Almost Half Way There--Week 7 Begins

Hello Everyone! Sorry for not writing for awhile. I have been very busy with shows and school work and have had literally NO FREE TIME. But that's what had to happen for me to get ahead with school and everything. But now I am free of shows until mid-April so I am very much looking forward to this break...

Not that it will be much of a break. Now that we are past the first part of the semester, theoretically we have learned things and now have a bunch of projects and papers to do in order to prove that we have been paying attention. The three classes that I anticipate making me want to go crazy over the next 2 months are drafting, scenic painting practicum, and theatre design. Drafting is getting complicated now that we are drafting curved 3-dimensional objects in a 2-dimensional drawing. It's a lot of math that I haven't touched since high school. But the professor is fairly understanding and is willing to work with us outside of class to develop the concepts we don't grasp during class. Paint practicum is kinda stressful because I don't have much of a background in painting but I'm turning out to be pretty decent of it. Here is the first step of a woodblock quilt we are painting. I did this all by myself!

Theatre design is challenging simply because of the pace we are moving at. We were assigned a play to read a week and a half ago (Two Sisters and a Piano in case anyone is interested in reading it--it's really good!). This week we are making ground plans and designing a set for it. Once our ground plan is cleared with our professor, we then have to make a 1/4 inch scale model of it--which I have NEVER done before so who knows how that is going to turn out. If it turns out decent enough I'll post pictures of it.

Oh something exciting happened that not many people know about yet. I GOT A SUMMER STAGE MANAGEMENT JOB! I am being hired by a company in Friday Harbor, WA called Island Stage Left to stage manage their production of Taming of the Shrew (one of my all-time favorite Shakespearean plays). We start rehearsals in early June and have performances all the way through mid-August. I even get a chance to take the show on a mini-tour! As nervous as I am for this, I know I will learn a lot and become a much better stage manager. It also gives me a chance to explore a new part of the country. I will only be a few hours from Seattle and I have a few friends there who want to show me Washington. I can't wait for this adventure!

Other than that, there isn't a whole lot going on in my life. I turn 21 in 5.5 weeks which I'm looking forward to. And now my pile of untouched homework is calling to me so I should sign off and start tackling that.

Peace out!