I am sitting on the BOLT bus which is a lighting designer’s emblem. A streak of lighting splash’s across the side of the red coach operated out of Dallas. You might be asking me where I am going, or where I have been. I am recently leaving Manhattan, after completing a two week stint on High School Musical II. I was in many ways a refuge in my own skin, a gypsy traversing the wilderness of the urban city. I stayed in Jersey with Erik, and West Village with Patrick, and LIC with Shari.
Now before I go into the generics of my daily life I need to take a moment to talk about my personal life. I would like to say that a few months ago Robert and I ended our relationship. It happened in a very controlled and calculated way. There was very little to discuss and we realized our lives where going in two different directions which no include each other anymore. That being said, I sing a song of forgetting, forgetting the way things where, and I instead choose to remember the way I was. Before, and what made me strong, what I have learned, and what I want to become.
I now look forward, I am booked through march 2010, I have doubled business in a year, and I am a resident designer for a few companies… Although it is not glamorous, I am ok with this. I sit outside an arbys waiting for my bus driver to eat and come back to drive me home.
I will be looking for a new apartment in the next two weeks, moving, and starting over…
LIFE IS GOOD,
~Mike