I'm back from LALA Land!

I have a new favorite movie!!! hahahahaha! The Tenth Kingdom. This picture here be my favorite character: the wolf guy. Watch it and you'll understand. He's pretty hilarious.

So...where have I been these last couple days, hmm? Well, let me tell you...A.C.T.F.!!

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Okay, so not everyone knows what this is. For those who don't know, it is a college theatre festival full of workshops and plays. It's a week long and colleges from the region travel far to come to a selected city in the region. This year, the festival took place at Cal State Fullerton. It was pretty fun. I'd never been there before so, I must say, it was QUITE an experience. Perhaps the only thing that really got me down was the fact that I was surrounded by actors who did nothing but act. You know the type. Instead of just being themselves, they were always acting...pretending...making a big deal and showing off to make themselves noticeable. NOW...not EVERYONE was like this...but all it takes is a few to make the workshop become ridiculous. Really now people... remember who you are.

NOW I'm back and I'm totally ready to look at theatre with a whole new perspective. I'm going to experience more and go to more auditions...make myself a portfolio of different monologues and work on them so that I'm more prepared. In reality, I never took theatre as seriously. Well, I accepted it as part of my life, but I never really understood it before. For example, I'm constantly working on my writing. Someone once told me that if I want to be a writer I must constantly both read and write. SO I do. What I didn't realize was that to be an actor I must work on that too. While I keep a portfolio of writings to show people, I forgot to keep up both my acting resume AND my monologues that I know well and keep ready for different auditions.

HAHAHA!!! It all makes sense now. I have to work on everything in theatre the same way that I work on my communications things. Really, now...I didn't even think about this.

NOW I know.

All I can say, though, is that I'm glad to be back because I was starting to miss my normal life. I love acting and theatre but it really is something that I can't do ALL of my life. I enjoy it and it keeps me sane but I also have to have my classes and my life.