Spring Break!
Spring Break was officially started yesterday and I have to say I'm thrilled. I was so ready for a break. Well, alright, so I technically have homework for a few classes and lines to memorize and work on for CCC but other than that time is my own...except for the days I'm working (I'm looking forward to a decent sized paycheck).
Any specific plans of mine? I want to go to the yarn store on 92nd street and pick up some laceweight yarn so I can make an Icarus shawl. I was making good headway on it until I realized I did not have enough yarn to finish said item...and playing mix n' match was not going to work. I thought really hard about playing mix n' match, too. I've been trying really hard to knit from my stash this year. Most of it's acrylic and unblockable and such and I'd like to be able to knit with natural fibers...I just have this thing about making sure I don't have more yarn than I can safely stash. I'm making headway in this process by using my ball winder to organize the stash. It makes these nice little cylinders that are much easier to stack than skeins and now that I've got the hang of using the thing so the tension is right I've been having quite a bit of fun...except my allergies seem to be bugging me and it's probably due to winding some skeins I haven't touched in a good year or two. Anyways, they stack much more neatly than skeins and if my fashion yarn wasn't a pain in the butt I'd rewind them too...but it is a pain in the butt (many of them having multiple types of yarn and being slippery) so they'll just have to sit stacked in skeins until I figure out something to do with them. The fashion yarn was a nice thoughtful gift on my cousin's part...I just don't have a clue what to do with it.
The sweater for Autumn is coming along...it may be a bit big but she'll grow into it. The kid's almost 3, she's going to do plenty of growing and I'm hoping to hurry along on it this week and have something she can try on during Easter. If I'm way off I think I still have enough skeins of the stuff so I don't have to frog.
Wow, I really went on a tangent there. I had every intention of talking about my audition yesterday.
Yup, I auditioned for a student director's movie yesterday and let me just say it was bizarre. I'm so used to a go in, say your name and your monologue and get out type of thing and this was...technical. I had to stand on a mark and walk from one side to the other and swing a sword (I had to stop myself from making swishing noises. I couldn't help myself the first couple swings) and do emotional exercises (I think I sucked at those but overall not horrible) and of course reading from the script (I auditioned for Charisma and Draym). The girl and her producer (AKA Mom I believe) seemed to like my work, they said "that was good" multiple times which could mean multiple things. I either was really good, their threshold of suck is low and therefore everyone does good stuff, or I was just better than what they had seen so far...or I sucked and they were just being nice. I came out of it feeling really good about the experience though and I'm really kind of hoping I get in. They'll be contacting us next month as there's still two Fridays worth of auditions and if they get more people interested than they have slots open for in March auditioning could go into April which would mean a delay.
I definitely have to get a hold on my mindset though. I'm so used to hearing relatively quickly, to being impatient for the usual few days they hold auditions that the idea that I have weeks to wait is...well it's a bit upsetting. I wanna know! *sigh* I guess this will be a test of my patience. I like to think of myself as a patient person but when it comes to auditions I can't hear quickly enough. Maybe that's because every audition is like a test. You practice and practice and go to these things nervous that you won't be what they want or that you secretly suck and the minute you leave you're suddenly waiting for validation that you didn't suck.
Edit: Did I mention I don't want to go to church today? Mom's all aobut going since the whole family's home for once...I keep thinking I'll get my church in next Saturday during the Easter Vigil but she wants to go today...today isn't Palm Sunday is it? If it is I'll cry, and not because of my church hang-ups but because that means we're in for a long long mass...and it's not a favorite long mass either.
Any specific plans of mine? I want to go to the yarn store on 92nd street and pick up some laceweight yarn so I can make an Icarus shawl. I was making good headway on it until I realized I did not have enough yarn to finish said item...and playing mix n' match was not going to work. I thought really hard about playing mix n' match, too. I've been trying really hard to knit from my stash this year. Most of it's acrylic and unblockable and such and I'd like to be able to knit with natural fibers...I just have this thing about making sure I don't have more yarn than I can safely stash. I'm making headway in this process by using my ball winder to organize the stash. It makes these nice little cylinders that are much easier to stack than skeins and now that I've got the hang of using the thing so the tension is right I've been having quite a bit of fun...except my allergies seem to be bugging me and it's probably due to winding some skeins I haven't touched in a good year or two. Anyways, they stack much more neatly than skeins and if my fashion yarn wasn't a pain in the butt I'd rewind them too...but it is a pain in the butt (many of them having multiple types of yarn and being slippery) so they'll just have to sit stacked in skeins until I figure out something to do with them. The fashion yarn was a nice thoughtful gift on my cousin's part...I just don't have a clue what to do with it.
The sweater for Autumn is coming along...it may be a bit big but she'll grow into it. The kid's almost 3, she's going to do plenty of growing and I'm hoping to hurry along on it this week and have something she can try on during Easter. If I'm way off I think I still have enough skeins of the stuff so I don't have to frog.
Wow, I really went on a tangent there. I had every intention of talking about my audition yesterday.
Yup, I auditioned for a student director's movie yesterday and let me just say it was bizarre. I'm so used to a go in, say your name and your monologue and get out type of thing and this was...technical. I had to stand on a mark and walk from one side to the other and swing a sword (I had to stop myself from making swishing noises. I couldn't help myself the first couple swings) and do emotional exercises (I think I sucked at those but overall not horrible) and of course reading from the script (I auditioned for Charisma and Draym). The girl and her producer (AKA Mom I believe) seemed to like my work, they said "that was good" multiple times which could mean multiple things. I either was really good, their threshold of suck is low and therefore everyone does good stuff, or I was just better than what they had seen so far...or I sucked and they were just being nice. I came out of it feeling really good about the experience though and I'm really kind of hoping I get in. They'll be contacting us next month as there's still two Fridays worth of auditions and if they get more people interested than they have slots open for in March auditioning could go into April which would mean a delay.
I definitely have to get a hold on my mindset though. I'm so used to hearing relatively quickly, to being impatient for the usual few days they hold auditions that the idea that I have weeks to wait is...well it's a bit upsetting. I wanna know! *sigh* I guess this will be a test of my patience. I like to think of myself as a patient person but when it comes to auditions I can't hear quickly enough. Maybe that's because every audition is like a test. You practice and practice and go to these things nervous that you won't be what they want or that you secretly suck and the minute you leave you're suddenly waiting for validation that you didn't suck.
Edit: Did I mention I don't want to go to church today? Mom's all aobut going since the whole family's home for once...I keep thinking I'll get my church in next Saturday during the Easter Vigil but she wants to go today...today isn't Palm Sunday is it? If it is I'll cry, and not because of my church hang-ups but because that means we're in for a long long mass...and it's not a favorite long mass either.