my life in the past I don’t know how long.

Sooooo… Life is getting saner. I had to stay at work on Sunday until 2:30am, but I got out Monday and Tuesday at the usual 7. Monday, I recorded and edited the podcast (finally!), which will be posted Thursday or Friday, when Fred returns from his trip. Last night, I saw Hulk, which was the exact flavor of mindless entertainment I needed. It was nice to be able to just sit back in a comfortable theater chair and turn off my brain and watch 3D animation I didn’t have to make. I went to sleep early and woke up this morning with that weird, simultaneously pleasant and painful feeling you get when your muscles finally relax after being tensed a long time. Good stuff. Hopefully, this momentary sanity is not just a passing phase.

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Great googly moogly. Is my internet at home being lightning-fast this morning, or is Firefox 3 just that efficient? I tend to think the latter!

There are a few more hours remaining in Firefox 3 Download Day. Be good to yourself with a faster, more stable internet browser, and help contribute to the breaking of a new world record!

Quoth the folks in charge:

Please download Firefox 3 by 11:16 a.m. PDT (18:16 UTC) on June 18, 2008. That’s 11:16 a.m. in Mountain View, 2:16 p.m. in Toronto, 3:16 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 8:16 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 10:16 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 2:16 a.m. in Beijing and 3:16 a.m. in Tokyo.

Download Day

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I just walked into the kitchen island. Not on purpose. I need a day off. :D

Today is my one-year anniversary of being in New York, woohoo! And Firefox 3 is here!

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Oh my god. I feel tetchy and aggravated and tired and I swear I’m going to bite the head off the next person that adds another task to my staggering To-Do list. I need to buy groceries and I need to do laundry and I need to freaking SLEEP IN for once. And I need to go back to the frame store and get those stupid two millimeters of foam core chopped off the bottom so I can freaking hang my posters already. And I want to be well-rested enough so that I don’t sound like a zombie when I try to record the next episode of the podcast, which is already a week late and getting later every day. And I want to be in a frame of mind in which getting home on a Friday night in time to see the Battlestar Galactica finale at 10 does not feel like a crowning achievement. And I want to have time to go to a MOVIE for once, as I still need to see Prince Caspian and I’m curious about Hulk, and wasn’t Lee Pace in some really trippy-looking movie that seemed kind of interesting?

And I want to take a personal day but I can’t, because everyone is as crazy and put-upon as I am, and ARGH.

Um. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

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Last night, I dreamed that Obama had polio, but he still managed to win Dancing With the Stars.

WTF, brain.

Anyway, today continues my Unending Work Week Streak. I’ve had one day off since Memorial Day, and I’ll be working both today and tomorrow and all through next week. Hopefully I’ll get next weekend off. Why did my job have to wait until I had a boyfriend to get crazy?

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HAHAHAHAHHAHA! I’M LEAVING AT 7 TONIGHT! WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN!

This message has been brought to you by the fact that I was at work until 3:30am last night, and I’ve only had one day off since Memorial Day.

I plan to go to sleep at 10 tonight.

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Linkspam!

Oh my good lord. Uncharted—Gilligan’s Island meets Lost–is a work of brilliance. Why do I find it so hilarious? When I was a wee little Prislet, Gilligan’s Island was the first TV show I became enamored with. Yes, laugh. I set our first programmable VCR to record the reruns when it came on at 4am on weekdays, then watched it when I got home from school. I read the small handful memoirs that had been written about it. I wrote Mary Sue fanfiction before I even knew what Mary Sue fanfiction was. I set a general precedent for how I would treat every single other TV show or book series I would ever love. My poor parents had no idea what they would be in for. :D

Rowling writing short Marauder prequel story. Nice. Of course, ever since Makani drew this picture, I’ve been unable to picture them as anything else but hopeless nerds.

WHAAAAAAAT. They’ve cut Trelawney from the HBP movie! Along Bill, Fleur, Percy, the Gaunts, Moaning Myrtle, and apparently EVERY OTHER CHARACTER IN THE BOOK. Isn’t it supposed to be two movies? What the heck is left? Besides, y’know, Snape killing Dumbledore.

Gorgeous octopus jewelry. I want one of those rings.

Torchwood season 3 to be a mini-series. A bit “huh?”, but maybe this is what it takes for the show to be coherent. :D

Copperbadge blogs about the most important essay you will read this year.