Improv Boston Fun Raiser

Are you looking for something to do tonight?
How about the Improv Boston 2009 Holiday Fun Raiser?
It's fancy, tax deductible, and may be your only chance to see all of these people in one room at the same time!

With performances from the IB Alumni troupe, local comedians like Harry Gordon, Shane Mauss, Myq Kaplan and MC Mr. Napkins...
as well as the legendary Jonathan Katz, Tony V, Faith Soloway and The Office's Kate Flannery.

You can get more info on the IB website.

DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14th

LOCATION:
The Estate Nightclub
1 Boylston Place, Boston (by the Boston Common)

PARTY TIME: 6 - 7:30 PM

SHOWTIME: 7:30 - 10 PM
(includes drinks and light menu)

At the door tickets are $25 with a student ID, subject to availability.

TICKETS in ADVANCE:
Show Only: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM - $50 ($35 tax deductible): Buy Tickets
Show plus Pre-Party Food, Beer, and Wine: $125.00 ($85.00 tax deductible) - Buy Tickets
This is a 21+ Event.

Theater for the Homeless

I received this email today. If anyone would like to join me, I am off work this weekend and would love company.

The Factory Theatre in association with Holland Productions presents...
THE HALFWAY HOUSE CLUB by, Philana Gnatowski

....what happens to the broken hearted? For four mismatched strangers seeking mending, a halfway house promising a 14-step program provides hope. Through the walls that these cupid's rejects create and break in their one room sanctuary, an exploration of individual failures at love and how to reconnect through their flaws emerges. December 18 @ 8pm December 19th @ 8pm December 20th @ 2pm & 8pm

All proceeds to benefit BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS

Tickets available now at: http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/the-halfway-house-club_150334/
For more information visit: www.thefactorytheatre.org

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program has been managing the broken hearts and other physical ailments of Boston's homeless since 1985. They provide medical, mental health, and dental services to 11,000 homeless men, women, and children a year at over 80 different sites around Boston with clinics in the city's homeless shelters and three of its major hospitals. This summer, they moved into their new home Jean Yawkey Place, located a half mile from the Factory Theatre next to Boston Medical Center, and here they run their own halfway house for broken hearts, the Barbara McInnis House. The Barbara McInnis House is an inpatient medical facility with 104 beds that provides short-term medical and recuperative services for homeless people far too ill for life in shelters but not sick enough to warrant a hospital stay. In this way, the Barbara McInnis serves as a literal halfway house, a house for homeless persons halfway between the shelters or streets and the hospital. You can find more information about Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program at their website, www.bhchp.org.

Being an American in Japan RIGHT NOW

I am full of energy and nerves right now. We're in our hotel room and it is 1:15 AM Tokyo time, 11:15 PM in Boston. We have CNN on. We've figured out how to get it in english.

It is so weird to think that we have to go to bed and sleep before we hear the election results. Right now we're all so worried and just can't wait. It's like waiting for Christmas... none of us want to sleep but we know we have to. While we're sleeping you will all get out of work, and go about your afternoon. Tonight, many of you will go to IB for the BNN election show and party. We are setting our alarms to wake up when you will all be drinking your first or second beer. We're going to try to find some ex-pats to watch with, because John knows some people here. But it's going to be immediately when we wake up that the results will really being coming in. I imagine that we'll probably end up piled up in the room I am sharing with Casey and Steph, as we are right now. Wearing these robes, drinking tea and taking turns going to Family Mart to buy fruit and eggs.

For the rest of our lives we will remember that during this election, no matter what happens, we were together in Tokyo. Even if we don't know each other, this is something we'll tell our children. This is a really unique experience, and I feel really blessed to be having it.