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not in the movie, what is bright is internal. usually in a dim room, though sometimes pitch dark, the brightness can never be seen.
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David Paul Ecklund of Linden has been named to the dean's list for fall semester at Shepherd University.
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Ryan Manuel and Mary Kate Shannon, both of Front Royal, have been named to the dean's list for fall semester at Shepherd University.
Mary Kate Shannon of Front Royal was awarded the Phi Theta Kappa scholarship from the Shepherd University Foundation.
Trey Kirkland, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina, was awarded the chancellor's commendation for outstanding scholarship.
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"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, and the water seems inviting." - Carl Sagan
What happens when stars collide? In this case, a newly observed kind of pulsating star
It sure would be interesting to watch two stars run into each other — from a safe distance, of course. One can imagine there would be quite the titanic battle going on between their competing gravitational forces, throwing off gas and matter as they collide.
They also leave behind interesting echoes, at least according to new research. A European team looked at the leftovers of one collision and found a type of pulsating star that has never been seen before.
It's common for stars to form in groups or to be paired up, since they form from immense gas clouds. Sometimes, a red giant star in a binary system gets so big that it will bump into a companion star orbiting nearby. This crash could shave 90% of the red giant star's mass off, but astronomers are still trying to get their heads around what happens.
Researchers who made the find were actually on the hunt for alien planets. They turned up what is called an "eclipsing" binary system, meaning that one of the stars passes in front of the other from the perspective of Earth. Observations revealed that "the remnant of the stripped red giant is a new type of pulsating star".
The next step for the researchers will be to calculate when the star will begin cooling down and become a white dwarf, which is what is left behind after a star runs out of fuel to burn.
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Today, most consumers pay for open internet access through broadband providers. Without net neutrality, will consumers pay more to access specific types of content or tiers of sites? In the future, will consumers be able to buy broadband alone and at reasonable rates?
Perhaps there is an opportunity for more affordable broadband access. The free municipal wireless providers are promising, and have a built-in advertising stream that users see when they sign in. So there might be other consumer options down the road.
However, net neutrality is not about free internet access. According to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, "If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level."
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That's what her husband, the Prince von whatever, told CNN, in a fit of crazy optimism! Apparently, it's going to involve all kinds of egg donors, surrogate mothers, sci-fi plot twists, and CGI special effects, but hey, it could happen, as sure as her great niece Paris could become a Mother ... More >>
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Fusion flight trials start in Global Express XRS
The Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics system took to the air aboard a customer airplane for the first time last month, completing a five-hour initial test flight in a Bombardier Global Express XRS that originated at the business jet maker's Downsview test center in Toronto on August 3.
The avionics under evaluation for these flight trials will serve as the centerpiece for the Global Vision flight deck, a Pro Line Fusion-based system selected as the replacement for the Global Express XRS's and Global 5000's original Honeywell Primus 2000XP avionics. Standard features of the system include four 15-inch-diagonal displays, HGS-6000 head-up guidance system, enhanced- and synthetic-vision systems, Collins MultiScan weather radar, integrated flight information system, triple Waas-capable flight management systems and TSS-4100 traffic surveillance system with ADS-B capability.
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Be sure to check out a good statistical analysis of Darren Collison's rookie season from Levy2725 over at Indy Cornrows. Here's a taste:
Offensively, Collison's strengths are clear. He's a respectable spot-up shooter, which will be a new addition for the Pacers at point guard. In addition his speed and quickness make him dangerous in transition and isolation. Last season in New Orleans Collison had limited opportunities to work off the ball. He was very effective off cuts and hand offs, plays which he should see more of in Indiana's offense.
The one troubling area here is his lack of effectiveness in the pick and roll. Although this is not a large part of the Pacer's offense, it would be nice to see some improvement in this area next season. Watching video of these possessions on Synergy, Collison seems to suffer from a lack of patience, often making his move before the screener is completely set. It's difficult to project much change next season, as none of the Pacers' front court players, other than Jeff Foster, can be considered accomplished or experienced setting screens.
In addition Collison's problems with turnovers are obvious across possession type. Hopefully, a year of experience and the confidence his success in New Orleans built will allow Collison to play a more calm and under control offensive game next season.
