2000 Words Later

and I finished a lab report.  I never thought that I would actually be writing at this level for lab reports.  It took a lot longer than I anticipated, but I'm pretty sure it took me less time than the last ones.  I just remember dreading two page papers, and I just wrote an 11 page lab report on a frog nerve.  It's pretty incredible though.  Also, I'm exhausted.  I really need to get more sleep.

What a wonderful world

Turns out, auditions are kind of fun.  Sure my stomach is still doing flips (that's probably just because my day is still in its infancy), but once I got into the audition room, I was totally not freaking out.  It was really relaxing actually.  As I'm sitting here next to Sophie (who says hi, by the way) I'm realizing that I want to go into theatre because of the people.  Every person I've run into or interviewed with, or had workshops with yesterday has been really cool. I just want to talk shop with all of them, it's really incredible to see so many people so excited about the same thing.  That's the wonderful thing about the theatre world, no one is there unless they have to be.  This business isn't worth the struggle and pain unless it's something you want more than anything.  And if these past two weeks have told me anything, it's that I belong in this world.

And then my face exploded.

Lawrence just got listed as the 18th most rigorous college in the country, and it totally shows.  Of course they post this during midterms on a day where I physically don't have time to do everything that needs to get done.  I won't bore you with a list of boring details, but the best one is me finishing my As You Like it TO SEND INTO THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY.  I'm still crying a little.  This weekend was totally a blur.  After meeting a ton of LU alumni, I was talking to a Broadway producer who's buds with Alan Rickman (go ahead, punch me) and he mentioned that RSC is currently cutting all shows in the cannon down to 70 minutes for a project (I can't remember which one quite yet) and said if I sent him my version he would send it to them.  It could be that they look at it and just never do anything with it, or they could end up using it.  RSC COULD USE MY CUTTING.  No lies, my life would be basically set if they did.  Not only in that I would feel accomplished beyond all reason, but I could get Shakespeare related jobs wherever, cause RSC is kind of a big deal.  So, it's completely understandable that I want to work on nothing else besides reviewing and editing my cut to send in.  Right?  Good.