First Semester Senior Year, check. Pictures...
Another pic from the Semi-formal... and another of Jen and Lori that I like
"The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves while wiser people are so full of doubt." - Bertrand Russel
1) Using band names, spell out your name: REM, Evanescence, Ben Folds Five, Eve 6, The Clash, Christina Aguilera (I don't care if she'snot a band.)
2) Have you ever had a song written about you? not that i'm aware of
3) What song makes you cry? Into the West
4) What song makes you happy? Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas song
PT. II
a p p e a r a n c e
x. HEIGHT: 5' 9"
x. HAIR COLOR: blonde
x. SKIN COLOR: white
x. EYE COLOR: hazel or green
x. PIERCINGS: 2 in each ear
x. TATTOOS: no siree
r i g h t n o w
x. WHAT YOU WEARING?: a blue dress from long ago
x. WHAT SONG ARE YOU LISTENING TO?: i'm not
x. WHAT TASTE IS IN YOUR MOUTH?: GARLIC
x. WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE?: it's been rainy for far too long
x. HOW ARE YOU?: annoyed at the paper i should be writing
x. GET MOTION SICKNESS?: nope
x. HAVE A BAD HABIT?: maybe
x. GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS?: yes
x. LIKE TO DRIVE?: yes
l o v e
x. BOYFRIEND?: yes
x. GIRLFRIEND?: so many.. hehe
x. SEXUALITY?: straight
x. CHILDREN?: NO
x. HAD A HARD TIME GETTING OVER SOMEONE?: yessir
x. BEEN HURT?: yesm
x. YOUR GREATEST REGRET?: regrets are stupid
x. GONE OUT WITH A SOMEONE YOU ONLY KNEW FOR THREE DAYS?: no
r a n d o m
x. DO YOU HAVE A JOB?: not at the moment
x. YOUR CD PLAYER HAS IN IT RIGHT NOW?: Christmas music
x. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON what color would you be?: army green
x. WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?: hugs
x. WHAT'S THE NEXT CD YOU'RE GONNA GET?: i dunno
Seven things in your room:
1. my camera
2. jazz shoes
4. lavendar beads
5. a piece of tape that says "PROCRASTINATOR"
6. Orlando
7. Pippin production book
Seven things to do before death:
1. win an Oscar. let's be realistic now, k?
2. sing
3. sleep
4. eat
5. travel
6. be rich
7. smile
Seven things that attract you to the opposite sex:
1. oh please
Top seven things you say most:
1. true story
2. you're fun
3. fucking hell
4. rarr
5. will you marry me?
6. can i bite you?
7. uh..
Do You:
Smoke?: during damn yankees and picasso, i amde the fog machine work
Do drugs?: are goldfish a drug?
Read the newspaper? sometimes
Pray?: sometimes
Have you ever:
Been in love?: yes
Gone skinny dipping?: i'm too obese to go skinny dipping
Had a medical emergency?: i think not
Had surgery?: does wisdom teeth count? ;)
Swam in the dark? yes
Been to a Bonfire: yes
Got Drunk: hi, my name is last night
Ran away from home?: once, i got to the back deck
Played strip poker?: no
Gotten beaten up?: not so much
Beaten someone up?: not so much
Been on stage?: sure
Slept outdoors?: ummm... in a tent, yes
Pulled an all nighter?: not often
If yes, what is your record?: only 1 this person needs sleep
Made out with a stranger?: what happens in Jersey stays in Jersey
Been on radio/tv?: yes
Been in a mosh-pit?: oh i love punk rock concerts
Been to a party: sure
Gotten lost in the woods: i guess so?
Been in an Undertow: no, but if yo uare, swim PARALLEL to shore
Smoked a Cigar: i tried that once. in the blackbox.
Do you have any gay/lesbian friends?: yes
Describe your first kiss?: pass
About You
Three words that sum you up: emotional dork fun
Wallet: is duct tape
Coffee: today the coffee tasted SO GOOD
Shoes: i widh i had more shoes
Cologne/Perfume: lavendar is a scent of choice
In the last 24 Hours have you....:
Cried: ha. wow. yes.
Bought something: ummm, no?
