So our second Slapdash comes to a close.  Some of the things I learned: 

Sometimes your first impulse is the right impulse.  I fought and fought the scene that was coming out of my head and so much wanted to be written because it wasn’t “clever” or “cool” or deep enough for me or something.  But Erin advised me to just go with it and thankfully I did because once Laurie, Frank, Franklin and Ian got their hands on it, I saw that sometimes silly is good.  Sometimes silly is great!  Thanks you guys for doing such an awesome job with my baby! 

I am not invincible.  My brain will not work properly and memorize like it should without sleep.  This was a very hard lesson for me to learn.  I would like to maintain that I had a shitload of lines and a shitload of difficult lines and that’s why I had an exceptionally hard time keeping things in my head, but I know that wasn’t all of it.  My brain was like swiss cheese and things just were NOT sticking.  I’ve always been able to memorize anything and everything as quickly as I’d like so I wasn’t really too worried about Slapdash.  I should have been.  Without sleep, I couldn’t retain anything.  So while I had SO much fun acting in Slapdash and that is honestly what I’d love to do again next time (in addition to writing, of course.  They’ll have to pry my laptop from my dead cold hands!), I think it may be irresponsible of me.  I think I may not be able to do it, unfortunately.  But thank you Le, Clint and Liz for giving me a really fun experience anyway!

I really like seeing the product of my writing.  Perhaps I should write more.  Of course, this means I have to be more disciplined and lock myself in a room, which sucks, but God, the payoff is enormous. 

I will have sympathy for actors trying to memorize Tim’s lines from now on.  It’s really hard, they were right!  Of course, not too much sympathy because they had 6 weeks and I had about 11 hours. 

Bring back the sacred circle! 

We miss you, Brandon:(

It was SO cool to have you back, Paul!  And you wrote a fantastic script!  You’re at the top of your game!  Next year I want Paul AND Brandon and I want a sacred circle!  Okay, so I dream big;)

Bill is a writer!  Yay, Bill, way to go!  You are now One of Us.  Welcome to the circle, the virgin sacrifice is at noon.