Random Flashback for Friday 8/24/12

All year long, I've been flashing back to my life twenty years ago in 1992.  And it was a big year for me -- one of the three times that I left central PA (once was just for a semester abroad in 1990, second was this time that I'm about to describe and then the third time is ongoing, what with the move to Chicago in 2001).

I needed a break from school (let's just say I wasn't applying myself to the best of my ability) and I had just gotten involved with a theatre company run by a cousin of mine (and boy is that a story and a half for another day).  So I decided to up and leave for western PA for an 18 month theatre internship.  It was the first time I was getting paid to act -- but as is that business -- it also meant that I needed to have at least two other jobs to support what was really just a hobby (although I did briefly have an agent, who told me to practice eye exercises to fix my lazy eye and who let me audition for a national McDonald's commercial [that I did not land]).

Which is all the long way to say that I needed to make sure that my job transferred.  And back in the day, that meant leaving the HILLS in Lebanon and moving into the HILLS in Uniontown PA.  And over the next several weeks, I'll be flashing back to the goodbye party that was thrown for me by my co-workers and good friends (including Kristi [in this photo] with whom I am a close friend some twenty+ years later) and I'll be sure to include some of my favorite HILLS stories in the process!  Until next week ...