Gotten sick: no
Sang: a LOT
Been kissed: yeah
Felt stupid: yeah
Wanted to tell someone you love them, but didn’t: nah
Talked to an ex: funny
Talked to someone you have a crush on: sadly, i did not talk to orlando
Had a serious talk: i'm gonna go with yes
Missed someone: yes
Hugged someone: yes
Argued with a parent(s): no
Social Life:
Boyfriend/girlfriend: i already answered that
Would you rather be with friends or on a date: depends
Attend Church: i attended candlelight carols THREE TIMES
Like being around people: yes, this is why i miss benfer sometimes
Last:
Thing you ate: Bellissimo's
Thing you drank: coffee
Place you went: potty
Person you kissed: jason
Person you talked to: shmid
Person you IMed: lori
Song you heard: umm, "O Come All Ye Faithful" ;)
The End? Guess so.
This week is still busy though!:
-Finish model of Hamlet set for Scene Design
-2 monologue presentations for Speech final
-Final paper & extra credit for American Writers
-Paper and revised production book for Independent Study (Pippin)
-Dinner with my lovies
Still Left:
-1 Directing class (John Dunphy's final directing scene)
-Trip to Curtis' house for scene design
-Performance day (jazz)
-Finish model of Hamlet set for Scene Design
-2 monologue presentations for Speech final
-Final paper & extra credit for American Writers
-Paper and revised production book for Independent Study (Pippin)
-Noah's blackbox
-3 Choir concerts (dinner w/ mom)
-MTA Semi-formal
-Dinner with my lovies
-All black party (Jason & Tim's)...be there...Monday...
Before I can go home for Christmas, here's what I've got left:
The Classes:
-2 Directing classes
-2 American Writers classes
-2 Scene Design classes
-2 Jazz classes
The Finals:
-John Dunphy's final directing scene
-My final directing scene
-Performance day (jazz)
-Final paper for American Writers
-Paper and revised production book for Independent Study (Pippin)
-Finish model of Hamlet set for Scene Design
-2 monologue presentations for Speech final
The Extraneaous Stuff:
-Critical take (paper and presentation) on Portnoy's Complaint
-Reaction paper on Portnoy's Complaint
-2 Choir rehearsals
-3 Choir concerts
-MTA Semi-formal
-Dinner w/my lovies??
-Trip to Curtis' house for scene design
Bad Prom Pix! These took WAY too long to get online...
Was the Election hacked?
http://www.sorryeverybody.com Gallery page 80 particularly interests me..
And then Pippin was over. The run went realllly well, but I'm happy that I can have a life again (sorta). Yay! Now I just have a directing rehearsals and two projects to eat my life :)
P.S. http://johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com
So, I guess I haven't updated basically since school started. That's some crazy stuff - just like my life these past 7 weeks. Pippin has eaten my life possibly more than any other show ever has. This excludes summer shows, because in the summer the shows ARE your life. Well, the same was pretty much true in this rehearsal process. Things were pretty crazy up through tech, but the show really came together these past few days and I think audiences will really enjoy it. It's been an invaluable experience working with Robert LaFosse, and Charlie just keeps telling me that now I'm prepared for the real world, which is just as hectic. Speaking of the real world, the faculty members keep quizzing me on what I'll be doing next year, so once Pippin is over the plan is to start thinking about that and talk about it with all those people who quiz me (Charlie, Devon, Curtis, Beth...). This weekend should be crazy - the show opens and we have 4 performances this weekend alone, Mom is coming tomorrow, Frankie's mom is taking the cast out to Buca Di Beppo, the theater dept. is having a dinner for us, and my baby interns from the summer are visiting.
I have a feeling Opening will go really well. I'm SO proud of this cast - they've really put up with a lot and kept it together. Break a leg!
This site is good for seeing which candidate your views align with, if you haven't figured it out yet ;)
Need some wood?
No, this is, as always in crazy times, not really an update. I got out of Pippin early tonight, so I went on a kick of downloading music (Rufus, The Shins, Sinatra, Carbon Leaf...) with my new program, LimeWire, and looking for Spring Break deals. Any suggestions? On spring break deals, I mean. Someplace with a beach and hot and all-inclusive is pretty much what we're lookin' for. Oh, and I also looked up all the ACTF Stage Management info, which just kinda makes me nervous. Already.
