Summer

Summer is finally here. I'm getting a week off from tomorrow night through Friday, and i'm taking that time to go home to the family and see them.





Final tallies on Spring Semester:

Performing Lit A
Intro to Theatre B
Spanish 2001 B
Film B
HPS B

So...I passed everything! Yay! Made it through the semester! Now i've got a year left at this.

I changed my concentration to Performance Studies because i'll be able to graduate faster.

I started my internship at Cumulus Atlanta, Q100.
I'll take stagecraft come June.
All in all it's shaping up to be a busy summer.


Excited to see what's ahead,
Marli

The Other Side?

So, maybe i'm on the other side of hate and anger. Maybe i'm finally making actual strides toward something positive. I feel almost caught up on homework for the first time...this semester. I'm in runs of Into the Woods, but not rehearsals! I am supposed to be working as an extra on Vampire Diaries, and some of the main cast may actually come see the show. Good thing about VD is that once you work once if you're pretty good they generally call you back. I'm already set up to work for Chris as his SM for the school edition of Rent. That should be interesting. And yes, I cheated today on Medifast, but I'll go back to being a slave to it today. I think everyone needs an off day. Also, i've lost 6 lbs! So there. Spit on that!

Anyway, it's 7 am and I have yet to go to bed working on homework etc. so I should probably do that. According to Matt I have to go get my rat tomorrow. I mean today. Then I have a show tonight. I'm not really tired. Why aren't I tired? Probably because i'm a freak of nature....

Yeah oh well, you love me anyway. Because i'm me.

Night / Morning!

Into the Woods

So, I really need to actually keep my blog for a change. Into the Woods opened tonight. It's been a hectic week of me doubting it would come together, but it did! I should have trusted Andy when he said it would, but I'll know better now! It's really rewarding to finally be back in a show. Yes, my part is rather small, but it's a part. It feels so wonderful to be back on stage.

I actually sat up on the ladder last night waiting on my lines for the giant and began to cry. I realized how much i'd missed the beauty of theatre. It's just a part of who I am and what I am. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life, and when I forget that, it's really hard to have a focus anymore. It's moments like last night when I watched Gretchen sing No One is Alone and silently cried when I remember why I do this.

I am so blessed to get to work with this cast. They are amazing professionals and theatre enthusiasts who all bring so much to the table. I've gotten to know so much about good performance through them. I am always amazed to learn from the experiences of others in theatre. I admire each of them more than i'll ever be able to express. I hope to work with them all in the future.

I also developed friends through this. Tina and Sue have been my lifeline. It's really hard to feel alone and ostracized so much of the time. Since moving here I haven't really found many solid connections, but I feel at home with them. I feel like I could ask anything of them and they'd gladly agree, and I would do the same in a heartbeat.

My parents and Nanan came to the opening tonight, and it wasn't a perfect show; but it was a very good show. They brought me flowers. It felt nice to finally feel like I accomplished something worth them being proud of for the first time in a long time.

Where Do I Begin?

So, you're wondering why you've stumbled across this "blog" and why you're reading it. What do I have to offer the world that is worth taking time out of your day to read?

Well, for starters, my life, most days, is quite like a soap opera...or at worst a good sitcom. I have ups and downs, and I like writing about them. I mean, I could keep a journal, but what fun is not sharing your shortcomings with the world? I'm open. I'm out there. And you might laugh.

My life...almost 21 year old college girl, searching for her place in life. I've been a theatre major / musical theatre major for three years, and I am passionate about it. Do I have doubts? Yes. Am I afraid i'm going to live in a box? Of course. Do I second guess it? Almost every day. Would I change a thing? Of course not! My sorority is coming to my college (I transferred), and I am excited to see where that will lead. I'm an only child who lives three hours from home and two parents who adore me and dote on me. I have a boyfriend, a roommate, some friends, a Pomchi, and a rat. I'm hoping to work at a pet shop soon. I have a deeply rooted love of animals.

So that's your intro to me, and I'd like to think that people would actually like to read this. Who knows if they will or they won't, but I promise if you do, I'll keep you entertained. I've had enough ups and downs in my life, and they seem to keep me reeling daily. Yet, I bounce back...eventaully.

Goodbye for now,
Marli Paige