I haven’t been particularly effusive the last few days, due in large part of a sort of mental exhaustion. I’ve had two days off in the last three weeks, and I spent one of them driving back from WWC, just churning over what I had learned. So that was not so restful. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, I was about to just burst.

But things are evening out, even if I am looking forward to the weekend with a zeal that I don’t normally feel about two days to myself. Ladybug is at a family wedding, so I should have a little time to decompress in the evenings for the next couple of days, and instead of stressing about school last night, I set about making my cave into a more functional office space. I think I have been successful so far, as I have moved some things around, cleaned a little, and discovered that part of the reason that it felt so cramped in there is that I haven’t thrown out an empty box in about a year. So, I threw out some boxes. I took some before shots, so you should be able to enjoy them when I take some after shots. I plan to finish tonight. I justified it to myself by saying that I would have to have the space set up to work effectively to write, so that’s part of my 25 hours this week, right?

There’s a lot happening with the theater right now, and I don’t know what people know and what people don’t know, but I am very excited– perhaps moreso now than when the Franklin St. space was looking like it would happen. The Carr Mill Mall space is a very good one for us, and is getting closer to fruition every day. I found myself thinking earlier this week that I wished we could somehow repay the great performers who have sacrificed so much of their time and energy to the theater… and realized today that giving them a top-notch space in which to hone their craft and build an audience is the best thing we could possibly do right now. And, when that gets stabilized (and the loan gets repaid), I’m looking forward to being able to pay those people to improvise. It won’t ever be a lot of money, but it’s so rare to be paid to perform our art that I think it would be tremendous to make it happen.

Andi Goetschius, you now have your calling.