...wow.
Um.
Hi.
It's been a while, hasn't it? Yeah...
I've sort of been focusing my energies in -- non-LJ areas, I guess. I've still been writing -- I've been writing an obscene amount, actually, thanks to Literary Arts journal requirements -- but not as much in here for some reason. I don't know. It's odd, I guess.
So what's new in my life?
A lot. To start with, I graduated high school. That's right, I'm off to college. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Not my first choice school, but they pretty much gave me a full scholarship and since Swarthmore flat-out rejected me and Sarah Lawrence gave me almost no money...yeah. Well, if I hate it, I'll transfer. I was pretty broken-up for a while, but I'm in a more Zen frame of mind about the whole thing now.
I got back into the theater swing of things; I guess I've realized that I'd rather do astrophysics as an amateur thing than as a full-time career. It just doesn't captivate me in the same way theater does, I think. It's in some ways just too clinical for me; while I'll never get tired of astronomy, I WILL get tired of charts and graphs and bloody mathematics. So I trotted over to Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (Lewis Shaw wasn't directing this time, THANK GOD) and auditioned for Hamlet. I got Polonius, and that was cool, even if I am now good and sick of playing old people. And crazy old people. And foolish old men. I can be an ingenue, dammit! Really!
I kind of withdrew a lot from my family; I just didn't want to deal with a lot of the changes in my life. I didn't feel ready to handle them. It wasn't responsible of me, and I do regret it. Now that I'm going off to college, I should probably try to amp up the whole responsibility thing.
It just feels so WEIRD in some ways, everything that I'm going through. The divorce, leaving high school, heading to college -- it's a lot to process. I don't know. I think I'll be able to handle it, though. I certainly hope I'll be able to handle it.
Hi.
It's been a while, hasn't it? Yeah...
I've sort of been focusing my energies in -- non-LJ areas, I guess. I've still been writing -- I've been writing an obscene amount, actually, thanks to Literary Arts journal requirements -- but not as much in here for some reason. I don't know. It's odd, I guess.
So what's new in my life?
A lot. To start with, I graduated high school. That's right, I'm off to college. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Not my first choice school, but they pretty much gave me a full scholarship and since Swarthmore flat-out rejected me and Sarah Lawrence gave me almost no money...yeah. Well, if I hate it, I'll transfer. I was pretty broken-up for a while, but I'm in a more Zen frame of mind about the whole thing now.
I got back into the theater swing of things; I guess I've realized that I'd rather do astrophysics as an amateur thing than as a full-time career. It just doesn't captivate me in the same way theater does, I think. It's in some ways just too clinical for me; while I'll never get tired of astronomy, I WILL get tired of charts and graphs and bloody mathematics. So I trotted over to Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (Lewis Shaw wasn't directing this time, THANK GOD) and auditioned for Hamlet. I got Polonius, and that was cool, even if I am now good and sick of playing old people. And crazy old people. And foolish old men. I can be an ingenue, dammit! Really!
I kind of withdrew a lot from my family; I just didn't want to deal with a lot of the changes in my life. I didn't feel ready to handle them. It wasn't responsible of me, and I do regret it. Now that I'm going off to college, I should probably try to amp up the whole responsibility thing.
It just feels so WEIRD in some ways, everything that I'm going through. The divorce, leaving high school, heading to college -- it's a lot to process. I don't know. I think I'll be able to handle it, though. I certainly hope I'll be able to handle it.