friendship makes a happiness double times and divide sadness half and make us remove our unhappiness

Updates! I'm still in NORMAL. I got a couple more calls for work, which is nice. Auditions and a few voice overs, which I hear is a very hard market to break into so it's nice that I'm just being sort of welcomed. I had no idea my voice was that marketable, but I guess it is. I'm having a LOT of fun doing the fights for Caesar (I play a bunch of small roles in Caesar, including the ensign that runs at the end. In the script, Cassius usually runs the ensign through with a sword or something, but since ours is set in modern times, I get shot in the head onstage, it's the coolest thing ever!!!).

There are some really cool people at the festival this year, so I'm having a really good time hanging out and stuff. I've also had a really interesting experience because... o.k. here's the real news... I broke up with Michael. Things were just cooling, you know? And I could tell that what needed to happen was just an acknowledgement that we were better as friends so that things didn't get really sour. It was actually probably the best break up ever. We are still friends, nobody cheated on anybody, there was no fighting, we just did it. It was even somewhat simultaneous.

I actually feel really good. Shakespeare Camp is sort of this limbo of time where I can look back on everything I learned and prepare for what faces me and also be a little irresponsible if I want and it's o.k. I'm learning a ton working here and making such good friends. I can't wait to move to Chicago in the fall and start anew. It's nice to know that after all the craziness of the last two years that things are progessing and not digressing.

I miss Iowa really a lot though. Once I'm moved into the coop in Chicago I want to be on a long visit to Iowa for a while. Just so I can be with my puppycats for a while.

Love, Cats