end of day 2

Well, I'm currently in my hotel room in Columbus, OH. It's been a crazy couple of days!
I left Omaha early yesterday afternoon and drove to Bloomington/Normal, IL. I met Cassie, Marly, and Amanda (currently a senior at Northwestern, also auditioning at ISU) for dinner. Then Amanda and I went back to watch a run-through of the show Marly is currently assistant designing. It's called BreathBoom and was about women in gangs, hard but fascinating. After the rehearsal, Amanda and I headed back to Cassie & Marly's apartment while they finished up crew stuff.
During conversation, Amanda and I realized that we knew shockingly little about our auditions. I'd been told we needed 2 monologues, she'd been told 3 (good thing I memorized those back-up monologues last month!). Neither of us knew where we were supposed to be or who to check in with. We also found out later from Cassie that they apparently expect students to audition in business attire, which neither of us had with us. Slightly frustrtating.
This morning, Cassie hung out with me until my audition, which kept me from being nervous. I think it went well. There were 2 guys doing the audtions, they both seemed very nice. I did my monologues. One of the guys had me re-do one of them with different pieces of direction, which I think I did. They asked me to tell them about myself, so I talked about 88, why I wanted to go back to school, and why I was interested in Illinois State specifically. They said they were looking for 8 students, and that they'd start making offers in the next 2 weeks. We've been told that they're only planning on taking 2 girls (the grad students feed directly into their summer Shakespeare festival and Shakespeare just doesn't require a lot of women), so apart from having overwhelming competition, I feel good about it. Afterwards, Cassie, Marly and I met up with Drew (graduated with me from Northwestern, is currently a 3rd year lighting design student at ISU). Then we found Cassie & Marly's boss Julie and another grad student and all went out lunch.
I hit the road for another six and half hours, it should have been less, but I got lost at an interchange in Indianapolis.
Now I'm showered, crashed, drained... and set to do it all again tomorrow. Woohoo