A Brief Taste of Summer (and My Summer Schedule)

I have Full House on the background while I’m writing this. If you read my earlier entry where I also mentioned the Tanner clan, you’d know that this means I am once again completely stressed out and am avoiding thinking about my play. My staged reading is two weeks from today. Yeah. I typed that sentence and then just stared at it for a few seconds and let it sink in.

Class was cancelled on Thursday, which was supposed to be the day of my final workshop for my full-length. On Thursday and Friday, our theater was hosting the Young Playwrights Festival, which is a really fun program they do for high school students. The theater sends local playwrights to hold writing workshops at various high schools in Greater Boston, and then this week the students got to come to our theater and see their works performed by local actors. My cousin had a play in the festival on Thursday. Our class was cancelled because all of our usual actors who come in and read for us were working at the festival. So my final workshop is going to be next Thursday. The good part of getting my workshop pushed back a week is that it gave me the opportunity to get dinner with one of my friends on Wednesday night. It had hit 90 degrees in Boston that day and I really wanted to be able to get outside and take advantage of summer-in-April. We went to Redbones, a barbecue restaurant in Davis Square, Somerville, a short walk from where I grew up. I know I probably should have stayed home and done some writing, but I knew the warm weather wasn’t going to last, and I couldn’t pass up the chance to experience it.

And I also this week realized once and for all that it is not humanly possible for me to graduate in September. I think I mentioned before that I’d have to take three classes this summer in order to do that, and I had been holding out on finalizing my schedule until I heard whether one of the theater professors was going to be offering a class. She ended up not offering it, so that left three potential classes to take during the first summer session. Two of them have overlapping times. So basically if I wanted to take two courses that session, I’d have to be in class from 2:00–5:30 Monday through Thursday, plus I’d have an hour-long commute each way. This would involve working until about 9:30 at night after class and then beginning my homework after that. I don’t think I can handle that. So I’ll just be taking one class in the first summer session. And there’s only one English class available in the second summer session. That one meets every day from 12:30–2:00, meaning that I’d have to start work at 7:30 a.m. before class every day and then work again from 3:00–6:00 after class each day, but I’m going to have to deal with that. At least it’s only for about six weeks. I’ll have to take my third and final elective in the fall. My top three choices are American Drama, Beckett and Irish Modernism, and then a Dramaturgy class over at the College of Fine Arts. Right now I’m leaning toward Beckett, but I’m not 100% sure yet.

Oh! Have I mentioned the postcard I got from the Holy Cross Theatre Department? The spring show Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen, composed by music professor Shirish Korde and directed by theatre professor Lynn Kremer, is coming to the Tsai Performance Center at BU after the Holy Cross performances. Unfortunately, it will be at BU April 23, which is the night of my reading, and April 24, which is the night of my classmate Anna’s reading. So I won’t be able to take advantage of the “Holy Cross comes to BU” experience.

I think I’m going to try to see my professor’s new play From Orchids to Octopi this weekend. It’s at the same theater where I recently saw the show written by a BU grad from last year. It only runs through May 2, so there’s never really going to be an ideal work-free time to see the show, and I figure I might as well go sooner rather than later. This weekend will be a rough one though. My presentation on Beckett is due this Tuesday, and I of course have my final workshop this Thursday. Fun times ahead.

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