I have now stayed up way too late making some long overdue changes to the blog. But I’m excited, because I love how it’s turned out. I wrote a lot of new copy for the About Me page, and other new pages you can find in the header. It’s basically like I took the curtains down and gave them a good wash. (We don’t have curtains, and I don’t see myself being someone who would wash them if we did have them, so maybe I need to rethink this analogy.)

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to sip some Mexican hot chocolate and go to bed.

Another post! I know, I’m surprised too!

I’m doing a fun new show and I wanted to tell you guys. Since Harvard Sailing Team has started doing more shows nationwide, and fewer shows in New York City, I knew I wouldn’t last long without another live comedy venture to put my energy into. I still perform every Saturday night at the PIT with my improv group The Baldwins, and now I’m also working on a new monthly variety show called The MONSTER Show. Our first show last month was a great success – such a fun crowd, fantastic guests, and my co-hosts Clayton Early and Chris Roberti and I had a blast entertaining everyone. Kevin produced, co-directed and co-wrote the show and that was awesome too. I’m lucky to get to work with such talented, smart people.

Our next show is this Friday, November 11 at 9:30pm at the PIT. We have another exciting line-up: the beloved sketch duo Chris & Paul, Last Comic Standing’s Adrienne Iapalucci, Jack Dishel in Only Son (he’s the lead guitarist of The Moldy Peaches and toured with The Strokes and Regina Spektor!), plus Harvard Sailing Team will appear via Skype from LA! And other fun stuff will happen too. I love it.

This has been an exciting, interesting year for me. There have certainly been ups and downs, but overall, I feel like a lot of wonderful things have happened this year that have forced me to pause, look around, and feel grateful for what I’ve accomplished. My job at the PIT is fulfilling, I am more at home performing comedy than I ever have been before, I’ve made my health and mental wellness more of a priority than I have in years, and I’m about to turn 31 on Monday.

It’s a birthday that’s crept up on me. 30 was such a milestone, and it took a while to get used to the idea that I was no longer a 20-something, I guess I forgot that other ages would follow once 30 was said and done. We’re just doing low-key stuff this year – dinner with friends, a fun day together as a couple, I have to teach on the actual night of my birthday – very…adult, I suppose.

It’s all good stuff.

So, it’s been a while, I know. Let’s not deny it. I’ve owed this blog a post for quite some time.

Where have I been? I’ve been busy, I guess. Every time I sit down to write a post, that’s all it ends up being about. How I’m busy. That’s no fun, right?

I’m not really sure what else to tell you. It’s interesting how much I once had the drive to write about everything I was thinking and feeling, and how I just don’t feel the pull to do that so much anymore.

I guess I express myself in other ways lately – on stage, in the classroom, on twitter. Work at the PIT is busy and fun and has its ups and downs, but it’s a great place for me to be in my life right now. We were voted Best Comedy Venue in New York City in the Village Voice this year and we keep growing and growing. It’s super exciting. I also get along with my coworkers, who make me laugh, so that doesn’t hurt.

Overall this last year of my life has been about diving head first into the comedy scene in a way I never had before. I took a stand-up class, put up my own variety show, I’ve been working on webseries scripts and other ideas and teaching more and more classes and doing more and more shows and I’ve been generally focused on that world.

When I started this blog, I was “stuck” in a desk job that I didn’t love. A lot’s changed for me personally in the years since I began writing here. I quit that desk job. I started a bakery. I did my best to run the bakery. I didn’t like it. I stopped doing it. I thought I might do it again, but I now know won’t. I didn’t like it and that’s the bottom line. I felt myself drawn more to comedy and performing than I ever had been. And here I am now. That’s what this whole journey was about, right? Finding what I truly loved to do.

Maybe where I’ve ended up will change someday. Maybe I’ll be a psychologist or an FBI agent 15 years from now. Probably not. But I’m just about to turn 31, I have plenty of time to find out. For now, I’m practicing enjoying the process.

Thanks for joining me on this journey over the last almost-three years. Writing here was an inspiration to me, connecting with all of you was a support to me, and communicating with you helped me to grow and analyze myself as I went along. Now I’m trying to focus less on analyzing myself and more on living in the moment and enjoying my life.

I might write here regularly again someday, I might not. In the meantime, I’m on Twitter and Facebook. Connect with me there! Or you can email me at jenifercurran@gmail.com. See you around.

I have a new job! It’s good. I like where I work and who I work with.

I pulled a muscle in my hamstring while I was stretching this weekend. It popped so loudly you could hear it across the room. I screamed. My ass hurt for two days. It’s on the mend now.

I have been really tired. I’m working 12 hour days most days. None of it’s hard or stressful – and I really do love a lot of the stuff I get to do right now! – but I’m tired.

I’ve been having writer’s block.

Shows and rehearsals and classes are my evening life. It’s great – fun, easy, fulfilling. I’m lucky. I know I’ve said this before, but I always marvel at it: I get to perform to two sold-out New York City audiences every Friday and Saturday night and I’m so lucky to get to do that. I don’t take that for granted.

HST has a new video. And we shot another one last night. It was a blast, as it always is. My friends are brilliantly funny and I adore them.

Super looking forward to the summer, guys. Let’s lay by the pool.

Last day at the ol’ law firm job.

Not my first law firm job. My second. The one I had to take after I made a big fanfare about quitting my first law firm job and spent a year figuring out who I am and what I want to do with myself.

Well, I think I’ve got it figured out. For now, anyway.

Life, right?

Can’t wait for 5:30pm tomorrow. New chapter! Spring.