I Am Not A Wallflower!

As some of you all may know. every semester UNM does four shows with the theatre department.  In the one year that I attended UNM previously, I only saw one of those shows and I never even considered trying to audition.  This semester though, with starting back at school, one of the things that I determined is that I didn't want to be a wallflower anymore which is something I've been pretty much since I started college.  I would sit at the very back of the classroom, and despite, usually, keeping up with reading and homework and what not, I never really participated in the class.  The biggest part of my issue was because I am overweight, I didn't want to bring any further attention to myself.  I felt if anyone noticed me, they would judge me and possibly make fun of me which was the last thing I wanted.  So I did my best to make myself invisible.  I didn't make a whole lot of effort with my appearance or clothing choices and I think I did succeed fairly well with just blending in.

Bus Adventures and Frights

One of the joys of being a college student for me is taking the bus.  Being a student means I get a free bus pass so I park me car, for free, at the Uptown bus lot, show by UNM ID to the driver, and I get a ride to school.  It's pretty darned convenient but not without it's adventures and, at times, it's frightening moments.

I haven't taken the bus since I was last at UNM which was about, what, two years ago or so?  Something like that.  So my first day, last Monday, I caught my bus, made it to my classes, and then ran to bus stop to catch the bus back to my car.  Now I take the Rapid Ride, there's a Red line and a Green line that run past UNM and I take the Red line.  Somehow, I managed to confuse myself and I thought the Green line was the bus I wanted and literally ran to catch the bus and made it.  Yay!  Well, until we drove past Louisiana and I was like, um, wait a second, shouldn't you have turned there?  Yeah, my brain was not working correctly that day.  It took me a second to remind myself that, oh yeah, the Red line runs both east and west, not just west.  Needless to say, I felt incredibly stupid as I rode the Green line bus all the way up to Central and Tramway and then back down to Central and Louisiana where I was able to catch the next Red line bus.  That was my first bus adventure.

Changes and Losses

So obviously I have not been as good as I thought I would be about blogging after concluding my Lord of the Rings project.  Frankly life has been a bit crazy since then and I have not had the ideas, inclination, or time to blog.  To be honest, I could have made the time, but the inclination and ideas were just not there.  A lot has changed though since the last time I blogged so this probably going to be a longer post.