New Year's Resolutions

Trust that your holidays have been ... holidayish.

Ours are busy, but in a nicely relaxed way. Still wrestling with school work and grad school work, tackling MND preparations, and scrambling to create lesson plans ahead of time so 3rd quarter doesn't entirely crush me (not in the first couple weeks, at least).

**Check out the cool posters**


Speaking of MND, we've

• created fuller character descriptions for each of the major roles
• shopped online for some costume items (boots! sweet)
• bought some deliciously obnoxious 60s-style clothing for fairies
  
• sketched out some set designs for Mrs. Smith to work with
  
• thought through some basic blocking for the more "lively" scenes

but lots more still to do!


And the bane of our existence: memorizing MND lines ...

Take my advice and work on your MND lines a little bit each day from now till the 9th.

Remember what Mr. R told you to do -- read over a chunk, then force yourself to stumble through from memory without looking at all. Work thru the scenes like that, bit by bit. It tells your brain to actually make connections -- instead of thinking it'll get prompted whenever it can't remember a word.

At first, you'll think you're not making much progress -- but then the lines will snap into place -- and they'll be far more solid than if you try the traditional "stare at the lines" approach.

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These vacation days seem to be slipping through my fingers like sand...

Enjoy what's left of the break.
I'm looking forward to meeting in drama class again -- how about you?!?


Happy 2006!