I wish I were a cloud

Seriously, clouds are dicks. They do nothing but float in the sky and mock us humans for our inability to just...hover. That way, when people like Mr. H have to walk 25 minutes to school every day and then go to a giant theater thespian festival (stay tuned), our legs won't disintegrate after melting.

Go to hell

All right, I'll admit. This leg irritation is worth it. All right, so yeah, theater's a new thing for me, yadda, you know the drill. Just so happens that I'm a Senior, and because of this, I'm considered a guest as a thespian, not an actual thespian (but I'll be one next semester). So yeah, thespians get this nice little thespian festival in the center of Phoenix where we basically be theater kids. We go to workshops that offer like, 4,000 different fields of study and interest. Well, my girlfriend and I took a lesson on ballroom dancing, I took a lesson on teen improv where I didn't really learn much since improv's a strong point of mine, and then I took a class on a whim about absurdest humor, which was incredibly worth it, really made me think a lot about how playwrights work. It was from 7 AM to about 10 PM, in the middle was a few food breaks and a high school presentation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which I admit had some damn good acting, but the play itself isn't that exciting, too dramatic for me.

Which makes me a hypocrite since I totally used to watch this show

Oh and, that was only day one, I just got back from the second and last day right now, and it was extremely fun. This one sort of concluded differently, however. We had three more workshops, in which I did hand-to-hand stage combat (absolutely awesome), did another high-energy dancing class with my girlfriend and a bunch of my other friends (Hairspray), and then an extremely interesting class on how to be a working actor, as in, how to make a living as an actor without having to actually be famous, really nice class. So, in all, the classes were extremely helpful, and I don't regret putting myself $76 in debt to pay for it either.

Well, the second night concluded with a very important decision for me. Well, yesterday's play didn't excite me, so I was hoping that a different high school's performance today would trump it. Well, they did Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, though it's incredibly famous, I've never heard of this play before today. I was amazed. It was an operetta (or a play that uses multiple songs to describe the story rather than lines and one big song), and it's the kind of play we're doing next semester: a musical. It gave me chills, I was holding my girlfriend's arm and I swear she might've been able to feel my nerves jumping. I was so into it that I decided that I absolutely have to do the musical next semester, regardless of my lack of singing ability and dancing experience.

It looked like too much fun to pass up, and since it's my absolute last chance to do something theater related during high school, I've really gotta do it. So, that's my decision, and I believe I'm sticking to it. I've got about 3 weeks to find, memorize, and perfect both a monologue and 30-piece song. The monologue I posted earlier wasn't relevant enough to the planned musical for my director to make a decision on it, so he asked me to do another.

With valid reason, however, I'm worried. I've never sang or danced in my life. When I learned the moves to Can't Stop the Beat today, it was my first ever time really, REALLY dancing, and that was basically like someone telling me to drop three eggs and catch them before they hit the ground...with my teeth. Regardless, I might be able to pull it off, you never know. I was able to formulate some sort of talent in normal acting, I may be able to do the same thing here. If I can't pull it off, oh well, I'll stick to comedy, if not, maybe a new door will be opened. These doors convince people.

Couldn't really think of anything else...just call this "Mr. H's hopes and dreams"

Whatever, all in all, it was an exciting weekend, ran into a couple of really, really old friends, which makes me all that much more happy, and I'm glad I went. I wish I could do it again, if you're reading this and not in high school, I'm telling you now, when you get there, find a hobby that you really, really love and stick to it. My biggest regret in my life right now is that I wasn't in theater when I was a Freshmen, or at least when I came to my high school last year.

Until then, I'm gonna move as little as possible, because I feel like I might just evaporate right now.