Readings, Productions, and Writing

So about seven hours ago now I read my short story about the bear in front of a decent-sized group of people. I was careful to read slow enough to be understandably, to place dramatic pauses where appropriate, to maintain the rhythms appropriate to the energy level of the passage. I feel that my reading skills have improved considerably since the last time I had to do one in public. It was well received; laughter in places where it was desirable, though a couple of the jokes were misses. I should have noted down where those jokes were as opposed to others... Oh well. Next time (if there is one) I'll make sure to do that. Dr. Kenny is interested in working with me on the story to publish in Adirondack Life, which paid him $800 for a poem so there should be a fair chunk of money in it for me. He suggests that I do not tell them I am a student. I dislike that I have to lie about myself except that I do not dislike it all. I quite enjoy lying about myself, at least with people I don't especially care about and when it's funny to people that I do care about.

So hopefully I'll get some money from that.

My play "Glass House" was produced a little over a week ago. Fantastic job! The director was spot on and the actors were all amazing and seemed to understand the characters perfectly. I couldn't have hoped for better results, especially after the somewhat underwhelming production of "Chicken Dinner" last year. I'll admit, I was worried at one point when Mr. Sparks was not getting in touch with me as much as I would have liked but I don't think my presence at a meeting would have done any good and would, in fact, have hindered the smoothness of the production. I only have the highest hopes for next month's version.

I wrote a short screenplay for my younger brother, Abraham. It's about the Iraq war apparently. If he goes through with it and acts it out and records it etc. I will make sure to upload the video onto one of the myriad hosting websites available now and embed it here. It's not a bad idea, but I've been somewhat too busy (read: lazy) to get to it. Hopefully he has some feedback for me.

The apartment process is going... somewhat roughly. Things could be better on that front. However, I remain optimistic. Worse things have worked out well for me in the past and I am sure that this will shape up in my favor. My cousin may have to lend me money which always chaffs, but as long as I can return it to him promptly I'll try not to feel guilty.

Potsdam Students: Please attend the show "Seven in a Web," at Creative Spirit downtown across from the Cantina, Wed. May 9 at 7:30. My play will be up, which is of course fantastic, but everyone else's work is exemplary as well and no part of it should be too torturous.