what's worth keeping

i'm here. new york city.

gonna take over.


(holy shit)




the move was surprisingly stress free, i'm mostly unpacked and i had a really great night out last night. good thing, because it'll probably be my last night out for a time. i have an 'audition' tomorrow for a transfer to the flagship sunglass hut, which would just be a really nice job to have. i'd make good enough money to survive. so fingers crossed, and maybe you should come by sunglasses from me tomorrow. whoever you are.


my apartment is fully furnished (though i'd like a futon) and i'm stocked on food. kev is here. life is good.



i can't believe i got here. what to do now?

hoooooooooooly shit

i move in two days. not going on a trip. fucking moving.


MUST PACK BETTER/FASTER/STRONGER













ahhh!!

nothing like a dame

i've been doing a lot of thinking lately about where i want my life to take me, and i realized i've almost entered the beginning stages of settling. this is an important realization in light of my forthcoming move (ONE WEEK!) to new york. i have a great day job, but i'm thinking about it far too much, and in too long term...erm...terms. right.

the fact is, as much as i love working at sunglass hut, i don't want it to be the only thing i ever do. i want to keep it around as a survival job for when i need it, but i've also got to remind myself of what i really want to be, what i really want to do. and that's a performer, an artist, a maker. i think one of the last consequences of the slump i went through senior year was that somehow i got it ingrained, despite all evidence to the contrary, that i wasn't in fact an artist, just a guy who was decent at doing theatre. the fact of the matter is that, yes, while i am indeed a guy who's decent at theatre, i also do have my own artistic sense and vision that i have a right to put forward.

basically, i need to keep in mind what my true goals are. money gets in the way, and while money is good because it keeps me fed and housed, the more i'm finally taking these steps towards independence, the more i need to remember to create.

look you in the eye

ok. so.

since september 2009, i have.

-graduated mville. finally. and just in time, the school seems to be going down the shitter under the new president.

-done a lot of shows. after m'ado (which was an amazing experience that i miss all the time), i did brigadoon (at mville...sneaky...), the laramie project (which was kind of a brutal experience simply because i had too much going on at the time and miscommunication with the director, etc...), a world premiere of a short play called "got pot?" which was fun, and a cabaret about love for valentine's day. then...

-i worked for the texas shakespeare festival. which was a LONG ten weeks in the middle of east texas, but a wonderful experience. first professional gig, woot. did as you like it, two gents and the children's show, the tortoise and the hare. last time i ever take an internship position, but good fun.

-worked for esprit and sunglass hut. woot retail. esprit was meh, but i'm kind of obsessed with my sunglass hut job. i worked at four different locations in fairfield county and i may be transferring to the city because...

-in two weeks (!) i am moving to astoria, NY. wow. amazing. bout fucking time. holy hell. i need that job at the hut, because i don't have anything saved, lol. responsible me.

-found someone i'm crazy about. it's wierd, because we met before texas and we've been together from a distance longer than we have been near each other, but it seems like it's going wonderfully. we're getting relationshippy and not just first meeting kind of thing. it's exciting. not really scary, just exciting. and it makes me smile.


so that's pretty much all the major events. lots of little things along the way. mostly just hanging with mona and maya and the gang. lots of drinking and partying and being a twenty something.


hopefully i'll keep this up more now that i've got major life changes occuring.

way too much

i need to start writing in this again. not now, i just want to have a record of these years.

big update(s) soon.

well...

its been awhile hasn't it?

what a fucking awesome summer. pippin was, to say the least, life changing. as monica and i discussed, nothing physically changed in our lives, we're just facing a completely different direction.

much ado is now up, and going very well. i'm quite proud of my cast (and i guess of myself too). it was really a quite easy process (minus losing actors and having to be in it too...)

got suckered into one last show at manhattanville...but its with the cherries, and i'm playing a gene kelly role...holy crap. exciting.

yeah. oh, and a new job at esprit!! which is meh, but its money (which i DESPERATELY need)

Everything's going so well!

Pippin is up, to mostly rave reviews, at least from people we know. No official reviewer has released anything, but who cares? It's filling seats in a theatre that goes empty too often.

My own little pet directing project, Much Ado is well on its way. Production meeting yesterday went FABULOUSLY, and auditions are less than a week away. Very exciting stuff.

I may have a post-camp job!!



Things are really going well.