Lucy

unfortunately along with wanting to become a pro wrestler and a professional dancer, rehearsing this play is also making me want to get extremely good at the piano, something that would be a lot easier if I was not deeply and unshakably averse to a) the bass clef and b) literally every sharp/flat note on the keyboard

other body stories (i'm falling apart this is how I cope I guess): we started using kneepads this week because our director is sensible and clever and obtained kneepads for us. i have never used kneepads and it is incredibly (dangerously) freeing to be able to dramatically fall to my knees at a moment's notice. anyway my neck was sore the last couple of nights and I assumed it was just the standard horrors of stress etcetera until I was recreationally throwing myself around today and realized that the kneepads have in fact enabled me to hit the ground hard enough to jar my neck. cool. cool that that's an option. another thing to add to the never-ending list of things to touch on in warmup so I don't fucking die.

okay listen: my human body is nearly 35 years old. there are only so many shocks and impacts it is capable of absorbing. that being said, my human brain is also nearly 35 years old, and has developed a level of knowledge and expertise re: protecting and caring for the body (and maximizing its recovery) that, some would argue, outstrips (ie) the benefits of the human body being maybe 10 or even 15 years younger. all of this is to say: what if I got extremely into pro wrestling for the specific purpose of using pro wrestling in more of my theatre work. what then. what if i simply did that. so long as I don't find out anything about common wrestling injuries this is a genuine potential pathway for me.