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Literary Spunk written @ 1:47 PM on July 30, 2003 I haven't had much of a need for updating lately . . . which is bizarre because I almost always have something to bitch about. I think that today was my last day at work (except for strike in August). I say "think" because I have to keep my schedule open in case of disasters during the run of the show. "Dracula: the Untold Story" opens tomorrow and has been completely sold out for about a month. So I have two paychecks coming: one for my work on "In Flame," and the last stipend for my work at school. Speaking of "In Flame," I hadn't really kept up with the papers and critics that much, but apparently it got rave reviews and some compliments on the sets. In fact, Aretta-- the woman who referred me to the Performance Gallery in the first place-- said that the folks there liked me and that I could probably anticipate a good, sold, permanent job as the artist/scenic designer-in-residence for the rest of their season. Pretty cool, huh? Not too shabby for someone who only finished her freshmen year in college. I'm grateful and content. I'm half-hoping they offer me a permanent job there because then I could pretty much set my own hours and work at night-- which I'll desperately need seeing as how my days this upcoming semester are filled out the wazoo with classes. My time in the school's theater is about to be dramatically cut in half as a result of my 18 credit hours (about 6 classes at NKU), so it would be nice if I had another theater job on the side just to keep up with things and make some extra money. On the other hand, my professors are expecting me to keep putting in my time at NKU. They can't force me, of course, unless I had BFA status, but if I showed lack of interest or have other work and dedications, it could screw me for the rest of my academic career there. Soooo, what to do, what to do . . . I'll only have this dilemma if the Performance Gallery offers me that job again. And if they don't, then I think I may go for the work-study program for my major at school. Hell, if I'm going to be devoting all this time to the theater, might as well get paid for it, eh? The problem with the work-study program, however, is that it requires you to work eight hours a week. While that may seem like no big deal, I have no idea how I'll pull eight hours out of my ass with the way my schedule is now. The answer would be to drop a class, of course, but that only puts me further behind in my general studies and for my BFA degree in art, "the other major." So at this point, if the work-study program is the way to go, I'm wondering if there's some way I could finaggle some hours on the weekends, in spite of the fact that the scene shop is technically closed on the weekends. So yeah. That's what I've had on my mind a lot lately. Christ Almighty, it's the end of July and I'm wondering when I'm going on summer vacation. *sigh* *** I began work on my second novel this weekend, and it's kicking solid ass as of chapter three. I'm having much more fun and getting back my old literary spunk, Reno style. I mean I like the first book in the series and everything, but the problem with Book One is that it's a lot of foundation work for the rest of the series, and I tend to get tied up in technicalities. But now that Book Two has rolled around? Can we say, "Let's play . . . Maw-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!"
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