Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Only in acting school.

Only in acting school does this scenario take place:

A girl is lying in the hallway on the ground, writhing and moaning. People look at her, nod to themselves, and walk on. One guy stops by her to read a bulletin board. He thinks to himself, "Wow, she's into her work! Like, really really into it!" and so he says to her, "Thumbs up if you're acting."
No thumbs up. She moans for pain killers.
Even when he's getting her pain killers, he's not sure if she is really in pain or not.
More people pass her in the hallway.

Then she vomits.

Pink vomit. Thick, foamy.

That's when it clicks that she is NOT acting, and people help her. But some are still confused--she could just be really really into what she was doing. Did she actually vomit, or did she fake it?

I hope I'm never that ill at school. But it must be understood that it's common for people to be screaming in the halls, to pound on the door, to cry, to look ill, to say really off-the-wall things. It's a building of people playing pretend, and while most times it's beautiful, it really would be the worst place to have a heart attack.