There they were, four people, one pickup truck, no particular place to go. Why say no when you could say yes? At least that’s the thought that all of them had. Other than the standa… Read More

Greetings from Baltimore, where I’m spending the weekend celebrating my mom’s 70th birthday, and hopefully getting this post finished and uploaded as well as fixing some of the p… Read More

It’s 2020, and do my eyes deceive me, or is the classic WordPress editor back? Or did it never leave? Either way, this is good news because I was basically writing entire entries on Go… Read More

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I realized the other day that I hadn’t blogged for a while, and though I normally don’t like to post a lot of real-life stuff in here, it’s… Read More

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 32. I opened my box from my parents this morning, and uncovered some chapstick, coupons, a Reader’s Digest, two crisp one-dollar… Read More

It’s my last few hours of being 31 years old. At the moment of my birth tomorrow, I will be sitting in class. Not teaching, but at least I’ll be surrounded by…uh&hellip… Read More

After five months (finally!), I finished the book that I checked out of the library to fulfill the Reading My Way Across America challenge, stop #2 as determined by Siri: the 7th state to jo… Read More

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That’s So Jacob Presents: Flip the Script Friday Episode #46: Nick Green, Body Politic Image Credit: 49thshelf.com The Basics Body Politic premiered on 21 May 2016 at Buddi… Read More

Really disliking these blocks on WordPress. They just make everything so clunky and hard to edit. I found time this week to read at least part of a script. It was quite interesting, especial… Read More

Hi there. So, let me preface this by saying that, yes, last week’s Flip the Script, as well as a few others, are empty/unfinished. Partially due to running out of time on Friday ni… Read More

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I’ve had this book Plays from Changing Ireland out from the library forever, so I should probably cover the last one I wanted to out of this book before returning it Read More

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I decided to go back to the library, to the same shelf where I found Bone Cage, to see what other treasures it had in store for me. And a treasure I found, in the form of the fantastic fanta… Read More

Hi there. So, let me preface this by saying that, yes, last week’s Flip the Script, as well as a few others, are empty/unfinished. Partially due to running out of time on Friday ni… Read More

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This semester is officially in the books, as I proctored my students’ final on Wednesday, finished all the grading on Thursday, and submitted the grades today, so hopefully I can get b… Read More

I haven’t been doing a ton of reading for fun lately, with grading, research, and dissertation-writing taking up most of my time, but I have managed to finish a few books this semester… Read More

This is a play that I thought I had read, but it turns out that I hadn’t, and it’s now public domain so I can do what I want, bwahahaha. Before I finish writing this post, I just… Read More

It’s cold. Like real cold. Like real real REAL cold. When it gets cold like this, everyone’s spirits are down, even mine. After I came home from school today, as mu… Read More

It’s the second Friday of the year, and even though I’ve been pretty slack on Flip the Script Friday in the past, I’m committed to getting up more of these, and completing… Read More

Because I’m an adult, I will eat sandwiches off of paper towels and strawberries over the sink so I don’t have to do dishes. Despite the fact that I own service for 12. And… Read More

I’m sure most of you know what the term public domain means: works including books, plays, films, stories, and music, among other things, which are beyond the limits of their… Read More

Howdy again from Austin, Texas. I’m still here, and without my play collection, but I managed to pick up a few scripts at The Book Thing Baltimore, and this was one of them. The last F… Read More

It’s been a busy month, but now that I have a moment to breathe, I would like to take this opportunity to record an observation. Not really a rant, if you will, but more of a “wh… Read More

Last Friday I was on my way to Minneapolis for APO Region Rally (the very last one), followed by a quick weekend jaunt to Baltimore for a wedding, but I’ve been rea… Read More

Real talk. October has been a more difficult month for me than I thought. One of the most difficult months of my life, in fact. I won’t go into any more details, but I will share with… Read More

It’s not my blogiversary, but it’s my life-iversary. Today, I spent some time alone, and some time not alone. I picked apples, found a geocache, did a crossword puzzle, talked wi… Read More

I guess it’s tradition now, that I celebrate my birthday with a late-night-beforehand blog post. Here comes 31, like it or not Read More

Picking up this book again and reading through some of the plays is like…scripts flipping themselves, with a vengeance. There’s been so much anger these past few weeks, and it&r… Read More

This might just be among the weirdest posts I’ve ever made, but I’m wondering what it is that makes you feel human. Call me materialistic, but for me, there’s something abo… Read More

(in case you doesn’t get that joke, just listen to the bonus track on the [title of show] album) HI. So. I actually finished a book the other day. Despite today being the las… Read More

Has it really been almost a whole month since I’ve posted? It seems like That’s So Jacob is turning into something akin to a monthly blog, judging my summer posting pattern&helli… Read More

I think this has been my longest blog hiatus since I began it back in 2013. July and August really came and went fast for me. On July 31, I submitted chapter 3 of my dissertation, and on Aug… Read More

It’s been a serious minute since I’ve blogged; did I really only blog once in June?!?! Part of the reason why I haven’t been around is because I was researching and prepari… Read More