He goes on to talk about Darren's shot selection, finishing ability at the cup and defense.
Tom Lewis, also of Indy Cornrows, has some nice insight of his own in another post on the trade.
Darren Collison is a young and vibrant point guard who instantly energizes the backcourt and fits in well with the other young core pieces the Pacers have assembled.
Plus, the risk on Collison is minimal since he has three years remaining on his rookie contract. If things work out as planned, he's extremely valuable from a production per dollar view. If the worst case situation plays out and Collison doesn't pan out, his minimal salary doesn't become an anchor on the salary cap for the Pacers to move on.
Mike Wells also tracked down Larry Bird to get his thoughts on the move.
"Obviously, we got the point guard we've been look for a while, and I think we got a good one," Bird said.
Bird said he didn't get frustrated as the point guards went off the market via trades and free agency.
"Believe it or not, I'm pretty patient," he said. "With all the conversations we had with other teams, you never know if anything is going to materialize but the one thing about it is I've been very patient.
"I know this is a process and I'm going to do exactly what I said I'm going to do … I know a lot of people get frustrated at times, but you have to be patient in this situation."
That was definitely the best part about the deal from my perspective. The Pacers have been sitting on their hands for a long, long time now waiting for burdensome salaries to become less so. Next summer is when true flexibility will open up, but even now, the team is starting to gain some wiggle room to change things for the better.
In similar situations, we have seen many GMs make a move just to make a move. It wasn't targeted; it was just an opportunity that they jumped on cause they could. And it worked out poorly. (See Corey Maggette's GSW deal, the Suns trading for Shaq and thousands of franchise-altering mistakes over the past decade.)
So far, Larry has not done that. The team needed a point guard. He waited out all the 2010 free agency madness, found an inexpensive guy with a lot of upside who he expects to succeed and made a very reasonable deal to acquire him.
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He's not done.
"We're not done with the summer," Bird said. "We've got some work to do…We'll take it a piece at a time. We've got expiring contracts, some veterans here. It's just a piece at a time. We're going to get this job done and we're going to do it on time."
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Bank of America is setting up a bad bank, which will be run by Terry Laughlin. Roughly half of its 14 million mortgages are going to be carved off and put into the bad bank, in an attempt, according to FBR analyst Paul Miller, "to get investors focus on the good" and as "a way to talk about good things and ignore the bad." The presentation which Laughlin handed out talks about how his new group will work on loan modifications for delinquent customers: "as borrowers default," he said, "we'll evaluate them for a loan modification."
Essentially BofA is doing two things here. One is to try to sweep its bad loans under the carpet by creating the new Legacy Asset Servicing unit; the other is to step up its pushback against the proposed mortgage-servicing settlement, which quite explicitly does include loan modifications for borrowers who aren't in default. Check out part II.K.8:
Servicer's employees shall not instruct, advise or recommend that borrowers go into default in order to qualify for loss mitigation relief.
This is something BofA hates — because it opens the door to underwater borrowers who are making timely payments being able to get a loan modification and thereby reduce the value of the loan. And BofA CEO Brian Moynihan is on the warpath against it, saying that such a system would be unfair to borrowers who don't get their loans modified.
As Adam Levitin points out, Moynihan's line of argument is pretty disingenuous. There's nothing in the proposed settlement which forces BofA or anybody else to do anything unfair: indeed, BofA is encouraged to draw up its own set of standards and then apply them to all of its borrowers in a consistent manner. The real reason that BofA is fighting back is simple: if it behaved according to the settlement's guidelines, it would lose some of that $35 billion to $40 billion a year that Moynihan reckons it should be able to make going forwards.
I'm pretty sure that no bank in the history of the world has ever made $40 billion in one year, and that no bank ever should, with the unique exception of the Federal Reserve. Bank of America is far too big to fail, and as such it benefits greatly from an implicit government guarantee. The least it can do in return is treat its borrowers fairly.
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How to undo a big mistake… that's the core question.
I made a big mistake… I bought a house I love in a great community at the wrong moment… 2006. I made a down payment but I'm still probably underwater. If I had bought no money down or 5% down I'd be way under water (even after $13,000) in principal paydown.
