Wednesday is Almost Over…

… how did that happen?  You really want to know?  Then keep reading.  If you don’t care what I’ve been doing for the past several days leave now (or try and bitch about it in the comments and listen to me cackle as I trash them because I warned you ahead of time).  The things that I have been doing…

On Sunday I took my first pole dancing class.  For fun and fitness (& definitely not for meretricious reasons), if you must know.  And I have discovered muscles in my arms that I previously would have denied the existence of.  They are not strong muscles at this point in time, but they do exist.  Something they felt the need to remind me of for the couple of days.  No more denials for them.  It was fun and there was a short down pour while I was on my way there.  Rain and pole dancing!   Then it was home for cleaning and plotting before heading off to rehearse.

Rehearsal!!!  Sunday was a very important day in class because it was the first day of performing our scenes.  So I went over to my partner’s house and we got right to it.  Going in we knew that we would be doing the scene sitting down and that our teacher would be encouraging us to run our lines quickly.  This is so that we don’t slow down, draw out words and pause, dramatically, to act out our point.  Knowing this we rehearsed this way.  And the exciting discovery for me was that when we pushed ourselves to go quickly with the lines the emotions just came.  It was pretty nifty.  I also remembered that we needed to be clear on what our character’s relationship to each other is.  So we both got clear on that.  By the time we had to leave we had a solid connection to our relationship, our emotions in the scene, and our lines down pat.

Thankfully the freeways were kind to us, but we ended up parked very far from the studio so, we were almost late despite the power walking (and I was in heels!).  We had some else sign us up on the board, but we still ended up being the second to last to go.  Which was actually kind of hard.  I don’t normally mind going late in class, but we were both itching to get up.  I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we both really enjoy our scene and we wanted to get up and perform it.  It was interesting to watch the other scenes though.  These scenes have all been picked for their dramatic content, so of course there was quite the gamut of emotions being run.  It was fun to see how my classmates had been cast and to watch them get coached in these roles.

I took a lot of notes about how the scenes have been broken down.  Each scene has an official breakdown at the studio.  This way the teachers have a sheet with the official break down for each scene that they then coach the students off of.  Feeding us the bits of the breakdown that we have earned and helping us to hit the targets for the scene.  I’m going to comb through all the bits and pieces I wrote down and put together a cheat sheet for doing breakdowns the way these scenes have been broken down.  Although, at this time my cheat sheet will be incomplete because we haven’t earned all the info on the sheets yet.  Yay for works in progress!

Speaking of… so, we finally got up and performed our scene!  And it was awesome.  I believe we turned in the best performance of the night.  We really connected to our emotions and each other.  Charley (our teacher) only gave us one major note and that was to deepen our emotional connection.  He did help me with clarifying what my opinion is about one particular thing mentioned in the script and exactly how to dress for the scene.  I had toyed with going more strongly in the direction he nudged me in, but hadn’t quite gone that far.  Did I mention how much fun this was?  Cause, it’s really fun!

I guess that wraps up Sunday (I mean, hiked most of the way back to my car -still in heels- but thankfully got a ride for part of the way, and drove home etc etc, but you can fill that stuff in for yourself).  Monday started off with me getting up early because I wasn’t sure when Tim Brownson would be calling me for coaching call.  It turned out he was calling me at the later time, which is pretty much what I had expected.  But I sure as hell was not going to sleep through our call.  So, I got up early and did chores and otherwise made a productive stab at starting my day.  Which meant that I was rolling along pretty well by the time I got on Skype with Tim.  We checked in and I bragged about how well my partner and I had done.   And we went over how well I had done on the two weeks fitness training thing I did.  And then I had to fess up about how I haven’t been exercising so much since it wrapped.  (Good news, I found another fitness product in need of testimonials, so I have another month of trainer/bootcamp starting next week!!).

After confessing about how I lack commitment to exercise when it’s just me by myself, we talked about what exercise really means to me and how to use anchors to motivate myself.  I then committed to workout four times a week (oh thank goodness for that boot camp coming!  and my pole dancing classes!!).  So, I’ve started off a little slow on this, but I have done small workouts on Monday & Tuesday.  Maybe I’ll count them as one workout.  It’s a good start, I’ll have to expand on it though.

Then we talked money and the business of earning it.  We hashed out some good ideas for me to play with and he pointed out a few things that were good for me to hear.  And I made a commitment to putting together a couple of websites in two weeks (as in I have to get them done in that time).  It’s all part of a bigger plan that I will reveal more of soon (I’m still working out the details).  Anyway, it was fun and as always really helpful to chat with Tim.  I’m so grateful to have him coaching me!

Oh goodness, I’ve barely started on Monday and it’s 11:56pm already.  It’s going to be Thursday before I even finish this…  (would you believe I got called verbose today?)  And now my friends are interrupting me with one of the strange and disturbing things that can only be found on the internet.  Which means I need to make a decision… see, I have an early morning and lots to do tomorrow.  And sleep would be a good thing.  A very good thing.  Right.  Well then, consider this a teaser.  More to come soon.  And then even more after that.  Night!