A life to call my own

Finally! I finished working as a dresser for Fuente Ovejuna. Theatre majors have to do so many service credit hours for the major and my 360 credit is DONE. :) I will have five more hours to my day. Now instead of going from class to work to rehearsal to fuente, I can go home and eat dinner. Maybe talk to my roommate. Pick up my underwear. Memorize some monologues and sleep more than three hours a night.

For the first time in years (and I am not exaggerating) I got nine hours of sleep on a school night. It was intoxicating. I woke up so rejuvenated I thought for sure someone had drugged me. Mmm.

I'm in a show right now. It's called A Generation Raised in Propriety. The play is about this girl named Emma who has all of these friends who are abused. Her best friend is named Marie and Marie gets the worst from her father. Emma doesn't have a great family life (her mom is a terrible alcoholic and though she loves her father he can't take the pressure of his marrital situation and run-away son and leaves the family) either but because she isn't physically abused the kids at school think she is spoiled. The teachers at school are supposedly raising the children to live a proprietess life, but it's really a corrupting enculturation. The setting is Swindon, England so everyone (except for Ms. French) speaks with a British accent.

I'm playing Emma. It's my first lead at BYU. Though it is a student written, student directed show it will be playing on one of the mainstages so I am kind of nervous. I LOVE Emma. I just feel for her situation. I want to perform to the best of my ability.

So that's what has been going on in my life. I feel so disconnected from the world right now. I want to spend time with people, watch a movie, call people I haven't talked to in ages, and do well in my classes at school. I miss you all.