I love September. It’s a month that fills me with the delicious anticipation of an American new school year. Maybe THIS year I’ll be one of the cool kids once and for all! I’d tell myself as I picked a folder with the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers album cover on it as part of my primary school supplies at Wal-Mart in preparation for my third grade English class. I thought the picture was funny. I mean, what adult walks around in tight jeans with a bouncy ball in their pocket?! Looking at the cover of the album now I wonder how none of my teachers noticed it. To be fair, they probably just ignored it the way they did when I insisted Prince’s Purple Rain was my favourite movie, a movie I had never actually seen. I had heard of it and loved the idea of purple rain, especially one made by a prince! It sounded like a cartoon that involved a Care Bear and My Little Pony character crossover.
I spent all of August at the Edinburgh Fringe festival doing my show Spring Day: Exvangelical. By all accounts the show is a success. I’ve yet to update my website but it received 7 four-star reviews. Audience numbers were very good especially considering the cost-of-living-crisis-in-Edinburgh-during-the-month-of- August.
I’ve spent the majority of September deciding what to do next with this very personal show: there are so many avenues it can take that I am tangoing with choice paralysis as I overanalyse each avenue’s strengths, weaknesses and opportunity costs. It’s a good ‘problem’ I am grateful to have.
Stay tuned…..
