Goals for the coming year: Adventure and wisdom.
As my friend Drew said, "it's going to be a good year".
Life notes:
- I just got done taking a voice over workshop which was incredibly lovely as Beth Chaplin rocks. I am also taking voice lessons. And have signed up for an Audition Workshop. All this actual training surely means that my career will transform from teacher performer to accountant barista any day now.
What I learned:
- I probably won't work as a spokesperson. It'd be wonderful to work as a spokesperson, but unless that spokesperson is a spokesperson for otters or small waterfowl, it probably won't be me.
- I hiss my sss's. AGHHH!! I'm working on it, but it sounds like a 14 year old is trying to sell you life inssssuranccce. Good god.
- I am the laziest of speakers. I drop words. I smoosh the ends of words together with the beginning of words. I create gross human centipedes out of simple sentences. Challenge!!!
So yes - - not only will this be a year of wisdom and adventure, it will also be a year of attempting to speak like Julie Andrews. (Gosh, she's pretty.)
Things I'm looking forward to in the short term:
- More yoga. I'm a squishy convert. It's seeping into my vocabulary. I told an improv class to "honor" the focus of the scene. And to "get back onto their mats". Doomed.
- CHICAGO AVENUE PROJECT!! Kids write the plays and words for the song - - grown ups direct and act it out. So good. It'll be my second time doing the music for CAP (I've worked as a director a couple of times before with them).
For this session of CAP, the cast is jawdropping. Stupidly jawdropping. I thought last spring was crazy pants - - it just got crazy pantsier. I WILL write a song for the incredibly lovely and talented opera singer! It WILL be about being a fashionista! More info to come!
There's more stuff to come, but I just wanted to write how damned lucky and grateful I am. How lucky I am to know you. All such good things.
Onward.
