In recent days, I have added "rabbit wrangling" to my set of special skills. My parents and I worked on revamping three old hutches over the weekend and then several of our young rabbits escaped so we had to chase them down in the dark. I should probably look into animal handling as a possible profession, I have enough experience.
I'm going through all of my stuff and trying to get rid of as many of my unnecessary possessions as possible. It is slow going, but I'm making progress. I discovered that it is difficult to travel when you have more things than space in your car.
I've been getting addicted to bad television. Mostly I watch Storage Wars, Pawn Stars, Hardcore Pawn and Swamp People. I don't know what it is, but I love those shows so much and it doesn't hurt that my dad and I have a blast watching them together.
Also, this is going to sound so cliche about an unemployed person, but I've been challenging myself almost daily to beat the high scores on Angry Birds. As per usual, I'm about two years late on the "hip" trends, but such is life.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Growing Up
I still haven't heard so much as "boo" from any of the places I've sent applications to, but it's only been a few days. Patience is a virtue... that I'm apparently lacking in. Mom has given me some tasks to keep me busy for the next few weeks and I'm going to use this time to forget about my uncertain future and focus on the present.
Today, I celebrated my youngest cousin's 18th birthday. It's strange to be growing up. In all of the fanticizing about my future, I never made it passed graduation from college. Now that I'm out here dealing with the real world, it's very different from what I imagined (some days in a good way, some days in a bad way). Life is never what you expect it is going to be, but that's half the fun, right?
Today, I celebrated my youngest cousin's 18th birthday. It's strange to be growing up. In all of the fanticizing about my future, I never made it passed graduation from college. Now that I'm out here dealing with the real world, it's very different from what I imagined (some days in a good way, some days in a bad way). Life is never what you expect it is going to be, but that's half the fun, right?
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Hello Unemployment!
Well, friends there is good news and bad news. The good news: I'll be updating my blog with more regularity from here on out. The bad news: My new-found dedication to my blog is simply because I am officially unemployed (for the time-being).
Let's recap, shall we?
I spent all of January and February working at the Guthrie on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as a Child Supervisor and really embracing my place in the Twin Cities but also aching to come home and spend some time with my family. I sort of view my time in Minnesota as my "first two weeks of college" in the real world. When I went to college, a mere 100 miles away from home, I was miserable for the first two weeks because I was alone and unsure of the direction my life was going in, but I survived and became a better person for that struggle. The eight months I spent in Minnesota were exactly like those first frustrating weeks in college. I had to strike out on my own and be brave in order to make the best of the situation and appreciate what I was experiencing. Now that I have lived in a different state and survived on my own, I know that I can handle anything that comes my way. After I fully embraced Minnesota life, I flourished and dare I say it, thrived. I had some amazing opportunities to meet with professional theater artists and network with equity stage managers and hopefully I have begun some career and life-long relationships that will continually draw me back to the Twin Cities. I feel so blessed to have been granted such a strong first step into the professional theater world and I will actively try to take full advantage of the chance I've been given to meet and work with and make a fabulous career for myself.
In terms of the job search, I have about 30 resumes out around the country and I have interviewed with several theaters about summer stock and full season positions. While I'm bumming around home, I've started to look into community theater stage management jobs, backstage camera jobs at local television stations and a few other odds and ends to develop some new skills to keep myself marketable. I'll definitely keep you posted!
Sunday, February 26 was my final performance at the Guthrie and if I thought I had the stamina to drive 8 1/2 hours in the dark I would have run out of the theater to my car and hit the road. But, I knew that was a dumb idea so I stayed for the party and a last night at Grumpy's Bingo. At 5:30 the next morning, I jumped out of bed and loaded all of my earthly possessions into my car and drove like a madwoman until I was south of Des Moines, IA. As per tradition, I stopped at Truman for a brief visit, which turned into a multiple hour ordeal. It is astonishing how loved one person can feel. My friends who are still kicking butt at Truman welcomed me back with open arms and reminded me why I love coming home so much. My parents were less than thrilled at the six-hour delay, but every second I spent at Truman I felt so grateful for the wonderful friends I have. Thank you to everyone for making my pit-stop so amazing. In addition to feeling so loved, I also had the chance to feel really important and successful because I was allowed to sit in on a stage management workshop and was able to talk a bit about my experiences in the professional world. It was strange to be on the flip-side of a conversation like that, but it was gratifying to have the chance to motivate my younger colleagues.
