Listing...

So I am amazing a making lists, and I need a break from cover letters so I am gonna list the things I am getting my BFA in.
Stage Management BFA "I am getting my major in...."
Moving Furniture really quietly, and sometimes to music.
Finding things in the dark.
Making hard life decisions that others don't want to make
Making sure everyone shows up to their jobs
Understand everyone's job but no being able to do it
Mothering
Cleaning
Getting to the point
Running a Meeting
Scheduling life
Problem Solving
First Aid
Dancing Backstage
Diffusing Situations with Humor
Writing in shorthand
Taking care of it (like the Mafia does)
Traveling in packs
Making you WANT to do your job for the good of everyone
Taking a note with "Thank you"
Taking responsibility
Being the Safe Port in a Storm
Making lists

Now Back to my normal programming..... Paperwork.

That time of life.

So it is that time again, the time when I wake up in the morning covered in new bruises from the show I am doing and try to figure out how I got them. Seriously I look like I ran into a a obstacle course drunk and failed miserably at it. Earlier tonight actually, I managed to jam my finger between the mirrored wardrobe and the metal gurney and had to take a moment, I now have a bruised and swollen finger. During this time I am always reminded of what my mother used to tell me when I was a little girl, "You know Kelsey when you get older you need to stop getting so many bruises. Boys don't like girls with Bruises," This is my second favorite quote from my mother, right after "Well eat one for the other side of your butt or you will be uneven" mothers.... Well I have always been the lady to get bruised up so I guess I need someone else who can laugh with me at my crazy bruises. I have never been "lady like," when it comes to my job, and starting this late would be so counter productive. I am the person you want to be able to rely on, you don't need to worry about it because I am gonng take care of it. I was saying earlier today that since my job is to be organized and in control that I make my personal life a little crazy just to even it out, but I realize that I organize my own chaos just by habit. I wish I could actually get away from my job. The show is going swimmingly though, I am going to be excited to everyone to see it, everyone is working so hard to make it amazing.
Weekly Goals-
Survive Tech without giggling to death (We have gotten a little punchy lately)
Eat Real food

So... This is a New Place.

So... somehow in the last year of college I have managed to unlearn and relearn alot about myself, pretty much everything. I think this could be a good thing. So I have tried keeping track of my life and what I want to do with it on paper, and I always loose whatever I write, so lets try technology. So my goal here is to try and lay out the pieces of my life and all the wonderful stuff I want to do so I can actually do them in the near future. I graduate with a BFA in Stage Management in exactly 2 months and the next day I leave for an 11 week contract in Ohio. My contract is over Aug 10th and what do I do then? Here are some hope/ideas/craziness.

1. Move to D.C. and work professionally as a Stage Manager at some wonderful theater that has given me a job offer previously. Ideally this would mean a full season, housing in the city, and a stipend. All I am actually looking for is a paying Stage Management job.

2. Get a Stage Management job at Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk and move there and live. I grew up with this company and learned everything I know about theater at VSC.

3. Move home and work at whatever job I could, I could go back to being a waitress and make a hell of a lot of money fast, and then move to D.C.

4. Move to Hawaii, just go, move there and just hope that it will all be ok and I can get a real people job and live on the beach and be happy.

5. Do something crazy like join the army or navy or be a gypsy in Italy as I have gotten pretty good at Tarot reading.


So I am obviously very worried about my future, because hey it the only life I have so why no live it, but the thing that is making me crazy is that when I express my worry, everyone tells me "I don't worry about you at all, you seem to have it all planned" Ahh! Planned? Really? Really? Thanks for the help.

So this is ending up being a pretty long post, but seeing how it is mt first one on this blog I think that is ok. I pretty much hope no one reads this that I know but I feel that me actually taking words and putting them into the world makes them something I can't run away from, which I am SO good at. I with there was an Olympic metal in Emotional Sprinting, because I would have Gold baby!

Goals for this week (If I make a list I will actually accomplish them, I am getting a BFA is making lists and moving furniture really quietly...)
- FINISH ALL MY INTERN APPLICATIONS!
- S.A.L.T. Board Grant Application (They better name something after me)
- Gym
- Tech The Who's Tommy with my sanity and a smile on my face.

CD of the Week: Florence and the Machine- Lungs (Hits wonderfully close to where I Live)

Until the Next Time.