Chaos Reigns

What can I say to this dormant space? Things have been nuts, folks: after the jump, some life updates.

Since last I posted, I got invited to apply to a faculty position teaching theatre, went through the most whirlwind interviewing process of m'life, got a job offer less than a week before classes began, moved, and started teaching. I am, it must be said, a flattened pancake of a man, just a pile of bones sort of vaguely scrabbling towards the holidays, fitting in voiceover recording sessions on weekends in between my lesson prep and lecture outlines.... but I'm quite happy, if constantly exhausted. Getting to teach theatre, and have that be my sole focus, is a genuine gift, and one that may last a year or the rest of my working days (I've gone through too much to hazard bets on outcomes here) so I am just trying to appreciate the early mornings that I spend drinking coffee and outlining lesson plans and exercises, the long days working with students in a theater, and the evenings telling myself I'm going to get further ahead only to pass out at like 9 PM.

Usual empty promises here about updating this page - it will happen, in due time, but for now my world is all about teaching, trying to do my own legwork to catch up on meetings with student support and academic admin folk I should have met if I'd been hired by orientation, and giving myself breaks from screens - this adventure has been a glorious change from the past two years of work-from-home-via-staring-at-a-laptop-all-day, but I'm still trying to cut back on the glowin' boxes where I can.

All of which is to say: I hope you're all hanging in and feelin' strong and living lives full of love and care and mindfulness! We shall all meet again in the glorious wilderness of summer, probably!