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Tech Week and I'm Tired

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I simply do not want to be typing this blog post. I'm doing it because I am almost at a 90% in this class and I don't want to lose an easy ten points by simply neglecting an assignment. Instead of ignoring my blogging responsibility for the week, I decided to use this time to write about not wanting to do it in the first place, as this is all I can think about right now. How meta of me to write this blog post about not wanting to write one at all! I am currently on a break during my last rehearsal for "Blocked!" The show opens tomorrow, and both casts are rehearsing tonight and running the show one last time. The show is double cast because there are only four characters in the show and the department wanted more than four people to get an opportunity to perform.  Tech week is the week where all the technical aspects are introduced to a show. Usually these aspects include lights, sound, the orchestra, costumes, hair, makeup, etc. However, for our online show, the acto...

How Many Weeks Has It Been Now?

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It's only our tenth week of classes? I don't know about anyone else, but it feels like our semester should be over by now. My body and mind feel the same level of exhaustion and depletion they do when a semester ends, but we have five more weeks left. It is not FAIR! We are 10 weeks in now, so it's the point of the semester when everything gets chaotic and busy. We have a ton of assignments/projects do. I have to memorize a scene for my Shakespeare class. I need to memorize my songs for voice lessons. I need to practice my dances for dance evaluations and getting them to the level I want them to be at before I record them for a dance reel. I am assistant directing the musical Ohio Northern University is putting on this semester which takes a lot of my evening time. I am also dancing in a pop-up performance put on by the dance department, called "Windowed Pain," which we've been rehearsing the last couple of weeks and premieres this weekend. It feels like I wor...