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October 23, 2007

Music to Grade Midterms By

Dark Side of the Moon works well, I've discovered. As does Senses Working Overtime. Takes me back to my youth. Tomorrow I think I'll try Candy-O.

So today was about teaching and grading midterms. Yesterday was about exhaustion. I hadn't had a day off in weeks. Since the last Sunday in September, if I wasn't working, I was in some way stressing about working. Yesterday I made it all the way to school, talked to my teaching partner and decided that, no, I was done for the day. So I cancelled both my classes and graded two sets of papers. Then I went home, midterms in backpack to be graded later.

I spent the afternoon and evening staring at the walls instead. I was that kind of tired. It's a bit better today, though the 6:30am phone call from my parents, who are currently in South Carolina and forgot about the three hour time difference, did disturb the sleep patterns just a tad.

The show has been VERY well received. Standing ovations on both Saturday night and at the Sunday matinee. I keep wanting to tell the audiences, "Thank you, but sit down. This is for the playwright. She wrote an amazing story. We just helped tell it." I guess all we needed was a couple of previews. Because we caught fire on Friday and didn't slow down all weekend. I got home after the show on Friday and Dave--who attended the ghastly Thursday opening--asked, "How was the show?"

I paused for a moment and then said the only word that would fit. "Perfect. It was a perfect show." Because it was.

Saturday night was even better. Saturday night was the night one of my exits was applauded. We (the two of us in the scene) rocked that scene like we never had before, and it was magical. Apparently the audience thought so too.

But Clean House wasn't my only activity of the weekend. No. Saturday morning was a make-up film and speaker session for one of my core classes. I was glad I went, but it was from 10am-12:30pm, and I could have used the sleeping in. The film was Southern Comfort, and the speaker was Maxwell Anderson, from the film.

Max is amazing. I can't even imagine having to make some of the choices he's made in his life. Or having to live with other people's reactions to those choices. The students seemed to really warm to him. The applause after his bit of the program was heartfelt. Max & the instructors had lunch together afterwards at one professor's house. He's hilarious. He came to the show on Saturday night, too (I gave him a comp), and talked someone into letting him backstage to say thank you. It really moved him, apparently. Which is awesome, and only fair, since I was a wet mess both during the Southern Comfort screening and Max's talk after the film.

Anyway, that was my weekend, following a very long month of teaching and rehearsal and travel and film stuff. I needed yesterday. It made everything I did today possible. Hopefully I will be capable of surviving tomorrow. Though that's iffy. I still feel like I spent last week trying to cross a continent and climbed a couple of mountains while I was at it.

Posted by sally at October 23, 2007 05:41 PM

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