Picking up from yesterday –
November – Marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. So cool, right?!
I also re-passed Advanced at The Groundlings (over zoom). You only get 2 years to take Writer’s Lab after you pass advanced, and I passed in the fall of 2019. So, in the fall of 2021, since I couldn’t take writer’s lab (as it still wasn’t being offered [pandemic – shots, shots, shots, shots, shots], and I was in NYC), I retook it online.
[Note: The Groundlings is allowing people to extend their results because of how long people haven’t been able to take classes in person. But since we don’t know for sure how long that’s gonna last, best to just get this done.]
And I was in class with the coolest people. I had SO much fun!
December – Finished my first semester of grad school (getting an MA in Creative Media & Technology specializing in Writing & Design for Musical Theatre). And got a 4.0! I also got to watch the ball drop live in Times Square, which was pretty darn cool.
Overview: As you can tell, this year was very much wrapped up in… school? Music? Writing? All of the above. A few side musical theater projects, and going to school – that had a lot of writing for lots of musical theater elements. Yeah… a lot of work…
A lot of being indoors… I mean, some not. This didn’t all make it in the things by month review, but I did go to Florida and scuba dive a bit before grad school, as things seemed safer. And I did travel back to LA and do all the theme park stuff. It wasn’t like zero adventures happened. Or like I never went outside. (I marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and saw the ball drop! haha)
But yeah… I guess it was a lot of school and projects, ultimately – especially in the first half. What a surreal year that both flew by and also took 1,000 years. But I suppose that’s how time works in general.