Ok, so now I want a re-do… I'm current on my loan but it's not fair that I owe more on my house than it's worth. Lets give me a current interest rate 5% instead of 6%, and shave $25,000 off the principal balance. Then I'd have some equity to protect and would be more more interested in making my monthly payments.
To compensate for the TRILLION DOLLAR COST of this national endevor we'll just make all new mortgages bear the costs of modifying all the previous bad loans. We'll do this by charging a higher rate or some kind of insurance rider. Either that or we could pull the trillion dollars out of the capital of the financial system and see how that works out.
Does this sound like a good plan to anyone?
Because it makes me want to puke.
I believe that the servicers have a lot of HELOCs carried on their books. The mortgage originators securitized the first mortgages but I believe the servicers then issued HELOCs and kept them on their books.
Normal lien precedence is that a first mortgage has first dibs on the asset followed by the second mortgage. My understanding is that many of the servicers carrying HELOCs are flipping this. They whack the first mortgage payments with tons of fees and penalties so that there is little left for the investors when the foreclosure finally goes through. As a result, the servicer may have to write off their HELOC but they have made up for a bunch of it with the additional income from the foreclosure process. The servicer doesn't care what the final sale price of the home is as long as it exceeds the fees and penalties, since the value of the HELOC is probably long gone.
If the focus shifts to principal modifications, then the traditional lien precedence would require the elimination of the HELOC first before the first mortgage. This would be a huge blow to the servicers' bottom lines as they would not have the fee and penalty income to offset the principal loss that they would need to take instead of the MBS investor.
It would be interesting to see the statistics of securitized first mortgages that have HELOCs held by the servicers with the total first and second lien amounts greater than the value of the house.
I believe that this problem may be so big that nobody has dared announce the emporer has no clothes, including the MBS investors that are getting screwed and the regulators.
If you were Donald Trump or Sam Zell negotiating this for one of their commercial properties, the deal would probably already be cut with some modifications.
That is just sound business practice with a sharp eye for the bottom line and a clear understanding that litigation or allowing a commercial property to be foreclosed on is rarely good business practice for the bank.
However, since you are a homeowner, you will clearly be immoral and unethical (as well as a deadbeat and unpatriotic) if you request a similar deal.
It is exceedingly rare for a borrower like Trump or Zell who misses interest and principal payments and has negitive equity to retain control of the property in question. See the 5.4 billion dollar Stuyvesant Town buy for details. The real estate Moguls couldn't make the debt service payments so….. they lost control of the properties to the lenders and also lost the equity they had invested.
It may shock heck out of you ErnieD but if you've got a job and 740 fico score you've got access to better financing terms that Warren Buffett can get for mighty Berkshire. 30 years fixed at 5% is a pretty sweet deal. That rate exists because of the ability to forclose.
If you want to tell people to walk away from their houses when they are in so far over their heads that there is nothing they can do that's fine with me.
If you want the goverment to support a trillion dollar transfer of wealth to people (like me) who bought an overpriced house at the wrong time (2006) that's NOT fine with me.
The amount of energy to figure out what is fair will never be calculated. Restitution is only favorable when everyone is whole.
For instance: I lost my mind working all night for eight hour's pay making sure when anybody makes a cell phone call they have the best chance to get through and stay connected.
I alienated my family. I was too tired/stressed to plan a smart financial future.
The sad part is that looking back I could not have asked for more except that I could not enjoy this wonderful gift.
Here we are an insane nation of nice people hurting each other.
Wouldn't it be better to just take care of our neighbors so we can enjoy time with out families?
How is your service? I lost my job two years ago and everything looks grim.
I hope this get's figured out for you and yours.
that out was supposed to be our families.
I'm coming in late to this conversation and you may never read this, but for those who come after, I want to reply to your statement:
"How to undo a big mistake… that's the core question."
Like you, we bought a house at the wrong time. We wanted a loan for 30 year fixed, but all the brokers and lenders told us we didn't qualify (credit ratings just at 700), they convinced us that we would do better with an option ARM at 7.25%, this way we would have an option if we ran into some unforeseen circumstance along the way.
The first lender kept losing our paperwork, so we were relieved when Countrywide came on the scene. The biggest lender in the country wouldn't cheat us? Right? My only condition was that there be no prepayment penalty and since the man helping us was the General Manager of 2 offices, we felt we could trust him. No problem.
