On the Verge...

This morning the cast of "All's Well That Ends Well" got an email from our stage manager telling us that we had been named the Best Ensemble by the City Theatre for their SummerActs! Festival. Pretty cool. Also pretty cool that we also won Best Group or Duo Performance for mine and Toni's First and Second Lords! There were 10 awards and 6 shows. The awards were Best Production, Best Director, Best Script, Best Design, Best Ensemble, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Best Group or Duo Performance. Even though the award isn't well-known or extremely prestigious, it was almost better than getting paid for the process. :) I took it more as God's little way of reassuring me that I should keep acting if I can. I'm not going to try to make it my profession, but I'm apparently decent at it and I think God wants me to use my talent for something. Just not so sure in what way yet... Academy Awards! Here I...... stay. But than...

This swine flu thing is really getting out of control. Not the actual flu (of which most of you are aware), but the absolutely catastrophic reactions to it. All field trips and inter-school events have been canceled until May 11th. Right now, I am not greatly affected. The only field trip that we have planned is the STATE ONE ACT PLAY COMPETITION! Luckily, this is scheduled for May 15th and so this will hopefully all be blown over by that point. However, they have postponed the 1A, 2A, and 3A competitions that were scheduled for May 8 &9, so I wouldn't put anything past them. I believe that up to 3 school districts in the state of Texas are completely shut down until May 11th. There may be more at this point, but I am avoiding news stalking. God works in mysterious ways, though, ya know? I mean, so far, a bunch of surprising and uncontrollable things that have happened have ended up being huge blessings in disguise. We submitted 2 different plays for approval with UIL ...