It's really late, and I should've been in bed about 2 hours ago. I was actually on my way to bed, but I just feel . . . happy. No, no one's kidnapped me. I just have been feeling really good lately. No, nothing's perfect, but everything is looking up, and it's really exciting.
I've got three people doing my letters o' recommendation. I've got the applications all filled out, and I've got my head shots taken. Now I just have to pick one of the 30 pictures to use, and do the personal statement/essay thingies and I'm done! Well, with this part. And I suppose I also have to pay for the app fees and get Dana to send transcripts. So, I guess I'm not THAT close to being done, but it feels like it is, which makes working on it not seem all that bad.
I've been looking through a book of shakespeare monologues, and I think I might have picked one from it. I want to do something comedic from shakespeare becaues it just strikes me that shakespeare is more difficult to make funny for the average person, so when I pull it off, it'll be that much more impressive. There's a monologue where Mercutio is being dirty at a party to get Romeo to come back, and I think that if I work on it, I can do all sorts of fun things with it. Lots of not-your-typical-Eric things. Then I just have to find a dramatic-ish contemporary monologue, and then, since some schools say to have a 3rd perpared just in case, I'll pick a Shakespearean dramatic monologue. I think that'll work pretty well. I'll pick them and get them all memorized before January, so I can work with Doc on them then.
Oh, and Scott (Hamlet) has, apperantly officially cast me in A View From the Bridge, which will be Brigit St. Brigit's final show of the season. I'm going to be Rodolfo, a young italian immigrant. And I'll be blonde, which will be interesting. I've never actually been blonde except for the 15 minutes in between bleaching my hair and adding red to it. I'm sure I won't look as good as I do with brown hair, but the change will be fun. Scott wants me to start growing my hair out now, too, so he can see what we can do with it for the show.
From what I know of the show, Rodolfo is a pretty major part, which is awesome that I was just offered the role. Scott wants me to be at auditions so I can read with people. Woot! But yeah, as for the story:
Eddie is the head of an italian family in New York. He's been raising his niece as his own daughter. Eddie and his family take in Rodolfo and Rodolfo's older brother Marco, who are relatives of family friends, and have just come to america. Rodolfo and the niece start to have some sort of relationship, which pisses off the over-protective Eddie, which ends up being the central conflict. Also, there's a lot of innuendo that calls Rodolfo's sexuality in question, which sounds interesting. The role sounds like a lot of fun, and a pleasant change of pace from my more recent dark, brooding Laertes, and my dark, brooding Angelo. Scott described Rodolfo as a carefree, jolly italian guy. I'm really excited!
And to top it all off, I've been hanging out with that Eric guy quite a bit lately, and I've been having an amazing time. It's uncanny how identical our interests are. I think I have found someone who's passion for videogames exceeds my own! We can actually sit and discuss themes in final fantasy games for hours at a time. Just listening to him talk, watching him get so passionate about a game, makes me want to go jump up and play it myself. He picks things up that I miss, and appreciates all the subtle details I never noticed.
On top of that, he's a tenor, and a great actor. He's been getting rave reviews for the show we've been in. We have strikingly similar tastes in music. He's introducing me to Franz Ferdinand right now, and I'm really enjoying it. AND he likes boardgames AND he likes pen and paper RPGs AND he likes to read. I think the best part is that while we're so similar in our interests, there's enough of a difference between us that we can share new experiences with each other. I mean, a conversation of "I like that too!" would get old eventually. He's just so nice, and . . . I dunno. I just really like being around him. He's fun! I'm actually sitting here trying to figure out when we can hang out again, and what we could do. Whatever we do, though, it should be cheap, because the past couple weeks have had me burning through more money than I really should be. And I most definitely would not mind a quiet evening of gaming/movies. Oh no, not at all.