Countrywide preapproved us, but it took longer than they said to get approval. We had to get an extension and three days before closing (on the extension) they produced the paperwork for us to sign…after 5 pm….in a restaurant…with a notary, and no sign of the professionals that wrote the loan.
This was not our 1st home. This was the 4th home we had purchased, We wanted this to be our retirement home, but it had never been like this before. People losing paperwork, not returning calls, contracts with strange small prints and confusing codicils. We had to ask them to explain so many things along the way.
The level of professionalism…and integrity had seriously deteriorated over the years. We were soon to find out just how much.
Their was no notation on the front pages of our mortgage contract as to the amount of our payment with principle and interest. The only thing on the front of the contract was the "option" payment. We were not new to buying a home, we asked about the full principle and interest payment. That is what we were planning on paying.
The notary had to find it for us, buried deep within the 375 page contract. The interest had increased from the time we originally applied for the loan and the time we signed. It was now 7.5% and we had to calculate, at the table, at 7 o'clock at night, three days before closing, if we could truly afford the difference.
We discussed it and we agreed that it would only be about $50 to $75 more per month and we would be okay. My husband was expecting a raise in about two months. It would be a little tighter than we had planned, but it was doable. We planned on getting another loan as soon as we could "qualify" for a 30 year fixed.
Then we saw the 3-year prepayment addendum and I was livid. We immediately got the General Manager on the phone to complain. This was a deal-breaker. This felt like entrapment. He talked to us awhile and asked us to at least agree to one year, because he couldn't get it through without a prepay and we probably wouldn't go through the whole process again before a year anyway. "Just sign it, and I will adjust it to a one year prepay."
We changed the paperwork at the table and wrote his name as the authorization before signing and notarizing. We were reluctant to agree to one year, but it was the eleventh hour and we felt the pressure.
We put 10% down and we underreported our income. We could afford this.
After our 30 day escape clause was up our loan amount increased from 7.5 to 8.5%. Our second increased from 7.75 to 13%, and the trap I feared snapped closed on our dream.
We were ashamed and embarrassed that we could fall for such a trap and we were astounded that the professionals were okay with doing this to people without compulsion. But, hey, at least we weren't locked in for 3 years, right? We could undo this mistake, right?
Before the year was up, we qualified and were prepared to leave that horrible predatory loan behind and move on to another loan….and if you didn't guess or see it coming….Countrywide would not release us from the 3 year prepayment penalty.
Our house still had value then, but the additional amount they tacked on increased our liability to 90% and no lender wanted to take that on. I wrote and complained. Countrywide sent us back a copy of our adjusted prepayment penalty (hand-changed to one year) along with a letter telling us we knew what we were signing.
I faxed it back to them circling the changes and the notary mark and they still would not release us. Meanwhile, months passed and our debts increased and the loans we lined up fell by the wayside.
As grownups, who were not hurting financially, at that time, we felt we had recourses. We sought out an attorney and a jury trial. It has been four years and we have yet to see the inside of a court room. In addition the opposing counsel has petitioned the court to remove our evidence and the court has expressed that they are considering complying….even though the paper is a signed notarized part of our contract.
My answer to your question: Does it sound like a good plan to anyone?
My answer is "Yes." Yes it does. I think that everyone who got a loan from 2006 on, should be able to have a lowered interest rate and a shared proportionate reduction in principle. I do not think that banks should be able to cheat people and get away with it. If we did it we would be penalized into the next century.
I do not think it is right that a bank can cheat people like this, then foreclose on their home and turn around and sell it for about $200,000 less, when if they had just reduced it for the current owner by a fraction of that amount, they would have a grateful customer and future business. They would have lost far less money than they are losing now in legal fees and foreclosed homes and the increase of people who are afraid to purchase anything at this rate.
It would have been good business, and their loss would have been far less than it is going to be now. We have not yet begun to see the extent of this corruption.