I got home around 9 pm and nearly had a come-apart because I was so happy to see my parents. It's easy to get caught up in the rest of the world, but when it comes down to it, you have to remember how lucky you are to have such a wonderful, supportive family. As I was driving I thought about how blessed I was to be missing my parents over the past few months, because a lot of people don't miss their parents or don't have parents around anymore to miss. I'm so lucky that my parents and I have a functional and sometimes nauseatingly perfect relationship. I'll always be grateful for that.
Now that I've been home for two days, I'm going a bit stir crazy. I have a stack of 17 books to get through and I'm putting out feelers in the community for some part time work. Speaking of books, I'm already at 13 out of 75 for the year and I've read some fantastic novels this year and often I think that goodreads.com should hire me for all of the new members I've gotten on their website. As for the giveaways, I think they've cut me off until I've read the 15 books that I've accumulated in the last six months. But now I have the time to blast through them.
I think that's it for now. Thanks for reading. Here's hoping I have some exciting news in the next few days/weeks.
Let's recap, shall we?
I spent all of January and February working at the Guthrie on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as a Child Supervisor and really embracing my place in the Twin Cities but also aching to come home and spend some time with my family. I sort of view my time in Minnesota as my "first two weeks of college" in the real world. When I went to college, a mere 100 miles away from home, I was miserable for the first two weeks because I was alone and unsure of the direction my life was going in, but I survived and became a better person for that struggle. The eight months I spent in Minnesota were exactly like those first frustrating weeks in college. I had to strike out on my own and be brave in order to make the best of the situation and appreciate what I was experiencing. Now that I have lived in a different state and survived on my own, I know that I can handle anything that comes my way. After I fully embraced Minnesota life, I flourished and dare I say it, thrived. I had some amazing opportunities to meet with professional theater artists and network with equity stage managers and hopefully I have begun some career and life-long relationships that will continually draw me back to the Twin Cities. I feel so blessed to have been granted such a strong first step into the professional theater world and I will actively try to take full advantage of the chance I've been given to meet and work with and make a fabulous career for myself.
In terms of the job search, I have about 30 resumes out around the country and I have interviewed with several theaters about summer stock and full season positions. While I'm bumming around home, I've started to look into community theater stage management jobs, backstage camera jobs at local television stations and a few other odds and ends to develop some new skills to keep myself marketable. I'll definitely keep you posted!
Sunday, February 26 was my final performance at the Guthrie and if I thought I had the stamina to drive 8 1/2 hours in the dark I would have run out of the theater to my car and hit the road. But, I knew that was a dumb idea so I stayed for the party and a last night at Grumpy's Bingo. At 5:30 the next morning, I jumped out of bed and loaded all of my earthly possessions into my car and drove like a madwoman until I was south of Des Moines, IA. As per tradition, I stopped at Truman for a brief visit, which turned into a multiple hour ordeal. It is astonishing how loved one person can feel. My friends who are still kicking butt at Truman welcomed me back with open arms and reminded me why I love coming home so much. My parents were less than thrilled at the six-hour delay, but every second I spent at Truman I felt so grateful for the wonderful friends I have. Thank you to everyone for making my pit-stop so amazing. In addition to feeling so loved, I also had the chance to feel really important and successful because I was allowed to sit in on a stage management workshop and was able to talk a bit about my experiences in the professional world. It was strange to be on the flip-side of a conversation like that, but it was gratifying to have the chance to motivate my younger colleagues.
I got home around 9 pm and nearly had a come-apart because I was so happy to see my parents. It's easy to get caught up in the rest of the world, but when it comes down to it, you have to remember how lucky you are to have such a wonderful, supportive family. As I was driving I thought about how blessed I was to be missing my parents over the past few months, because a lot of people don't miss their parents or don't have parents around anymore to miss. I'm so lucky that my parents and I have a functional and sometimes nauseatingly perfect relationship. I'll always be grateful for that.
Now that I've been home for two days, I'm going a bit stir crazy. I have a stack of 17 books to get through and I'm putting out feelers in the community for some part time work. Speaking of books, I'm already at 13 out of 75 for the year and I've read some fantastic novels this year and often I think that goodreads.com should hire me for all of the new members I've gotten on their website. As for the giveaways, I think they've cut me off until I've read the 15 books that I've accumulated in the last six months. But now I have the time to blast through them.
I think that's it for now. Thanks for reading. Here's hoping I have some exciting news in the next few days/weeks.
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