Working on fitness....and monologues?

So since I'm having this foot surgery I decided to work on my upper body/core fitness. I.E I'm going to become a BAMF in the guns department! I worked out my shoulder, lats, biceps, and triceps. Needless to say that I am very sore this afternoon. I will continue my crazy workout tomorrow.

As well as working on my fitness, I need to be working on my Shakespeare piece from All's Well that Ends Well. I will be doing this monologue, along with my contemporary piece from Picasso at the Lapin Agile. I am 99.9% sure I will be auditioning for Theater Masters on October 27. This is a HUGE step in my life and it could lead to me getting my first professional job! To quote A Chorus Line: I really hope I get it!

Rehearsal for DSG 6/17

So tonight I had rehearsal for Dog Sees God. There were only four cast members there including myself. I didn't have to be at rehearsal last night, which was nice. We ran through Fire is Bad twice. It's really difficult in terms of blocking. Our venue: Red Rum at Fort Fringe is a bit crazy. It's got a thrust stage now, which means there are people on three sides of us. We had to do some tweaking to how Patrick and I were sitting. I also had to figure out new bits of blocking so that I was playing the scene to everyone that would be sitting in the audience. I don't want it to be that the audience that is sitting on the right is just staring at the back of my head the whole time. By the time we did the scene a second time it was a heck of a lot better. I got to go home a little earlier than usual. Now I don't have to be back until Wednesday. I now need to focus on memorizing a new monologue for my Synetic audition on the 27th.

Decisions, Decisions

So I went to the LOWT auditions a few months ago and Imagination Stage in Bethesda called me back for several of their shows in their 2010/2011 season. I of course went and showed my stuff...I didn't get any things but hey, it was great fucking experience. Although, my last callback didn't go so well, considering I'm not a belter...I'm a 1st Soprano, with opera training! So here I am, little 'ole me, waiting to go in and I get to listen to all the other ladies before me. They are amaze balls!!! I go in...do my half-ass belt/holy-shit I'm so scared I quiver. Needless to say I won't be getting that show either.

Anyway, all of this is beside the point but hey I like tangents. Well last night I received an email from them again asking me to audition for their summer musical in 2011. This is the summer that I plan to study in London...well that's my plan right now. Audition for RADA and LAMDA and apply to their short courses. I COULD audition, but I don't have enough confidence in my singing abilities (for the record I can sing, I just suffer from nerves when it comes to singing in auditions). Any advice? LOL. So I thought to myself: "Jennifer, if you go to this audition and you sound like shit, they are gonna realize that you suck and they'll stop calling you back." I'm pretty sure I'm gonna pick London, because I really want to further my training over one show for Children's Theatre. I figure London will be better in the long haul anyways. I'm just afraid that I am going to make the wrong decision and I'll live with the regret. But then again, that's just how I roll...

I've got other insecurities running through my head as well: Boys...Job...Money. And why in the mother-fucking world did I decide that it would be good to get involved with a 38 yr-old Marine? I don't quite know how to end things, considering the sex is amazing although I know he sees more than one woman. He had no concept of what monogamy means. HA. I think it will be much easier once I find a non-douchebag. They are out there, so I think if I don't look, maybe I'll get lucky. Damn me for being a hopeless romantic. I do find myself becoming more cynical and cold hearted. But that's for another story...

PS: When the fuck did it become summer in DC? This spoken from a Floridian...