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auditioned at live arts tonight. the thing i was most nervous about was getting nervous. woo infinite regression! luckily physical movement cuts right through that for me.

we ran up walls. they had coated the walls and floor with pepsi, because sugar apparently gives you traction. i got there early and got to see them applying soda pop to the walls using paint rollers on sticks. sweetness.

it's always interesting to see the way that certain people's personalities come out during auditions... some real characters, here. and i made a friend named amanda - if i write her name down here that means i'll remember it.

but yes: all this time i'd been training to run for thirty minutes, disregarding the amount of distance i covered. i'd settled into a comfortable routine of running 3 miles in 30 minutes 3 times a week. tonight, after a warm-up jog and running up walls and doing shuttle runs (of the suicide variety, i am told) we ran for about *4* miles in about thirty minutes. i kept a good pace... was the second-to-last-person to complete the run, but everyone's timing was fairly close. the thing that pleased me is that i didn't have to slow to a walk even once throughout the whole thing. was what i was after, so yeah for me. is a strange and good-feeling thing to run with a troupe of strangers in the dark in the cold in the night on mostly-empty streets.

tomorrow i must remember to bring sugar to eat after the run. i was rather spacey and discombobulated after the four miles. on my way to the bathroom back behind the scenery i saw a table with various stagehand stuff left strewn about on it, and there was a mostly-empty tub of those cookies that are made entirely of egg whites and sugar. i have no idea whose they were or how old they were, but sugar doesn't rot and i was in great need so i snagged one. it was coffee-flavored, and restored my brain within mere moments of its consumption.

tonight's lesson: sugar enables humans to do incredible things.