Boxes

I'm in LA!!! and swimming in a sea of boxes. After going back and forth between LA and Santa Barbara for a little over a week all of my stuff is here, and the keys to my apartment in Santa Barbara are turned in. I am officially a resident of Los Angeles yay! now I only have about a million things left to do...so far:

Step one: unpack boxes, throw the boxes I don't want to deal with yet in bedroom/closet.

Step two: explore the area. I took Doodle for a walk out of Marina into and around Venice. She now owns a significant number of bushes and trees in the area, good job Doodle!

Step three: make excuses to not unpack the boxes that I trip over to get to my bed. Too tired from our Five mile walk...

Step four: do taxes! I owed money, so eww!

Step five: Update resumes, Theatrical and otherwise, I am now looking for work x2!

Step six: stop for a second and realize wow, I'm really here!

Step seven: get ready for an adventure.

I feel like I have done so much lately, yet feel like there is still SO MUCH to do! And its true, but that's life. There is always more that can and will be done, but it is important to stop every now and then and appreciate where I am now, because it may not always be there. I'm 22, I've graduated from college, and I've left the only city I've ever called home, oh yeah and I have no job! I feel like the luckiest person in the world right now, my whole life lies ahead of me and this is where my adventure starts! Don't worry I'm shamelessly optimistic, but every now and then I get stricken with terror too, everything in balance :)

Hello?

Well hello there, its been a while huh? Yeah, well I find it hard to talk about myself so much, and is anyone really reading this anyway? Well lots of stuff has been happening and I think its important for me to keep writing, whether anyone is really listening or not, for myself more than anything. Ironically its when things start happening fast that I don't take the time to sit and write, but its the time that its most important.

Bedtime in Detroit, a new play by Ellen K. Anderson :) has been going well and with only two more shows left that means its time for me to start packing up and move to LA! This show has been such an unexpected and wonderful experience. I have become very spoiled getting to work with Ellen who truly is an actor's writer and I feel so lucky to say that Jeff Mills and Sage Parker are no longer teachers and mentors, but colleagues as well. I'm just excited that I will now be moving to LA with that freshly charged feeling of live theater in my bones.

I love to hear people's reactions when I tell them that I'll be moving next week. A surprising number of people didn't believe that I ever actually would move. I've been talking about it for months, well since I graduated really, and I think their mistake was assuming that it was really "just talk". Erik tells me that my second toe sticks out a bit longer than my big toe and this is supposed to mean that I'm a stubborn person. I take this as a compliment. I'm usually quite "go with the flow" but when I set my mind to something, I usually am quite stubborn. Life may have taken a few turns and it may have taken longer than I originally thought, but I never doubted that I would be moving. Everyday and every action I have taken has continued me in this direction. I guess I see stubborn and driven as synonymous. I'm just excited to start a new life with my many old friends down in LA.