its been a bit

I wanted to be posting more, but I have had so much going on lately that it’s been hard to find the energy and motivation to write.

I’m involved in another play. I work with props this time around. The job is pretty simple but it gets complicated when I have to be doing 4 things at once and a 30 minute job needs to be done in 10 minutes. When props go missing or break or need to be changed, or an actor put it down somewhere and doesn’t remember where… these are all things I deal with everyday now. During the show, I sit backstage and switch props out as needed. Before and after I pull them out and put them away. It means that I don’t have a life for 10 days. No weekend twice in a row, which I’m used to because I work all weekend usually than do homework after. Most college students see the weekend as a time to hang out, party, sleep all day, shop, play video games, etc. My weekends are filled with long work shifts, lots of homework time, meeting with my family and talking about school. I hang out with friends, but usually not for very long. So the losing my weekend is not so bad. It’s the sitting for hours and being quiet that gets me. For some reason it’s exhausting. Then again, I sit and have to be attentive and listening for cues and can never really relax. But I love knowing that I help make the show a success so it’s all good.

My classes are going well. I’m taking 4 theatre classes and one sociology class. I have all As and Bs as far as I can tell, but I haven’t gotten graded assignments back in a few of the classes. I got the best grade I have ever received on a theatre history exam the other day and so I am pretty happy about it. I have been working my butt off in school so it’s nice to see it all paying off.

Well, my spring break is coming up. It happens to be the week after my old college’s spring break, and so I was going to go there for a few days. But that didn’t pan out. So my spring break plans are to sit in my house, work what shifts I get, and possibly visit my grandfather. The part that really sucks is that my birthday is over spring break. And everyone is either going on vacation or not from the area so they are going home. Last year people forgot my birthday and I was still healing from a surgery 3 days earlier so I couldn’t do anything.