I didn’t get into any graduate programs this year

Well…

…there’s always next year, right?

Right.

I wrote the guy back at my top choice, and I said “What can I do to improve my chances at getting in next year?” and he wrote back and basically offered some advice that boiled down to “You have a passion for directing.  Keep directing!”  He also told me to email him mid-Fall if I was interested in applying again next year.  I hope that’s a good thing.

So now I have a problem.  I’m working over an hour away from my home, and I work 8-9 hours per day.  By the time I get home, I’m exhausted, I’ve spent 11 hours away from home, and I want to eat and go to sleep.  I get home between 7 and 8pm, and from all of my previous experience, that’s too late for any decent rehearsal period at any show.

So what am I to do?

I got a few options.

I can find another job that’s closer to home.  Or I can move closer to my current day job (web developer).  Or I can just not direct.  I don’t really think that last one’s an option.  I have to get some experience somehow, and I have to do some theatre or I’ll go crazy.

Just kind of in a crappy situation, I guess.