Free time (finally)

This morning I got back from two entire days off from Brownville. We did the math, and we've worked for fifty two days straight without a single day off. I tried to sleep in on Monday morning, but I woke up at 8:59 and couldn't get back to sleep. There's only five more weeks in the season, and from here on out the schedule changes drastically. We don't have rehearsal anymore, so when we're not doing shows we have time off. Right now, I am spending my very first evening off watching the rest of the house work out and contemplating what to do now that I don't have lines any more. 

Over the 'weekend', I was in a town of 23,000 people, which is still small, but I kept getting overwhelmed by stuff that I wouldn't have even thought of before this summer. Like the fact that there's a grocery store more than twenty minutes away, or a gas station within two towns. I went to Hy-Vee, and there was a Redbox and a Starbucks in the same place. Driving through Omaha at night was also a bit disorienting, because I forgot what city lights looked like at night. I essentially forgot that the world outside of Brownville existed. I'm definitely excited to be moving home after this, not a small amount due to the fact that Ames has a Target.