Better.
Today was much better.
1) Great improv class where we all were complimented on the things we do well. Included in mine: How positive I am (from Molly), how sincere my performances always are so that people always believe me, no matter the character (from China), my attention to specificity, the way I'm a team player and really supportive (from Jose), among others. Lots of really positive things that made me really happy. Ariana and I then did a thing where we just had to keep talking for a full few minutes without even stopping, and it was hilarious and worked well.
Also got to scream and be super overdramatic at the end of class when we did a horror-movie set-up. Lots of fun screaming after "Greg," (David Federman) as he was devoured by a tentacled monster offstage.
2) Meeting with Heidi. She gave me things to read; I feel a little better about my creative piece. I also now understand how her thinking face is a terrifying angry face; I gave her a one-line synopsis of my creative piece, and she just looked at me in what I thought was judgment for a good thirty seconds as I panicked and wondered if I'd been really dumb about it all along.
3) Sat in Logan Cafe with some tea (next to Elise, actually, who was working on a novel adaptation of A Winter's Tale) for the next two and a half hours reading articles. Got through the ones Heidi gave me, and then went to the Reg to pick up books on translation theory for my meeting with Alison James (whose name I accidentally spell Allison all the time) tomorrow.
4) Hanging out with Robert. WE built huge hamburgers, and I feel better about our relationship than I did yesterday and better about life. Many cuddles ensued, and I fell asleep for a couple of hours in his bed. Woke up around 10:40ish, and I've been half-working since. It's hard to focus late at night these days-- I'm not sure why.
I've discovered I feel better about things when I have things under control. I wrote that missing assignment for Screenwriting today and turned it in, getting that off my plate, and having things to read to make real BA progress has made me feel better about all of that. So, well, progress.
Slow and steady, I suppose.
1) Great improv class where we all were complimented on the things we do well. Included in mine: How positive I am (from Molly), how sincere my performances always are so that people always believe me, no matter the character (from China), my attention to specificity, the way I'm a team player and really supportive (from Jose), among others. Lots of really positive things that made me really happy. Ariana and I then did a thing where we just had to keep talking for a full few minutes without even stopping, and it was hilarious and worked well.
Also got to scream and be super overdramatic at the end of class when we did a horror-movie set-up. Lots of fun screaming after "Greg," (David Federman) as he was devoured by a tentacled monster offstage.
2) Meeting with Heidi. She gave me things to read; I feel a little better about my creative piece. I also now understand how her thinking face is a terrifying angry face; I gave her a one-line synopsis of my creative piece, and she just looked at me in what I thought was judgment for a good thirty seconds as I panicked and wondered if I'd been really dumb about it all along.
3) Sat in Logan Cafe with some tea (next to Elise, actually, who was working on a novel adaptation of A Winter's Tale) for the next two and a half hours reading articles. Got through the ones Heidi gave me, and then went to the Reg to pick up books on translation theory for my meeting with Alison James (whose name I accidentally spell Allison all the time) tomorrow.
4) Hanging out with Robert. WE built huge hamburgers, and I feel better about our relationship than I did yesterday and better about life. Many cuddles ensued, and I fell asleep for a couple of hours in his bed. Woke up around 10:40ish, and I've been half-working since. It's hard to focus late at night these days-- I'm not sure why.
I've discovered I feel better about things when I have things under control. I wrote that missing assignment for Screenwriting today and turned it in, getting that off my plate, and having things to read to make real BA progress has made me feel better about all of that. So, well, progress.
Slow and steady, I suppose.