I had almost forgotten about this... I was just searching thru some of the pics on my computer and came across this. When I went to London in March of 2006 was it really 2006? Holy cow it was.. and I guess in a way that makes the story all the better, and much more divine in a way. I had decided that I was going to try and find this random place that I had been back in the spring of 1997, so I took the train out to the stop that I remembered and started to walk... I found the little fish place and had a fantastic fish and chips and decided that I would just continue walking around since the area was so beautiful. I ended up getting a little bit lost and bugger... maps are not easy to follow in London trust me. But I turned a corner and this was on the side of a building and sat on the bench that was there and just kind of read it over and over and it just spoke something deep inside me. I don't think I even knew at the time or really ever have been able to articulate that feeling of the flame deep down that was always there to follow my dream having fuel poured all over it. I left London 5 days later and it was almost 4 months to the day that, with my knees shaking, and my only desire being to not freeze up and forget the lines I was delivering a monologue at an audition to get into AMDA. Flash forward to today a year and a half from that day in London and I am 3 months from graduating from an acting conservatory program in NYC! The dream had become my life!
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On a long walk in London
It's all under contol
Yes... I was a little punchy the other night and thought that instead of using that pic which I had taken months ago while I was just riding the train and blogging what I had been meaning to blog about it in some deep thing posing the question to all my readers... what do these train cars see in a day type thing.... I instead went with my first random thought and just posted it the way you all saw it. I wondered as I pushed publish... whether or not it would alarm people. I hope I didn't freak any of you out too much. But yea I was just sitting there looking at those indents thinking wow... those are from a gun..... hmm Mom and dad if you are reading this it really is safe here. I am in no real danger. Though I kinda doubt that my mom checks my blog. I don't think she even knows what it is after all the only way we can have Internet out on the farm.... is to have satellite Internet. Can you believe that? My family lives a mile or less from $250,000 homes that are popping up everywhere and we live in a valley that can't get high speed... we can't even get cable! But let me tell you it makes life simpler and it's actually nice to go home to something more simple every once and awhile. Wow this post was quite a ramble all to say I am FINE... doing well, still catching up on my sleep from last semester and finally got my voice back from the crazy end of last semester. This is the last semester so now everyone pray I find work!
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The mountain top experience
I wish I could remember what was going thru my head when I saw this very picture.... I wonder if I looked back...all I know is I am looking back now and this morning it is as if my life on some level has come full circle. I have one more demo.... and I will have made it thru third semester at AMDA. There really aren't words to explain what the past month has been like for me, but for those of you who have hiked Pikes Peak or have heard stories from people who have, you know it is one of the hardest yet most satisfying things you could do. And this morning as I am thinking about the last month... it is just like the peak... and I am right there...
