My Day

Today decided to throw a few small curve balls. I found out our first rehearsal was not going to be today due to some scheduele conflict, but rather is moved to Wednesday. I hate the whole waiting for things to start thing, but it's only a matter of days.

This morning I went to the dentist for a cleaning. I was talking to Mary, the woman who cleans my teeth (I can't recall her actual job title), about how acting has come before writing in my current life and how I'm a bit scared that there's only one year of college left before I enter the unknown. She told me that a coworker had a son who was an aspiring playwright in NYC. I was introduced to her (Susan) and she said that her son was often times looking for actors. She gave me his name and told me to contact him on facebook. It's amazing How connected and small the world is. One minute, I'm at the dentist, the next I'm finding a new theatre contact. Oh and in even better news, the dentist told me I have a perfect set of 32 :D

I also had my forth voice lesson today. Despite the fact that posture was hard to maintain with my lobster-like body (I got a wicked sunburn yesterday), it was a good lesson. The last lessons have been mostly about posture and breathing and exercises to improve those. I definitely have felt a change in my posture, despite the *cough* large gifts of my ancestors. Anyway, now we're going to find a song for rme to work on. She wants to find me something upbeat. Since I've always felt more comfortable with slower ballads, this should provide a challenge I need. In the mean time, I'm to work on my diction using the song "Nothing" from A Chorus Line that I performed in my musical theatre class last semester.

Since I no longer had rehearsal, I went to see My Sister's Keeper with my mother. There was some good acting in it but I felt the story was a bit predictable at times. It still managed to get a few tears out of me though. Being a romantic sap, I enjoyed the storyline with Taylor. If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about. What I was most shocked at, however, was that there were teenage boys in that audience. Their girlfriends must have told them they were going to see Transformers, I joked.

Tomorrow I'm going to head to the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium with my parents (yes, I'm in my 20's and still hang out with my family. If you had my parents, you would too...in fact one of my guy friends wants to go to a bar with my father, but that's a different story). The IMAX there has finally gotten smart (or maybe desperate in this economy) and decided to show feature movies along with their nature ones. Finally CT will have an IMAX instead of have to travel to Providence or NY. We're going to see Star Trek. This will be my 5th time seeing it.

I am a Trekkie (but I love Star Wars so don't get uppity). Though, I admit, I haven't seen as many episodes as I would like. I've seen all of TNG and Voyager and probably half of DS9. With Star Trek (the original) I've seen both the original and second pilot, an episode called Mirror Mirror, and any others I happened to catch on TV. I pretty much avoided Enterprise. I love the concept of Star Trek. The thought that we have a bright, peaceful future (on our own planet anyway) where those in charge aren't totally corrupt and people consider the consequences of thier actions (yay Prime Directive). I also believe in aliens because there is no way we are alone in the entire universe. I've always mused about what could be waiting out there, just beyond our current reach. What other population could be looking up at the stars and wondering if we existed. I've always been interested in Astrology and Astronomy (I was lucky enough to have a Planetarium in my high school which allowed for an Astronomy class).

I guess you could say I'm just a dreamer reaching for the stars. And with that, I bid you good night.