I'm so messed up from the time change. I hate pushing the clocks forward and losing an hour of sleep. My cats woke me up after 7am to be fed and I was happy they didn't wake me up earlier! Then I realized, wait, it's really like 6am! Maybe this way they won't wake me up earlier anymore. Who I'm I kidding. I go through this every year thinking they'll wake me up later but they adjust quicker than I do and my tomorrow they'll be waking my up at 6am!
So I've now gone to four out of seven of my sitcom classes. So far it's been good but last Saturday I was starting to get sick, and yesterday I was getting over being sick, and I didn't sleep well the night before, and I didn't each much before class, so I felt very, very, very off during class yesterday.
It's also starting to get a little "heady" in the class. A HUGE part of it is breaking down the script to find the jokes. It makes sense, but it seems like whenever I do that my acting technique goes right out the window. Things are approached a little different in this class than in my other class and it's almost like I need to take that extra step and take all the info and approach it from the way I do in my other class - convert it to something I can grasp a little easier. It's almost like converting a file on my computer. The thing is, the exercises we do in class, we do them pretty much cold, and there isn't always time for me to be converting a file, lol! Plus I don't work fast at all. This is why it's sooooo important for me to go to my other class when this teacher is the guest. Show them what I can do when I've had more time to prepare and just go in there and kick ass!
Another thing that confuses me a little bit but I think I'm starting to sort out is the terminology. I've now taken sitcom classes at three different places and some of the terminology is different. They have slightly different names for the same types of jokes. Like some people call it a "couch" and others call it a "sofa." Some people call it a "footstool" others call it an "ottoman." The trick is figuring out okay, "couch" and "sofa" mean the same thing. "Couch" and "footstool" are not the same. Then of course there was the one teacher who I think just made up their own terminology for jokes. In fact I even remember being in class one day and discussing a joke and the teacher said something like "we're gonna call it this." That's fine, but horribly confusing when I started taking other classes and workshops and NO ONE used this terminology! To make matters worse, it was the first sitcom class I ever took, so that terminology sort of stuck with me. So again I'm there converting information! The good thing is the newer, (and I suspect correct) terminology I'm learning is sinking in and it's much easier now that I figured out there aren't 1000s of types of jokes, I just know too many differnt names for the same stuff!
Other than that, I never heard anything from that workshop/play I auditioned for. I'm kind of bummed because I would've like to have done it, but what can you do. I have NO idea what they were looking for. With the audition that wide open ("do anything!") all I could do is go in there and be myself and if they didn't like it there's absoluetly nothing I can do.
Okay, I need to go to the gym. I haven't been in over a week because I wasn't feeling well. I think I'll wait a little while longer. I love going later on Sunday's becuase it's not as busy.
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