Day 66: June 10

Somehow this didn't get published back in June like it was supposed to and I hate my life!

I GOT MY UCB INTERNSHIP ASSIGNMENT!

I am going to see every show ever and will soon be the funniest person you know.

Day 8: July 22

Improv 301 class number 3.

As with so many things I have been running into the problem of unwillingness to commit. Go all in.
Because that truly requires so much of me. Then what if I commit and hate it after a month? A month wasted! But the thing is it won't have been wasted. It will be time spent not wondering if this is what I want.

Day 68: June 12

Saw the show Fresh Fish at UCB Sunset. It was bomb. I laughed a lot. I gotta get my butt in gear so I can get on that stage. Any stage. ALL STAGES.

Day 65: June 9

Day 65: Is it weird that I took a photo from soda jerk's Facebook page only to block out all faces that don't belong to Bed Leddick? Maybe.
But who cares?! Ben is leaving! One of my favorite performers in the city is moving away.
I always know a scene is going to be funny if he's involved and Im definitely going to miss seeing him perform. 
Good luck in Columbus, Ben!

Day 63: June 7

My UCB 201 improv show was today. It was awesome. Not perfect but I had so much fun. I am incredibly happy with how out of my head I was :)

This is a photo of my class and what they think of when they hear 'pose sexy'.

Day 60: June 4

I really feel like I should be writing more of my own jokes and making my own videos to share with you all but I just haven't been. 

I have, however, been seeing a ton of shows. Possibly too many. Enough that I now have favorite performers that I am prepared to stalk to every stage. 

BTW if I find you hilarious I am probably in love with you.

Today I actually had to consider this thought:

 "Do I really love improv? Or do I just love the people that do improv and therefore am trying to be good at improv so that those people will like me?" 

Is it okay if it's the latter?  

This 100 Days Project is really great.

Day 56: May 31

Worked on my scholarship essays. And saw Search History again. Sorry. That's all you get. All of my brain power is going toward these essays.

Day 50: May 25

Today I got to see a bunch of comedians play knock out on a basketball court.

I'm sorry I didn't take pictures.

Day 49: May 24

This freakin day. Let me tell ya. I kind of put myself through a ringer. Crawled up inside my own head and just sat staring at the walls hoping they would tell me something other than 'you are a complete idiot'. They did not. The more I stared the more those walls spelled out my weaknesses. My inability to keep my mouth shut. My ridiculous need for  approval from all the wrong people, etc.

I was walking down the street to UCB, because apparently that's all I do now, and I was just thinking about my most recent stupidity and how if a thought comes into my head I am perfectly incapable of NOT PUTTING IT INTO ACTION. What in the hell am I doing?! Who do I think I am? Why can't I control my impulses? For the love of all that is good and holy, ERIN, PLEASE shut up. Please stop thinking, please please please be cooler than you are! FOR ONE DAY.

Anyway, I was walking into UCB feeling like a loser and trying real hard to make myself believe otherwise. And then I'm watching this show with all these funny women and I am dying from laughter.
I thought to myself "That's what it looks like to do this thing at a hundred percent." The show was incredible. They were all having so much fun.

The picture isn't great but I was laughing too hard to remember to take a better one. 

On the way back to my car I decided that I am a bad ass. Yes, there are times when I am impulsive and I shouldn't be but really I'm just brave. I do things that might embarrass me later but I had the courage to do them in the moment. And I am carrying that through to the world of comedy. No more of this fifty percent BS. Yay for lessons learned in on area of life carrying through to others!

Here's to failing a lot but being happy no matter what.

Day 48: May 23

I performed an entire Harold in my dream, while Jennifer Lawrence looked on.

For those of you not in the know a Harold is a form of long form improv.

This particular Harold was pretty much a disaster. Although I, personally, got a chuckle out of Miss Lawrence.

The improv was bad but I fought through it. In my dream I decided not to be defeated by my complete lack of ability to be funny or remember anything I have ever learned in improv class. I'm feeling pretty good about me right now.

Day 40: May 15

 This team. These guys and gal. Are some of my favorite people in the city. Soda Jerk was one of the first teams that opened my eyes to the beauty of improv. Knowing the people on a team adds a whole new layer to the laughter. I love being able to see them so regularly. 

Day 39: May 14

I saw Convoy at UCB. #Masterpiece 

Today I am literally tearing up thinking about it. It was the kind of improv that makes you want to throw yourself into every class you can to be able to perform at that level, at the same time it makes you want to quit altogether because you don't want to embarrass yourself. 

"How do you take notes in the margins of a movie?"

"You watch a movie and write the notes in the margin of any book."