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05.10.01

The acting class I've been taking for eight weeks ended last night, and here's the main thing I learned from it -- my acting-lesson lesson, if you will:

Acting is a very technical exercise. For all the talk you hear of "motivation" and "becoming" the character, it actually boils down to assigning movements and emotions to words, then memorizing it all.

I took the class in hopes of improving my improv by learning how better to be someone other than myself. And maybe I'll find over time that I did learn some of that. Meanwhile, the only way I saw that improv applies to acting is that it helps you save your scene if things go awry.

Maybe someday the acting bug will bite again, but for now I'll stick to Dojo.

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Add 10 points (or more) to my geek cred; on Memorial Day, I'm going to the Battlebots finals.

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Wouldn't it be cool if, somehow, the sun had phases too?

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