Waiting...

Currently waiting to hear back from graduate school on formatting revisions to my thesis. The clock is ticking... I think I've got less than 2.5 days to get revisions done. We'll see how that goes.

Other than that... working on Knowledgian again. Hopefully I'm a better writer this time around (which I am) and a better thinker (which I also am). It's amazing what five years can do for a persons intelligence.

I think I'll get to work now.

Yes?

No?

Now?

Yep.

The Second

Thesis successfully defended. Now working on finishing touches prior to submission deadlines for May graduation.

The Man Who Became Sand had its run in the 2009 RROAPS to mixed reviews. Angela Gant was our respondent and her advice was well taken. I still need to re-implement some of the changes we talked about ("re" because some of them existed prior to my changes for the production).

What have I learned?

1. Don't re-write or add without remembering why you wrote the thing in the first place. Some of the additions, rather than adding, only served to detract from the eventual impact of the original image.
2. Place extreme importance on the elements you consider key to the success of the show. Somewhere during the process I forgot, or overlooked, how important the sound cue of the "sandbag" was to my original writing and I neglected to ensure that those elements wouldn't become the afterthought that they did, sadly.
3. Don't fudge a stage direction just to get a play produced. My conscious over-explanation of the direction (The MAN becomes sand.) created all sorts of problems that I really didn't want in production and I simply should have accepted rejection instead of playwright self-manipul(mutil)ation.

So, hopefully that's clear. The cast and the director did good work and I've learned quite a bit from the process. Time will tell how much what I've learned actually stays with me.

Back to working - back to thinking - back to stuff.

Listening to Christopher O'Riley again. Soothing and calming in a wonderful way.

"Ah, the magic" -Will Eno