Pippin is going fairly slowly and smoothly - we're done blocking out Act I finally, but it needs lots of review and clean-up work! A month (when we open) feels like a long time, but there's fall break in there... so really, it's kinda scary.
I need to go do my Speech homework (i.e. make funny noises), but before I go I wanted to point out that I really enjoy it when people I knew in high school do talented things (I really recommend her song "With Everything I Have").
Ciao.
Request your Pippin tickets!
So, a year ago today I was in London. I had two classes on Wednesday's, each one whole whopping hour. And then I'd go see a play. And then I'd go to the Sandwich. Sigh.. Week four of the semester seems to be worse than weeks two and three, but possibly better than week one. Possibly. Stress continues to accumulate as I've started doing Scene shop hours, have an actual assignment due for Scene Design, have weekly production meetings, and never get quite enough sleep! Luckily, we're closer to the weekend than we were yesterday, I don't have to do a scene for next week's Directing, and one of my classes for tomorrow is canceled. Simple Joys.
RIP Lucy :(
The first week of school just about killed me.
So I have no desire to update, but perhaps these links will interest you:
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P.S. I'm kinda in love with Zach Braff after seeing Garden State. Isn't that wierd?
Before you go back to school:
Go to your local courthouse and find out about applying for an absentee ballot! No, really. Let's vote, plea'.
So... home. It's such a different world than being at school for the summer. The days go by much more quickly...and much more slowly... And it's certainly lonelier than at school, with my babies across the hall, but solitude is so nice!
The first week at home was very busy. When I got home on Monday I was so tired I felt as if I had been drugged. Mom was in NYC with our vistors, Gretchen, Adam, and his friend Phillip. Gretchen was mom's college roommate, whom she's remained friends with all this time. Her daughter Sarah was born around the same time as Beth, and Rachel was born around the same time as me, so our families were close when we all lived in Pittsburgh. Adam is the youngest in the family, so he came with his mom to visit my mom, like he did last year, and brought his friend Phil for company. Anywho. So they didn't get home til after midnight, so I crashed on the couch from 5, when I got home, until they got home. I was SOOO sleepy.
Tuesday we got up early and went to the beach. It was a great beach day - I got some more tan, the water was a good temperature with fairly good waves, and it was nice and hot. We went to our seafood restaurant afterwards, where one of the highlights of the day was Gretchen making me chug my water so she could pour wine in my water glass when our waitress wasn't looking (I had forgotten my ID, but they ordered too much wine for just mom and Gretchen to drink themselves)!
On Wednesday Beth got home early in the day (I was, of course, still in bed) and she went with me to see Made in America at the Berg. Seeing Leah sing "Lost in his Arms" made me really miss my show - after all, this was just the second performance night since our show had closed and after doing a show for so long I certainly felt a sense of withdrawal which I don't normally get!
On Thursday we all went to Six Flags, which was super, especially after dinner because the place REALLY cleared out and we could literally just stay on rides rather than having to get off and stand in line. Medusa was my favorite of the roller-coasters, but the new one, Superman, was good fun and gets bonus points for being so comfortable! It was the most comfy of the rides we rode that day, which is saying a lot considering it has you riding face and stomach down.
Friday...? I don't know what happened that day. Gretchen and the boys left... Oh, I know. First I went and visited Jason for the first time since his ear surgery. I had to make it a kinda quick visit b/c we went to visit my grandmother in Lancaster that day, so we just watched some season 4 Friends episodes and his ear looked funny ;) Grandma's was good - we ate dinner and watched the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Mom and Beth also went with Grandma to visit Grandpa, but I didn't feel like going. Seeing elderly people has been making me increasingly uncomfortable for some reason, and moreso when their memories fail. So going to see Grandpa and having to see all the OTHER people in that unit as well just wasnt something I wanted to do that day. Everyone understood that, and I felt bad, but there will be other visits.
On Saturday we were supposed to go to the beach, but the weather was icky so we decided not to bother and went to the movies instead, to see Spider-man 2. I had already seen it with Kim and Davey T. this summer, but neither mom nor Beth had and it seemed like a good entertaining choice.
