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Finally, I am on vacation. I have so much stuff to DO, but I am indeed on vacation. I confess that I am worried about my SAFD certification, which is my actor combat thing. It won't kill me if I'm not certified... it's unlikely that I will need to be certified in order to perform the roles I'm likely to get in the future, but it just galls me that I can work as hard as I have and still not be as precise as I need to be with the rapier. I should look on the positive side... I'll still be trained, I just won't be certified.

I just miss movement class (our Laban stuff has been replaced by stage combat). We were doing these amazing movement improvisations last year, and I really miss them. And the Tim Miller experience was completely transformative. When I was still in Iowa, we did this thing called Wake where I think we were attempting to do what we actually succeeded in doing with Tim this Fall. I have several ideas for how to create situations like this in the future and I'm going to create an independent study for next semester based around all of this.

And stage combat is actually pretty cool. I'm learning a lot, and the nice thing about having taken up this kind of training at this age is that I am finding all the little ignored places where I misuse my body all the time and I'm starting to figure out how to use myself better so that I don't atrophy sooner than I should (our movement teacher is also an Alexander Technique person). So that's actually great.

And I'm thinking of going to England for a while after I graduate. There's this organization that will give work visas to recently graduated Americans so that we can take up residence and work in the UK for a year... that sounds pretty good. So I'm looking into that.

Yeah.