October 18

I am nervous, I am a bundle of nerves. Look at these nerves, there is a bundle of them. My audition isn’t until tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean I’m not on the edge of my seat, oh my gosh. I’m not even particularly attached to any of the shows in next semester’s season, but. Who knows. We’ll see how it goes.

            I’ve enjoyed working on my monologue with animals. It’s really helped my beats. Hopefully that translates when I go to audition. Phew. Honestly I’d be cool if I didn’t get cast this semester, but it’s always worth it to audition, in my opinion.

October 16

Doing opposite animals is haaaarrrrd. I had to do my hippo in class, and it’s stressful and difficult and strenuous, because he is so different from the way I carry myself, even as a human version. Hippos are also huge jerks, and I like to think I am not a huge jerk.

            I’ve worked a little on the animals I want to incorporate into my monologue, but I haven’t really settled on a third one yet. Probably some sort of yippy dog. Like a Chihuahua! Actually, that’s perfect, and I am going with that. Thanks, journal.

October 11

Oh, god. Tossing the ball during the combination ended up being a serious exercise in futility for way too long. We have people in our class who legitimately have hand-eye coordination biological problems (And I’m not being funny. We do.) but it wasn’t even mostly their fault. Some of us just really suck at catching and throwing. Once we were able to choose how to do it, though, we started passing to people we knew needed to be passed to and throwing to people we knew could handle it. Eventually we got through it, but geez. That was stressful.

            We did the animal scenes today, and that was awesome. I seriously love doing the giraffe. It makes me so happy, and using my body in weird ways is something I love to do. I can turn my arms pretty much all the way around, so I can imitate the direction of their front leg joints, and I’m probably too proud of myself for that. Our scene was a really good way of showing how animal traits can be transferred to human characters and situations, and something about it definitely clicked.

October 9

Copying these over to here again now. Awesome.

            I love working with the tennis balls during the rhythm exercises. It’s fun. It took a little coordination, though, and I’m pretty sure we all lost a ball at least once. It was neat to see how we could all work together to achieve a single rhythm. (I also felt special and important, as I was the only person assigned to the last beat of the sequence.)

            We got to show our animals some, which I had a tremendous amount of fun doing. I love being a baby giraffe! The hippo was harder, but I haven’t had the chance to really study it yet since I chose it in class with you today. Then, Connor and I had to use a stuffed animal to be a giraffe trying to climb some rocks. Instead, he ended up stumbling and falling, and after eating a little he fell asleep. It was probably the most adorable thing anyone in that room had ever seen, sorry about it.

            Clarissa’s animal is loud. I love Jenna’s squirrel! That’s definitely something I can use.

October 4, 2012

The zoo! It was fun. I studied a turkey and a tortoise (turkey and turtle!) and it was an interesting experience. First of all, getting to do something in nature was really refreshing. I spend about twelve hours a day in that theatre building and usually go straight from there to my house, where I do homework, eat, watch some TV shows, and go to sleep. I’ve been eating really bad and not getting enough exercise, so I’m gaining weight—which is dangerous and I hate it. I wish I had more chances to work out, but I keep telling myself I will work out as soon as Three Sisters is over.

Check up on me. Ask me if I’m working out so I feel guilty for not.

October 2, 2012

Zoo is on Thursday! I’m so excited. We did more monologue things today. I think? I’m blanking on what we did specifically. While I try to remember, I’ll talk about Commedia.

Thank you so much for working with us! Getting to learn the characters from the ground-up is super awesome and worthwhile. I love working with the battatio, and I’m excited to be better at all of these lazzi.

Oh yeah!  Rhythm and Tempo. First of all, I called that you were going to pick me to do the eighth beat by myself. I don’t know how I knew, I just sensed it. I felt special.

This was an interesting challenge, because I’ve never had a problem with rhythm, but I DO have a problem with hand-eye coordination. So.

I liked that you talked about character playlists because I always do that, always always. Every character has a playlist I listen to before each show. 

September 27, 2012

I was absent again today. I really didn’t mean to, I promise it’s not because I don’t like your class. College is hard.

We’re going to the zoo next week, though, that should be awesome! And I talked to some people and they said you did some stuff with bungee cords for tension and talked about power. Sounds interesting! I’m sorry I missed it.