quick update:
crewing for terminal last week was a blast. i enjoyed the show, was totally impressed by the cast’s ability to handle strange, physically (and perhaps emotionally) taxing work, and had fun working on a play for the first time in about two years.
i was a mummy for halloween. my makeup was pretty fabulous – to my dismay, i think i managed to make myself look pretty unappealingly dead (e.g. not cute at all!) and though my bandages unravelled almost instantly, in spite of the efforts of my fabulous classmate/partner-in-crime, katie, it was a nice, hilarious metaphor for a whiskey-and-campfire warmed night among friends.

tomorrow i teach my drama research class about copy editing and proofreading. unassisted. no prof in the room. this terrifies me, as it’ll be my first time teaching in this way. but it’s a great opportunity, and if there’s anything i know pretty well, it’s editing.
i’m still waiting to hear on a spring teaching assistantship, but it sounds like it’s down to a logistical/waiting game at this point. so that’s heartening.
i’m planning to submit my final paper for my research course to a conference that runs in dallas in january. apparently it’s a good place to get one’s feet wet as far as reading a conference paper goes, since they have a ‘debut’ competition for student researchers (i’ll call myself a researcher rather than a scholar because i think scholar just sounds so…dorky). i assume probably a few classmates will go, and we’ll spend a weekend in dallas. i mean, when the heck else am i gonna go to dallas?
i’m also going to submit an abstract of the paper i’m writing for my contemporary world drama course to another conference – this is a longer shot, but i figure i might as well try, and if i’m accepted, it’ll be my first (and again, probably only) reason to visit another midwestern state.
i’m planning to be in england for a month this summer, doing coursework and research in modern british drama, and hopefully visiting friends in dublin and london.
lastly, i’m going to apply to intern at my very favorite repertory theater on the planet, so i can spend early summer in boston. failing that, i’m going to try to get a potential directing job offered by a friend set in stone (in which case i’d be on a certain island in maine…man, that sounds like bliss). yeah, that means i’ll potentially be away from austin for three months. i kinda need that.
another of my fantastic friends responded to my recent whinge: ‘i want to find a couch to sleep on so i can spend a week in marfa, writing and riding my bike around’ with an offer to try to match me up with one of his two friends who live out that way. which was a sweet thing to offer, and it reminded me that i am, in fact, very lucky.
p.s. have you ever seen repulsion by roman polanski? am i crazy for thinking this movie is…feminist? i would post the trailer, but…it gives everything away. this movie is brilliant. and with that, good night.





