My last comedy show was at the end of April.  My entire month of May was spent learning every single way someone can die on an airplane.  I tried to come up with something funny while watching plane crashes and listening to survivors with PTSD recount their experiences.  I came up with 3 premises from this last month that may become useful to me when I get on stage:

1. Don’t cry during an emergency unplanned evacuation, or worse, ask passengers for 5 minutes to compose yourself.  Empathy isn’t a feeling people have before an imminent plane crash. [I plan on acting this scene out dramatically, yelling and crying on stage while evacuating passengers, “Leave everything, come this way (pause…wail…wail)… run, jump, move! I said MOVE you fat Midwesterner! This plane is going to crash!!! Boo hoo hoo, I’ll never be able to watch Oprah’s last episode!!!]

2. I told a woman I had not been to Walmart in 6 years.  She asked me if I had been living under a rock.  Apparently, living in San Francisco constitutes to living under a rock.

3.  You know you have met the right guy when HE is the one against the idea of a threesome.  And you know you’ve met a fun girl friend if she inspires you to think about it.

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June 2010 marks a new and exciting beginning for me!  New job, new place, new lifestyle.

NEW JOB: I have a job that enables my passion for travel and gives me enough time to do comedy.  I’ll be focusing more on making videos since I reach more people that way, but I’ll take every opportunity I can to get on stage.

NEW PLACE: Although San Francisco is still my home and I have a lovely place there, I am looking forward to fulfilling a fantasy of mine - To live somewhere with a view of a lake!  I’m going to call it my summer home, just so I can sound fancy.  I’ll keep you posted if my dream comes true =D

NEW LIFESTYLE: I set out to be a Do It Myself Traveling Comedienne and here I am.  I’ve realized that there is nothing stopping me.  No emotional blocks.  No obstacles.  There is nothing in my way.  I just have to go get what I want at this point.  I’ll admit I’m not sure what to do with this opportunity right now.  What would you do if you could travel the world and do everything you have ever wanted?  What am I doing?  I am smiling to myself, alone in my hotel room, typing at my computer knowing that this is the start of something wonderful, but too overwhelmed by the opportunity to do anything beyond thinking.

I was reading “Born Standing Up” by Steve Martin today, and he referred to Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.  It’s a story about a young soldier who wakes to discover he has lost his legs, arms, mouth, nose, eyes, and ears and is left with only the ability to think.  Right now, that’s the best way to describe where my head is at.  I am completely clueless about what to do next.

I do know what I want though.  I want to travel, make people laugh, record it on YouTube, and meet a ton of people who will expand my thoughts and perception of the world.