It's been quite a while.

I'm alive, I promise!

So. I've decided I'm going to keep this blog going as a way to keep myself on task in the next year or so.

Some updates:

1. I've completed a first draft of the play! (56 pages, two acts) Working title: "Stubble"
2. I'm organizing a reading with my university's GLBTQ organization, Spectrum, as the play deals with sexuality and gender so intimately. Hopefully that'll be happening in the next couple weeks...
3. This play has become my senior capstone project as a Theater arts major. Holy crap. This means I'll be writing an academic paper chronicling my research, my writing process and the reception to my readings on top of creating a more "final" draft. I'm also planning for this senior project to include a staged reading, so I can experience passing off the play to a director, to see my work from that perspective.
4. My advisor wants me to consider condensing the play into a strong one act to submit to the Fringe Festival. I'm not sure how I feel about this, but I understand where he's coming from. The play gets fairly disjointed in the second act, and the Fringe Fest is a great way to get your work out into the world. BUT I was also planning on auditioning for the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, so it's kind of like... if I decide to do Fringe, I can't do the GRSF, but if I do GRSF, I can't do Fringe.... GAH.
5. I've applied for an internship at the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, so if that works out, I'll get some great experience and hopefully learn more about the process of getting one's work on stage. 

I can't say I'm not a bit overwhelmed. There's a lot to do this year and a lot I'd like to do. I'm currently in a play (a musical, on top of that) and I've been dealing with a lot of intense work drama (like seriously, cops are involved) as well as trying to balance the other things I want to happen this year (i.e. Improv, starting a web series...). Oh, and then all my other classes, including my English senior capstone, for which I'm writing a large paper  about depictions of Native American sexuality in the popular media. I'm also taking a sculpture class that I've already gotten stitches for... soooooo, lots going on. 

Right now, I just have to focus on getting my own work done and getting enough sleep.

But for now, I am exhausted. And shall bed. After I watch more Arthur. Yes. The cartoon.

DEAL WITH IT.