The Living Centrifuge

A friend from the Voice Intensive who is currently immersed in the Voice Certificate program at York just sent out one of those Bill Gates will give you a grillion dollars e-mails. I just deleted it, because perhaps they don't have that particular e-mail in Germany, where she's from. Okay, well, one of the people on the forward list sent a reply-all that was pretty relaxed, just saying that this was a hoax, and to check out Snopes to get more info on this. My Voice Certificate friend blew up and told everyone to chill, that the response she got was weird. She was very defensive and angry, for no good reason that I could see. Also, my friend and roommate from Toronto (also in the acting program at York) attacked me earlier in the week because he thought I was charging him for a parking spot about which I hadn't told him.

These incidents remind me that when one is in a stressful situation, one becomes very defensive, and reacts to events that haven't even taken place. One's perspective is skewed by one's busy-ness and the intensity of one's situation. Perhaps this is what happened with my October reaction to Ben......

We're doing the run at the Roundhouse (the theatre) today, and then the public presentation tomorrow. Whee! I'm nervous, but it was a decent run yesterday (kind of bad but good that it was bad).