C25K - Week 5, Day 1
I'm taking a few steps back, because the last two times I tried W6D3, I didn't even come close.
Today I tried W5D1 again, and I made it through. Even had my pace a bit above what it was last time, I think. I'm back in Stamford (being put up in a hotel again for the next two nights) and I saw a bit of the town. It was kind of hilly, and I think it was good to try out running up those hills.
I kind of like hotels. It's weird being here myself. Thinking about my future-- mostly good stuff, but wondering if I'll lose some good things.
I'm really not going to have the time to spend in NJ that I used to have. It means prioritizing how I want to spend my time.
Even when I'm not at work-- I'm booked every weekend in January stage managing The Actual Dance, and then from late March to early May I'm booked every weekend as the technician (well, starting out in training) for Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind.
You see, I'm now so busy that I don't bother with proper HTML formatting-- but no matter what happens, I will always have time for sentences like this one.
I'm excited about TML and working with the Neo-Futurists. It's certainly more prestigious than any gig I've had before. And the show is really cool. I feel a little weird about joining a long line of people who have worked on this show over the years. It's changing all the time, but I wonder if it is stagnating? I keep making the comparison to Phantom of the Opera, which opened in New York the same year that Too Much Light opened in Chicago. I don't think I ever want to be a part of a show like Phantom-- not just that I dislike that play, but that... like, I never want to work on something that exists primarily for the sake of its own self-perpetuation. (Then again, I have yet to renounce my membership in the human race). Then I think about how that kind of theater is the kind that's most likely to actually support careers. And I don't know if the comparison between the two shows is even fair, and eventually I just give up thinking about it. I want to do this show because I saw it and I loved it. That can be enough, at least to start with. (Yes, some of the magic wore off when I saw it twice in three weeks-- it's a lot more scripted than it appears, and a lot more-- well, maybe not rehearsed, but the performer/writers are well-practiced together). But then, of COURSE a show like this has to be propped up by a carefully-built infrastructure. I saw the same thing in their management and hiring practices, and I was totally enamored by that. I guess I'm still part-ways in love with the idea of theater as this spontaneous overflow, which I know is always 90% illusion (and I even like that about it). And I mean, I usually hate real improv.
Anyway. I ran today.
With no problem.
Today I tried W5D1 again, and I made it through. Even had my pace a bit above what it was last time, I think. I'm back in Stamford (being put up in a hotel again for the next two nights) and I saw a bit of the town. It was kind of hilly, and I think it was good to try out running up those hills.
I kind of like hotels. It's weird being here myself. Thinking about my future-- mostly good stuff, but wondering if I'll lose some good things.
I'm really not going to have the time to spend in NJ that I used to have. It means prioritizing how I want to spend my time.
Even when I'm not at work-- I'm booked every weekend in January stage managing The Actual Dance, and then from late March to early May I'm booked every weekend as the technician (well, starting out in training) for Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind.
You see, I'm now so busy that I don't bother with proper HTML formatting-- but no matter what happens, I will always have time for sentences like this one.
I'm excited about TML and working with the Neo-Futurists. It's certainly more prestigious than any gig I've had before. And the show is really cool. I feel a little weird about joining a long line of people who have worked on this show over the years. It's changing all the time, but I wonder if it is stagnating? I keep making the comparison to Phantom of the Opera, which opened in New York the same year that Too Much Light opened in Chicago. I don't think I ever want to be a part of a show like Phantom-- not just that I dislike that play, but that... like, I never want to work on something that exists primarily for the sake of its own self-perpetuation. (Then again, I have yet to renounce my membership in the human race). Then I think about how that kind of theater is the kind that's most likely to actually support careers. And I don't know if the comparison between the two shows is even fair, and eventually I just give up thinking about it. I want to do this show because I saw it and I loved it. That can be enough, at least to start with. (Yes, some of the magic wore off when I saw it twice in three weeks-- it's a lot more scripted than it appears, and a lot more-- well, maybe not rehearsed, but the performer/writers are well-practiced together). But then, of COURSE a show like this has to be propped up by a carefully-built infrastructure. I saw the same thing in their management and hiring practices, and I was totally enamored by that. I guess I'm still part-ways in love with the idea of theater as this spontaneous overflow, which I know is always 90% illusion (and I even like that about it). And I mean, I usually hate real improv.
Anyway. I ran today.
With no problem.