Out of Hibernation
I feel like I've been hibernating since we closed Broadway Our Way in January. I've kept to home most of the time, except for the occasional theater outing and the Column Award nomination party (where most of my 2008 shows earned recognition - I'm even competing against myself in one sound design category!). I just needed a chance to recharge the batteries I'd been running on without a break since 2007! I just felt like curling up at home, doing things around the condo (that had needed doing for months!)and doing prep work on the shows I'm working on for the next 3 months - but compared to how I usually am in my "off" time from theater, this was downright lazy. I vegged, even avoiding much of the web stuff I normally do - like updating Andiworld.com (which still needs to be updated with Broadway Our Way stuff!). I began to wonder if maybe I was in some kind of depression since I am normally such a workaholic, always working on something in every spare minute. But I'm not depressed - I love my new condo and my job and I'm not stressing over anything (which is another odd thing, I am ALWAYS stressing about something). So maybe I am just learning what it is to relax and let go for the first time in my life. Hmmm... Sadly I will have to kick my 'motivation' back into high gear very shortly - I begin rehearsals for the remounting of Facts of Life next weekend, am about to have auditions for Mommie Queerest that I'm directing in May, have more work to do on sound design for History Boys, and am waiting to hear when the cast of NINE will be reuniting to rehearse our performance for the Column Awards. And I'm hitting the audition trail again myself, since I finish my directing gigs at the end of May and hope to get back onstage this summer and fall. I guess I have to return to the real world now.