Coming home!

Not looking forward to spending the next two days doing it, but coming.

Done, in all but name.

From this point, I progress at a rate of 1 lecture/tutorial a day to Thursday, when I have all my lectures and a tutorial, to Friday, when I get on a plane very early in the morning.

This last week has been absolutely insane. From Monday, when I handed in an essay, took a test, and opened my show, through the run of my show Mon-Wed, the run of Tis Pity Thurs-Sat, the after-party for Tis Pity, pulling an all-nighter-with-brief-nap, the unofficial Christmas Party in the annexe complete with homemade eggnog (they don't have it here), cookies, and presents, to the cast party/dinner for the Aeroplane Lands cast last night. My semester has followed traditional story structure. It starts with the reluctant hero who must come to grips with a new situation and complete various tasks, getting harder and harder, until the hardest of all, the climax, ends in triumph and allows him to rest in the conclusion. Only not quite so melodramatic.

The grass outside is frozen crunchy and the cars are all white with frost. People are slowly starting to leave halls. By Thursday meals with be a skeleton service. People manage to be exhausted, cranky, and happy all at once. Chocolate and alcohol become the 2 main food groups. I am looking forward to being home.

You know you're from California when...

...the ground is white and slippery and you think, "Who put chalk everywhere?"

wow, 2 consecutive days of posts

madness!

Essay in, done, not the greatest thing in the world, but more in line with what they want.

Stats test in Psychology done, didn't study hardly at all, but i think i did well.

But c'mon, on to what really matters--The Aeroplane Lands opened tonight! And didn't screw up badly at all! And people LAUGHED where it was funny! And my roommate got it (well, what there was to get)! And someone said "Mermaids needs more like that"...and some "Wow, you wrote thats?" in addition to the mandatory, "Right, so tell me what was going on?"

So I am happy.

Whew

12 hours of rehearsal (10-10...ahh reminds me of the AVPA) today running back and forth between Tis Pity and my show....and I think we are ready to open tomorrow! I'm trying to get a video camera to tape it all--wish us luck.

Once more...

Sorry for how infrequent these posts are. Really. Philosophy essay due Friday, International Relations due Monday, Freshers' Plays (what I'm directing) starting Monday running through Wednesday, Tis Pity Shee's a Whore (what I'm in) going Thursday through Saturday.

So, just signing on to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA! Love you.

And signing out.