My Apology in Advance

These next few months are going to be insane for me, so I need to take a hiatus for a while. Does this mean all of the projects I planned are postponed? Yep. It sure does.

In short, I decided to be impulsive and sign up for auditions for a play in a town a half-hour away, and I need to get a second job so I can drive that far.

On top of that, I have a huge school project, and then after all of this is said and done, I have a musical here in my town that I am planning on auditioning for. Since they don't turn away anyone who auditions, I am guaranteed ensemble at least. Overall, it's going to be crazy.

Since you know the overview now, I can tell you the whole story. Beat by beat.

Basically, recently I started talking to a guy. Just for online privacy, we'll call him Anthony, or Tony for short. Tony introduced me to an amazing musical called Hadestown (read my take on Hadestown below.)

I fell in love with Hadestown really quickly.

At the same time, I've been working on developing my voice and finding my true sound as a singer, and I think it's clicked for me. As a preface for what I'm about to tell you, my vocal coach gives two people instruction at the same time, which is really unconventional and also really cool. My voice partner, Lucy (another pseudonym), finally came to lessons. It's been a while since we got to be at the same voice session since we've both been busy, but she told me that I'd gotten really good in the last few weeks since we'd sung together.

Did that go to my head? Kind of.

Anyway, I got a bunch of song recommendations from Lucy's older sister, who used to take lessons from my coach. One of them was Flowers from Hadestown. Lucy got excited and said that I should audition for it.

Registration opened up recently, and when I heard it had, I logged on and signed up for auditions kind of on an impulse.

So now, I have about two weeks to prepare a monologue and song. Fun stuff, right?

Well. Yeah. And, if that were all I had on my plate, I'd be back on in two weeks tops, even though there's going to be play practice for Hadestown (guys, I need lots of prayers because I really want to be Eurydice!!), I'd still be able to fit Vocal into my life.

But since it is about half an hour away, I need money for gas to get there.

Job=money.

I get very few hours at my current job. This means I need another job.

So I am going to stop by a place today to pick up an application. I've heard that they aren't hiring, but I'm going to try anyway.

On top of Hadestown and a new job, I have a huge school project I need to do for a class. Basically, for this project, I'm starting a writing club, and I've already scheduled all of it. Am I ready? Possibly. I have no clue. I'm kind of jumping in here and seeing how it'll work out.

And then once I finish my school project, my community is putting on The Lightning Thief: The Musical. Hadestown and The Lightning Thief are going to overlap. All while I still have a job. Not only that, but I'm going to have to start preparing an audition two months ahead of time.

Thankfully, the Hadestown performance is before The Lightning Thief and leaves me some time to finish up preparing more for it.

I will have a tour with my elite choir (dang, that sounds so cool!!) a couple weeks after The Lightning Thief, which entails a lot of preparation. Then, a week or so after that, I have a drama competition I'm basically already signed up for.

All in all, I have no clue when I am going to be back on here.

I need to be on top of things. I will be going from one thing to the next, and that means no down time. When I'm not practicing auditions or new play material, I'm going to be working on either school, my school project, or at my job.

None of this means that I'm losing my zeal for writing. Just, there are other things in my life right now that are more immediate. They take precedence. And really, truly, I love musical theatre, just as much as I love writing.

Once I do come back, I'll read all the stories I missed. Because I will have missed you all. But I won't regret this hiatus.

Sure, it's time I could have spent building a bigger audience (I did just join, after all). At the same time though, it's going to be a busy, beautiful, crazy time. Time where I live fully and learn how it feels to be busy again.

So. Here's to the next six-ish months. Wish me luck. I love you guys!!