Sunday - WICKED! Oh how I love this play. Let me set this up for you first, though. I'm in NYC and it's POURING. The show is starting in 15 minutes, and I have several blocks left to run (with only one umbrella for the three of us...Mom got to hold it). I'm wearing my Birkenstocks... good walking shoes right? Right. Good running shoes, right? Well, when it's pouring they get very wet (duh) and verrrry slippery. So I really couldn't run with them on, and my beloved show would be starting in 15 minutes, so now just picture me running BAREFOOT with shoes in hand through NYC and with my clothes drenched completely through. Thus, I arrived at Wicked. With that said, I didn't notice being wet during the show at all because it's that great. Idina Menzel was back from her movie stint, and although most of the cast has been changed since last time I saw it, they were excellent. The new Glinda did a great job. She really carried the role and I only missed Kristin Chenowith a little ;) Boq was under-studied that day and the guy was pretty annoying, but I guess it doesn't matter much for his character. And Fiyero was played by Joey McIntyre (sp?) of New Kids on the Block fame, which weirded me out, but he wasn't bad. Mom and Beth loved it; that's what important! Mom already keeps saying she wants to see it again :)
On Monday Beth left to go back to Seattle and this week has been pretty slow. I've rented lots of videos, seen Jason once, last night, went out to lunch with Jen, and been sick with a sore throat/cough thing. No cough will ever be as special as the one I had during M4M though - coughing until my body thought I was trying to throw up and so decided to do just that was a truly great time! Oh, and mom bought me a microwave and new phone for this year so that Lydia and I can microwave things and I can actually ANSWER my phone instead of having to let everything go to the answering machine like I did last year! The plan for this week involves having dinner with Danielle in the city to celebrate 21-ness, going to the beach twice (if weather permits), seeing Shannon, and getting ready to go back to school. Eek!
And now... it's bed time. Goodnight kitty bunnies.
I was browsing Marc's London pics and found a few involving me, so here's the links to 'em, as well as some my sister took when she visited over Thanksgiving:
Another pic of the community dinner in Jess' flat... I look kinda weird.
Yeah, I REALLY don't look good in this one... but it's still a memory ;)
A shot of the Globe - I wonder what we're thinking about?
Beth and me by the Tower Bridge
Mommy and me at tea
Spielburg and me. We're buddies.
Now, I feel like I have a lot to write about with the past week at home, but...I don't feel like it right now. Maybe tomorrow! :-*
Remember when:
-Lauren got sick right before the start of the show and we only two children one night?
-Christy and I named the light cues? (i.e. LQ70 = Power of Love)
-Noah went on for Sitting Bull?
-Alan got stuck in traffic and arrived at 7:59 pm?
-The tent fabric died during the opening number?
-Frank had his first pedophile and gay moments and Annie had her first ADD moment?
-We had to sub in a spot operator on the LAST SHOW?
-Kim tainted the children?
-Champeen suddenly became cham-penis?
-Anything You Can Do ended extremely early?
-The shooting match was a DRAW?
-Frank was sweet on Annie every other night?
-Franklin rolled around the booth in his little ball one night?
-K.C. was born and remains the longest-living condom baby?
-Bob the condom baby exploded even more quickly than Dot did?
-The cards in the deck had porn on them?
-Kieran and Nick were cowboys in their undies?
-The Pimps 'n Hos party was better than the Pirates vs. Ninjas party?
-I had a single until the last 12 days of my stay at the Berg?
-AIM decided not to work for three weeks?
-Kim took us to her shore house and it was AMAZING and we all got scorched?
-Natalie wasn't a costumer way back when?
-It was Jason's 21st birthday on opening night?
-We took our "crew picture"?
-Kim had to go to the hospital to have her finger glued shut?
-"If you have children, if you know children, if you are children..."
-Sun in the Morning was my favorite thing ever?
-The white scrim was randomly in during the ballroom scene?
-Matt and I created a band named Golden Hamster?
-I was a mommy, a sister, an aunt, and the owner of a pet turtle?
-Jon improved to Brian's guitar playing and came up with the brilliant lyric, "Show me your tits, and I'll make you a star - Don't you know that I don't know who the fuck you are?"
-The audience clapped during Frank and Annie's kiss?
