Spring Break!

Spring Break is this week. Woot!

It seems like spring break should be a time when you can relax and gather the bits and pieces of your brain that you have lost since school started in January.

But alas, the list of things that I have to get done before school starts again has grown quite long.

1. LAUNDRY. I know it's time to do laundry when I don't have any more clean underwear. I usually do laundry once a month. It usually takes me about that long to collect $2 in quarters.

2. Find and cast a 10-15 minute play for my Directing class.

3. Eat the loaf of bread I bought last week before it goes bad.

4. Go to the bank. A real hastle since my car is in the shop and buses aren't running this week because it's spring break.

5. Scrub the bathtub! Sheesh, you'd think that hairdye would rinse off by itself after a while.

6. Catch up on homework. Now see, I'm putting this in the list of things I have to get done...but it won't get done. I don't know why I bother. I always do homework the day before it's due. However, I don't think of myself as a procrastinator....I think of myself as someone who works better under pressure.


I think that's enough for now. It's best not to overwhelm oneself with too many things. You have to leave room in your life for the unplanned. That's when I am my best self.


I am also going to Fort Worth on Thursday to visit Jennie and Tom and Alisa and Calysta and possibly Wendy. Hooray! I am so excited to see part of the fam! Being in college is a lot of fun but sometimes it is lonely. Sometimes you just want to be surrounded by people whom you know really care about you.

Thank you, Shakespeare.

School is going well.

I'm about half-way through the semester and I'm getting ready for mid terms and such. And then Spring Break!

Tomorrow is Monday. Monday is my busiest day of the whole week because I have 2 three hour classes and it just about kills me. I have Creative Drama 2 which is basically a class on how to lesson plan and incorporate drama into school. I also have Directing 2. I have two presentations tomorrow, the first being presenting a lesson plan that I created for a second grade math class. See, I'm terrible with math but luckily I seem to have mastered telling time and putting numbers in chronological order, which is part of what you learn in second grade. Safe!

I'm presenting my directing scene which hopefully will go well. We've rehearsed and had many discussions about the characters in the scene. But theatre is completely subjective. So my class and professor may hate it. Who knows.

Last year for my birthday my roommate Kelly got me the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Naturally, it's a huge book. Yesterday, since I didn't have to work, I started reading Twelfth Night. It's proving to be very entertaining. You should read it. One thing that I have learned while reading Shakespeare is that you have to read the sonnet/play many times before you can fully appreciate it. Read it the first time to get a feel for the plot. A second time to understand the language. A third time to look for underlying meanings and messages. I doubt anyone can understand Shakespeare by just reading it once, anyway.

This kind of relates to life, as well. I wish people made many attempts to get to know someone before they judged or made decisions about what someone is or isn't like. The world would be a much happier place.