First Day of Class!!

So I don't know why, but for some reason even after a wonderful day spent with the delightful Alex Campbell, when I got home (Wow, I just referred to the New Yorker as Home.) last night I really felt the need to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Foolish movie-obsessed boy! I hear you cry.

Well, yes. That's what I am. So I watched it on Netflix and it was quite satisfying.

But... That meant that I decided I needed to lay in bed a little over half an hour after my alarm went off the next morning. Mind you, my classes didn't start until 2 in the afternoon, but I had to workout before school and, as a result, shower, and fix myself something to eat, and hopefully go to Staples before heading to AADA. Well when I finished working out, I was somewhat shocked and dismayed to discover that it was almost 1 p.m.. Still I didn't fret, figuring everything was still under control. I showered, made a sandwich and scarfed it down, and of course checked Facebook. Well, naturally, three people chose right then to start chatting with me, and it is so rude to just ignore those chatty people. By the time I finally brushed them all off it was necessary to power walk all the way to school, and Staples was definitely out of the question. At about 2 blocks from the school I started sprinting, but it was of no use.

I was late.

Thankfully, the Voice and Speech teacher had the goodness in her to let it slide the first day of class and not deduct from my GPA, but it was slightly awkward when she came to the part in her syllabus about the inexpressible importance of being on time for every class. Oh well...

School was about as interesting as a first day of class introductions can be. We discovered how common favorite movies can really bring a group together, and how out of a group of seventeen at acting school in NYC, chances are each person's favorite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh Meryl... Acting class was spent talking about ourselves, where the tale of the Addison Expedition Through Central America was met with pretty unanimous respect. Not gonna lie, I'm never above bragging about my family's adventures. After that we spent a rather ridiculous amount of time discussing a definition of acting, which (again not gonna lie) got a little old. I was ready to stop talking definitions and show 'em how it's DONE! But we'll get to that soon enough.

Once school finally let out (7 o'clock at night!), my buddy Jake and I decided Taco Bell was worth it tonight. I didn't realize just how much worth I was talking about- those 79, 89, and 99 cent burritos that are so delightful at every other Taco Bell on the face of the planet? They don't do those in New York City. Six dollars for two burritos! Geez, talk about a reminder that you're in the big city!

I won't lie, though. After several weeks of almost exclusively dry goods-type food, those burritos tasted worth every cent. :)