2 weeks/3 months

Hey all, sorry it's been a while. Last week was my "January Vacation" from the Rose as compensation for working the week between Christmas and New Years. While sleeping in five days in a row was beautiful, it wasn't much of a vacation. I got the oil changed in both Adam's truck and my car. I did our grocery shopping. I bought my plane ticket to Rhode Island. I found new monologues (I ended up with one as Imogen from Cymbeline and one as Lily from A Dirty Job). I borrowed and taped my current monologues (still have to edit those, but Adam found great video editing software). I did our taxes (!) and updated my FAFSA :(. They say we should be able to pay a lot more for our portion than we actually can, but I'm trying to let God worry about that. I cleaned the apartment. I did an 88 business meeting and 2 private shows. One of those shows was at a hotel here in Omaha, when we arrived, we discovered the actual Oscar Meyer Weenie mobile parked outside. We took pictures. We're huge geeks.
Last week I also heard from Indiana State....after having contacted them in October! Their director is going to give me a call next weekend. Seriously though, waiting three months in order to hear back from them does not give me a lot of trust or affinity for the department. Additionally, I just don't know if we can afford for me to take another trip. But I'm getting ahead of myself, we'll see how that phone call goes.
2 weeks from tomorrow I head out on my audition extravaganza! Adam and I decided that it would be safer for me to fly from Ohio than driving 12 hours through the night to fly from here. So I will officially be gone the 12th all the way through the 18th. I'm scared spitless. Next up on my to-do list is reserving hotels for while I'm in Columbus and Providence and putting together packets of my reccommendation letters and headshots, etc.
88improv has a new website up and running. Feel free to check it out: www.88improv.com. We've also started doing shows every other Tuesday evening at the PS Collective here in Omaha. It's a fun little venue, we feel comfortable there, like we have the freedom to play around. In fact, we're calling the series of shows "Whatever we want."
Niki (my manager at the Rose) let me know yesterday that they're planning on hiring my replacement at the end of March. I think that's great, the newbie will have a month to get things figured out and learn how to work shows over the spring ballet, which will be a great one to break them in on before the chaos of Charlotte's Web and High School Musical (SOOO glad I won't be here for that fiasco!).
Tim Smith has also let Adam know that he's in process of scheduling 2nd interviews with a couple of candidates for his job as well. Adam's been getting a little anxious because it takes about two weeks to get someone trained in all the regular tea stuff and then about a month to help them figure out and take over all the managerial stuff. If this person is currently employed elsewhere, they'll need to serve out their two weeks notice and all of this needs to happen in the next 12 weeks.
Did I mention we're done working in 12 weeks! Oh yeah, that's a smaller number than it used to be! Adam's already planning how he's going to pack the car for the drive to Ely (I love him!). Keep on keepin' on...