What I've been up to.

It's been a while since I've written anything here. I hope to remedy that, but no promises.

To bring you up to speed, I decided to stop doing comedy to focus on graduate school applications and then graduate school. Comedy was great, but I don't much miss it. I do miss a lot of the people, but they're around.

Improv Asylum gave me a really nice and classy send off. I got to host my team's show, my team was incredibly supportive on stage and was fun to play with, and then I was asked to play lottery at the end of the show. I have nothing but nice things to say about that theater and the people in it. I particularly would thank Jeremy Brothers, Kiley Fitzgerald, the cast of Ghost Factory and the cast of my other former team, Old Shep. They're all really great people and funny to boot.

My last IB show was not as fun, but I appreciate what people did for me there. My team, Don't Tell Mimi, was genuinely my favorite team to play with ever. They're all so funny and positive and fun to hang out with. We weren't always the cool kids, but we did great stuff. DTM are people who I walked away feeling like were actual genuine friends.

So now I'm studying. GRE reviews, French crash courses, history rebuffing. Soon I'll start serious work on a writing sample. I'm ready to go full force into academia. It's where I've always felt most comfortable and it's the area I've always been best at. I'm excited about my prospects, and I have little worry that I'll get into a very good, if not top tier, school.

I feel a lot more appreciative lately than I have in the past few years about what is going on in my life. The past three or so years have been really amazing. Sometimes a major life crisis throws you into a fire that really is great, and you don't notice it until it's over. Improv was definitely one of those fires. I was fucked up when I got there, and it got me through it. I loved it, and I learned a lot while I was there. I was lucky to work with some really talented people, and looking back, I can't help but feel honored that I got to be on stage with them.

Now I'm going a different way. I'm really excited to share life's stage with big guns in a field I'm more at home in. Like in improv, I hope I can hold up. In comedy, I was a slave to the approval of others. In a lot of ways, I think it made me a weaker player. The farther I moved up, the less confident I got. I'm pleased to know that that is not the case in history. There, I can go out both guns blazing and understand the landscape better right out of the gate.