2005-06-05

Summer School

LAST DAY

Tomorrow is the last day of the Summer Intensive. You see.. I've been going to school everyday for the past week and a half from 10am til either 5pm or 9pm. Yes folks.. when you think summer means vacation, for ME.. summer meant intense study.

Some of the classes were fun I must say. While other's were completly hard work. Let me give you a bit of a run down.

Purcussive Drumming Class (We dance around buckets beating them with drum sticks chanting African and Hindu songs while making Big Fools of Ourselves!
Hip-Hop/Spoken Word/Living Word two day intensive with performance last night. (The Writing Consciousness People RAVED at my Performance!) We had to make up movement to spoken word and perform it in front of about 50 people.
Theater Auditions, since I want to be more of a director than an actor, I didn't have to learn dialog. THANK GOODNESS. But I do have to comment on my classmates audition styles.
Stage Lighting Design. Really Kewl Class. Learned which lights do what, how to hang and wire lights. Work the light board.
Marketing Skills. Yes, I really think this is more of the line of work that I will pursue on my own. An Artists Rep, sending folks on auditions and preping them for casting agents. Then marketing them for public appearances and performance.
Altar Building. How to define sacred space and make an altar which I already have about 7 or 8 in my house.

This was all done with the Womens Spirituality, Writing Consciousness and Our Group EPI (Experimental Performance Institute)

Tomorrow I have the 2nd day of the Theater Auditions Class and in the afternoon I have Visual Thinking with the Womens Spirituality group. The nice thing about this session was them feeding us.

On opening night we had so much food I brought some home and my dog loved the pizza and lassana (sp.) So did I.

RENO

Forgot to tell you about Reno, NV. Road on a bus with my Mom and 2 other Senior Citizen Filled Busses (Total 3 busses) All the way up to Reno and back.

If anyone tells you. Put all the coins in a machine that it asks for. Because I HIT the Progressive Jackpot but I ONLY put in One Coin! Won about $150 on that machine. Then seems every casino I went to I won something. EVEN on the PENNY Machine. Won about $50 on that. Then hit another jackpot at another casino for $250. Funny thing about Reno. You all there is to do is EAT and GAMBLE! We went to Buffet This and Buffet That.. Think I must have put on 10 lbs, sheesh my butt shure looked BIG for that Show last night. No one seems to mind but me. But today I took a good look in the mirror. In my humble opinion. DON'T EVER LOOK IN MIRRORS if you want to know the Truth! Oh well, after this intensive I have plotted out some get aquainted with your gym dayz.

Went to see Sri Chinmoy perform at the Bill Graham Center for Performing Arts tonight after we ate the FREE food for closing night circle of the intensive. He's a swami that plays ancient musical instruments. Think he played about 17 of them. At his ripe old age he did a pretty good job at cleaning up my chakras and aura. Amazing how much better I feel.

Also some of my casino earnings went to the health food store and started on this Beet Juice with Liquid Chlorophyll and Red Pepper health drink. Tons of Vitamins and herbal remedies including Golden Seal, Liquid Asodopholis and Amino Acids to burn off Fat!

Forgot to report on Jury Duty

They didn't pick me but I had to go in at 9am and stayed for a whole day. They didn't have a court room so they asked us to come back in the early afternoon (around 2pm) at whice time the judge wasn't ready so we were excused.

Funny thing is on my way out of the courtroom I ran into this Officer that kinda liked me. As I recall, he was married. So I didn't give him any play. And on this day he asked for a hug. *blush, so I did, then told him he looked nice in a suit. He always looks nice. He's some kind of detective or senior officer of some kind, probably a chief or something. Then I waved goodbye. He never has asked me for my number, probably a good thing because this is a clear indication that he couldn't give me his. What's up wit these married dudes?

Ok, it's late.. school at 10am. Niter's Folks.. and BE GOOD!

Hugz n Lub, Bebe da FairyGodMum