As per usual, I can't keep up on journal-based activities. Sorry I've been AWOL for the past few...months. It has been for a good cause, I promise. On October 25, I started pulling double duty as a stage management intern and a child supervisor for A Christmas Carol and felt like I didn't leave the building for a month. We opened on November 19 and have been running the show doing nine-show weeks since then. My internship officially concluded on the 23rd of November and I have been working entirely with the 13 children who are featured in A Christmas Carol. See, I told you I have been busy. During the run our cast and crew have adopted a family and done a pajama pancake breakfast. Tomorrow is a wrapping party for the adopt-a-family gifts and a chili cook-off. And since we are doing two shows on Christmas Eve, the wonderful volunteers are going to make us a holiday feast between the shows. It's going to be very strange not being at home for Christmas, but I knew it was coming and I have plans with my friend Amber and her family to celebrate on the 25th. My mom already sent me my presents in the mail so I'm ready for the holidays.
I'm currently looking for a second job to serve as supplementary income. Working as a child supervisor is awesome because I can pretty much get a solid 9 to 5 job and still make it downtown in time to work in the evening.
I'm finally starting to develop a social life and I have two... count 'em TWO offers for plans on New Year's Eve.
I'd be lying if I didn't say that this whole living far away from my family and friends hasn't been really hard on me. I know that what I'm doing is right and I love my job and want to continue working in this profession, but I wish I could bring all of the people in my life with me. Sometimes it dawns on me that I don't talk to anyone on my day off and that the only reason I've read 31 books since I moved here is because there is no one around to hang out with. I do know, however, that absence makes the heart grow fonder and I can say without any doubt that my heart is exponentially fonder of all of the great people who are my family and friends and that I am counting down the days until I can see all of you again. A second job would help with the bored aspect of my loneliness.
I'm looking into jobs starting after March1 and considering relocating to the East Coast or to Chicago... scary. You think I'd be cool with the whole moving across the country thing because I've already done it once, but I don't know if relocating will ever get easier. Every time I pack up, my life resets and I have to start from scratch. It's terrifying and exhilarating all at once.
Can't tell you when I'll update again, but I will try not to me so remiss about it. Let's shoot for sometime in the next few weeks.
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