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The end is in sight.

I've been working with a repertory theatre company all summer. We put up 5 shows, produced each of them at least twice in two different venues, and hosted a theatre festival in which there were five companies producing nine shows and participating in a three-day theatre camp for high school students.

And it's almost done.

The final production is finished, and I have three days of cleanup left. Three mornings and afternoons of tidying our scene shop, setting up our Freshman Week show (Seussical the Musical) and drinking heavily in the evenings.

And, ********, I am ready for a change.

I'm so burned out. I've long said that when one becomes tired of doing theatre, if they allow themselves to get too burned out, they become a soulless lifeless husk of the person they used to be. I feel as though I'm getting to that point. I need to get out of the theatre scene for a little while. I need to sit back and relax, and write, and work to build up my savings account, and NOT be around the people I've come to absolutely despise.

I am at last ready to graduate. I am at last ready to move - get out of this city, out of this state, out of this region. I am feeling the urge to see the west coast, get the hell away from the people I've known for so long. I'm still great friends with some people I've known since high school, and while that's a really super thing, because I certainly do value such good and strong friendships... I need to be around new people.

I'm thinking about Oregon. I'm thinking about discovering a smallish town on the coast - the only time I've ever seen the ocean, I've been too young to remember. I'm intimidated by California, and everyone I've talked to has said that Oregon is absolutely beautiful anyway, so I'm tempted... We'll see.