Maybe will try to update more often
I have been proactive in my life. I did not want to spend another Thanksgiving arguing or talking about money issues for college or for life or have to defend what I've chosen to do with my life, and I REALLY didn't want to spend the holiday explaining to my relatives what my boyfriend is like. So I'm not going. It's too much time spent on a train for not a very good Thansgiving experience. Last year I spent upwards of 6 hours in transit (trains and traveling to trains (two different stations) and waiting for trains) for less than 5 hours of visit time. I guess it was worth it, since my grandmother and Uncle Bobby were there and I never see them, but this year they're staying in Michigan. So it's just my mom, dad, brother and aunt, uncle, and three cousins that I see all the time anyway. Screw that. I'm going to Dan's. His family is way excited that I'm joining them for Thanksgiving. Whenever he talks to his family they always ask how I'm doing. They also give me lots of hugs whenever I'm there. This Thanksgiving is expected to be good. :)
Otherwise, things are going pretty well. Going shopping this morning with my roommate. Phi Sig stuff later on today, followed by rehearsal. PS I went into theater as a stage manager because of BBYD, watching a friend fall to his knees at the end of a show because he truly, in his head, was this character who is finally realizing that he's killed fellow classmates and his parents. Fast forward four years, and you will find me stage managing a show that takes place in the Passenger Directorate for Oppeln Germany in 1942 Germany - the Eastern Directorate of trains, the key points to getting trains of Jews and others to the death camps in the East. February 1942 - right before the trains started moving people. Before that there were only concentration camps. And me, in the room, watching a woman I've come to call my friend after the last few weeks (I consider all the cast members my friends at this point) crying her eyes out, unable to contain all the emotion as she realizes that the man she loves is having her send the memorandums that will make these trains move, transporting a minimum of 3000 people at a time to the East. Deja vu, ironically, in my stage managing career? I think so.
Anyway, that show is well under way. We tech starting the day after Thanksgiving, opening the first Tuesday in December and running through December 7. Other than that, I'm trying to pay attention in class. I'm doing amazingly well in a lighting design class I never wanted to take and is a grad course - pretty much getting straight As at this point.
And on Monday, I have an interview with Fuse TV for my internship next semester. :)
Otherwise, things are going pretty well. Going shopping this morning with my roommate. Phi Sig stuff later on today, followed by rehearsal. PS I went into theater as a stage manager because of BBYD, watching a friend fall to his knees at the end of a show because he truly, in his head, was this character who is finally realizing that he's killed fellow classmates and his parents. Fast forward four years, and you will find me stage managing a show that takes place in the Passenger Directorate for Oppeln Germany in 1942 Germany - the Eastern Directorate of trains, the key points to getting trains of Jews and others to the death camps in the East. February 1942 - right before the trains started moving people. Before that there were only concentration camps. And me, in the room, watching a woman I've come to call my friend after the last few weeks (I consider all the cast members my friends at this point) crying her eyes out, unable to contain all the emotion as she realizes that the man she loves is having her send the memorandums that will make these trains move, transporting a minimum of 3000 people at a time to the East. Deja vu, ironically, in my stage managing career? I think so.
Anyway, that show is well under way. We tech starting the day after Thanksgiving, opening the first Tuesday in December and running through December 7. Other than that, I'm trying to pay attention in class. I'm doing amazingly well in a lighting design class I never wanted to take and is a grad course - pretty much getting straight As at this point.
And on Monday, I have an interview with Fuse TV for my internship next semester. :)