moment of inertia
These days my Tuesdays are often busy and full on account of class and various commitments either related or taking advantage of my already scheduled activities. And as such, I got out the door yesterday before I realized I had failed to set anything up here. Oops. No worries, I told myself, I’ll get home and whip something out before the exhaustion takes me. It was a nice theory. It also flew out the window entirely upon my arrival home. I was completely and utterly distracted by the newest additions to our menagerie.
Turns out that while I was out doing my acting thing E was busy picking up a pair of Roborovski hamsters. Which happen to be the tiniest most adorable hamsters you have ever laid eyes on. They are also hyper-active and suck at climbing. They have been in this house for approximately 19 hours (give or take) and they have been on their wheel for 18.5 of those hours. And while they do trade off which one is running on the wheel a bit, they also spend a good deal of that time running the wheel together. And mind you, on the rare occasion that one of them is not on the wheel, that hamster is not resting. Oh no. The one that is not on the wheel is running around like a mad thing.
And thus the tradition of crazy animals in our house continues. Which reminds me, I don’t think I ever posted about my crazy beta….
But enough about critters for now. Acting! Or in my case “pacting”. One of the things our teachers at the studio like to say to us on a regular basis is “Acting is doing, it is not passive, if it was it would be called pacting.” And my major note for the night was that I had a passivity in me. Which is definitely an obstacle that I am working on and was more pronounced in my work last night on account of a number of factors. My choice of activity was detrimental to action and I needed to really deepen my emotional relationship to the circumstances that we (my partner and I) had written. Overall, we had a good understanding of the new work and properly setting it up. I did make one mistake in choosing my circumstances that I should have caught, but this is a learning experience and I got lots of notes to help me for next time.
Last night was a challenge on many levels. It was the first night of a new structure. My partner and I ended up being first on account of neither of us getting worked up about putting our names on the list and someone else doing it for us (presumably to prevent us from putting ourselves at the end of the list and thereby bumping everyone else forward a spot). And we had a substitute teacher who is particularly passionate and strong in how she gives notes. Which isn’t to say that our regular teachers are not passionate and strong, but that they see us much more frequently and have a better idea of how far we’ve come. Which definitely changes how they deliver the notes. It fascinating and wonderful to have these influxes of new perspective. And I am grateful for the challenges as they give me more to grow from.
