Maybe I've Finally Found My Audience?

As most people know, I tend to have a very quirky (read: lame) and dry (read: stupid) sense of humor. Well, Thursday evening, I went to an improv comedy workshop on campus. I had been talking to the girl who was in charge earlier in the week and she invited me to come out and give it a try. My roommate Holly does improv at Loyola, so we decided to go together. I really had no intention of participating much, but since there were only five or six others there, simple observation just wasn't a viable option. They got me to join them in their "warm-up," and it kind of took off from there. Next thing I knew, I was on all fours, a washed up horse who just couldn't hack it anymore. Much to my surprise, people actually sometimes laughed when I did something - and it seemed to be the genuine kind, not the this-guy-is-so-lame-it's-funny kind. There's more. In a few weeks, there's something in Dublin called the Irish Student Drama Awards. At the end of the night, Deborah (the girl in charge) was asking who could go to Dublin to take part in this. Huh? All the colleges in Ireland apparently send their drama society to this week-long festival, and each school also can send some sort of "side project." So while the drama society at Mary Immaculate is sending a group that's doing a play, the improv group seems to be the side project. The drama society pays for travel and accommodation for the night that we are there. Currently, they're waiting to hear what date they are assigned. And yes, they want me to come with them. To recap: I joined an improv group and am possibly going to Dublin to compete. Unbelievable. I guess I've come a long way since my first "your father wasn't a window maker" joke. Or maybe I haven't.