Sherman for Seattle!!

OK...that's not really Bill's slogan. But I can always change a blog post, eh? Bill Sherman was the senior class president in 1989-90 at Wesleyan University. Coinky-dinky, I seem to recall graduating that same year! Bill shared the podium with Desmond Tutu and Jonathan Demme as a speaker that day. He went on to serve under Bruce Babbitt in the last reasonably competent Interior Department in recent US history. Now, after a stint in private law and another with the King County prosecutor, he's running for the Washington legislature. And I, having nothing better to do with my summer, have decided to give him some help. Blogging? no... IN Seattle - quite a ways from my usual SoOR haunts.

Am I really this selfless? Um... no. In full disclosure mode: my fiancee, Jen, has a four week externship focusing on Wildlife rehab at PAWS in nearby Lynnwood as part of her Vet Med program at U of MN. Since I am not getting to see much of her as her fourth year of Vet school goes forward, I wasn't going to miss 4 weeks of at least seeing her evenings and weekends, and that leaves me with some serious daytime free clock.

Now, don't get me wrong. The NMHS Theater program (Black Tornado Theater) is still getting my attention as I work on the script for our fall production of A Midsummer Night's Dream AND do some set design for the same. I also am in constant contact with the cast of the Summer Workshop production, The Pen is Deadlier, which starts rehearsals two days after I get back from WA. We read that thru on Friday. Several of that cast have other things for July, like working on the new Bruce Campbell film which is being shot in and around Medford, or like being part of the OSF Summer Seminar for HS juniors. And heaven forbid two shows are enough, I also have five translations of Antigone to consider for February.

But Bill is getting me for a big chunk of July, probably five or six hours a day, five days a week. And he could use help, because the WA 43rd, while a fairly safe Dem seat, is a SIX way primary, and Bill, while a strong candidate running well, doesn't have "front-runner" status, nor really does anyone else... FUN. Lots of time at doorsteps before the primary in September.

Anyway, since it is summer and an election year, expect to see more here... even if no-one actually reads it :)