forbiddencharm

well, my exam has been put off until next tuesday, so that's nice. a few extra days to think deep thoughts and begin writing the answers to questions that may or may not be the ones i get. good practice regardless! and this means i get to hang out with my friend will and some other folks who are visiting this weekend, which i wouldn't have been able to do if i were taking the exam, so it's good timing overall.

in other news, i auditioned for the spring plays and got called back for three out of four of them, which is also nice. i thought my audition kind of sucked, so it's nice to hear that it didn't! i may or may not get anything, but i'll be a.d.ing one of them if i don't get cast, so i'm pleased on the whole.

it's a good day.

my exam was turned in (with an hour and a half to spare, although admittedly that was not because i felt completely finished but because i had an appointment). i think it's decent. it's not awesome, which i would have liked, but i don't know, i had a hard time with it. this is part of a whole long thought process i'll probably get into at some other point, so i'll instead skip right to the next bit, which is my acting class with a famous person!

ok, on my (admittedly small) list of celebrities who i've met, sigourney goes to the absolute top for niceness. she and her husband (who runs an experimental theater in new york) were coming to stanford because their daughter wanted to look around, so they volunteered to screen their new movie and to teach my class. and it was a fabulous class--they went through the process of staging a play from both an actor's and a director's viewpoint, from casting through ways to stay fresh during long runs. great stuff!

but the rocking comes more from how genuinely nice she was. they joked back and forth about how their perspectives on the process differed, and how sometimes that drove them crazy when they were working together. he told a story about something that he had done early in his career, and she made the face of 'why didn't i know this?' and then when he was done joked about not letting him forget it. during the talk, she talked about how her drama school told her she couldn't act, not in a joking 'how stupid they were' way, but in a serious, 'i had to decide that i wanted this enough to ignore that, so don't let other people change your mind without trying for yourself' way. i went up afterward to ask her a question about something she'd said, and after answering it, she told me not to be worried, that i would be able to do it, and that while it could take time, it was worth it. fabulous.