Well, my entry for this years’ American Cinema Editors Student Editing Competition is off in the mail, and our of my hands. Finally. I can’t believe it’s been four months since I started obsessing over this thing last September. I waited sent in my entry, then waited a month before finding out I was actually in the competition. Wait another month, get the dailies to edit. Spend a month editing them, send them off, and here I am now. Now, it’s easy to say that, as one of fifty entrants, I’ve got a 1-in-16 chance of getting nominated for the award - but let’s hold that thought. You see, I am a sixteen-year-old Junior in high school. Virtually all of the other entrants are in college or graduate school (or even more intimidating - the American Film Institute). Ha. It’s quite funny, actually. Now come the weeks of waiting for the nominees to be posted on ACE’s website - probably the most nerve-racking, considering there’s no longer anything I can do about it.

Speaking of random theatre-related high-stress things I have to wait about, I had my Theatre Governor’s School audition last Saturday. I’ve gotta say, I think it went fairly well - my monologue went well, and actually managed to sound half-intelligent during the interview. Unlike the American Cinema Editors however, who seem quite humane in comparison, the Governor’s School people are making me wait until mid-April to know if I’m in the program or not. The odds for it aren’t that good, either - about 200 people audition, and they let in less than 50. I win either way though - if I don’t get in to Governor’s School, then I get to go to Otakon in July (and avoid the voice actor I never got around to sending my recording of his panel to…).

Fingers crossed!