Though it may be a little gratuitous, with the recent passing of my esteemed mentor and teacher, Jessica Goldstein, I have been thinking a lot about high school and some of those lost memories. So, here’s a short introspective. High school sometimes seems like a blur – ugly smells from the cafeteria, consistently awkward schedule […]
“We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one […]
It has been quite a while since I last got the chance to share my writer-ly hangouts. These past few weeks have marked the end of my first year at college and, as is to be expected, I have been caught up in academics and clubs and all the requisite processes that seem to all […]
Ahhh! I have such mixed emotions right now!I am both happy and sad that the play had to end – it was an extremely stressful journey, but now that it’s over, I know that I will miss it. It was just so much of an enjoyable experience, and everyone worked really hard. Despite our issues […]
Daylight Savings Time hit us by surprise – we woke up in the morning feeling strange and then OPH! We’re late to a meeting. Fortunately, we had woken up an hour earlier than we thought we should [lucky timing, right?] and then hopped into the car with tea in hand.When I returned, I lazed about […]
That was amazing!I always forget the rush I get when performing… Anything, even if it sucks, is just so much fun.Tonight was the first presentation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and I played Hermia. We messed up a lot of Act III and a lot of our lines were flubbed; I started coughing during the […]
I was listening to Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father again today, and I started to realize how all of his values have been shaped.The messages of his campaign are quite similar to the life lessons he wrote about throughout that memoir; his beliefs as contrasted with those of Malcolm X and the ideas imparted […]
Crazy days and doing plays – I probably got more physical with the boys than I ever have today. Ever. And that was not necessarily a pleasant experience; I think I have sustained a few injuries to my lower jaw and the side of my foot… but hey, I guess that marks me as an […]
So I couldn’t possibly post anything yesterday because I was burning the midnight oil just trying to get everything finished. Auditions for Speak went extremely well, and we got all the characters that we could hope for – including some interesting teachers that I would not have thought about. Thursday was The Day of Final […]
I was pleased with today.Just pleased, there were some metaphorical ‘hiccups’ that just made me want to scream, but other than that I think it was a fairly awesome day. I shook off the morning drowsiness by rote, was not gut-wrenchingly hungry in the afternoon, and got Speak rolling on a good note. Granted, I […]