today.

Sometimes you have a great day.
Sometimes you need to realize that day as great.

This was a wonderful first day of the usual week-long Colorado Fall.

Week One

Ok. So here it is, a wrap up of my last first week of school ever. Or at least until I go get a post-grad degree. Dr. Doran... nice.

- I got cast in How I Learned to Drive. I'm, in a word, thrilled. I've spent four years at this university trying to prove to this department, and in a way myself, that I am a good actor and that I have more to offer than just my voice. There is something beautiful in just being someone else, in speaking someone else's words. Coming from a mainly musical theatre background, the straight play is a simpler world, where people just exist, and in the simplicities of their every day they are beautiful and dramatic. I get to be so too.

- My friends were really happy for me, and many told me that they couldn't think of anyone else playing the role. It's wonderful to have their support and continue this idea of a friend family. Also, that all of these amazing people in my life support me and my art as I do theirs.

- All four Wisdom Teeth came out Wednesday afternoon. My dentist looks like Ron Weasley if he decided that dentistry was more important than wizarding. He said he had never had someone hum while getting their teeth pulled. What can I say, I love to sing, and I have an incredibly high pain tolerance. My mother took me home and took care of me, but I had no swelling the next day. Apart from the vomiting of blood the next morning, it was kind of no big deal. They don't even hurt, and haven't since Thursday night. I guess I only needed 24 hours.

- CU/CSU game yesterday. It was super-duper fun, and even more so because I went with people who had pretty much never gone to the football games before: Theatre Kids. We got pissed drunk on the way down, and then I broke out the bottles of wine and beers I had stored in my bag for tailgating. It was wonderful. I got drunk, then sleepy. We all pretty much fell apart on the bus back, went out separate ways, and crashed.

Which brings us to today. I have been to breakfast, and I only feel mildly hungover. Now I have to make phone calls and do all that productive weekend stuff that I should have been doing on Saturday, except I just acted like a fool and sat in front of my tv all day.

So, maybe I'll be productive today... but maybe after a nap...