Ah, this was the kind of weekend that makes my heart sing.

I saw the West Coast premiere of Eclipsed at the Kirk Douglas Theatre on Friday night. Saturday, I saw Medea at UCLA Live — two very intense, very brilliant nights of theatre. Which, of course, meant that I needed a comedic break, so Sunday, I saw Whip It.

Each of those shows was with a different friend, so I had meals with four different people over the course of the weekend, and then spent two hours on the phone with Colin last night. It’s not often that we get that much time for a conversation, so it’s a welcome diversion from the usual schedule when we do.

(And this isn’t at all a comprehensive post of what I’ve been reading, watching, listening to, and going to see. I haven’t done one of those since the summer, have I? I should get on that.)

And now, after a great weekend, it’s right back into the semester’s crazy. This weekend, I’m producing a workshop production of Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, which has been a whirlwind turnaround. For someone who’s used to doing crossover shows in the MOD (translation: a mainstage show that goes up in late February or early March, so rehearsals start in October and it’s a 2-semester assignment on a show in the school’s biggest space), doing a workshop in BB2 (translation: a workshop production focused on the acting process, not the full production process, and presented in one of the small workshop spaces) is a huge change. The show is 4 weeks, beginning to end. Rehearsals started the Monday I got back, and we had 3 weeks of rehearsal, then this week is tech, and a weekend of shows (as opposed to a 8 or 9 performances on a MOD show).

It’s busy, but I’m glad that it’ll be finished up fairly early in the semester; then I can spend November really focusing on my final project without having to worry about my production assignment.

(Although, there is still one other production assignment, which is far more work, in the long run, than Lefty: Michael and I are working on turning over the producing responsibilities of the Coffeehouse to Kat and Laura, who are taking over as resident producers next semester. I’m working on a manual of sorts — all the things I wished I’d known when I started producing there, as well as all the things that we’ve implemented in the last year and a half that I’d really hate to see fall by the wayside just because we didn’t communicate well to our successors.)

And now, there are two months left. Less than that, really. The semester technically ends on Dec. 18, but classes really finish on the 11th. So, um, yeah. That’s exciting and kind of frightening.

But the good news is that I’ve been officially approved to graduate early. The conditional approval that I received last semester (and have been essentially passing off as a done deal) is now actually a done deal. Paperwork has been approved; my online student profile now says “Anticipated Graduation: Fall 2009″ rather than “Spring 2010″.

So here we go. Two months left; time to move into warp speed. But first, lunch.

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