Terrible

I've been awful at keeping this up, sincerely. I mean, the last post was WEDNESDAY of LAST WEEK? Where have I been? Okay I had a night class Wednesday night so that might be it.. But i didn't even talk about Acting 2... it's not like Thursday was a trying night. Anyway, let me backtrack and cover some ground.

Acting 2 was last Thursday morning, preceding the ever-awful philosophy/lit and social psych. It wasn't bad. Mary Lechter is our modestly famous acting teacher who really knows what she is doing. We did some pantomiming and went over the syllabus which is very, very work intensive. But so far, so good. I think it will be a fun class, maybe. Either way, if I don't get casted in a play, I will be doing some sort of acting.

Ugh the problem with retrospective posts is that I'm not always 100% on what I did in a day. So I completely don't know what I did Thursday night or Friday. I can't imagine it was too exciting. Well Thursday was Theater convocation where all the teachers, officers of the Mason Players, and interested students gathered to discuss the upcoming year... wooo.... boring. And Friday was a preliminary sit-down reading of the two upcoming studio shows this semester. So I guess that was that.

Saturday went with some friends to the Kennedy Center to see a Mister Paul Laudiero (remember that name because he's going to be famous in some capacity) perform in a page-to-stage of "Still Beating Hearts" which he and his cast-mates were fantastic in. Then traveled to 14th St. in DC to watch him do an improv show. I always feel so classy and hip when I go to these things. Like one of those quintessential art guys.

Sunday was chill. Nothing to report.

Labor day I did some work with Paul on our monologues for today's audition as well as did some homework for phil/lit.

Today was a big day though. Got up, went to work with Paul some more (since he changed his monologue last minute), and went to my two classes for the day. Then I sat around a bit and went to my very first Krav Maga class. Seriously, from Day 1 the instructor was kicking my butt. Warm ups alternating between strafing and running backwards, stance work, punching form, and how to get out of a frontal choke-hold (as well as counter-attacks) was certainly more intense than I ever imagined. I feel that this will be a lot of fun and will be beneficial if I can learn it and practice it and internalize it. The worst workout was the non-stop punching, push-ups, punching exercise during which I literally thought I was going to die.

Afterwards I quickly showered and went off to audition for the GMU Players Fall 2010 lineup. My monologue was, as it turns out, a compilation from Mark Twain's Excerpts from Adam's Diary which is actually a hilarious bit of literature. The actual audition went wonderful. I hopefully made the judges laugh for potentially the first time all night and overall felt good. Callbacks are all night tomorrow night and so I'll definitely be missing my Personality Psych class.

The rub is that for all of the shows, they want to practice wednesday night while i have this class so I potentially have to drop it and pick up something else... ugh. What a pain. Hopefully keeping that class won't affect my chances of getting casted. I guess I could always ask.

I'll be sure to update on how call-backs go and, of course, how the final cast posting goes.

Oh and a few nights ago I had a slight inkling to work some on my novels. And plus with my beginning Krav Maga training, I might have more inspiration to do so. Maybe this thing is working after all?

Either way, when it comes to posting, I'll try not to be too

terrible.