Time keeps on slipping

If your of my generation, remember being in middle or high school and having Live Journal? Posting lyrics to songs to your journal or using song titles/lyrics as the title of your posts, or where you had the option of putting in a little tag "So and So is listening to this"? Consider the title of this post an homage to those heady days.

I find myself drawn to them at this time of year, the transition from summer to fall. It's strange to realize that for the first time in my life that switch is happening and I'm not starting the next phase of some academic agenda. Instead I'm just left with life itself, moving forward, establishing patterns, getting older. And also getting wiser, finding new experiences, all of those things that come with time's unceasing momentum.

I have a lot of stuff going on for the fall. Rosencratz and Guildenstern is opening soon, really soon. After that, I keep forgetting about this but I'm committed to play the narrator in this tribal/belly dance show (definitely something I found on Craigslist). After R&G I'm playing Mr. Webb in Riverside Theatre Works' production of Our Town not a show I had expected to find myself in... ever. Then I'm playing the Spearcarrier I mean Watchmen in Uncle Vanya at Apollanaire in Chelsea. So many things! All of that is carrying me through... my god, January. Which is about how long my movie pay checks should be carrying me as well.

And after that... it will be on to the next thing. I have a lot to decide this fall. Do I want to try for graduate school? New York? Los Angeles? I'm not thinking completely relocating, but I feel like I should be thinking of trying to branch out of Boston and into somewhere to try and take advantage of this movie momentum. And in the meantime, Boston stuff is going well. I'm in all these shows, for example. Three of them! Lots of actors have a hard time getting in one, much less committing to two at a time. I also need to join SAG at some point. And get a voice over demo recorded, and then possibly join AFTRA. I mean inevitably I'll need to join both, the question is when and how to best take advantage.

I was talking with a friend about all this, grad school vs New York vs regional theatre and he said that opportunities will present themselves and I should just take them when they do. At the time I disagreed with him, but then again that's how I got Crooked Arrows. But that was also being in the right place in the right time, aka luck. A lot of this business is luck. And I've been lucky so far. To get that good luck requires hard work and tenacity and being in the places which could turn out to be the right place, at that right time, nothing ever came to anyone for sitting around and waiting for it to happen. Even if it did, I wouldn't want it to happen that way, I like working. But working towards what? That is the question.