Have I Quit Adventuring?

Those without Blog Themes are wise.

You may have noticed that I got tired of "adventure" titling after awhile. And honestly, it's hard to find the adventure in some things.

Face it: Life isn't always an adventure.

But you can make it so.I got lazy, but I'll try to get back into it, as much as it might annoy Tom or twist my brain. And obviously if the adventures are hard to find, I'm not making enough of my own! Adventures don't always happen to you, you have to seek out adventure. Find it in the mundane activities, and when those are spent, create a new experience and quit doing the old.

I am currently on the job market again, still at STC, biding my time until I am hired by a more advantageous company. I have an Interview at Discovery Theatre next Tuesday afternoon, and have just sent my resume to the Education Department at Round House (who happens to be based across the street from my new apartment). Folger still isn't hiring anything in my ability range (I didn't graduate from an accredited MLA program, nor have I ever cleaned toilets professionally), so I can't wait for it. I could kick myself that I didn't apply for the registrar position when it was available. But that's my bad.

Change is good, I think. Which goes against my ISFJ personality, but jives with my water-sign: Pisces. Change can take you places. I have exhausted the meager pittance of experience the Box Office at STC was able to give me again and again, so it's time I found something more to my liking, and something that can compensate me more in both ker-ching and fulfillment.

So yeah, it sucks to seem in constant flux, but the knowledge is there that you never have to stay permanently in something you despise. It's probably one of the reasons I'm in theatre. It is a constantly changing and evolving art, with plenty to morph in rehearsals and the knowledge that either good or bad, every show WILL END. There's a beginning and an end date on every contract in theatre, and they're usually within 3months of each other so... constantly moving, shifting, changing. Love it.

However, the rational part of me - the one with $50K in student loans and a color coded Google Calendar to micro-manage all 3 jobs at once -needs stability. Hence the 3 jobs. Hence the monetary break from the 'rents, although they couldn't help me much anyway. Hence I whine and moan about how things are changing AND how I want things to change.

Change is life. Change is the cause of adventure. Change of scenery, change of pace, change of timing, anything that changes my life in someway is an Adventure.

So I'm moving next Saturday: Adventure.
I'm going to start taking Dance Classes again: Adventure.
I'm going to my Cousin's baby shower this weekend: Hella Adventure.
I should have a new job before the summer: Adventure.
I need to visit Detroit before Andrew goes to Lansing: Adventure.
I'll be auditioning in 3 weeks in front of most of the best Artistic Directors in DC: Wet Yaself Adventure.
Aaaand Trip to Belgium in T minus 38 weeks: The Most AWESOME Adventure EVER!

Little things. Hell, it's better than beating my brother and Amy at Superheroes all day!

And of course, let's not forget to credit this to the fact that I watched Hook on Easter Sunday. Nothing makes me cry faster than Robin Williams at the end, "To live, to live will be an awfully great adventure."