Friday was surprisingly hectic for a slow day. There was not a lot of duties to be done around the office, but just little things that kept coming up. More so for Ms. Denise than for me, but I could tell she was stressed! Thankfully now everything is just about worked out :) To kill some time on Friday, I began with an office clean-up.
My desk is just a little bit cluttered and could use some organization. I began with my shelving unit. There were a few random items floating about so I went through everything and began figuring out where to put it. Any safety pins or sewing pins went to the costume closet backstage. Anything else random went in my random basket I started. Next Ms. Denise and/or Mr. John are free we will go through those and figure out where they actually go. As of now though we have a tape and stamp shelf, a sticker shelf, tickets shelf, scrap paper shelf, and Flex Pass and rubber band shelf. It looks very organized and put together :)
I did a lot of reading Friday also, getting through more of the Humana Festival and American Theatre. I of course also went for my P.O. run. While on the P.O. run I also dropped the bags from earlier in the week at Barkin' Basement to be donated. Again I dropped six bags, I think it must be the magic storage number.
And now, just another manic Monday, not really but it was a good transition :) I began the day, very late I might add, in storage. I slept in, and then of course the washer and I had a fight this morning. I just wanted to get my towels in before I left but, ended up having to do a little washer clean-up (if that makes any sense). Needless to say, it set me back a little. I arrived at storage, and was originally planning on diving right into the shoes and hats, but was not feeling as ambitious as I thought I'd be. So, I started going through all the racks and changing out the hangers, wire to plastic. "No wire hangers!" Well, now we don't have any. Once I was finished that, I headed to the office.
Ms. Denise had waiting for me a little project. I was to cut several different words and phrases into strips and place them in the box for the class later. That didn't take too long, and then onto the mail. Ms. Kris had done my P.O. run for the day, so I had envelopes to be re-done waiting as well. Still do not understand the post office system of forwarding and what not. Either way I went through the envelopes re-addressed and sent out, or set aside to send out later.
It was almost 4 and Ms. Denise and I were closing up shop to head to our class at Woodriver Middle School. Last week Ms. Denise had a bit of a challenging time with the students, and she made me so nervous for this week. Although it did take them some time to settle, which Ms. Denise had prepared me for, they did well with most of the exercises. They all have very different energies and as a group it was difficult for them to be cohesive together. The exercises they seemed to excel in were the Where am I?/ Who am I?, which is like charades, and Use it, and throw it away, where you "use" an object and "throw it away." Ms. Denise wanted to end with group sculpture, but as their group dynamic was not 100% we decided to play the counting game (not real name, and can't think of it) to get them to settle. Basically everyone lies on the floor and spreads out. The object of the game is to count to ten as a group, one number, and one person at a time, sensing the room. Catch is, if you overlap, or say a number the same time as someone else you have to start over. After some failed attempts, they buckled down and made it to 8. A few more tries later, and they made it to ten! Getting them to work together to reach a goal, I feel really focused them and set them up to end with group sculpture. I'm anxious to see what next week brings.
After teaching class, I had a class of my own to get to. I again met with Beth for voice coaching. We went through the warm-up to start. Opening up and warming up all the resonators. You can definitely tell the difference once you have gone through it. I need to get it memorized to have it as a back-pocket warm-up in the future. Next Beth had given me a monologue to work with. It is an angry piece, and it's used to see where the voice is in that emotion, and to work on bringing your real angry voice (real voice) and your acting voice (stage voice) together. I kind of struggled with this. I think one I was feeling a bit self-conscious and two I didn't have it memorized so it wasn't fully in my body. I'm going to do some serious work on it in the next week, and hopefully by next week will have made some progress! Until tomorrow...
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