Theatre Class Addict

I have often been asked what is my very favorite play.  I would have to say Waiting for Godot bu Samuel Beckett.  There is not another play that becomes someone different and something more each and every time I read it throughout the years.  It demonstrates WAITING and really isn’t that what all of are doing.  To claim we are doing more is pretentious.

I was never one to procrastinate.  I know, you don’t believe me, but it is true.  My favorite thing to do in college was to head to the library after the last class on Friday and stay until I got all papers assigned written and every bit of Monday’s work prepared.  I know, you don’t believe me but it is true!!!  But that gumption is now exhausted.  My commitment to write an entry into this blog every weekday is seeing some serious procrastination – if not outright avoidance.  Over 30 years of high school teaching have poisoned me.  I have become like them.

Ever so rarely in a teacher’s journey do they find a student that is truly a “star”.  The student hungrily eats up everything that you are offering as long as you keep the stakes on the challenge high.  But as they approach their senior year, and they have rather exhausted your lectures, plays, and exercises – – you get this feeling in your gut that “the student has outreached the teacher” and it is time for them to go.  Luckily this didn’t happen until the last month of his senior hear!!  Now it was time to watch and pray.  I had hope that Juilliard would provide this challenge and make this student sweat, and, of course, I was right.  Jullaird came and went and off they jumped into the insane world of film/theatre!  Patrick Heusinger was my “outreached star.”  The proof was obvious.  You can look him up on IMDP or just trust that anyone who can play the evil foil to Tom Cruise has what it takes.

I noticed today that I have spent the entire week wearing gym clothes – of course not the SAME gym clothes but gym clothes never the less.  I get up and put these on as a not too subtle reminder that I need to go going to the gym.  Smart me!  But when it comes to laundry it is now taking me up to two weeks to justify doing a load of clothes.  I have also noticed that my entire wardrobe for the last month could fit neatly into one gym bag.  Never do I have to go into the closet beyond socks and underwear.  Pants and shirts and suit after suit hang a bit dusty in the closet waiting for some special occasion to come around.  I am going to be either seriously saving money on clothing or seriously beginning to buy uber expensive workout clothing.  The first is more likely to happen.  I will have to check around with other retirees and see what they do with their clothes and even their closet . . .A tiny office?

One of the true perks of retirement is that we get to conduct our chores and business during something that is called the middle of the day!  I can remember from my working days – all of 2 months ago that it was nearly impossible to get those doctor appointments done.  I remember having to use my lunch break and do a little sneaking around to get to the parking lot just as the bell rang.  And by the time I got to the doctors office, I was almost in worse health then before.  Then, coming at the same time as all of the other 9-5 workers, we had to wait forever to be seen. Read more →