Two Weeks Gone

Only fourteen days into it and I’m already well-acquainted with the shut-in syndrome that third semester is well-known for causing.  I can’t even go down to the kitchen to make my dinner for the week without bringing along Shakespeare and speculating about how much time eating takes away from homework.

Lincoln Center Fountain

Lincoln Center Main Building

Schoolwork aside, I’m continually excited to be home in the city where I belong, and the little things each day remind me why I’m working so hard for a future that's so uncertain.  Here’s a little taste of life in Manhattan!

It’s amazing how quickly and easily I fell back into routine here, almost like I had never left!  However, the little things like hundreds of new faces at AMDA and the completely different listing of Broadway shows point out how much time I've missed.  This new scaffolding around the projects next to my school, for instance, was put up sometime over the summer and has completely transformed my walk.  Even though I knew exactly where I was on that first walk back to school, I still found myself slowing down to make sure I hadn't accidentally passed my school!   

Boxes like these kept showing up for the entirety of week one.  Every day I would have a new box waiting for me, sometimes requiring several trips up and down the elevator to get everything!  Thankfully, they waited until week two to start piling on the homework, otherwise those boxes would probably still be sitting unopened in a forgotten corner of my tiny dorm room.

Last Saturday was my first Remicade treatment back at Mount Sinai. Thinking I could get to the treatment center purely by memory, I ended up getting lost, resulting in an extra mile I had to speed walk in order to make it to my appointment on time. Adventure! Though of course, I never could have done it without my handy dandy Google Maps App! Central park may be a vast labyrinth, but at least Google knows every inch of it!

Back Entrance into Lincoln Center right next to the Big Apple Circus currently taking place there.

By the time I walk home from school, New York is usually dark, and my favorite path back to the dorms is right through Lincoln Center.  Something about the beautiful grand structures, the tourists taking pictures in fancy outfits right before a show, and the gorgeous fountain right in the middle of the square is absolutely magical.  It is all too easy to lose yourself once you start staring into the choreographed dance of the water in the fountain.

I can't contain my excitement about my first musical theatre piece of the year.  I'm performing a duet from The Fantasticks, one of the classics of musical theatre, called Soon it's Gonna Rain.  I'm particularly excited to devote the next few weeks to inheriting the character of Luisa, who I find to be so similar to me it's actually terrifying.

I spent my Halloween night reading and studying, having celebrated the night before with friends watching the first six episodes of American Horror Story.  However, walking back from a rehearsal at school, I stumbled upon this amazing kid-friendly Halloween block party happening only one block away from the dorms.  I stayed long enough to snap a picture before scurrying back to my room to read a little more of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, our current reading assignment for Acting.

An attempt to make Microwaved Fudge in a used salad container from the school.  It turned out harder than fudge usually is.  No matter; chocolate is chocolate, and it shall be eaten.

Here's an exciting piece of news: I have decided to join the National Blog Post Month challenge this November.  The proof is over on the right side in the Archives how sporadic and widely spaced my posts have been throughout the last year.  I've filled up many a paragraph with empty promises to post more often, never following through.

But no longer!  For now I have created a reason to post every single day.  If I can actually convince myself to complete this challenge, you'll be excited to join in many a day in the life of Little Me as I actually recount all of my adventures on a schedule!

Stay tuned for tons of fun, soon to come.

Love always,
Little Me