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For folks to whom I have not babbled about this, Faskarsnopra Theatre is currently presenting Art at the Garrison Players Theatre. I did lighting design for this production, and I’m also going to be the board op for some of the performance nights.

Performances are Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm, through June 11. Tickets are $15, $10 for students, and can be purchased at the door or by calling 603.750.4ART. The nights I will be there are this Friday (the 2nd) and next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (the 8th, 9th, 10th).

UPDATE: Review!

That’s right. Anne Weaver Hart herself believes that I am graduating. Someone needs to update their graduating-senior algorithm beyond “Senior, check. Spring semester, check,” such as considering, say, Intent-to-Graduate forms. Isn’t that kind of the point of those?

UPDATE: One of my profs tells me it’s because turnout at the Honors Convocation tends to be a bit weak, so they try to get as many students to show up as possible.

UNH Transit is still running buses to Newmarket, but along a rather different route.

Oh, and the Amtrak went through a while ago. We can hear the whistle from our building.

Newmarket is getting kinda soggy.
We drove out Packers Falls Rd to try and get a look at the flooded Lamprey River. The road was closed at the bridge over Follet’s Brook, by the treatment plant, due to water over the road. Follets Brook had given up on being able to get through the bridge fast enough, and decided to go around.

Evacuating folks on Packers Falls Rd. Dan had driven home along this road about ten minutes previously.

We parked the car by the water treatment plant (whose lower windows were sandbagged against the water

and walked the 1.5 or 2 miles down the road to Packers Falls.

The Lamprey was incredibly high below the bridge (you can see the guardrail disappearing into the water),

and well into people’s yards above.

This little outbuilding is almost underwater.

There’s really only a culvert going under this bridge.

By the time we made it back to Follet’s Brook, they’d closed the road before the bridge, and were just stringing tape across. A very nice National Guardsman waved us through. We had to duck under another piece of caution tape at the corner of Packer’s Falls and Elm St. Elm was closed before the railroad tracks. Didn’t look like the trains would be running for a couple of days.

I’m really really happy that we live up on a hill.

UPDATE: I take back what I said about “kinda” soggy. The Union Leader has two pictures of downtown Newmarket. Now that’s a lot of water. Downstream of the dam, too.

“So rise and shine and give god your glory, glory…”
Yes, now it’s stuck in your head too. I’ve been singing it all morning. The cats think I’m nuts.
Due to the crazy flooding, the Portsmouth schools are closed today. This means that the program I was supposed to do at work today is not happening. Thus, I get an unexpected day off, and even better, it’s one that I found out about after I was up and dressed and awake. So instead, I’ve gotten a whole bunch of stuff done. I went grocery shopping, which I hadn’t done since before classes finished. I made some photocopies of stuff, and wrote letters, and then noticed that I don’t have any full-size envelopes. Looks like I’ll be heading back to Staples later. I also did some cleaning up, and even cleared off part of my desk.
Unfortunately, the real reason I’ve been so good at getting all of this done is that my other option is to work on the Big Frustrating Paper that’s due tomorrow. Procrastination is powerful stuff.