Good News and Bad News.

So first off I apologize for being such a terrible writer, and not keeping up with my blog.  I've been back at Millikin now for two weeks...well now this is just the start of the third week but who's really counting?
Now I'm not one for excuses, normally I will just tell you I'm lazy or dumb, or I just plain fucked up this time, hey to err is human right? I'd respect someone more if they told me the just had a brain fart and screwed up this time than lied and made a bullshit excuse.  But I have quite a legitimate excuse (I feel) for being up to my neck in things to do and neglecting you few handful of people that actually read my writing.
The first week back Millikin's theatre program has their Spring Season auditions for the main stage shows.  Those shows this year are Spring Awakening (the musical, I did a review on it a couple weeks back) and Machinal (the drama).  So I had dance call (where you learn the little dance section you will audition with) that Tuesday the 22nd, then auditioned that Thursday, had the dance audition Friday.  
I also learned that Friday the 25th that I was called back for the female lead of Machinal, which was pretty exciting.  I had call-backs that Saturday (I was not called back for the musical, due to my poor singing skills and general lack of coordination that I will own up to any day of the week).
The good news about all of that is I actually was cast as the lead female roll in Machinal as a freshman which is pretty crazy.
Bad news is that I have had practice everyday of the week, from basically 6-10.  So I've been a little busy, which has kept me from blogging.  Practices have been going pretty intensely because we opened a month from the 27th, so now we have about 3 weeks to put this whole thing together.  But honestly it is the coolest experience of my life, just a LOT of work.
Here's a little bit about Machinal:

The play is in an expressionist style, which basically means a show has taken a story and distorted reality and enhanced things, for expressive purposes (it's one of those things you kinda have to see to understand really).  But the story of Machinal is based on a true story of the first woman ever executed by electric chair.  Machinal takes us through the mind of the Young Woman as she is forced to play the role that society gives her, but everything she is forces again the machinations of the world other set for her.  Just like an animal, when cornered and frightened... they will fight back.  Resisting the machine leads to forcing the natural spirit....

All in all it's a really cool show, we open February 27th 7:30pm, and run through March 3rd 2:00pm.  The show will be in Albert Taylor Theatre at Millikin University, tickets are $10 for students $12 for everyone else.  If you're in the area you should drop by, it'll be a good time.  These are the event details and where you can by tickets on this link:

Machinal Event Details

Now on a completely different note, along with book reviews, and daily haiku's, I am taking a Contemporary American Poetry class which is once a week.  Each week we are assigned quite a bit of reading and then we have to sort of put in a journal entry with basically our commentary on what we read so I'll be posting those on here as well.  Hope all is well and I'll try my best to keep up with all my work.