Response and Irresponsibility
A new novel by Jane Austen

I would consider myself a moderately irresponsible person. I would say moderately responsible person but when giving myself a title I suppose I should include the dominate trait being described and "irresponsible" rests maybe at 51% on my scale of responsibility. My proudest moments, those when I feel the bad sort of "Oh good I'm better than other people" kind of pride, most often happen when I find myself in the rare situation where everyone else is acting irresponsibly and I am forced to play the "adult". Fortunately (or unfortunately) I live with actors so we all act like children most of the time.

My friend Ian, an actor in Toronto, said something profound and it really describes how I feel most of the time:

It's hard to be in a city (and especially an industry) that constantly makes you doubt absolutely everything about yourself. It's like the one profession where you shouldn't take anything personally invariably leads to taking things the most personally.

So in the rare case that I get to be the adult I somehow feel as though I should just lighten up.