I have a lot to tell you, lovely follower. TWO AMAZING THINGS HAPPENED TODAY! Not 1, not 3, but 2!!
I just want to write an extremely detailed post right now (as how I usually write on this here tumblr thing) but I can’t afford to do that because of an important exam tomorrow, but I will give you the gist in BULLET POINT FORMAT! That’s what the cool kids are doing these days, right? RIGHT?!?!
These series of fortunate events are as follows…
- I wake up at 7 AM on the dot so I can beat my monotone roommate to the shower. To do this, I have to set my iPhone’s alarm clock at 5:15 AM, 5:30 AM, 5:45 AM, etc., you know, so I can warm up to the idea of waking up early so by the time it hits 7 AM, my body will easily crawl out of bed! I hate myself.
- QUICK SIDEBAR: I apologize for breaking the rule of bullet points. I realize that bullet point was way too long and defeats the purpose of everything bullet points stand for.
- QUICK SIDEBAR #2: I also realize “Quick Sidebar [#1]” was no exception.
- (I’m so sorry)
- OKAY HERE WE GO…
- In my INTRO TO ACTING class today, our first assignment was due. That first assignment was a class talent show.
- THAT’S RIGHT, A TALENT SHOW!
- “But I don’t have a talent.” -Everyone ever at some point, probably
- We had a week’s warning before this assignment, and the whole week I thought to myself that I knew I wanted to / had to do comedy in some form, but I was stressed out nonetheless.
- The night before the assignment was due, I just decided that I was going to just read some of my tweets out loud. As I lay my head on my pillow that night, I just thought I’ll look through my twitter feed and pick the best of my recent jokes.
- OKAY. So it is now 8 AM and I am on campus. At 9:30 AM I have SCRIPT ANALYSIS, and at 11 AM I have INTRO TO ACTING.
- I had an hour and a half to look through my entire twitter feed and select several jokes I’m particularly proud of. I had to keep in mind a sort of flow and connect these jokes together so it wouldn’t be me just reading my tweets. I HAD TO PERFORM THESE JOKES.
- I created a setlist in an email (which were just the tweets copy/pasted in bulleted format) and sent it to myself. I planned to have a Rock Band microphone as a prop, and refer to my iPhone for the setlist if necessary. I WAS READY AND NERVOUS AND EXCITED!
- It is now 10:45 AM. I just got out of my SCRIPT ANALYSIS class and am now on the way to INTRO TO ACTING at 11 AM.
- BUT WAIT! What’s that? I’m getting a call? But I don’t have friends! I pick up the phone and it was Mrs. Kendrick, the web developer for the University of Georgia.
- QUICK BUT VERY IMPORTANT SIDEBAR #3: I sent in my resume to be a “Student Web Design Assistant” for the UGA websites.
- I GOT THE JOB TO BE A “STUDENT WEB DESIGN ASSISTANT” FOR THE UGA WEBSITES! (Amazing thing #1)
- I am SO happy and excited. This will be an amazing experience and be a killer component to my resume for the Digital Internship at CONAN!
- I got the phone call literally 10 minutes before my INTRO TO ACTING class. It immediately put me in a good mood, and it somehow made the talent show a lot less scary. I WAS READY TO GO!
- It is now 11:25 AM… ish. I don’t know, I didn’t really keep checking the time, I just thought it would make this bulleted list more exciting. So it’s 11:26 AM, I’m the 4th person to go, AND THEN HISTORY IS MADE!
- I performed stand-up in front of people for the first time. (Amazing Thing #2 - If you were only reading this to find the TWO AMAZING THINGS mentioned in the second sentence of this post, I guess you can stop reading now)
- SO YEAH! I went up there, and did it. I looked at my audience, I introduced myself (since it’s still the first few weeks of school, we all really don’t know each other too well yet), and I went straight into it…
- OH MY GOD. THE LAUGHTER. THE LAUGHTER THE AUDIENCE GAVE BACK TO ME. IT WAS AMAZING. To be able to stand up in front of 30 people and perform something I wrote, is an experience I will never forget. And, I mean, I won’t forget it, because I want to keep doing it. If you follow me on twitter, none of the material was new, so the fact that this was to a class of people who don’t know me, everything worked perfectly. The only thing I did that was new were my improvised transitions, and that received even better feedback then some of the jokes I did. IT WAS AMAZING! It was such a wonderful feeling, making a bunch of people in a room I don’t know laugh. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. GAH. I’m getting chills right now just thinking about it. After class was over some people came up to me and told me that I was really funny. MY FACE WAS OBVIOUSLY RED WITH HAPPINESS!
- [BULLET POINT LIMIT REACHED]
AHHHHH. So yeah. MY EMOTIONS! I got a new job for the week (I still work at American Eagle on the weekends), and I performed stand-up for the first time. And uh, well, I say stand-up, but it was barely stand-up. It was just my tweets very cleverly connected by transitions. OH MY GOD I WISH SOMEONE RECORDED IT! I WISH SOMEONE RECORDED IT SO BAD! It didn’t occur to me do that, mainly because I was super nervous and thought it was gonna be bad. BUT I KILLED! (I promise I’m not trying to be cocky or brag… I’m just really really really proud of myself)
This feeling… this is the feeling comedians must feel when they kill on stage, or anywhere really. I really want to do this again soon, so hey, LOVELY FOLLOWER, if you want me to try and make you laugh, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Seriously. I will call you / skype you / ANYTHING. It would help me improve, and I will hopefully make you laugh. IT’S A WIN-WIN!
Man. This is exciting. Web design job at UGA. Performing jokes for people. Things are happening. Things… are happen- *post starts fading to black* HEY, HEY! I’M NOT DONE YET WHAT ARE YOU DOING TUMB
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