Update

Hello, all!  I'll try to keep this short and snappy (thank you, Marco Perella, for your suggestions!  He's a great acting coach, here in Austin, that I've had the pleasure of training with.  Check his site out here: http://www.actorworkshop.com/) 

I went to the 5th Annual Alliance Austin Town Hall Meeting last week and received a lot of motivation from listening to local coaches, agents, and casting directors speak about the craft and the business of acting.  I also ran into some familiar faces, much to my delight.  I'm not too keen on networking, but when I do go to mixers, I find them as motivational as they are informative and motivation goes a long way.  You need that in this business.

I also went to the scriptreading of "The Legends of Robin Hood" that's being developed by my good friend, Heath Thompson (check out his IMDb page, here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3333062/maindetails.)  It was full of action and drama, but was also very funny.  I had a really good time there.  Everyone knocked it out of the park, but Bobby DiPasquale as Pip (check out his IMDb page, here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2787789/) really bowled me over with laughter. 

"Little Women" rehearsals have been going really well, too.  We're all pounding out the scenes and having plenty of laughs at the same time.  It's really apparent to me that I need to get my lines memorized (quickly!) so that I'm freed up enough, mentally, to concentrate on subtleties and movement and connecting with my fellow actors.  Luckily, I don't have a billion lines to churn through, so it should be fairly quick. 

Back to work for me!  I'm out!