This week in my life..

This week's classes were really great. We started off Monday with a poetry workshop with a real life poet, cin Salach. It was the most nurturing poetry experience I have ever had. I should note that all previous experience spanned traumatic middle school haikus, this was much, much better. It was actually fun! I am a visually creative as apposed to words creative person for the most part and this exercise was great for getting me out of my comfort zone in terms of expressing myself.

Wednesday was improv day. We went to IO (Improv Olympics) for their 11 o'clock show and it was hi-lar-i-ous. We are still cracking jokes about it. IO is in Wrigleyville in this great little intimate space where you can hear everyone's laughs separately all at once. I can't even imagine how fast their brains function to be able to have an entire conversation (a funny one) from no prompts, script, anything. So So mind blowing when you stop laughing for a second and think about it.

Tonight I'm going to an Irish punk show..we'll see how it goes because I have no clue what it'll be like! I'm excited!

Here are some pictures from the week..

Something really amazing just happened to me. A few minutes ago I did laundry, came back to my room, got my drying rack out from under my bed, set it up, and expanded it. For the first time, my drying rack is able to reach its full wing-span, stretch all the way out in both directions of its stretchability, and still fit very comfortable in my room. There is probably room for three shirts across each bar; I never knew it had such potential. Finally, there is space to hang dry my un-dryable clothes..albeit the space has not yet magically grown from it's one-room studio size, it's still big enough to do laundry in.

2 weeks.

I've been here for two weeks and it is craaaaazy. I have been so busy I have meant to write every single day because we have done something fun every single day. On Monday for class, we had an improv workshop and it was so hilarious I almost peed my pants like 75 times. Thats all for now because I need to go to the fancy gym down the street where I have a free two-week trial membership and take some kind of dance/aerobics class..not Zumba, some other one I've never heard of..more exotic.

lovelove.