-The moment in Sun in the Morning when I went, "Skippy skippy skippy skippy skippy skippy skip skip skip"?
-During a game of Literati Matt pronounced "devious" as "dev-wah"?
-Zoolander appeared in the Musical Theatre Workshop?
-It was Surrah Day?
-Kim and Sarah decided to make a techie Christmas CD?
-I had to warn people that I was going to stall on that speed bump?
-The new ATM in Seeger's ate my debit card?
-I learned from the book that came with the Cowboy Cookie Cutters Kim gave me that Annie Oakley's real name was Phoebe Anne Oakley Mosee?
-I gave the ten-minute call to the girl's dressing room as "Ten minutes, you have ten minutes left to knit!"
-Kirk taught us all that five plus five plus five minus five is ten?
-The spasms happened during Anything You Can Do?
-We gave all the cast members animal species?
-We made videos of our sober craziness which included KEEP CALM, pirate faces, pigeon walks, and a whole lot of "What sound does an (insert animal species here) make"?
-Natalie decided my floor was a good place to do crunches?
-"She'll PURR like a kitten..."?
-We did a shot for each mistake made on that one special night when the tent fabric died (21!)?
-We sang along to Disney songs on the way to the beach?
-I noted that we didn't have enough confetti to make extra balloons and Marc promptly popped two of them?
-Matt lied to me about there being cookies?
-I was asked what I would say if I saw a kitty and a bunny that had been genetically fused together into one entity?
More to come, maybe... ;)
So, Annie is now more than halfway done with all its performances! We haven't had any major issues thus far, and it's been going fairly smoothly. Our first preview was definitely a PREVIEW - among the problems we had that night were the fact that half the last song got cut out! Oops.. Since then, it's been a lot of issues with Annie's mic (not for a few days now though), some issues with traffic, some premature balloon-popping - stuff like that.
I love afternoons now that rehearsals aren't happening anymore. I can sleep til 12 or 1, read and laze around all day, eat dinner, and head over to the theatre around 6:15. Jason's come to visit on a few weekends, including our opening night, which was also his 21st birthday. I think he had a pretty good time. This Monday for our comapny day off, a group of 12 of us headed down to Kim Swaneveld's shore house in Jersey, which was THE best day off ever! Despite bad weather forecasts, it was gorgeous and sunny, the water was warm, the waves were big and strong, etc. Her house is right on the shore, so it's a private beach for that group of houses, so it wasn't crowded or anything, and we could go out and frolic on the beach in the middle of the night, too. Most of us got badly burnt unfortunately, and now aloe is our best friend, but...what a great day. That night we went to the boardwalk and I ate two huge slices of pizza, some mozzarella sticks, and chocolate frozen yogourt. We gopt back around 12 on Tuesday, so I napped and showered and relaxed as much as possible before our show that night. Watching the burnt Indians roll around on the stage floor that night during Defenses are Down was highly amusing that night!
Today I was fairly productive for once.. I did laundry, went and bought the third book of a series that I absolutely needed RIGHT NOW ;) , and bought new aloe, shampoo, lipliner, chapstick, and toothpaste. I also out my pictures on-line, so here they are!
My AIM refuses to work lately, which seems to be a problem with the network but I'm not rewally too sure. It's really annoying though! So anyway, that's why I haven't been on-line to much and why my away messages haven't been anything interesting or creative. I hope it starts working again soon. My roomate finally moved in yesterday (Katie Most), so we'll live together for a grand total of 12 days before I move out and head back home again. Yay home!
Theatre Logic
In is down, down is front,
out is up, up is back,
off is out, on is in,
and of course -
right is left, and left is right.
A drop shouldn't and a
block and fall does neither.
A prop doesn't and
a cove has no water.
Tripping is O.K.
A running crew rarely gets anywhere.
A purchase line will buy you nothing.
A trap will not catch anything.
A gridiron has nothing to do with football.
A Strike is work
(in fact a lot of work).
And a green room, thank God, usually isn't.
Now that you are fully versed in theatrical terms,
Break a leg...
but not really!
On that note, buy some tickets for SMT 2004!
