Wednesday, October 12, 2005

The Not-So-Good Doctor


Mood: Drained
Song: The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Units of Caffeine: 0.5
Days until Graduation: 65

Well, things don't look too good for the Ren Mad Banquet. Over the past week, I had e-mailed and left several massages on the answering machine of my partner in this project, only to be responded by a whole lot of nothing. Yesterday I called and left a message asking him to call me sometime by the end of the day or I was just going to call the project off. That prompted a response, albeit not the one I wanted. I really wanted to talk to him about this over the phone. But instead he e-mailed. After a few e-mails back and forth with me coming up with possible ideas of how to make the things work, and my partner saying 'no' to everything and not offering any ideas of his own, I said that it looked like our only option is to cancel the project. He responded: "o.k. we'll cancel it."

I was on the verge of writing a mass e-mail to everyone about this, (i.e., my thesis committee, my production team, marketing, etc.) but I have one last card that I want to play. I still have a meeting scheduled with a pretty influential person within the School of the Arts this morning. I was originally going to ask him about other venues in the area that I might be able to use. However, now I am going to ask if he knows of any grants or foundations that I might be able to get my hands on. If I can, I will just take the money and do this project independently. I seriously doubt that Mr. Influential can get his hands on the amount I need, but it doesn't hurt to ask about it. Besides, after I do that I can honestly say, without a shadow of a doubt, that I have done everything I could to try to make this thing happen.

In the likely event that my project is indeed cast to the wind, my final thesis project turns into a paper on theatre production: a detailed study on the failure of a good idea. If and when this happens, I think you will see me disappear from the blog for a while as all of my writing time will be dedicated to the paper.

The silver lining to this cloud: I don't have to worry about how I'm going to ensure my cast comes to rehearsal the day after Thanksgiving.

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