I'm sitting at Laura's desk in her dorm room in Columbia while she is away in Boston. But she'll be back tonight and things will be splendid. I'm in New York right now because I'm doing my final project for my religion class on the Metropolitan Community Church of NY. Should be very interesting.

I went shoppping with my sister yesterday and bought new pants because I got too fat for my old ones. That makes me happy (the new pants...not the fat). Now I can fit comfortably into my jeans. And to prolong this uninteresting topic even further I would like to add that I bought two jeans for a total of $17.00. Amazing.

Next week is going to be crazy. Full tech rehearsals from 6-11 Mon-Wed then we have performances Thurs-Sat. Ack. Which is why I'm furiously doing my homework for next week right now. I sure know how to have fun when I'm in New York, huh? I have to say, that I'm not overly enthusiastic about this play that I'm in. I definitely don't regret joining it because it's been a very unique experience. I've never acted in this type of play under this type of director. The play is a short 20-25 minute one act. It's about this world where the inhabitants live without art or culture. One day they're hit by this storm of culture and it changes their lives. There's conflict, someone dies, and there's a resolution. Since it's a theater festival all the plays are student directed, but this particular play was created by two students. And it's sooo weird because we don't actually have a tangible script. We know the plot idea, we get a scene set up for us, and we just go. If what we do works, then we keep it. If it doesn't, then we try something new. So the actors basically have free range to interpret it however the heck we want and do whatever we want the "script." I've never been in play where I haven't received a lot of direction, and it's really new for me. I'm not sure if I like it a whole lot, but it's definitely good in the way that it encourages me to think for myself, come up with my own creative ideas, and develop and explore my character. A lot of it is improv and since there's no set script the things I say one night will be different than the things I say some other night but it's generally about the same. The more we rehearse the more we get into a set routine of things. Now that I'm talking about, maybe it isn't so bad the way this play is directed. It really lets us, the actors, take our characters and the play in any direction we want. It's all very open. Well I just hope it doesn't turn out like shit.

Shoot. That was a long paragraph. I'm too lazy to go back and section it off. Anywho. I'm going to have some of Laura's milk and crispix now. Then I'm going to get ready to go to the church and shoot some film and take some pictures.