Well, that was interesting...

So this morning I got a pretty early start to my day, and I have to say that I was really quite excited about it. I went and got breakfast at Union and headed over about 20 mintues before 9 for class. Got the mats out to the middle of the floor, and started stretching. About 15 minutes went by and I remained the only one in the rehearsal room downstairs... It was getting pretty close to 9, and Jerica at least is usually there 10 minutes beforehand... Oh well, just getting a late start to the day, I guess.

Now granted, today were departmental auditions over in Union and I imagined that a few people wouldn't be attending class because of that, but the ENTIRE class? Something was up.

I had vaguely remembered that Christia had said that there indeed WAS class this morning so we could show our fight scenes that we've been working on...

9 o'clock rolls around... No one. I travel up to Barb Dial's office and ask if Christia is going to have class still.

"Why would she have class today? She's in auditions all day..."
"Oh, well, I thought that she was going to get out for an hour for Acting..." I asked.
"Uh... Probably not, honey. Sorry."

Spoken with a delicate tone as if to subtly say, "Jared... come on, you're stupid."

And indeed I was. But I had an idea.

My departmental audition wasn't until 2:00 that day, but I didn't have anything to do until then and I would have been missing Dance again to audition for 20 minutes. So I ran quickly back to my dorm, blowing horse lips and stretching my mouth out furiously going up the stairs to my room and changed into my audition outfit. I ran over to Union and asked if there were any open spots this morning, knowing full well that at least one person misses their spot...

Much to my luck, Paul Kite flubbed up royally and wrote down a wrong time, so I got his spot. I performed my pieces (A song and a monologue. "I'd Rather Be Sailing" from A New Brain, and a monologue from "Conversations With My Father.") much to my surprise that early in the morning, quite well. I exited with pride in myself as I faced my fear of just getting in there and performing and being flexible. I was ready to go! And I made sure of that. And I'm grateful that they were able to squeeze me in there so I didn't have to dread the rest of the day waiting to go for 5 minutes and then leave. And you know? For the first time, it was fun. I was prepared and willing to do a great job.

I can't wait for the responses.