listen

Amidst the numerous football fans that I work with, I somehow managed to get Sundays completely off. Yeeha! Now I don't have to stress out about getting my shifts covered for improv class, and I can actually enjoy them and relax. This week's lesson was about showing emotion, but I think the bigger lesson was about listening before reacting. The rule of the game was to make the delivery express your emotion, but not let the emotion control you or the scene. It became difficult when we were told to freeze and given a new emotion, and we all just exploded. It became easier to listen to someone's offer and letting it sink in before letting loose. Sometimes I worry that silence will make people uncomfortable. In comedy I think that tension could potentially be golden. In real life I think I need to shut my mouth now and then before I spew my opinions. One of my all-time favorite quotes was said by Plato, and it is "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.". I try to remember that as much as possible. One of these days I am going to make a collection of quote t-shirts to inspire myself with nuggets of wisdom every day.

I'm having a rare spell of creativity at the moment. I whipped up some homemade cookies to bring to work the other day, and while they were baking crafted a patchwork owl and sewed it on a sweatshirt. I'm thinking about starting some diy project posts on this blog. Another theme I'd like to carry out is "things I have learned from my grandparents". Seriously, grandparents are awesome. I can't think of a better note to end on than that. Katie out.