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text: Home > Parenting > Child > News 08 May 2012 Lots of TV bad for kids diets The more TV kids watch, the less likely they are to eat fruits and vegetables every day, and the more likely they will eat things like candy and sodas, fast food and even skip breakfast, research shows. 0 TALK Parenting forum » ASK The Paediatrician » Follow Health24 on Facebook » Quiz Are you ready for a baby? » Baby born as truck kills mother Beautiful short film about radioactive contamination in Japan Kids who spend lots of time in front of the TV have poorer diets overall, a new study of middle school students finds. The research doesn't prove that TV watching has anything to do with what kids eat, and other factors - such as parenting style - could be more important than time spent with "American Idol" or "SpongeBob SquarePants." Still, "the more TV you watch, the less likely you were to eat fruits and vegetables every day, and the more likely you were to eat things like candy and soda, eat at a fast food restaurant and even skip breakfast," said study author Leah Lipsky, a staff scientist with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Previous research has linked more TV watching to obesity in kids, she said, perhaps because the children are less active and snack more. But study co-author Ronald Iannotti, also a staff scientist at the institute, said the issue is complicated. In some cases, for example, boys who are more active tend to watch more TV. "There's some evidence that TV may be its [own] unique risk factor. It could be because your metabolic rate is so low that it's just worse than doing anything else," Iannotti said. 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As for Asian men dominating the dialogue on Asian-American identity, I think that is true in some ways, untrue in others. I think we kind of skirted this subject on BigWOWO, where we were talking about why there are so few Asian female bloggers or feminist bloggers, compared to men.
In this day and age of free, easily accessible blog platforms and social media, there can be no real blame placed on Asian men for the lack of female voices – surely you cannot be suggesting that Asian women are somehow forbidden from the blogspaces by Asian men? Why there are not more Asian women doing this is an interesting question, but I think it is too easy, and probably inaccurate to say that sexism may be a significant factor in this.
Having said that, I'm not entirely convinced that Asian women are excluded from or, in fact, do not contribute significantly to the dialogue of Asian identity. Asian women are often spokespeople for activism, and lead the way in garnering support for activist causes, and regularly write Asian-related content in mainstream media platforms.
My real interest though, is in hearing what your thoughts are on what are the most significant issues of sexism faced by Asian-American women in 21st century America, and how the dynamic of sexism within the community is related to these issues?


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How Can I Get Out Of My Head?
Getting out of your head refers to the desire to be doing improv without having your head full of rules and thoughts and worries. It means you want to just… play… rather than be paralyzed by all the rules your improv teachers have told you. Getting out of your head also means that you want to stop feeling stuck on stage, that you have lost your instinct of what to do next, and that you are doubting yourself and worrying constantly. You feel that way and you're tired of it: what can you do?
Closely related to this question is the "I just had a terrible class/practice/show and I'm in a rut and what should I do?"
These are very common concerns. I would say it's the number one most frequent question I hear. Part of my job is picking which classes we put up at UCB-NY. If I ever want a class to sell out in zero seconds, I call it "Get Out Of Your Head!"
Zach Woods' Advice
Well the first and best set of advice I have to offer isn't even mine. It's from UCB Performer Zach Woods in an email he sent to then-UCB student (now teacher and performer) Achilles Stamatelakey about this very problem. In Achilles' words:
In May 2006, I had no confidence in my improv. After taking classes for a year-and-a-half, I felt like I was only getting worse at performing. I sent the following e-mail to some of the teachers and coaches I'd worked closely with at the time to seek their advice.
I'm not feeling great about my improv and I hope you can give me some advice.
I don't remember when I've felt this unconfident in my performance. For the past month or so, I've constantly felt indecisive in scenes (both in practices and performances). I also feel way in my head and tentative. I find myself making moves because they seem like the "right" move to make, not because they're best for the scene or the most fun. I'm making weak choices and end up in mediocre scenes because of it. In other words, I feel like I'm stuck "improvising" rather than "playing" a scene.
Part of my lack of confidence might stem from having some really great rehearsals and shows in March, then having really high expectations of myself in April during Harold team auditions and not meeting those expectations. That I got rejected from two teacher-approved performance workhops hasn't helped my confidence either. It's a vicious cycle.
What do you do when you feel like you're in a rut? I want to feel like I'm improving my skills as an improviser in some way, but I haven't felt confident in weeks. I don't see myself getting out of this slump anytime soon.
