So we're sitting at the Maxtown Starbucks last night during our Espresso Bar Re-Training, and our trainer has us participate in a roll-playing exercise. Everything goes smoothly; afterwards, she says "Hey thanks for bearing with me through that. I know roll-playing scenarios like that can be nervewracking, I personally hate them..."
And inside I'm thinking "Nervewracking? No, 'nervewracking' is singing 'Far From The Home I Love' in front of an oversold house with a fever of 104 on the first day you've actually even been able to speak out of the last five. 'Nervewracking' is going to open a door to enter the stage and having it get stuck, forcing you to make up Neil-Simon-esque dialogue at the last second. 'Nervewracking' is being 5'10" and having to dance and move gracefully in front of a thousand-plus sold out crowd in four inch heels. You think improvising a simple coffee-house training scenario is tough? Come find me after you've played a 60-year-old armless southern woman who draws pictures with her feet. Then we'll talk about 'nervewracking'."
God, I love theatre. It's like doing the impossible over and over again.
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
-Ernest Holmes
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