Everyone's a Critic

Partner Evaluation.

I believe that Petra and I worked well with each other. We both put worth effort and tried to understand our scene from each other's respective. This was hard for me since neither Petra nor I have had any training in acting; nor have we acted in anything before this class. Luckily, Petra was really chill with my lack of acting and was able to help me when I struggled with Proof. I'd give Petra full marks for being willing to act and take direction from others.

I felt it a pleasure to work with Paul. He truly is a nice man and a talented actor in training. Like Petra, Paul has not had any formal training so it made it rather difficult to act out our scene. We both struggled with the comedy monologue not really understanding what to do with the direction we were given. It would have been nice to act alongside someone who had had formal training but I am glad for getting to know Paul better; and sometimes not knowing anything about acting allowed for Paul and I to react better to each other’s tactics. However for the record I would like to state that I am frustrated with this class in the area of not being clear enough in the directions that are given. On several occasion I has graded or instructed to correct something in a scene because I had failed at something, like objectives or a tactic. However I was unsure as to why I failed in this area. In the future I would like to see the class build around theory instead of practicum, this might help to eliminate several problem I found in acting. Knowing the theory might help me to act better instead of taking the headfirst approach to acting.

Mov'n On Up to the East Side

I’m love being in my apartment however I dislike my ward. After being in it for almost two full schools years I have grown apart from it in several areas most notable in the area of the leadership and dating pool. Therefore I have come to the decision that I need to relocate to a new apartment complex and thereby will be rolled in to a new ward.

The answer to my prayer came by way of Facebook posting from Andy. Andy’s roommate Andrew is moving out and needs to sell his contract. Robert is looking for a place to live since he is coming to school soon. I sold him my contract and purchased Andrews. Soon I’ll move out and Robert will move in. Problem Solved. Andy tells me that we have church in the CB (Clyde Building) and that our bishop is the church’s top Public Affairs representative; so, he is always jet sitting around the world deal with matters for the church.

Birthday Wishes

Monday Nov. 15, 2010

Today is my birthday! I’m turning 23. The BIG two three. I do not know if my life will be very different now that I am 23 but I do think I need to act a pinch more mature, act my age ya know. In all honesty I am not to concerned with this fact because I know that I am pretty much a good person already.

My dad is in town this week and over the weekend he took me to Outback stake house where we both had a stake. It was nice to have him in town. We spent most of the time talking about religion, politics, religious politics, and women. I finally opened up to my dad regarding my last relationship and just how crazy the girl is. He offered me some wonderful advice regarding how to conduct a relationship, mostly off of the fact that you need to have an open mind and ask a ton of questions. He really stressed communication. On the subject of religion, he instructed me to not worry to much about things and even though I do not like single wards, I need to remember that these things are not permanent.

On Sunday night grandma and the family gathered to celebrate my birthday, the party went well. Grandma is getting to old to bake so she bought a store made German chocolate cake. It was delicious. The presents were nice as well. People have been so nice to me this birthday. I even got a birthday kiss ;-)

Three Days of Rain

Ronnie presented her Mask club play to the school today. It was amazing! She did such a wonderful job. The play was Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg. For todays class Paul and I went over our play several times to discuss and run over our piece before we presented it in class. I felt that the run through helped me a lot and running through the lines with Paul was very helpful as well. Lisa Stoffer helped Paul and I by giving us directions and her critiques were the same as Stephanie's comments. I tried to add her comments into our scene and i think I managed to do that. I dialed up the humor and the dryness of my sarcasm. Hopefully I was able to mange to do that but I wont find out till later.

half full

I have no feelings… I feel rather numb… my drive to do work and school is all but gone. I’d rather hide under a rock and sleep then do anything. The release from the world that I find from acting is one of my few pleasures in the world albeit a dangerous one.

Anchors Away!

Blocked my stalker on Facebook. Wish things had gone differently, unfortunately Corey just wouldn’t see things my way.

Le Sigh

Life at the moment is very stressful. The end to the semester is right around the corner and “the school” seems to know it. With rehearsals, papers, and a social life, I am finding myself squeezed to the bone—rung out with life. Lack of sleep isn’t helping my situation. I was up late last night and the previous night with friends…

Suffering from depression is a problem for us theater students and I’ve found myself at several people’s apartments this past week trying to combat my depression as well as help them to some degree. We each have our own reasons for putting off homework, but we can all share the unity of friendship and theater together and if that unity for only one instance shakes off our chains and allows us to be free then I’d rather choose that path then be consigned to do homework and get the proper amount of sleep.