first week of school.

my seminars are fine, but i got very excited about being a teaching assistant. i know the bloom will soon fade, but for now, it's something to look forward to at the end of the week. the professor asked me to do a quick schpiel about why actors, directors and designers should care about theory, and when i was done they applauded. they are both way more advanced than i guessed, and reassuringly, heartbreakingly eighteen years old. someone told me once that by the time i started teaching, kids would already be doing performance studies without knowing that's what it was. and it's true; these kids's minds are way more open about what might constitute performance. also, though, they look like totally conventional college freshmen: