Long Time No See

Dear Blog,

I am sorry I have neglected you all week. To make up for it, I will now attack you with a slew of words about this week as best I can. I am already forgetting what I did 4 days ago!

I think Sunday I laid around mostly but I did go to church in the evening and it was back to good. It was a continuation on the life of David called "God gives David a Community." The preacher (pastor? I never know what to call it! <- embarrassing confession) said that becoming a Christian is revolutionary. I understood what he meant at the time, but cannot explain it now. Well I think he meant it isn't easy. Monday I went to class and we got to do our scene. I am now liking the scene a lot. I left Voice and Speech class a little early to go to Audition #2. This was for a touring children's production of a "Junie B. Jones" book. The ad told us to dress like the character, so when I arrived to the audition, there were about 30 girls all dressed like a first grader. It was really annoying. I arrived at 1 PM for sign in and at about 4:20 PM I got to go in for about 5 minutes to do my monologue. I had only picked it out on Saturday so it was not as well prepared as I would have liked but it went okay. The director asked me if all my contact info and email was correct and it was but I have not heard anything. Monday night we had a Career Counseling class (usually on Fridays but we were making up for this Friday when she'll be gone). We talked about resumes. Because of the odd time, about half the class did not show up so we got more individual attention, which means that people asked a lot more stupid questions.

Oh, I should probably let you know, I am a little cranky due to lack of sleep so this might not be the cheeriest blog ever!

On Tuesday we of course had acting and then the singing class. Singing did not go as well as last time but I think I know why (the pianist had changed the key then forgot so we were both confused). The teacher also told me I had a sweet and lovely voice but it will not get me jobs if I don't get bigger and louder. I know what he means and it was good advice. Tuesday night, some of my classmates and I went to a free screening of "Inside the Actor's Studio" (a TV show on Bravo hosted by James Lipton). The guest was Amy Poehler, most known for her run on SNL. I like Amy Poehler and think she is really funny. I half expected her to be wild and zany on the interview but she was totally normal and calm, with a good bit of funny moments still. The interview was very inspiring, but also very long (about 3 hours)! He could have gone without the detailed questions about her childhood (i.e. what elementary school did you go to - who cares!)...but overall it was good.

Wednesday we had class (acting and voice & speech) and it was mostly uneventful. After class I hung around at school until I had to go to my first rehearsal for Clownsville. I had to take the F train down to East Broadway (southeast end of Manhattan close to Brooklyn). Well, on this lovely day of days, the F train was broken, or something, but I did not really know because I could not understand what they were saying on the PA. So I ended up on a different track and had to get out and walk across the island of Manhattan via Canal Street, a busy and crowded street running through China Town, and it just happened to be particularly hot and muggy this day. Needless to say, I was not a happy girl. But eventually I made it to rehearsal. All the people are nice and some are professional actors just starting out (like me, I guess)! The script is pretty funny and I like my part. I am excited to do a comedy show, it has been quite a while. The show will be August 25, 26, and 29 (Tues., Wed., and Sat.). I will let you all know if they add more dates, because I know you can all make it, right? Just kidding ;-) They told us the theatre name but I forget it.

After that, I should have gone to bed, but instead I went to see Harry Potter with some classmates! It was a pretty good movie. Never a dull moment. I still need to see the others.

Which brings us to today. Acting, again, and then movement. Yoga, which was torture, again, and then we did some more spatial relation exercises. I was getting frustrated in class because some people do not pay attention and listen, and then the teachers have to explain it all over again and we lose time. And they can't follow simple instructions, like stand still with your hands at your sides. I am aching to work with serious, professional people! Maybe grad school would be good.

Tonight I have been relaxing and watching "Weeds," a TV show I rented from the New York Public Library (woot woot). It is an awesome show and very addicting! Now I am going to try once again to go to bed early. Wish me luck!

P.S. I hope you all had fun at the reunion! I mean, as much fun as you could have without me around of course.