A Midsummer Day’s Thoughts

Reading back over my older posts on Blogger, I noticed some things that do not sit well with me in retrospect.  Mostly this involves what I said about an early case of senior-itis after I accepted my internship position with New York Stage and Film.  I was correct about a bunch of things: I can see myself enjoying theatre audio work (or trying to do theatre audio work) for a very long time.  However, instead of being pensive about my push into the real world, I have decided to accept what comes and make the best of it, financial woes and all.  I still will remain friends with everyone from home even if I’m 400 or 2400 miles away from them.

This is the longest that I have ever been away from home, and it’s been both cleansing and revealing.  I realize how much I love being home.  I always thought that I was giving something up by not going away to an arts school or conservatory, but now after speaking with some folks who have chosen that path, I believe firmly that I made the right choice to stay at Delaware, in Delaware. I just have to continue making correct choices as I try to finish up school.  Academic choices have always been difficult for me, and it’s really been a struggle to keep myself in school for this long. Working at the base of the real theatrical world this summer has really given me lots to think about and lots of motivation to do things right in school and not fuck everything up like I did 4 years ago.

Here at NYSAF I have:

• met some very cool people here; people to keep in contact with not just professionally, but as friends.
• begun to learn how to let past mistakes go and to fix the present
• learned how to act in a true professional setting
• learned all sorts of technical information crucial to my success
• decided that sound is something that I want to pursue as a career

The list goes on and on.  Despite some reservations about logistics and company missions that I won’t really get into here, I have really enjoyed the last five weeks at Vassar. I’ve learned, grown, and matured.  I like this business, I like these people, and hopefully I’m here to stay.  We’ll see.

Now I’m off to run Finks.