I’ve actually been rocking and rolling through books this summer, and this one’s a good one. I actually sat at the Hubbard Avenue Diner for over two hours finishing it, and was n… Read More

I’m back from my whirlwind, 4-day trip to Nashville, just to say: happy fifth blogiversary to me Read More

Well hello out there, readers of the Internet. It’s been so long since I’ve blogged that I feel like I don’t even know where to start anymore. What I’m not going to s… Read More

So, one of my secret/not-so-secret obsessions (secret in the fact that no one in America knows what it is or cares about it, but not so secret in the fact that if you ask me about I can go o… Read More

So many coffee drinks, so little time. If at Olive Garden, “when you’re here, you’re family,” a) why do you have to pay, and b) why don’t you have to wash the d… Read More

Happy May, everyone. After a pretty cringeworthy dance performance and a whirlwind trip to Massachusetts, I have now officially taught my first lecture in front of a full classroom, all with… Read More

And after a month way too busy for words (as evidenced by the lack of entries), I’m back. I don’t know how much I’ll be posting, but it’s Friday the 13th, so I though… Read More

A minor spoiler, but then again, wasn’t everything about this book a minor spoiler? I finally finished a book after a long time of reading bits and pieces, and this one was Don&rs… Read More

This past weekend was exhausting, but so much fun; I decided to head to Iowa City, IA for the APO Section 21 Conference, hosted by the University of Iowa. I had offered to do my theatre work… Read More

I haven’t had the inspiration to write much recently (either here or on my dissertation), so I decided to look back, and the last time I did a post like this was exactly one year ago t… Read More

Over the past 24 hours… My iPhone battery life keeps evaporating quicker and quicker in the cold. I walked up Bascom Hill at 65% and by the time I got to the top it was 17%. A piece o… Read More

Alyson Richman’s The Mask Carver’s Son.  In a word…beautiful Read More

So, last week, my red pajama pants split down the middle one night, so I decided I needed new ones. I went to Target yesterday to pick up some new ones, and found…myself in a pickle… Read More

Flip the Script….will be back soon (I know, everyone’s favorite), but I’ve been doing a lot of reading and have not posted a book review for awhile, so here goes. Forget V… Read More

So this year’s been off to some kind of start, on the blogging front…anyway, greetings from Milwaukee, where I just went to an APO meeting at Marquette University and am now pro… Read More

Today, I was driving past the middle school I always pass when I head into town, and I noticed that the crossing guard’s vest said “traffic whisperer.” As I drove… Read More

Man, how time flies. December was a crap month for blogging, I know, but I think I can fix that in the future. And here’s how! In 2018, I will… Make a concerted effort to post M… Read More

Happy new year, y’all! After spending the day at Kalahari Water Park in Wisconsin Dells, I’ve realized that this year has been 100% fun. What more can I say? Read More

Some people describe others as the type that could “throw on a trash bag and look like a million dollars.” While I don’t look like a million dollars, that first part is kin… Read More

Raise your hand if you snack when you shop. Anyone? Everyone? I’ve heard talk of eating a meal before you shop to sate your hunger and control your impulse to buy snacks while shopping… Read More

I spent a whole five minutes thinking up that title and I am damn proud of that. Today, Kate drove me to my car after CAPS, and I started our conversation with, “now that I’m in… Read More

Hey what’s up you guys that’s not my line it’s Jenna marbles the slide and sorry I’m blogging from my phone so apologies advance I shouldn’t apologize or whatev… Read More

There is something that is easily the most annoying thing about this time of year. It’s not the ever-present Christmas music despite the fact that it’s not even December, and it… Read More

There’s been omething that’s been reverberating in my head for the past few days. It happened a few months ago, but for some reason, it’s come back and I can’t get it… Read More

I’ve been feeling super stressed and uninspired lately, so inspire me by asking me a question in the comments section.  Whatever you want. Whatever’s on your… Read More

So, tonight, after what seemed to be a long week, I attended an event that I can honestly say I’ve never witnessed anything similar to in my life. I’m not sure how many details I… Read More

I can’t believe that exactly one month and one day ago, I had the same idea for a post. And sadly enough, it’s just as relevant. Maybe even more so. After the events this weekend… Read More

What a crazy, incredible weekend. My internal schedule is all messed up and I ate way too much, but it was the annual APO Region IX conference, and for the first time in several years, it wa… Read More

Yes, I say what, and not who. You’ll understand by the end of this post. Hello from Memorial Library, by the way. There’s something about blogging from a desktop that is way more… Read More

So, it’s officially the end of the season. Pumpkin Spice season, that is. The weather in Madison has dropped thirty degrees this week, and despite not liking Pumpkin Spice Lattes, I do… Read More

Today’s Flip the Script Friday comes from my play collection. Here’s a contemporary play about a controversial and misunderstood real figure – the late Ai Weiwei of China… Read More

Yeah, no idea what to write. I’ve had this weird feeling lately, really ever since my birthday, that something strange is about to happen. I don’t know if it’s political, o… Read More

