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I have some free time, so I figure instead of doing homework I'll update!

Things have gotten incredibly busy, which surprises the hell out of me. When I didn't get cast in the main season I figured I would be ridden with waaaaaay too much free time. Now I'm lucky if I can find time to eat a meal. I absolutely love it though. I'm getting so many different types of experiences and not only acting experience. That's right! I'm finally dabbling in the world of directing! I have to do some directing scenes for my class and right now I'm working on my dramatic scene. I'm directing "Dog Sees God" by Bert V. Royal. The script is a dramedy I guess you could say and the scene I'm doing isn't all drama. There's some comedy stuck in there. But the overall mood is dramatic. I really like directing. I dabbled in it a little bit during high school, but my knowledge about it was very limited. Now I have an arsenal of information that I can pull from. And one of the best feelings is giving direction and not only seeing them successful with it but doing even better than you hoped for! It's such a mama bear feeling when I talk about directing. Even when we directed open scenes during class I felt that way. We were given scripts with no setting or description and we had to create everything ourselves. My scene went so incredibly well, and I think it was one of the best of the entire class. I sat there in awe and wonder thinking if I couldn't act this would be the second best thing to do. I was so proud!

I never really considered directing to be in my future, but now that I think about it it's more of a viable option. I first and foremost want to act of course, but directing would still be fun to do. I hope I can find a voice for myself as a director. Maybe I'll try for more directing positions in the future. Who knows.

On the acting side things are going well. "Children of a Lesser God" is going....just going, lol. It's sooooo incredibly difficult because I have to learn the signing a little bit at a time, and that wouldn't be a big issue if I didn't have to sign the entire show! Those are my lines! So I feel fake and awkward trying to make up signs when I don't know them. I know almost all of the signs for Act 1 so it's coming along. I just don't want character thrown to the side because the signing is so important to learn. Argggg! haha. But I'm working my ass off on it, so I'm confident that the product will be good.

I've also got Planned Parenthood scenes and clusterfuck one acts going on too. I love it that I seem to be given the huge multiple page monologues in almost every show I do. I don't mind at all because for me it's easier to learn long monologues than just normal dialogue. But I absolutely love it.

More on my future acting escapades later...