Don't get me wrong, there's some amazing stuff there. But sometimes....
Like for example, the continuing saga of my laptop. My laptop had been freaking out all fall. So when the screen goes on the fritz during my Christmas break I decide to just bite the bullet and buy a new one. I figured that it would be safer that way. Then I don't have to worry about it dieing while I am in the middle of writing my dissertation.
So I get my nice shiny new computer and take it back to school. And its been a week, ONE WEEK since I got back, and guess what happens. I have contracted some sort of horrible evil computer virus. Thankfully I have the lovely Central IT folk to help me out. But they have been working on my computer now for the last hour and its looking no better. They seem confident that they will fix this today, which is very reassuring. But I mean come on! I just want to take my computer home and not have to worry about things crashing, or people stealing my identity. Plus I need to edit the three papers I wrote over the weekend so I can turn them in before Friday.
Right, enough about that. While I am sitting in the computer lab waiting for them to be done I might as well update. This weekend was neither terribly productive, nor terribly restful. I was sick for most of the weekend. Not horribly ill, or even bed ridden, just enough to feel crummy and unmotivated. So I didn't have much chance to work on any of my new music. I did however finish the many essays they gave us to write!
This morning was dedicated towards picking more scene material for the showcase. Tom and I started off the morning bringing in two scenes that we had glanced through. I thought for sure that Paul wouldn't let us do the scene from Arcadia (me being not actually English and all), however he really liked it, actually preferred that one to the other scene we brought in. So we'll continue to work on that. It has been really fun getting to see some of the other scenes people are bringing in. Many are from plays that I don't know at all, or only know a little bit about. Some of them, however, are plays that I know very well, and really enjoy. For example two of the guys in our class brought in a scene from Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, which is one of my absolute favorite plays of all time. I only got to see a very brief snippet of the material, but I think it will be really great once they have gotten it on its feet.
At lunch they had an alum come and talk to us about his experience, which was really interesting. He is currently playing in Ghost, and will be in the upcoming Les Mis movie. It was both encouraging and intimidating to hear about his experiences after he graduated. But it has gotten me motivated to do more work prepping myself for that. I need to do more research into the business side of things here. They have been encouraging all of us to research agents and casting directors so that we know something about the people that might be approaching us after the showcase. Right now I am still feeling quite overwhelmed by the whole thing, but I think once I start doing my homework I'll feel much better.
Right, well off to check on my computer. Hopefully they will be done soon. I had so many plans for today that got sidetracked by this....
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