Freakin hot

A heat wave in berkeley, and I am schvitzing.

I love it here. If I could find that right job, I'd stay here. Why? Great place to live, great environment for creating challenging work, discerning audience. And its beautiful.

I've had a number of meetings with talented folks thus far. Might not be able to meet with old friend ryan rillette and that would bum me out.

Thus far, I've chatted with pink pasdar at act, melissa smith who runs the conservatory, beloved actor joaquin torres, madeleine oldham - lit manager of berkeley rep, lila neugebauer - soon to be force of all of american theater, amy potozkin, artistic associate and casting director and just one of my favorite people on the planet.

Tomorrow its tony taccone, and susie falk. And hopefully I manage to connect with amy mueller of bapf as well. Saw carey perloff briefly while at act yesterday, too.

Today's student matinee was great - really smart, disciplined, interested students. They asked spot-on complex questions, and I truly believe this will make nilaja a happy happy women.

This feels like the perfect place to end the tour. And I am full of mixed emotions about its ending: proud, relieved, touched that it has lasted two years.

Time for some iced coffee at