Picking up from last time –
September – Broke my first bone! This was so wild. And kind of stupid. I broke my foot by having a chair missing a screw, sitting in it wrong, and falling in a bad way. So, this certainly wasn’t a ‘good’ thing, but it probably was the biggest thing that happened in September. I got to wear a cast for the first time, and have way too many doctor’s appointments. And somehow I survived all those visits to medical places without getting Covid!
October – Taught music & dance lessons online.
I don’t remember exactly what month I started this, but I had a pretty full slate of students in October. It’s wild to think of myself in that light, as a teacher, ’cause you know, my teachers are my *spotlight/angels sound* teachers. But I’m like… just a young little student or whatever. But no, now I have tiny students, and I’m the teacher. It’s exciting to share the wonders of music and dance with people!
November – Worked on a documentary by LeBron James’ company. The people were very cool. The doc was very cool. This was lovely.
December – Accepted to Berklee grad school! So, in the fall, I’ll be starting my Master of Arts in Creative Technology & Media, specializing in Writing for Musical Theatre. Man, I’m really starting to sound like a grown-up in some ways, aren’t I?
Overview: It was a crazy year, as we all know. I try not to talk about the pandemic toooooo crazy much on here because… it’s everywhere. It’s suffocating.
I get it. It’s what happening. We can’t get away from it. But there’s like no escape. Most TV shows are set in the pandemic, and again, I get it. People think they have to address it. But it’s suffocating. And when (if) we ever look back on these years, I hope it’s not just pandemic, pandemic all the time in my writing and everything. That being said, for a year in which nearly 3/4 of it was spent not really being able to go many places or do many things (physically in person, at least)… a fair amount got done.
Moving forward in school, having some interesting professional experiences, another game show RIGHT under the wire (the last day most people went to work before the pandemic took over), some novel things (to some extent going back to full-time undergrad was novel, breaking a bone was novel experience.
Considering the circumstances, I think it was quite a reasonably all right year [overall]!