Stir-essed

Lots to do:

-Prep for Encyclopedia Show
-Finish and turn in my Teaching Philosophy & CV for an award nomination I got(!)
-Write a 20 minute set for my first headliner stand-up show(!)
-Finish grading 10 improv journals
-Grade 22 screenplays that star Angelina Jolie
-Revise my 10-minute play
-Finish a full-lenth
-And another
-Read peer plays for discussion
-Put the new plates on my scooter
-Write an article about pumpkins
-Get fitted for a costume
-Absentee vote
-Plus work, plus TAing, plus class, plus improv rehearsal, plus play rehearsal

Chicago Skyline. Blurred. 2012.

I try not to discredit my feelings, but once I write it out like that, it sure sounds like I'm stressed about gumdrops and jelly beans.

Children wake up,
hold your mistake up,
before they turn the summer into dust.