YEAH 10TH WEEK

See this face?

Do you see it?  That is the face of someone very excited to have finished all of the things that are due tomorrow.  Super super exciting.

I know that I haven't written in a long time.  I know, I know.  You can yell at me if you want.  I deserve it.  But I have been so incredibly busy that my brain hasn't been able to handle the idea of writing extra stuff.

Let me catch you up on what happened during the time I was away from this blog.

I directed a 90 minute adaptation of As You Like It that my friend Abi adapted and starred in for her senior project.

Photo by my amazing friend Alex.  Abi is in the center.  Look at that directing!

It was my first time directing something longer than 5 minutes which was incredibly exciting but super scary at the same time.  The first week was incredibly poorly scheduled.  They don't teach you things like scheduling in directing class.  That would have been a nice thing to have known how to do going into this experience.  I got better at it though!  The show was a huge success.  I have heard nothing but good things.  For our second and last show (because we sadly only got two performances) we more than sold out.  We ran out of seats and then people who didn't have tickets snuck in and sat on the stairs of the audience.  It was amazing to see that kind of turn out.

I have been doing crazy amounts of improv.  I am a member of Lawrence's own Optimistic Feral Children.

We got 10 people in the Shire Shower and 13 people into the Hobbit bathroom.  I am still amazed that this was possible.

We are pretty funny.  You can watch our shows on our YouTube page.  We, along with two other groups on campus, brought the touring group from the Upright Citizens Brigade to campus in October and we got to do a workshop with them.  We opened for their show and the UCB members were really impressed with us, which was incredibly exciting.  We hung out with them afterwards which just reminded me how much I love improvisers and how much I want to do what they do.

I have been continuing to do Awkward Dance Wednesdays.  For some reason, though, I am having a hard time posting them on this blog, so you should just go check them out on my YouTube page if you need to catch up.  If you haven't seen them recently, you should go watch them.  They are pretty great.  It will totally be worth your time.

Well, I think that that is probably enough information for now.  I will try to get back into the habit of posting more often.  Cause I missed you, blog universe.  Let's stay friends.  Let's never leave each other again.

SUCCESS!

We did it.  And it was amazing.  And there were around 100 people their.  Gahh!  THAT WAS THE COOLEST.

And now for bed.

Final Tech!

We are teching our final of the three shows!  In an hour and 20 minutes, there will be an audience here and the shows will be starting. 

Close!

It is almost that time!  After some food and a break, we are heading back for our last tech!  I have put on super cute clothes and I am all ready for tonight!

Just What I Am Thinking About Now...

Alright.  It seems an appropriate time to recap all that has happened thus far (plus add some things in that I might not have mentioned before).

Number of hours of sleep: 4.  And that is with oversleeping this morning.  I have almost fallen asleep on the floor of Cloak a couple of times but I have managed, somehow, to stay away.  It has been rough.  I hit a brick wall of exhaustion around 2 when Abi and I had to run out to get corn.  Staying away was physically painful.  Luckily for me, I saved my Mocha Frappachino from this morning in the fridge (as did Abi) and so we returned to the theatre and drank those.  So I find myself with a little bit more energy.  Now to just make sure that I don't let myself become exhausted by dinner.  Cause meals are exhausting!

Well, we have finished the first tech and are now into the second.  

Almost there!  Now we are even closer!  Less than 4 hours until the curtain goes up and the first 1440 Theatre Carnival happens for the first time in 2 years!

We are having a hard time getting the sound to work so we have decided that we are going to make our own theme music while we change the sets, like Kronk in Emperor's New Groove!  It is going to be amazing.

I am surrounded by papers.  What is happening?  What are all these papers?  Why are they here?  I should clean this up.  I cleaned up Comedy House earlier because the house smelled like pizza and tired after having the writers there last night.  But now it smells like normal house!  Yay!

1st Tech!

It is our first technical rehearsal!  It is all becoming so real. 

This one involves a gnome...

KERN!

Don't worry guys. The corn has been purchased.