Hey there! It's been awhile, I know. Sometimes, when the going gets tough, the tough get a little bit of mayonnaise on the side of their mouth --hey, I hate mayo, so don't even start on how gross that was, I had to do it for the greater good of mankind. You're probably wondering why I haven't been posting anything lately --a month, to be exact.
So that's my story, you might not like it, you might --What? You're saying I didn't write anything about what happened? DAMMIT. I must've not saved the word document. You're asking me to write it again? But it took me so long to do so the first time! All right. Here we go again.
So last month, a buddy of mine came over to visit me --what up Gussy-- and I thought I would be able to write the blog, do the podcast, Youtube stuff and my improv shenanigans whilst he was here. Thing is, I was wrong--which as you all know, never happens. Hey, cut me some slack. I do my best.
I had to sacrifice some stuff, because as it turns out, when you're trying to show people around the city you live in, it takes some time. So I cut out the things that I had the least fun with --don't get me wrong, I love doing this, I just didn't enjoy it as much as improv and making Youtube videos. So I was basically out for about 9 days, then I went on a weeklong trip to Florida and came back from that with some questions on what I should be doing. I had to go back to the drawing board --literally.
So it took me about a week to get to the bottom of that --which I'll get into in just a few moments, so hold on, you mangy scallywags. Last week I just didn't set the time aside to doing it. So here I am, this week. The week of the comeback. Coming back to the blog. Blogs 'r us. Blogging with the --Okay, okay, I'll stop.
Here's what I've come to: I want to focus a lot more on Youtube, so I'm ramping up on the amount of Ramblin' On episodes I'll have each week to two --I'm not sure when I'll actually start doing it, but I want to have a lot of episodes to fall back on before I do. So I've been making a lot of those episodes, which I write now. Before I just literally rambled on, sometimes for a long time.
My goal with that was I wanted to become really good at just talking off the cuff. Here's my problem with that: for the sake of filling time and distraction, I would end up talking too much about different subjects --and out of my ass, essentially. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed myself while making them, but I also want to create amazing content. Which comes in time. Here's the other thing: I'm a writer, right? So I figured I would also start writing them and use a teleprompter. Because let's be honest, it's virtually impossible to memorize all of that content in the time that I shoot them --hey, it's possible to do, it's just a major time consumption that I could sink on something else.
Although, I have been debating whether or not to memorize them, because my delivery would be so much better. But, I could also just get better with practice using the teleprompter. This as everything else in life, is all about getting better if you didn't realize. I've been officially doing it for about three months if I'm not mistaken --and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's a marathon, baby. The only competitors are me and myself. So, I'm competing against myself and hoping I end up being the winner of it all.
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As to live performing, I've been debating whether or not to go back into stand up because I know I can get up on stage much more than I'm doing with improv. But, here's the thing: I enjoy improv so much more and it's with other people. For now, the Youtube show is my creative outlet in which I can channel my stand up cravings for the time being and hopefully get to enjoy improvising much more --in quantity, that is-- than I am at the moment.
I've been at the Groundlings for three months --one class a week-- and I don't know if I can move on to intermediate or not because I had to skip the last class of the Basic course. So I have to call to see whether or not I passed, and after that I'll figure out when to enroll because I don't want to sign up for a class right now since I'll be leaving for the holidays and won't come back until after New Years. When I do get back however, I know that I'll want to have the twice-a-week course instead of the once-a-week because that'll give me an opportunity to do it much more each week--And I want to have an earlier time for class, because starting at 7pm is just too late for me. Yeah, so I like to go to bed at a decent time! What's wrong with that?
So class twice a week plus my Troupe's rehearsals and shows, now that's a lot of improv I'm really looking forward to! Where does that leave the podcast and this very blog you ask? Well, the podcast I'll leave for when I've got at least one other person to podcast with because I'm doing a lot of stuff on my own --which I love-- but I also want to do things with other people. So I do the Youtube stuff on my own and improv with other people. I'll keep updating this blog as I see fit, hopefully that's once a week and the podcast stays hibernating for the time being until there's a decent idea and team to work with.
Whew. That was a long one. Let me just pat myself on the back for this one. For all other nerdy news that involves me, you know the place where you can visit: Youtube.com/khalilsadi or this very website. Until next time, you scallywags: I'm out.