I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos! ...

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos! ...

Austria is an amazing place!

I have been racking up the adventures as a stage manager in Austria...here's the short.

I left DC on Thursday afternoon and headed to Dulles airport. Driven by Luisray's friend Teddy...he is a lovely man but drives like his pants are on fire...not to mention that he was signing the entire time, so there was rarely a hand on the wheel. I think I pooped a little. Anyway, thanks for the ride, Teddy.

We took a long flight from Dulles to Amsterdam. I can't sleep on planes...in fact I can't do much on planes except for freak out. Now, Mark had sent me DVDs of the first season of LOST for my plane ride. Yeah, a very sweet gesture, but do you know what they do on the first season of LOST??? THEY CRASH A FUCKING PLANE. I made it through 2 episodes and then thought that I might be tempting fate a bit too aggressively, so I sat quietly while the German in front of me with eight foot legs slammed the back of his chair into my legs for a few hours.

We landed in Amsterdam and had no time to explore...off to the next gate.

Now, I will pause to tell you about the airport. The airport was beautiful. It was like a big shopping mall filled with artwork and the most plush smoking lounges EVERYWHERE. I almost jumped a man for a cig...this will become a theme of my trip.

At the gate, there was a screwup with my ticket and they weren't sure if I could board or if my luggage was still in DC…but after a few minutes, all was good and I was on plane #2. Now, if you have read my previous blogs you would know that plane #2 was expected to be a HUGE AIRBUS. It was actually a very small plane and I was quite pleased. Thank god it was only a two hour flight because I was sitting behind a small boy whose parents were seated five rows back. He found it necessary to jump up and down on his seat and yell what I decided was "Mom!" and "Dad" every two minutes. I almost strangled him. Or roll him up and smoke him.


Okay, so I can't type anymore…but to come is the following:

Vienna
Endless train rides with actors and chairs.
Drinking
Shows
Lienz and a techno dance club with a boy
Drinking
Amstetten and a MEAN Austrian lighting man
WEIRD theatre
Drinking
Walking tours
Drinking
And MORE!