Yes, I am in Community Theater

I have recently had the pleasure of being inducted onto the board of the Valley City Community Theater. I am very happy to be a part of it and I think it is a great opportunity for me considering I am not a part of a lot of extracurricular activities besides theater here at the college. However, I was incredibly disappointed at the lack of structure amongst the board. One meeting took almost two and a half hours. Mainly because too much time was spent on unimportant topics, nobody was willing to make a concrete decision or obstained from voting on an important topic when a decision desperately needed to be made. I also noticed that I was the youngest member of the board and only one amongst two others who noticed that this board lacked structure. Strangely both of these members are the second and third youngest. I felt that in order to get things done I had to be almost rude, well, scratch that, I had to be downright rude in order to go to the next topic. I felt bad because they just put me on the board tonight and I am also doing my internship with them, so, I felt I should have shown more gratitude but at the same time I wasn’t willing to put a hold on my opinion just to save feelings, especially when it stalled in the face of progress. So, my point is this, am I overreacting to this position? Am I right in my conception that it is better to be a bit of a wench and say what’s on my mind or should I just keep my mouth shut and let everyone do what they want?

Cabin Fever equals Writer's Block

Who would have thought spending time in a room by yourself could be the least influential in the creative writing process. Before this flood business began I had several plays in constructive process. All of them original, wonderful ideas that I was excited to work on, of course with school, however, it is difficult to find time to just sit and write. So, when we were told to get out and had time to sit and do absolutely nothing for a week I realized I could just write until my heart’s content with all four of my plays. After taking a few days of resting my mind and watching mind numbing television I decided it was time to take advantage of this great opportunity, so, I sat and looked over what I had written so far and… nothing. I had nothing. No jokes, no dialogue, no action whatsoever. I was so disappointed. Not worrying about it I went back to watching television, getting caught up on my shows, so to speak. Then school began again, it felt good to get back to work again. But the writer’s block was still there, I had absolutely nothing to write about. I sat staring at my computer with absolutely nothing. I tried brainstorming, random writing but I had nothing of substance that would go anywhere. “What is happening to me?” I asked. Then I realized I had been stuck in my apartment doing nothing but working out, sleeping late and watching television. I had nothing to inspire me. All of my friends are out of town and I had no one to banter with, I had no one to talk to and only my television and computer for company. I realized this was a lonely state to be in and obviously not very productive for my brain. So, I tried talking with friends on the phone, unfortunately, I have never been much of a phone person either. I call for something specific, hi and byes then hang up, so that really didn’t help either. I am determined to go out and do something to get over this idle state of mind. It is a cliché but I think the whole idol mind is the devil’s playground is something to put stock into.