Just dropping in one last time to share my newest adventure in blogging. Once a week (hopefully with more frequency than Flip-the-Script Friday), I will post the chronology of my life. Mostl… Read More

It’s official…I am thirty years old. I spent most of my day at the ballroom dance competition. I met my partner last night, and even though we didn’t place, we managed to… Read More

Hello there. I’m Jacob, i’m 29, and I have a ballroom dance competition tomorrow. I have only about 13 hours left of officially being able to say that I am in my 20s. I got a fee… Read More

Want to take a guess? In case you live under a rock or don’t have any social media, the #metoo has been more than viral. It was started several days ago by actress Alyssa Milano, who t… Read More

One of my guilty-ish pleasures is cozy mystery novels; you know, the pocket-sized ones with themes like cats, or sewing, or in this case, tea. I haven’t picked up one of Laura Chi… Read More

Today, I had the good fortune to step into World Market, and the first thing I saw? A container of black and orange fortune cookies labeled “misfortune cookies.” Naturally, I had… Read More

Last week, I finished a book that I’d encountered after reading an article on the Internet. More on that article later, but for now, a brief review of said book, You Are One of Th… Read More

Well hey there gang. The Wi-Fi at home decided it does not like me anymore, so until something changes, I’m basically going to be living at Starbucks and the like. I’ve been extr… Read More

So, the big news of the day, other than it being the International Day of the Girl and National Coming Out Day, is that the Boy Scouts of America, aka the BSA, has announced that it will now… Read More

Now that I’ve gotten that exciting title out of the way… I had to walk back from dance class tonight in an insane downpour. When I got into my car, it looked like I had one swim… Read More

Well, so many. Including never managing to post here at a reasonable hour of the day and resorting to between 11-12, never updating my iPhone/computer OS, and sticking to a good diet. This p… Read More

It’s been a rather unproductive, unpredictable week in so many ways, that a play by debbie tucker green fits my feelings perfectly. I’ve just had 5 hours working at a c… Read More

Oh, man. It’s been a few days since the insanely horrific shooting in Las Vegas. 59 people are dead (including the shooter, who did happen to be a member of the human race) and 500 are… Read More

Most of the past week of my life or so has consisted of sleeping (horribly, I might add), staying in bed until the afternoon, feeding myself, thinking about doing work, frantically running a… Read More

One of the questions asked at tonight’s APO meeting was about the most interesting thing that happened today. Normally, I don’t find my days that interesting, especially today, w… Read More

According to the Buzzfeed machine, the newest Twitter hashtag going around is #ConfessToSomethingStupid. Even though I don’t have Twitter, despise hashtags, and only use them ironicall… Read More

Hey now, I actually finished the book! No, not Moby Dick, but A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, about the Sierra Leonean civil war Read More

So, tonight I went out to HopCat with the dance team. I arrived about a half hour into dinner, so everyone had already ordered and was still waiting for their meals. I got a seat on the end… Read More

Why is it that once you’re done taking/teaching classes, you can never find a pen or a pencil anywhere? This guy just went to Staples and actually purchased a box of each of those item… Read More

Hey, it’s Friday! What are the odds? Well, 7 to 1, but let’s not split hairs. Anyway, today I finally swapped out the mattress that the apartment came with with my own, figured o… Read More

I’ve actually been getting quite a lot of reading done lately, and the two latest books I’ve finished, I’ve realized, have quite a few similarities other than the facts tha… Read More

Nope, not a post about Meghan Trainor, but about the fact that I finally live in a home with a bathtub after 4 years, and tonight I used it for the first time. This might not be the most sci… Read More

It seems like my blog is turning into a weekly blog rather than a daily blog. Yikes. Also, I’ve been saying “yikes” a lot for no real reason. Rather than a life update like… Read More

Since apparently nothing can go right today at all, I’m once again blogging from a device other than my laptop (last time it was my phone, today it’s my iPad, at least) because W… Read More

August has officially been one of the most insane months of my life, I don’t even know where to pick up again. I was all set to write a post and my computer isn’t working now so… Read More

Why is it that all (or almost all) of the best parties I’ve been to are goodbye parties? Read More

Hey y’all, so it’s been a busy few weeks for TSJ. Two weeks ago was ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) conference in Las Vegas, and last week, I finally moved out… Read More

And two weeks later here I am updating my blog from Las Vegas at the moment I’m sitting in the lobby at the MGM Grand and ordering what should probably be a really good plate of salmon… Read More

Not so much about the song, but about a book I finished today. Maybe it’s all the stress, but I’m burning through books these days. But I ain’t complaining. Today’s a… Read More

Finally getting back to one of the real reasons I started this blog – collecting and recapping various random memories. I received some plays the other day via InterLibrary Loan, and I… Read More

Cookies. Gummy candy. Twizzlers. Cake. Peanut butter. Pecans. Granola. Tomato sauce. Craisins. Cheese. I may or may not have binged on some of these things this week. The answer: the latter… Read More

It’s been a long week so far, and I haven’t been too inspired to write…well, much of anything. I don’t really know why. But I need to be writing more, in general, so… Read More