Crazy busy.

This week has been crazy busy, as usual, but good however.  We got onstage this week for The Elephant Man.  Carter’s set is phenomenal!  Especially when the big curtain opens!  It looks like this.

I mean, how cool is that.  The curtain opens to reveal a white screen through which shadows can be seen.  It really is pretty amazing. 

I am a little worried about the show though.  We aren’t doing any run-throughs until Saturday of this week.  We open next Wednesday.  So, in short, we will only have two run-throughs before we open, and I am not at all comfortable with that.  In my opinion, we need more run-throughs to get comfortable with the transitions and the arc of the show itself.  We have only been doing random scenes, and a bit of the transitions, so none of us really have an idea of what the show is like as a whole.  It makes me very nervous.  I am worried that I am going to blank at some point—and it could either be the music or my lines. 

Anyway, what else has happened this week…..I saw One Hundred Dresses on Saturday.  It was quite good, and halfway through the show I remembered that I had indeed read the book.  It is rather sad, but it does teach several excellent morals:  don’t bully, don’t treat others badly because their different, etc.  It was a very well done children’s production.

I took a lot of naps this week.  That is what I seem to remember.  Costume design was cancelled both days this week, so I came home and slept for a couple of hours on almost every day, because I never get enough sleep at night.  I have seriously messed up my sleeping pattern, and it is not going to get any better this week.  This coming week is tech week….which means rehearsals from 6:30 to 11 almost every night.  What I don’t understand is why we are only doing one act each of those nights.  That is four and a half hours on each act, which is rather ridiculous.  The show itself is only a little over two hours.  AHHHHH!!!!  Sometimes I get so frustrated.

It seems also as if all my big projects are starting to stare me in the face.  They are coming up, slowly but surely, and I already have no time.  At least Thanksgiving is close.  That is happy.  And then, soon after that comes Christmas!  I have been listening to Christmas music today, and oh, how it makes my heart sing.

Oh!  I got a new iphone this week.  Last Saturday, when my mother and I went to the festival in Cedar City, my phone completely died, and it shouldn’t have.  It acted weirdly when I got home as well, so my parents gave me permission to get my main Christmas present early.  Let me tell you, I LOVE IT!  It is ten times better than my old phone, and I have constant access to the internet, which I am not quite sure is a good thing.  However, I do love it!

I was thinking today about how I am always waiting for things.  And about how stupid that is.  I mean, I sit in class and wait for it to be over, and then I sit and watch a movie and check my watch to see how long it has been, I wait until the day is over and I can sleep, and then I wait for the weekend to come, I wait for that hour of practicing to be over, or those three hours of rehearsal….I mean it just goes on and on, and I am losing my life waiting for it to end, if that makes any sense whatsoever.  I need to learn how to live in the moment, and enjoy each moment for what it is.  I know that sounds cheesy, but it is so true.  I mean, life is for the living.  Each day is made up of these incredible moments that I am missing because I am waiting for them to end, and for the next one to begin.  Life is those moments.  And that is a fact!

Anyway, not much of note has occurred other than that.  I am just going to school, doing homework, watching movies, sleeping, and rehearsing.   Lots of unremarkable moments, that when I examine them closely, are in fact, truly remarkable!