Louder Than Words

Well, 2010 got off to a bit of a shaky start. I had the best NYE I've had in several years and got to see numerous friends I've been away from a while, including one who just added an adorable little girl to her family. After that though, things got rough. On my way back to the Midwest my phone broke, my computer stopped working, my flight was delayed, the airline lost my baggage, I got a flat tire, and then my truck hit an icy patch on the interstate at 2:30 am and spun across the median into oncoming traffic. Fortunately though I survived all of this and things have, knock on wood, begun to look up since then.

This past semester, past year really, has been such an experience, good and bad, both personally and artistically. I got to play two incredible parts in two very different shows and in doing so continue to hone my process and craftmanship, not to mention meet and work with some of the loveliest people I now know, won a departmental award for my work in the 1st of these and was nominated for a collegiate award for the second, spent a summer living with my best friend in one of my favorite cities in the world, didn't get cast in two showcases, failed a test for the first time in my college career and lived to tell about it, met a boy who I'm absolutely crazy about, spent my first Thanksgiving away from home and my first Christmas without my grandfather.

Now, as I launch into 2010 and my last semester of college, and it has been just that, a launch, I can't remember a time when I was so invigorated and excited about the things that are currently happening and about to happen in my life. These next 5 months are about wrapping up this chapter of my life and mentally and physically preparing myself for an entirely new, and possibly much longer chapter. With that comes so many things that I have been looking forward to for...a while. I've wanted to take creative writing for 2 years and it's finally come to fruition. I literally left the class shaking with giddiness yesterday. My other classes, too, have given me reason to happily run around campus with familiar faces asking me what's wrong and what i've done with Colin. Not only am I eating, which at times I've forgone in favor of coffee and full view of my ribs, I'm eating the healthiest I have in a long, long time. To top that off I'm working out in a more varied and fun way than ever before, mixing in cardio, weight lifting, pilates, dance, and the combat rehearsals that come with doing Macbeth. It feels great, I'm enjoying it, and I genuinely feel like I have more enegery than I've had in a long time. I have a large handful of auditions lined up for the semester and hope to add more as time progresses. Then if things work out, there is much travel, though on a VERY limited budget, in the cannon including possible trips to St. Louis, New York, and Miami. Tim and I are doing well and though we're facing an incredibly busy and seperated few months, I can't wait to see where things take us. All in all, just a really passionate time for me. Even as I type this I'm beaming. I really do feel like I have the world at my fingertips and though trials and tribulations are sure to come...I'm ready, and with the support of some pretty amazing people around me, I'll perservere.

I know it's a bit late for all this being how we're half way through the first month of the year, but I hope 2010 had started you all off in a positive way as well!