A Great Year

Well, WOW week is over, and THE SHOW went fabulously! I'm so proud of all the actors, they worked really hard through all the crazy things I made them do. Congratulations, guys.

And now school has started, and it seems to be shaping up to a great great year. I'm really excited. I just got my proposal in for my senior design project. Woo Hoo!! I have great classes, great friends, a great room of girls, a great boyfriend, a great family, and basically just a great life. Lots of Great. And I like it that way. I know it won't all be roses and daffodils, but right now, everything's comin' up beautifully, baby.

I don't have anything deep tonight, really. I'm just loving the love of a loving God.

Peace out, y'all. Have an amazing day.

Tan Me' Hide When I'm Dead, Fred.

Do any of y'all know that song? "Tie me kangaroo down"? Anyway, I've always thought that the end to the verse that starts with this blog post title is hilarious. It says "So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's it hangin' on the shed." Seriously, can you get any better than that in a kids' song? I say No, you can not.

I go back to school in two days. I just saw the devastation near the river downtown. It was worse than you can imagine. I finished up working at Beckett's on Saturday. It's been great to work with everyone there. I finished at the theatre last tuesday. I'm going to miss those guys. Tomorrow I get to hang out with my cousin and hopefully finish packing. And life is a beautiful combination of craziness, destruction, creation and beauty. I love it and it makes me sad at the same time. But what produces sadness can also bring about compassion and action. Beauty for ashes, strength for fear. Some doors are closing and experiences ending, but it has been a wonderful summer. And I start the next saga in two days, beginning with rehearsals on a great show with a wonderful cast.

Have a wonderful day, all.
Hasta Luego.

Good Night, Sweet Summer

I am sitting here in my room at 10:50 thinking it's late and I need to get to bed. I listen to the chirping of the crickets outside and love the sound of summer. And soon I will be going back to school and the sound of crickets will be replaced by the sounds of closing doors and the tapping of computer keyboards and new students out at all hours of the night as we all did before we knew any better. The summer has flown by and has left me better than i began. All wisdom-tooth ordeals behind (I am now chewing on both sides of my mouth--go me), this summer has been just about perfect, and more than I could have asked for. My work at Beckett's has been a lot of fun, and they have been more than generous with giving me hours to work. Working with TCR has been really exciting and I feel like it came at a good time for them, as well, since they are out of a building and we have been designing on the fly as our new venues have been set up one by one. And of course, my long vacation to Spain, which magically also counts for academic credit. It's a wonderful world. Oh, and to top it all off, I went to Waterloo this last week and took a CLEP test. I now no longer will have to take English 101 the last semester of my college career. Congratulations to myself. I love my life. For real.
And Joseph and I are going to go to the State Fair on Thursday. Look out, butter cow, we're a comin'!

See Ya!