Hello Thespians, young and old! This is your publicist speaking. I'm here to give everybody a summer update on Nationals. As always, the 3 AM bus ride is delightful, but was even more so this year due to the lovely drizzle everybody woke up to. As fifty thespians boarded the bus, slightly damp, we settled comfortably into our seats and prepared to enjoy a movie- a VHS- the bus was not equipped with a DVD player. Anyways, after a long ride, we arrived in Lincoln and enjoyed dinner that night at Ken Friednash's Qdoba. The second day was all about the IE's. All of the scenes and songs were wonderful, and we eagerly awaited the callback results.
 The variety of workshops was almost overwhelming, but I chose to attend a few really great ones. A playwriting workshop taught by Max Posner was the first one I went to. I also went to a directing workshop, a relaxation and body awareness workshop (basicallly yoga), and a couple of mask classes, including neutral mask with Brett Scott.
 The plays were, overall, a good selection (better than last time I went at least.) Drowsy Chaperone, Rabbit Hole, and Anything Goes were my personal favorites. Too Much Light and Flight were great, and I decided to go to some other one-acts. Zach, Eli, Marlo and I went to a delightful little musical called A Story. It was performed by the Marianas High School Musical Group, from Saipan (a little Island in the South Pacific.) It was student-written and student-directed and used such popular songs as True Colors, Bust a Move, and Lean on Me to illustrate the story of the students, a janitor who falls in love with a teacher, and how he saves her from being robbed, but is stabbed in the process.
 You gotta love Thes. Con! I hope everybody is having a good summer! We have 7 weeks left!