Was up all night with a bit of food poisoning, and have decided to take today off from school to get better. While I feel bad (and, I'll admit it, lazy) for not going in today, I do enjoy having a day spent in bed. This has been one crazy semester, always going and never stopping.
School started again in February, right at the time when I quit working for the evil chicken vinyl house. I couldn't stand working at that place anymore, and Andy telling me that he refused to work with my school schedule was the final straw. Since then, I have had interviews for places all over Midtown - Irish pubs, avant-garde clothing stores, movie theaters ... Now I am working for a gym located in a luxury residential building as a receptionist. For $10-$12/hr, I have to stand at a desk to answer phones, schedule in appointments and make sure the gym keeps clean and presentable. Not a bad job, except that I can do everything in the first five minutes of my 8-hour shift. I don't complain, though. People who work there are artists of some form, as well as students, so my manager understands our crazy schedules and is willing to work with that. And we know our schedules at the beginning of each week - which is more than what the chicken place ever did.
School has been much better this semester - I feel like I am doing really good work now. I think winter break was what I needed to deal with everything I was going through last semester and put it away. I've opened a lot more about who I am and what I believe in. The only thing I still am needing to work on is trusting myself, but who doesn't need to work on that? Scenes that I've worked on so far have been a lot of fun - This Is Our Youth, Betrayal, The Violet Hour, Bug; and right now I am working on Cowboy Mouth and a film scene that has yet to be decided. Outside of school, I am working on short film written and directed by another first year student. I'm really excited about it, but at the same time I am completely self-conscious about how I look and sound on camera. It's the reason why I always have stayed with theatre ... Guess we'll see?
I've also started seeing someone ... and I'm enjoying every minute of it. I catch my breath every time I see him. Don't know what that's about, but I can say that this has been so much better than any other kind of relationship I've found myself in. It's easy, which I've never been a witness to. Every relationship I've witnessed or been a part of has been full of arguments and abuse, and expectations that no one can ever give to another person. This - this is fun.
Another part of my life that is fun: moving into my new apartment. Which will happen this weekend! Packing this week has been a bit stressful, and this weekend will be no different. With work and rehearsals added on top of that, I am going to be exhausted. But I will soon be living one block from Central Park and the Dakota in a studio loft apartment that also has a backyard. Photos will be added later. So excited!
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