Thanks again for all your help.
- Achilles
I got a bunch of responses, all of which I am extremely grateful for. Here is one of those responses:
Hey Achilles,
I'm sorry you're feeling this way. Everyone gets in ruts from time to time, and I know how discouraging it feels. While there are some things you can do to help, I think the short (and probably disappointing) answer is you've just got to ride it out. Ruts always last longer than we want them to, but they don't last forever. So try to be patient….as impossible as that sounds.
Here's some other stuff….
-I think sometimes people who care a great deal about improv can get so wrapped up in the improv community and improv itself that their self-esteem becomes dependent on the quality of their improv. This happens to me more often than I'd like, and it's always bad news for both my improv and my self-esteem. I think it's important to remember (especially when you're in a slump) that the qualities that make you valuable as a human being have nothing to do with group games or tag-outs. Whether or not you're a worthwhile person has nothing to do with improv. If you're doing awesome shows, you could still be an asshole, if you're doing bad shows you could still be a kind, generous guy. Hopefully you're not neurotic enough to be plagued by these issues, but, I know I am, so I figured I'd mention this stuff, just in case. So….
Remind yourself that your value as a person is in no way related to, or dependent on the quality of your improv.
- Another thing that can put people in their heads is a need to "achieve."
While it's great to get some validation in the form of recognition or approval, I think it's best not to put too much stock in external recognition. The warm, mushy feeling that comes from 'achieving' (getting put on a team, class, etc.) is fleeting, and soon you're back to worrying and working and trying to improve. I think it's good to be patient and to move at your own rate. Try not to measure your progress against other people's progress. I know that's hard (maybe impossible) but I think if you allow yourself to improve at your own rate, it liberates you from the self-conscious, insecure, self-flaggelation that is anathema to good improv. Put your nose to the grindstone and do the work. It's important to have goals, but I think it's also important that those goals be rooted in personal progress rather than external achievement.
- Slumps are sometimes a result of improv-overkill. If you've been watching and doing improv constantly, it's possible that you're a bit burnt out. Good improv isn't inspired by other improv, it's inspired by life. If all you do is do/watch improv, you may have a deficit of life experiences to draw from. Take time to do the non-improv activities that you enjoy— things that have absolutely nothing to do with comedy. This will allow you to recharge. It will also put you back in touch with the things that make you unique and interesting as a person. That stuff is essential to good improv. Improv isn't just about game and technique, it's also about personality. It's important to take time to do non-comedy things that make you who you are. Listen to the music you like, read a book, fly a kite, hang out with your non-improv friends, go swimming, walk a dog, do whatever you want as long as it doesn't require a coach. Just get away from improv.
In a weird way it's kind of like the game of a scene. If all you do in a scene is hit game, game, game, and you never play the reality of the scene, both the game and the scene will feel inorganic and contrived. Similarly, in life, if all you do is improv, improv, improv, and you don't do interesting, fun non-improv stuff, your improv will feel stiff, and your life won't feel so good either (in my experience).
-Get a new pair of shoes. I don't know if this works, but I was in a slump once and I asked Peter Gwinn what I should do. He told me to get new shoes and wear them during rehearsals/shows. Make sure they are significantly different from the shoes you currently wear to rehearsals/performances. This might be bullshit, but it might be a miracle cure.
-Eat healthy, sleep well, exercise. I find that this stuff makes a huge difference. Taking care of your body allows you to focus better, etc. You probably already do this, but if not, eat some soy and get 8 hours of REM.
- If you feel like a show/rehearsal went badly, don't beat yourself up. If you notice yourself moping or obsessing over the show, try to do something to take your mind off it. You are not helping your improv by mentally abusing yourself. Self-flaggelation is just a way of indulging one's own insecurities and fears. Sometimes you can't help it, but try to avoid abusing yourself if you can.
- And remember, your slump is temporary. It's more in your own head than in reality.
Be patient, relax, and your slump will pass. Seriously.
You're going to be alright,
PS. I apologize if this email comes off as pedantic and/or convoluted.
Besides the great advice, my favorite part of this e-mail is that Zach apologizes at the end for having written it. Very Zach.
Yep, that's pretty good.
