Settling In

My train actually arrived a few minutes early, and I have spent the day settling into my apartment. This year we're back at the Hardy Apartments, longtime home of the Reagle Players' out-of-town artists. The building used to be a grad student dorm for Bentley College, but was sold to the city of Waltham two years ago, and due to complications from that, was not used by Reagle last year. We spent the first month of last season at the Holiday Inn Express, before moving into a brand-spanking-new building owned by Bentley, which was quite nice. The washing machines could e-mail you when your laundry was done -- need I say more? The story I got today is that the city has other plans for Hardy and this will be the last year it's used by Reagle, and we'll probably wind up back at the new Bentley dorms in the future. The Hardy isn't swanky, but it's such a part of the Reagle experience that last year everyone referred to the new building as "the new Hardy." I'm sure the college has a name for it, but nobody ever bothered to find out.

My car this year is the Dodge Caliber, in sort of a dull gold color, which would not be my first choice of color if I were buying a car, but it's growing on me, and will definitely make it easy to spot in a parking lot. It's a nice car, the stereo even has an audio port for an iPod, which I've never had before. I still find using an iPod in a car to be more trouble than it's worth most of the time, but it will definitely be useful. I'm just thrilled it has power locks and windows. I'm not much of a car person (usually I've never even heard of the model I wind up with), but I do get kind of attached to them.

Tomorrow is the first rehearsal. We'll be at the studio down the street from the theatre until the weekend. My assistant Paul and I will be meeting at the theatre two hours before rehearsal to look over the props and figure out what we need to bring to the studio. I'm told the drops are already hung, but not much of the set is up because the stage is still needed for events at the high school. I'm anxious to see whatever's there though.