The Top Ten List of Shit I Did in 2007 (Edited)
This is a list of the shit I did in 2007 that I would consider as influential to the rest of my life.
10. I did summer right.
I only went to visit my parents twice and thus had a great time in Rva and stage managed a lot of stuff. It was going to be hard to beat the summer of 06 in which I toured the north east as a production assistant, but some how I made an equally as awesome summer with my friends.
9. Richmond Bike Riding
What better way to exercise, hang out with your friends, get from point A to point B, and see the city?
8. Being the “other” girl.
Being the “other” girl is a variation of being “that” girl. Short story, he had a girlfriend. And another girl, and another girl, and another girl…
7. The Hope/Clay/Isaac lunch of awesome.
The short answer to how my thoughts on progressive theatre changed. And other awesome questions, like: what made you decide to move to New York, how did you get this job, and so on.
6. America’s 400th Anniversary
A.) I got a promotion to ASM. B.) It closed out a year’s worth of events that I had worked on and made great friends, who I hadn’t seen in 6 months and got to meet up with again and hang out and make lots of monies.
5. Turned 21
It was the last night of a month in New York, I got to spend it with two awesome people, Hope and Mike, and then my ex- Travis, as well as drink with some of NY’s finest off-Broadway theatre professionals.
4. My sister’s 2nd birthday
Well… she is my sister!
3. Three words: Red Fucking Ryder
I needed it. I was lacking any confidence as a stage manager. I stage managed the hell out of the show and was glad because it was the first time they gave me a PSM position at VCU. And I finished it with a best friend.
2. Made Decisions
I decided to graduate a year early and move to New York with Hope. I’d say these two things are extremely important details of my life.
1. New York with Hope
Shit… I still can’t believe it happened. I took a month off from school to spend in New York working FOR FUCKING FREE as a production assistant on a multimedia (film, music and theatre) festival in the Lower East Side. The festival was an experience of local multimedia. I can’t believe Hope and I did that with only a few dollars in our pocket. I can’t express how busy, hard, easy, incredible and amazing the entire experience was.
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WTF? How did I not put starting Hope and I The Standby blog on here? HOW? Well, inserting it now would cause major disruption to this list.So… I’m going to add a 2.5 because this is fitting for both the subjects of 2 & 3.
2.5 The Renaissance
Upon the completion of Red Ryder, Hope and I had developed an tight alliance among the theatre department at VCU, and a solid friendship. We had a stage management renaissance. We got every book we could find on stage management, perfected our portfolios, began blocking dictionaries, etc…etc… and then quite a few months after that we started The Standby. The Standby is our stage management blog. Management Parables–check it out!
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There you have it. It wasn’t a bad year, but 2008 is gonna be better. Be on the look out for the top ten list of songs that I overplayed in 2007. haha.
