some interesting developments:

So, the last time I posted, I was super worried about life. basically, my voice teacher had pulled me and three others into her office, and made us all feel like we had no chances of being in either two shows we had gotten callbacks for, for the next year...our fourth, and last, year of school. The two shows are Yerma, by Lorca, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. SOOO I had thoughts about how much I suck, and how if I did get cast in Twelfth Night it would be a pity cast, and that there was no way in hell I would get in Yerma at all. Boy was I wrong. In Yerma...turns out I am cast as Yerma...one of the best roles I may ever get to play.

She is a young and beautiful Spanish woman, who is unable to have children. Her husband Juan (played by a guy who was also pulled into that damn meeting) doesn't want kids, and sees them as an expensive and noisy nuisance. It becomes implied to Yerma that perhaps he is sterile...so it it HIS fault, not hers that she cannot have children. She goes to a fertility ceremony, where there is a huge orgy thing, and a dance and song and there is where she kills her husband, and any possibility of her having kids...as she will not entertain the idea of marrying again. Pretty effing cool. AND the language is just gorgeous. Lorca calls it a dramatic poem, not a play, and for good reason. It is beautiful. SO needless to say, I am pretty damn stoked about that.

I ALSO got cast in Twelfth Night, as Feste...who is actually a male clown character. I am double cast with the guy who is playing Juan...so we will be seeing a whole lot of each other next year...but it's ok, we get along. Other than me killing him onstage, we are pretty chill. I will be playing feste as a woman though, and Linda (voice teacher) says that she has exciting plans for me. SO I am stoked about this too, though a little peeved that we had the scary meeting at all...since apparently it was unnecessary anyway.

I decided to move out of the place I am living in now. It's not because I don't like living here, or living with my roommate, because I totally do. It just feels like I need a change, and also, I will be living with Rita and Kathleen. I never get to see Kathleen now, and I feel like if I live with them, I will be able to see them AND her, so I think I made the best choice out of a really hard decision.

Hmmm, what else do I talk about? I am SOOOOOOO ready for school to be over. I can't even wait for it. I am YEARNING towards summer, which is kind of bad as I have so damn much left to do in school before I can peace out. Oh well, somehow it will all get done. ALSO for the summer, I am staying in Victoria, which is something new. Kathleen, Rita, most of my class, and I will be here, so there isn't much reason for me to go back to Calgary. Plus I have some options for jobs here...which I DON'T have in Calgary. Also, neither Alison, or Hannah will be there either. I will miss my mom, dad and Doug a whole hell of a lot though. It'll be weird not seeing them steadily for those four months. I feel like it could be a good opportunity to learn things about myself, and grow up a whole lot, too.

So yeah, I THINK that is all that is new with me, and I want to know what's new with all of you, so keep on blogging! OH, and comment on mine, so I feel like I am not just blithering on about myself to only myself! Ok thanks!

Love you always

Kes!

dear god....

....I am SOOO homesick right now. I had a terrible day today...one of those days where I can truly ask myself...should I be doing what I am doing? Am I actually good enough to do this? I want to see you guys, and I want to be home, and I want to be happy. Hopefully tomorrow is better than today.

Kesinee

This month is craaaaaazy

I have auditions for all of next year's shows, tons 'o projects due, two papers, and a final, plus an audition for a potential summer acting job, an interview for another one, a directed study show, I'm working at the Belfry Theatre this month, and so on and so on and so on. Mucho loco. I will be glad when it's over. Do any of you guys feel like sometimes you are stretched so thin, you may snap? That is totally where I'm at. I am loving this, but it is a stressful time, and I wish we were all in the same city so I could take Myrtle and drive to see any of you, whenever I wanted, and we could just talk about nothing for a while (though we all know we'd probably end up talking about puking, or some other looooovely thing we always do! hhahaha!) Man...good times.

So, I know Ali isn't coming to Calgary in the summer, and Hannah isn't, and Kathleen isn't. I don't know what I'll be doing yet. What are you (Jo and Rita) doing? Let me knoooow!

ALSO, Nomad, are you going to move here next year? Do you know yet?

LOVE!