Here's some wordier, less helpful advice on the same subject.
What I Do: Remember Simple Mantras
Expanding on Zach's "everyone gets in ruts from time to time," let me overtly state that I feel I am in my head on a fairly regular basis. I've done this for 12 years and have achieved some amount of success at least within the society of the UCB Theatre in NYC (perform on a weekly show on the weekend, am one of the senior teachers) and I'd say every 4 or 5 shows I walk off stage convinced, wholly, that I am a fraud, who snuck by everyone who is in charge of deciding who is good by keeping my head down and being quiet at signature moments.
And so here are the specific things I do when I am feeling "in my head" — and by that I mean when I am feeling doubtful, and unsure of my abilities and unfunny.
First I have a few different mantras I run through in my head. One is "listen and react." I tell myself to forget everything else and just obey that rule. This is an effort to keep it simple, but to still be participatory.
Another one is I'll tell myself "be playful." This was advice my brother gave me before we did a two-prov set. It was the first time we had performed at a particular theatre and we wanted to be good. He grabbed both of my shoulders and looked at me and said "be playful — you're good when you're playful" and it freed me of worrying about being "good" or doing it "right."
Another trick I will do is to remember a particular improv class I had in which I always felt great. For me it's my fourth improv class. For some reasons, whether it was the teacher or the people in that class I don't fully know, I always felt confident and capable in that class. When I'm backstage before a show and feeling lousy I will quietly invoke the feeling of being in the backline of that class. It helps me recall some muscle memory of that confidence.
A final trick I will do — and I bet this reveals some problem with intimacy or something but who gives a crap if it helps my show — is that I pretend that I am performing with strangers. Sometimes with people I know I get tentative and unsure and I will second guess myself. When playing strangers I become a nice combination of decisive but polite. I listen more but I also make bold moves. It helps. So sometimes I'll tell myself that everyone I'm playing with are strangers.
Some other thoughts to consider if you're in your head:
The Last Show
Part of this phenomenon is that you only feel as good as your very last class/practice/show. You can have 1,000 great scenes in a row, but once you have a bad one, you walk away saying "maybe I'm terrible at this." It's easy to have a short memory when assessing yourself.
The good side of that is it only take one "good" class/practice/show to feel better again. Often then best way to get out of your head, is simply to do more of it, and increase the odds that you will do a scene where things go your way and you walk out feeling better.
Beware Trying To Please Just One Person (Who Isn't You)
Let's get some data here: is it ONE PERSON who is making you feel in your head? Like have you started taking a class, and the teacher doesn't seem to be impressed with you, or maybe even actively seems to be unimpressed with you? Are you "in your head" trying to please this one person? It's understandable to want to please your teacher but you should know that everyone who takes even a small number of improv teachers will invariably run into a class or teacher that they simply don't jibe with.
That doesn't mean that you're bad at this, it means you're in a particular context that is making you feel a bit out of sorts. Do not get in the habit of letting your view of yourself be dependent on what someone else thinks of you. Especially one particular person.
If possible, try to enjoy this as a learning opportunity. It's bad to worry about someone else's opinion of you, but if that other person is a teacher there may be something to learn here.
My second level improv class was like this. The teacher was actively and evidently bored by anything I did. And watching his glassy-eyed expression when I started scenes I became painfully aware of myself as a boring performer. My first reaction was to be angry at him for not simply liking me more (mind you, I do not know what he ACTUALLY thought, this was my impression — though certainly he was not laughing or smiling).
But then I was able to shift my mindset and think of him as representing the portion of an audience that would not like me. Like, let's assume that no matter how great you become at improv, there will be people who simply do not enjoy your work. What if you could isolate that section of the audience, get them into a lab, and practice with JUST THEM until you "figure out" what it is they want? Wouldn't that be interesting to know?
I gave up on the idea of this teacher ever truly liking me, and instead started scanning for little moments of victory. I determined that this teacher liked very very small moves —- and that he hated almost any big twists or fantastical elements. The smaller, the more natural the better. I abandoned the idea of being funny, or being impressive, and tried simply to say things that felt honest in the moment. I got a few smirks. I got a "good scene."
