Hello friends and random Facebook friends! It has been a very long time since I have posted anything, so part of this is to share some of my past few weeks with you all, and the other is to elaborate on an issue I have been fighting in myself for quite sometime.
Curious Theatre over here in Denver is going pretty well. I finished up my last show Maple and Vine last weekend, and it was an interesting run. I have never been so acutely aware of how much a crew getting along is important in theatre. No one person was at fault with our problems backstage, just many people misunderstanding each other and holding grudges. Outside of theatre, I started this weird thing called "online dating" .... I know... I know... its weird. I just don't ever really have time to meet people outside of work and so I needed some method of getting in touch with people. I have been on this thing for like 2 weeks now, gone on 1 date so far, and messaged a few girls. Most people are incredibly rude as they hide behind the mask that is their computer. Also, apparently every woman is Denver is "fun loving, loves hiking and being outdoors, and has amazing eyes" -_- Most profiles are exactly the same. Its actually been kind of lame so far. The one date I went on went pretty well. Her name is Dani and we got sushi. It was of course awkward at first, but we got rolling eventually and had a good time. Then she went into finals and I started tech so.... hope to see her again soon.
There was a "winter storm" here about a week ago. I am from Seattle so let me just say IT WAS A BLIZZARD! lol It started the same day that strike for my last show and load in for my current show started so I got picked up by my boss, and we kind of got snowed into work. We worked long a long day and I spent the night in the theatre. WOOT! It snowed for like 2 days, then was sunny, and now the snow is almost all gone. So weird. We had 4 days to load in the current show, and do light hang and focus and paint the entire floor and set, so I have been working like a mad dog the past few days. Tech was tonight so from here it should be a little easier. Fingers are crossed!
About the same time that strike started I developed a sinus infection. I haven't had time to go to the doctor yet so I am just trying to take care of myself right now. Some days are worse than others. I actually bought a neti pot today cause I heard it would help. So far I still feel the same so... ya. Hopefully more than 4 hours of sleep a night and some rest will help now.
So... big news! I got offered an extension on my internship here for another year! My current boss is retiring and they want someone who knows the theatre to stick around and help the new guy figure things out here and how we do them. As a result I will be here for awhile longer now. I may try to work some summer job in Spokane over the summer if I can find one, so I hope to see all my friends again before my internship resumes.
Lent is cool. I tend to look at it as a chance for me to give up something that I don't like about myself or I think I want to change. I gave up video games for lent this year, as I think I spend too much time playing them and sometimes they make me an ass hole so I wanted to stop. I do feel much happier so far and will try to maintain this for the rest of lent. I think after lent I will still play them again, but I would like to cut back on time spent playing them a lot.
That about sums up my life in Denver right now. Now I suppose I will rant. I have been "pursuing" the girl of my dreams for some time now. I have thought I found her 3 times, and been disappointed each time. I am not upset or impatient, but I have been trying really hard to get a girlfriend since I have been in Denver. Part of it I think is to fill the loneliness I feel from my last big break up... leaving all of my friends in Spokane (shout out, love ya all). Each time I have found someone I like and am interested in something weird of fucked up happens and it just cant work out. I have been ignoring this for a while but I have decided to take the hint. I am pretty confident that I am supposed to be single right now, and so I am going to take a more passive role in relationship finding right now and just try to concentrate on my life and work. This is hard for me but I am going to try.
Thanks for reading this friends, and if you miss me, text me :P Love to talk to all of you
