comfortable

this week has been happy.

for our drama production, i played viola in twelfth night and katherine in love's labour lost. now, i am not an actress, save for a few elementary school productions and mary in vineland mb's christmas production a few years ago. needless to say, performing in front of any audience is intimidating.. but one filled with british people is scarier, maybe because i have this presupposition that because shakespeare is english, everybody loves his work. kind of like margaret atwood. except not. anyways, i had to learn my lines and parts in fourish days. i was doing alright until we did a run-through without a script in hand.. and i blanked on everything. i started disliking this assignment, resulting in a break-down in front of poor marion, mad's assistant and co-director extraordinaire of the production. needless to say, once i got my frustration sorted out with a good eleven hour sleep, i was back at it, and i ended up doing a pretty good job. i shone like the dramatic diamond in the rough that i am, including a breakdown into laughter in the concluding song of our performance which went down the line until the whole group was practically in tears (it was ree's fault.. she started it).

so that went well. but basically, i was stuck between the extremes of loving the play and hating the play, having made it over hurdles and then glorying in my orange and brown pant and jacket outfit for viola (really, it was quite the outfit). my outfit for katherine looked similar to a cream and blue choir robe, but it was definitely prettier than my boy costume (robyn, you'd have loved it). after our performance we cleaned up the church and got our costumes sorted out, and then had pizza and wine and laughed at ourselves for a while, the adrenaline of the night still high. except for me. i thought i was going to die of tiredness. nevertheless, everyone came to my house for some popcorn, tea and step up, which i somehow made it through until around 2 when the movie ended and i collapsed into bed.

saturday was how i like to enjoy life. we woke up early and went to the farmer's market in the playing close in the centre of town, and i got some goat's cheese cheesecake and real apple juice, which were stupendous.after a few minutes of getting our costumes back to where they belonged, sharon, jodi and i spent the afternoon watching a movie, having breakfast for lunch (sausages, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, peanut butter on toast and a stella... delicious), doing some work with courses at the church and then watching pride and prejudice with gabrielle, heather and bethany. until i fell asleep and then went home to bed.

speaking of courses, i've been humming and hawing about my honours english major and history double major. right now i'm not loving my degree, but i decided (with a few nudges in the right direction) to stick with my choices for now, to keep my options open. i'm hoping that food is in my future right now though..

today was church, lunch at wonderful couple from the anglican church's house, rosemary and david booth, and now updating my blog and then reading some plays for tommorow.

i feel accomplished, and yet.. a little tired, cold, and maybe a little hungry?