I can't say I ever "beat" this teacher. Other students got huge reactions out of him, but he never even learned my name (until years later). But I learned how to be comfortable in the environment where he wasn't cheerleading me. I learned to have a sense of accomplishment just by staying in touch with my own thoughts while in his class. I didn't need him to like me; I was learning stuff anyway.
Are You Pleasing Yourself?
"Being in your head" often comes after you do a class or show and feel unliked by the audience: be it other classmates a teacher or an actual audience. But how do YOU feel about what you did? Rather than fall into an amorphous feeling a general self-doubt, can you pick a particular goal and measure yourself against this?
For example, do you wish to be initiating more clearly? That is something that you can do better at within the context of one session. The trick is to know that you may in fact do well at your goal, and still not have the overwhelming approval from others that you're subconsciously (or maybe consciously) looking for. Forget other people's reactions. Did you accomplish your goal?
I had a show recently in which I just wanted to "be in the moment" and not pre-plan any moves. Meaning if I was in a scene with multiple people, I didn't want to mentally leave the scene and start to think about "what would sound cool" as that is a trap I personally fall into. I wanted to just be in the scene, and react when the action of the scene headed my way. Well, I did that, and the results were … well, not great. My responses were a bit slow, and stodgy and not immediately funny. But, as I assessed myself after, they WERE natural, they were truthful, they were real. I had accomplished my goal. I was proud of it, even though it hadn't led to the amazing show I also wanted — I avoided getting in my head by being proud of hitting the goal *I* wanted to hit.
Be Patient
Another question: how long have you been doing improv? Is it less than a year? Then "being in your head" is just part of learning something new. You can't avoid it. You wouldn't expect to be able to sit at a piano and improvise beautiful songs after just ten months of lessons. Yet improv students seem to get frustrated if, during their first year of study, they find it difficult. You understand that to learn something means to go through a period in which you are clumsy at it, right? Well, maybe you're just in one of those necessary phases of being clumsy. Rest easy: you are growing more powerful.
Don't Compare
Remember that you don't have to be the BEST to be good enough. You will see classmates and others who are better than you. There is room for you to be good even though there will ALWAYS be someone who is just… better.
Avoid Heady Challenges
Are you working on getting ideas from an opening? Are you working on "game" — meaning are you working on having clear and simple comedic ideas that define your whole scene? Those are two notoriously thinky goals. There's almost no way to practice them and not feel "in your head."
So one way to get out of your head is: take a break from working on that stuff. Find a workshop or a practice where there are no openings, and no focus on game. Focus on "saying yes" and "committing." That leads to fun scenework that is light and easy. Without game, your scenes may amble from different idea to different idea. Without an opening, they may take a while to get going. But you will feel lighter and easier.
There are workshops and teachers who specialize in this type of work. They'll often sell themselves as "get out of your head" workshops. There will be a lot of physical work — matching each other or starting with a big silly move and then justifying it. Or maybe there will be exercises where you make a big emotional choice and then immediately start heightening it. They are fun, freeing exercises. Might be just what you need to re-discover the fun of doing improv.
Mind you: these are just vacations. At some point, you're going to have to immerse yourself in the "heady" challenges of getting ideas from an opening, or minding the game of your scene. But there's nothing wrong with taking a break from that stuff to re-energize yourself with fun in the meantime.
Practice Being A Fan Of Yourself
I know that I'm venturing into saccharine bumper sticker-sized therapy here, but an essential skill to doing this is recalling the feeling that you are fundamentally a funny person. Not the MOST funny, not the MOST charismatic, but just —— funny.
Once we like a performer, we are very forgiving of moments in which he or she falls short in a show. We barely notice them since we so surely believe that a better moment is coming down the road.
Can you simply decide to have that same attitude towards yourself?
You MUST believe that on some level you are funny or smart or charming or you wouldn't have been able to walk into that first improv class.
Somewhere in you is the belief that you are good. Make that feeling grow. When you have a good scene in class, when you are funny in a conversation with someone at work, when you write a funny email — and you know it — hold onto that feeling. Picture it like a seedling sprouting in the vast prairies of your mind and give it water and sun. Let that feeling grow. It is ultimately what will solve the problem of being in your head forever: the belief that you are good, and that when things aren't going well that you are a good person having a bad day.


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