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The Past 6-months
Aug. 4th, 2007 10:06 amLet's see, I last posted in February so I'm sure the three people who did read this have since given up, meaning my journal is completely hidden from prying eyes. Mwahahahaha!
College:
Going fairly well, what I may be lacking in higher learning (most of my classes are the ‘fun’ variety) I’m more than making up for in life experience and contacts in the local community – which will lead to contacts in the national or international communities. I gave up my last pretenses and officially declared myself a theater major. This coming semester will be fun, I shudder to think of the GERs that are going to come back to bite my ass.
( Classes )
Home Life:
I moved in with my friends Darren and Zach back in May. Living with bills and roommates has been different. For instance I took for granted that after a late rehearsal food would be waiting for me, now not only do I have to make something if I’m famished but if I didn’t have the time or money to get groceries I go hungry. Darren’s starting to get on my nerves, as of this month’s bills he owes me $309.42, which is $100 less than what he owed me three weeks ago (I paid for all of his June and half of his July’s rent, plus bills). It doesn’t help that he throws a hissy fit every time I so much as mention money, not the paying-me-back part just little things like “by the way I paid the electric bill” or “I’ll spot you for the movies this time, it’s ok.” Zach has been no comfort; ever since he met Alli and fell head-over-heels for her (they really are a perfect match) he’s never around to balance my positive to Darren’s negative, at this rate one us of will be forced to leave. And I have a feeling it will be me – Zach and Darren have been friends since middle school, I can’t ask Zach to boot him.
Family:
I miss the quiet nights at home with my folks - as for the rest of it (Jeff and Katie’s up-coming marriage, office politics, the general wellbeing of my parents let alone my brother) it’s too complicated and too troubling to get into here.
Friends:
Miss them, I have barely seen any of my friends this summer – which is terrible since most of them are scattering to college in a few weeks if they haven’t already. My college friends and Justin (who’s joining the ranks of UAA cheapskates) have been scarce this summer but I’m looking forward to seeing them when classes start.
Theater:
Ladies of the Camellias went well; I hope never again to work with Reichman. Immediately after that (meaning during the run of Ladies I was showing up at rehearsals on our dark nights) I worked with Edgecombe and hope not to do that again as well. I had a week or two off and then start The Perfect Prayer which went up in May/June at Cyrano’s. When I first signed up I was there for the director and the cast, I didn’t like the script much, however there were massive re-writes by the playwrite and it turned out well. We got glowing reviews in most of the papers in town (ADN, Press, and Northern Light). It was a lovely experience; of course I’m glossing over the things that made me want to pull my hair out and deck either my light op., my director, or both. Ah, the joy of a selective memory. On the heels of Perfect Prayer (I actually missed the last two weeks of Sat./Sun. performances to do this, but I did tell them at the start that I had a prior obligation in June) was Ren Faire, which was a delight as always. I sadly didn’t get to play a part in any major schemes but I enjoyed myself, made a few new friends, and got a small percentage of the UAA theater dept. involved. There is one other delightful happening related to Ren Faire but he’ll get his own entry soon enough. After a one month break (the longest I’ve gone between shows since I interned with TFYP in July 06) we started rehearsals for The Pillowman over at UAA. We’d held auditions back in May, and the play had been cast and everyone given their scripts before Finals were over – they had two months to memorize and come in off book. It makes a tremendous amount of difference when, from the start, everyone’s connecting rather than walking around with scripts in their hands. We run the last week of August and the first week of September, if you’re in town I highly recommend it.
Let’s see, I’ve covered College, my new living arrangements, my family (kinda), friends (again kinda), theater . . . . yeah, the only other major change is in my ‘romantic’ status. Which will be too long an entry so I’ll just write another one for that.
Fuzz ~J (^.^)
College:
Going fairly well, what I may be lacking in higher learning (most of my classes are the ‘fun’ variety) I’m more than making up for in life experience and contacts in the local community – which will lead to contacts in the national or international communities. I gave up my last pretenses and officially declared myself a theater major. This coming semester will be fun, I shudder to think of the GERs that are going to come back to bite my ass.
( Classes )
Home Life:
I moved in with my friends Darren and Zach back in May. Living with bills and roommates has been different. For instance I took for granted that after a late rehearsal food would be waiting for me, now not only do I have to make something if I’m famished but if I didn’t have the time or money to get groceries I go hungry. Darren’s starting to get on my nerves, as of this month’s bills he owes me $309.42, which is $100 less than what he owed me three weeks ago (I paid for all of his June and half of his July’s rent, plus bills). It doesn’t help that he throws a hissy fit every time I so much as mention money, not the paying-me-back part just little things like “by the way I paid the electric bill” or “I’ll spot you for the movies this time, it’s ok.” Zach has been no comfort; ever since he met Alli and fell head-over-heels for her (they really are a perfect match) he’s never around to balance my positive to Darren’s negative, at this rate one us of will be forced to leave. And I have a feeling it will be me – Zach and Darren have been friends since middle school, I can’t ask Zach to boot him.
Family:
I miss the quiet nights at home with my folks - as for the rest of it (Jeff and Katie’s up-coming marriage, office politics, the general wellbeing of my parents let alone my brother) it’s too complicated and too troubling to get into here.
Friends:
Miss them, I have barely seen any of my friends this summer – which is terrible since most of them are scattering to college in a few weeks if they haven’t already. My college friends and Justin (who’s joining the ranks of UAA cheapskates) have been scarce this summer but I’m looking forward to seeing them when classes start.
Theater:
Ladies of the Camellias went well; I hope never again to work with Reichman. Immediately after that (meaning during the run of Ladies I was showing up at rehearsals on our dark nights) I worked with Edgecombe and hope not to do that again as well. I had a week or two off and then start The Perfect Prayer which went up in May/June at Cyrano’s. When I first signed up I was there for the director and the cast, I didn’t like the script much, however there were massive re-writes by the playwrite and it turned out well. We got glowing reviews in most of the papers in town (ADN, Press, and Northern Light). It was a lovely experience; of course I’m glossing over the things that made me want to pull my hair out and deck either my light op., my director, or both. Ah, the joy of a selective memory. On the heels of Perfect Prayer (I actually missed the last two weeks of Sat./Sun. performances to do this, but I did tell them at the start that I had a prior obligation in June) was Ren Faire, which was a delight as always. I sadly didn’t get to play a part in any major schemes but I enjoyed myself, made a few new friends, and got a small percentage of the UAA theater dept. involved. There is one other delightful happening related to Ren Faire but he’ll get his own entry soon enough. After a one month break (the longest I’ve gone between shows since I interned with TFYP in July 06) we started rehearsals for The Pillowman over at UAA. We’d held auditions back in May, and the play had been cast and everyone given their scripts before Finals were over – they had two months to memorize and come in off book. It makes a tremendous amount of difference when, from the start, everyone’s connecting rather than walking around with scripts in their hands. We run the last week of August and the first week of September, if you’re in town I highly recommend it.
Let’s see, I’ve covered College, my new living arrangements, my family (kinda), friends (again kinda), theater . . . . yeah, the only other major change is in my ‘romantic’ status. Which will be too long an entry so I’ll just write another one for that.
Fuzz ~J (^.^)
