Wandering...

I woke up this morning to two more rejection emails for jobs I applied for. I'm getting tired of seeing "after careful consideration, you have not been selected for this position, we encourage you to apply in the future". I'm working on transferring my EMT license here to NY state so hopefully that will open up more opportunities. Okay, I'm done complaining.

After studying, I decided to travel north and check out more of the city. I walked to campus and caught a campus bus up to the Eastman area. One nice thing about the bus (besides being clean and free) is that it's air conditioned! The weather here has been crazy the past couple weeks, and it's on a hot swing at the moment. 

I got off the bus two stops before I had planned... Because I wasn't paying attention, then walked to the Rochester Greek Festival. It was a small festival in a church parking lot, with good food, a stage for performances, and a few vendors. There weren't very many people there but I imagine that it picks up at night. I had calamari and a gyro, both of which were great.

Then I walked to the Eastman School of Music and wandered around that area. The area I live in is mostly residential and lots of hospital employees. The area around Eastman is much more like a college town- bars with clever names, coffee shops full of people studying, and organic sandwich shops are abundant. I took full advantage and sat in an air conditioned coffee shop drinking iced tea and alternating between studying and browsing on my ipad for a few hours.

To round the day off I went to the Geva Theater and saw a production of Midsummer Night's Dream. It was fun and the talent of the actors had a very wide range. There were a couple actors, the Bottom and Helena, that were great- very funny. It was a fun night and I got to talking with the couple sitting next to me. They have two sons around my age and were nice enough to offer me a ride home. I was really grateful because it cut my trip back from an hour to about ten minutes. 

Back in my apartment (yes mom, I got a ride from strangers and lived to tell the tale!), I've been thinking about the first time I was exposed to Shakespeare- or at least the first time I remember. I was in middle school... 5th or 6th grade and I attended a Shakespeare camp at Mt Washington Elementary school. We did Midsummer Night's Dream and I played Bottom. It was a lot of fun and seeing it tonight brought back memories of working on the play and doing workshops. I remember my favorite coach was a big guy with a bright red beard who taught improv. It was great to see all these kids (even the "cool" kids) really get into theater.