Just an events post today.

As I was driving to the Jefferson District Theatre Competition this morning, a live version of The Fray’s “Over My Head (Cable Car)” came on the radio. As soon as the lyrics started, you could hear this sort of echo on about an eighth of a second delay, which turned out to be the audience singing along. Wow, was that annoying. Then for one chorus, the lead singer stopped singing to let the audience have their turn all by themselves. I had no idea that, collectively, fans of The Fray sound like an anorexic 9-year-old girl. Don’t ask me how I know what an anorexic 9-year-old sounds like.

Now, as for the District Theatre Competition… CHS won first place (which has happened three out of the four times in my high school experience). More surprising, however, was that every member of our cast won an “Outstanding Actor” award - something they normally only give out two of. This means we’ll be going to the Regional competition in Broad Run on November 10th (and also means that my schedule gets that much more complicated).

But honestly, the judging, or even performing, isn’t my favorite part of these competitions. The best part is getting to see all the different plays and hang out with the theatre kids from other schools. Aside from Gov School friends I saw again, I got to actually have conversations with people I haven’t spoken to in over a year, and put faces to various Facebook profiles of people I’ve never actually spoken to (Oh, Facebook - it all comes back to thee). I need to stay in touch more with my theatre friends…

In other news, I’ve finally sent off my application to NYU!!! After months of stressing out, the first (and hopefully last) leg of my college application process is now done. I don’t find out until December 15th, so I have a little bit a rest before I know whether I need to write tons more essays for the other colleges I’m thinking about applying to. And let me tell you, those six weeks are going to be killer. But it will be very good to know…

And gosh darn it, why do emotions have to be so complicated?

Congrats to you and the cast. Your Mom said you were amazing, Michael. Good luck to all of you on the 10th.