Hot-Tubbing, English Majors, Jeff Foxworthy and Play practice

So my sister is officially moved in to their new house in Seward...okay so they still have boxes that aren't unpacked but close enough, and now she keeps insisting I go over there and hot-tub with them, which would be fine if I actually had free time. This past week I had 3 papers due, a take-home test and a presentation. There wasn't a night that I went to bed before 2AM. Thursday I was up 'til 6. Mass craziness! Do any of you feel this way being English majors? I feel overloaded by all the reading and writing all the time. It gets boring and that sucks cause I used to love to read and write. Now it's like a chore and I don't like it.
Anyway, I'm writing my 3rd paper on being an English major. So far it's very Jeff Foxworthy,
- If you use Shakespeare’s words as a guide to your life...you may be an English major.
- If you are constantly correcting people’s grammar in a public setting...you may be an English major.
I have about 12 of those and while that is all good great grand and wonderful I'm completely stuck. My muse seems to have ran away. Perhaps I expect too much of her. Hopefully she'll be back soon. Since I was stuck and it was stop-and-go writing I moved on to the myths of being an English major. I only have about 7 of these.
- All English majors spend time reading books and drinking coffee in a coffee shop.
- False, not all of us like coffee, some of us prefer green tea.
But anyway, I have writer's block so if any of you guys have any ideas they will be welcomed!
Play practice with my kids is going well. We're going to be out of our books this week...or we better be cause we're running out of time. The play is May 3rd but they have a week off for Easter and then track meets and a field trip plus excluding weekends that's like 24 days...And I'm only out there like twice a week. We'll have to hit it hard these next few weeks.
That's all for now. I'm gonna relax before heading back to dodge.
-CK

Malice in the Palace

So, for my GS 301 project I'm directing the play at my old grade school. I help out every year but I've never been fully in charge of it. This year we're doing "Malice in the Palace" which is basically the story of Esther but a funny musical version of it. Last year we did "The Rockslinger and His Greatest Hit" aka David and Goliath and I can't remember what we did for the two years prior to that.
Anyway, this year I have a dilemma. I'm headed to Geneva in a few minutes to have a meeting with the teacher who was my teacher. She's wicked awesome and we have a lot of fun together. We're getting a pizza and assigning roles, solos, and talking about when we're going to start practice and blocking and stuff. It's gonna be fun stuff.
My dilemma is, the last time we talked we discussed the possibilities of who should be who and I only have three girls. Two 8th graders and a 3rd grader. One will be Esther, the other a narrator and the other one will be just one of the chorus people, the local population. Anyway, so we need a queen Vashti which shouldn't be hard since she only has to scream 'No!' after being told she needs to come to the palace and then she gets banned.
However, we also need Haman's wife. Since we don't have enough girls for it Nicole - the teacher - thinks that I should step in which is fine because I like acting and when I'm up there I get them really into it by being really dramatic and using voices and stuff but this role is just going to be awkward. First off, I'd be married to one of my 6th graders and he's really short so I'd have to play her on my knees, and secondly, the lines we say to each other are just plain creepy. No one should call anyone their 'persian peanut' or their 'precious kumquat' and they should definitely not call anyone their 'succulent fig!' Seriously?!
So, I'm off to the meeting now. Maybe I'll be able to pawn off the role to somebody else. Wish me luck!
- CK