It's June

Now that it's June, I find that telling myself, "I'll figure that out in June" is no longer as comforting as once it was.  June looked pleasantly remote even from last week--certainly mid-June and the Showcase seemed months away...

Now I find that today I'm meeting with Helene, co-director #1 so that she can cast her professional eye over my act.  And on Saturday I'm meeting with Stefan Haves, co-director #2 and the former assistant director to Kooza (yes, that Kooza), so he can cast his professional eye over it, and hopefully slap some transitions on either end.  There are two shows in the coming weekends.  Then it's showtime.

Between now and then I have to get the third and final iteration of my costume in the mail, which will fit properly or else I will be forced to perform naked.  I should probably re-tape Trappy (it looks super dirty, I think because the leather is still getting broken in and it's...I don't know...shedding black stickiness onto the bar.  Or something.)  I have to wrangle some practice time during tech week.  I have to volunteer myself for the Pratfalls show, as well as the Showcase shows that I'm not in.  On that note, I have to find out from Helene if I'm really in the shows that I think I'm in.  I have to learn very small parts for two additional acts--they need a lot of warm bodies on the stage at once, and I volunteered to be among them.  One of them is a waltz, so evidently I will be learning how to waltz sometime in the next few weeks.

Looking at my calendar (which I have been doing nonstop since I realized it was June), I notice that there are not many days where I have written "practice" in and amidst these other things.  My act as it is right this second is pretty much what's going onstage. 

This is fine: I make most of my cues, most of the time, and get pretty much all of my skills all of the time.*  Although I feel like it's not ready, it's ready.  Honestly, I could have shown it back in April and no one would have thrown fruit at me. 

Knowing me, I could nitpick this act forever, and never feel like it was "ready."  And I'll even get to do that...after the Showcase.  I'll be sorry it's over, then, because one of the many things that I was putting off until June was figuring out what comes next.  Eh...yeah...

I'll figure that out at the end of June.

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*Except for that one time on Sunday when I didn't flex my feet enough while sliding from back balance to ankles, and ended up in a slightly perilous handstand with my feet on the bar.  Hoo, was that exciting.