Update
It's been a while. I think I'm tiring of livejournal, but I'm not getting rid of this yet.
Since I last updated in January, much has happened. I applied to three grad schools (Yale, Brown, and Rutgers) for playwriting and didn't get in to any. I'm not surprised, though, nor am I bummed. I knew it was a long shot at this stage of my experience, and is kind of always a long shot with those schools. I don't know yet if I'll apply again next year or not, or if I'll even apply again, but I probably will apply again at some point, when I feel ready.
For my senior project, I'm doing a staged reading at the end of the term. The play is called "The Gorilla." It's a hard play to write, not emotionally, intellectually. I'm struggling with it.
I'm in a class this term called Solo Performance, for which I'm creating a short one-man show, about fifteen to twenty minutes long. My piece is about my experiences as a Christian Scientist, and it's really starting to come together, though I'm still struggling with the ending.
I'm dating a girl who is a grad student at Yale. She's getting her P.H.D. in Sociology. She went to grad school immediately after her undergrad was done, and she graduated from Mount Holyoke. I met her this summer at the Spiritual Activist Summit at Cedars camps in Missouri--a weekend where college-age Christian Scientists came together and talked about various issues facing our times and how to pray about them, and we explored issues young Christian Scientists face, as well as just had a great time at the camp. She and I joke that the real purpose of the weekend was to serve as a dating service for young Christian Scientists. We've been dating for about three and a half months.
After I graduate, I'll be working on campus for the summer in the Admissions Office. After that, I don't know yet. I've applied to several different jobs/internships, though. One is a season-long literary internship at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. The rest are real jobs: a year-long admissions job here, an admissions job for an alternative high school in Maine (kinda weird, but I'm well qualified for the job and I think I'd enjoy it), and possibly something in Boston at The Mother Church. I'm hopeful that one of those will work out.
A few months ago I got a hand-written letter from a man offering me a job writing screenplays for his film company. But the whole thing seemed a little odd, especially considering he told me nothing about his company in his letter. I wrote him back, asking him to tell me more about the company and if he had any movies I could see. He responded that he didn't, but he told me to contact his church and they could serve as character references for him. I emailed the church, and they told me he currently resides in an insane asylum.
The First Reader in my church is moving away because he got a new job elsewhere. So now we have very, very few members, and even less who are able to serve. I'll be a substitute reader starting May 1st and lasting through the summer, and I know that I'll have to do the readings on occasion--cool! I'll also be the soloist for my church starting in May and lasting throughout the summer.
Life is going pretty well for me, I'd say. I'm ready to graduate, though, and ready to enter the "real world." I'm a little fearful that I'll just end up not writing as much once I graduate... but I know that's not really true. I'll always find time to write. If you have to write, you find time to do it. If you don't find time to do it, you don't have to write and might be better off not putting the energy into it. I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life, even though I'm unsure where I'll be in the fall; it should be clear to me soon. It's odd, I'm not too scared about graduating. I know that's a good thing, but it's weird because I feel like you're supposed to be scared to graduate from college, that it's supposed to be this terribly daunting thing. And I guess I'm a little stressed about what I'll be doing next fall, but I know that I'll be in my right place, and that thought comforts me.
Since I last updated in January, much has happened. I applied to three grad schools (Yale, Brown, and Rutgers) for playwriting and didn't get in to any. I'm not surprised, though, nor am I bummed. I knew it was a long shot at this stage of my experience, and is kind of always a long shot with those schools. I don't know yet if I'll apply again next year or not, or if I'll even apply again, but I probably will apply again at some point, when I feel ready.
For my senior project, I'm doing a staged reading at the end of the term. The play is called "The Gorilla." It's a hard play to write, not emotionally, intellectually. I'm struggling with it.
I'm in a class this term called Solo Performance, for which I'm creating a short one-man show, about fifteen to twenty minutes long. My piece is about my experiences as a Christian Scientist, and it's really starting to come together, though I'm still struggling with the ending.
I'm dating a girl who is a grad student at Yale. She's getting her P.H.D. in Sociology. She went to grad school immediately after her undergrad was done, and she graduated from Mount Holyoke. I met her this summer at the Spiritual Activist Summit at Cedars camps in Missouri--a weekend where college-age Christian Scientists came together and talked about various issues facing our times and how to pray about them, and we explored issues young Christian Scientists face, as well as just had a great time at the camp. She and I joke that the real purpose of the weekend was to serve as a dating service for young Christian Scientists. We've been dating for about three and a half months.
After I graduate, I'll be working on campus for the summer in the Admissions Office. After that, I don't know yet. I've applied to several different jobs/internships, though. One is a season-long literary internship at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. The rest are real jobs: a year-long admissions job here, an admissions job for an alternative high school in Maine (kinda weird, but I'm well qualified for the job and I think I'd enjoy it), and possibly something in Boston at The Mother Church. I'm hopeful that one of those will work out.
A few months ago I got a hand-written letter from a man offering me a job writing screenplays for his film company. But the whole thing seemed a little odd, especially considering he told me nothing about his company in his letter. I wrote him back, asking him to tell me more about the company and if he had any movies I could see. He responded that he didn't, but he told me to contact his church and they could serve as character references for him. I emailed the church, and they told me he currently resides in an insane asylum.
The First Reader in my church is moving away because he got a new job elsewhere. So now we have very, very few members, and even less who are able to serve. I'll be a substitute reader starting May 1st and lasting through the summer, and I know that I'll have to do the readings on occasion--cool! I'll also be the soloist for my church starting in May and lasting throughout the summer.
Life is going pretty well for me, I'd say. I'm ready to graduate, though, and ready to enter the "real world." I'm a little fearful that I'll just end up not writing as much once I graduate... but I know that's not really true. I'll always find time to write. If you have to write, you find time to do it. If you don't find time to do it, you don't have to write and might be better off not putting the energy into it. I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life, even though I'm unsure where I'll be in the fall; it should be clear to me soon. It's odd, I'm not too scared about graduating. I know that's a good thing, but it's weird because I feel like you're supposed to be scared to graduate from college, that it's supposed to be this terribly daunting thing. And I guess I'm a little stressed about what I'll be doing next fall, but I know that I'll be in my right place, and that thought comforts me.