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Here’s another thing I’ve been thinking about: For years I’ve essentially been apologising for having been an actor. After going to my theatre department reunion, I’m moved to not do that anymore. It was a damned hard thing to study and to do for a living, and what I learned shaped the person I became, the way I see the world, the way I understand human beings, and the way I use language. It’s a noble profession; the people I know who are still doing it work hard, and I recognise that the writing work I do now — both commercial and creative — is all exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I used to say “I’m a recovering actor” as a joke, like I was putting on a nametag and joining a meeting. Now I feel proud about having been one, and, if I can make a confession, while I was back in the Maritimes and going to a lot<\/a> of different<\/a> theatre shows<\/a>, I found myself wishing I was doing a little gig for the summer. There’s nothing like a summer stock to give you the lark of a holiday and the camaraderie of an army troupe under fire all in one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <<\/p>\n<\/p>\n p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n In other, and-I-promise-briefer news, I’m sick. I hate how I get a cold almost every time I fly. People are filthy, especially children-people. You’re trapped up there at 35,000 feet, and the airlines don’t change the air ’cause that suffocates you into being more docile or something, so within a few days of landing”¦ the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1114\/cough-splutter-hack0.jpg.webp\")
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