I need to go to sleep because I work in the morning but I’m so keyed up. I have so many things going through my mind.

I dodged a couple bullets this week as far as tests go. I thought I was supposed to have a Spanish test on Tuesday, but turns out it will be this coming Tuesday. Yes, I would’ve known that had I been in class but because I thought the test was this week, I frantically completed my Quia assignment Monday night so at least that’s done for next week. So being a slacker and a procrastinator somehow led to me being a proactive student. Yeah, I think I’ll stick with that. I was also supposed to have a test in Stagecraft but Shelly decided to cancel it because we haven’t learned a lot of new material since our last test. So we had a graded exercise that involved cleaning out the warehouse. And it was super fun. Really.

I met with my cast that I’m directing for the Theatre Festival. And I’m excited, nervous and terrified. I’ve never directed before so I’m terrifed of being a hack. We had our first read through tonight and I didn’t want to do it, but on the otherhand I was anxious to get started. Going in, I was so concerned that they would read through it and I would have nothing to offer. No constructive feedback. I imagined myself saying, “uhhhh…umm..good. Uh, let’s hear it again”. But I have some strong ideas about the script so I think the direction I gave them was helpful. Luckily they understood all my references to Kevin Smith. Now I’m nervous to start blocking next week. I think that will be my weakest area. I think it would be in my best interest to confer with Rick Davis this week to get a feel of what’s good and what’s bad blocking. One of my actors asked me which I liked better, acting or directing. My response was, “Uh, I’m not sure yet”. I was really anxious to direct but I also couldn’t NOT act. At auditions, against my better judgment, I read because I wanted to be on stage as much as behind the stage. But I think I’m really going to like directing. And, bonus, we picked our opening and closing music.

I’m also planning my class reunion now. (Ugh. I know. I’m old.) I graduated with 74 people and I honestly have no idea how some of the bigger classes do it. We’re about halfway through tracking everyone down and we’ve set a place, date, time and tentative price. I just got off a conference call with four of my best friends about it, which is the largest reason for why I’m so keyed up. I took some pain medication for my back and I’m hoping the drowsiness will kick in any moment now.

Ok. I’m going to at least lay in bed now. The internet is an evil, evil device invented solely to keep me up all night playing games on pogo and stalking people on facebook. That’s what Al Gore had planned all along.

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