"The spiders want me to tap dance! I don't want to tap dance!" -Ron, still scared by a nightmare
"Tell them that." -Harry
"Okay, I'll tell them that." - Ron, going back to sleep
So, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban had the biggest opening day ever (it beat out RotK by 6 million! What's that about?!), and I was there to see it. Shannon and I were all ready - she made us popcorn to bring with, I brought a soda with me, she bought a soda and then I got a thing of Milk Duds for a mere $1. So food in hand, we journeyed to check out the line for theatre #1, which was ENORMOUS. Now, anyone who's been to Neshaminy's theatre knows how damn big the big theatres are...and these were a LOT of people waiting in line....which we were not yet in. So, Shan had a word with a manager, and he let us go straight in and get our seats while everyone else continued to stand in line. It was sweet! Anyway, I loooooooved the movie. Maybe it helped that I haven't read the book recently and thus didn't care about all the stuff they cut out? But I loved the tone of it, and the acting is much improved this time around. It's a good time, and I can't wait to see it again.
I don't know what else is new. I spoke to housing and I'm now officially moving back to Muhlenberg in June 17th - I'm kinda in denial about that though. I've been learning how to drive stick shift, which is of course very challenging and occasionally stressful. Last time I went out with mom we made progress though. I'm getting much better at shifting gears smoothly. But I only have two weeks to practice in, so I better do some more of that! I've also gotten some more reading done - I read Howl's Moving Castle in the space of a day, which was good cute fun, and since then I've been reading Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville, which I just finished today. He's spretty great at world-building. I've also improved quite a bit at Grand Theft Auto ;)
I need to catch up on phone calls and do some moreprep work before heading back to the Berg... so if I haven't returned your phone call, I will soon! Before I end this entry, some words for the wise:
-Don't forget to cheer on Wicked at the Tony's!
-Duplex - bad rental; Welcome to Mooseport - good rental
My cousin is going to be famous (Caroline Betty)!
I haven't been able to go out in the sun, or do heavy lifting, (medication and back problems) so instead of helping Mom with the mulch this weekend, I helped clear out the house of Old Stuff and Books. Good times.
A word to the wise: Master & Commander is boring and has no plot.
Gotta love it when you wake up in the morning...and you're bored. Afternoon, actually. That's been the summer so far (in a nutshell). Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying it, though! So far since being home, I've gotten some sun, done some reading (Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams and Wicked - books I found in Beth's room, in other words), seen some movies, played some Sims, and now I'm finally getting out of the anti-social mode that plagues me when I go home. Tonight I went out with Sam and Shan to see Shrek 2, which was funnnny, and tomorrow is lunch with Kristy. I'm so jealous of these people who went abroad this past semester; I wish I had been in Italy or back in London! And Jen and I saw Mean Girls last week, which was enjoyable, but it would have been nice if Jen had seen the movie, too, and I wasn't watching most of it by myself! ;)
I've really been enjoying that reading, I've been reading about 3 hours every day, except today. Wicked the musical is soooooooo nothing like the book, though - I'm a little dissappointed by that, but it's still a good read. I haven't seen much of Jason cuz he's been off working in NYC so much, but we saw Troy last night (finally), and I enjoyed it despite it's inaccuracies. My main problems with the movie were: a)the fact that Paris is more beautiful than HELEN is b)Agamemnon dieing and c)the hero shots of Achilles. Yes, he was chiseled and pretty and impressive, but the camera didn't need to IDOLize him quite so much!
Next Tuesday I have to head back to reality a bit with the SMT company "picnic", but it's just a few hours of reality before I can come home and live in my boring little bubble for a bit longer.
On a completely different note, what's with those gas prices, yo?
In terms of finals, I just have one more paper to revise and then hand it in tomorrow! Then it's packity packity home home home. Hooray!
Women Writers - final paper -->Thursday
History of Drama II - revision of a paper, final paper, prep for final exam essays, final exam -->Tuesday
Shakespeare II - final take-home exam (two essays) -->Monday
Beginning Jazz Dance - Empie Emporium performance -->tomorrow
Extraneous - informal dance show, Friends party, MTA Formal
Women Writers - 1 meeting, 1 paper
History of Drama II - 1 class, 1 paper, 1 final exam
Shakespeare II - 1 class, 1 paper
Classical Acting - 1 class, 1 paper
Beginning Jazz Dance - 1 classes, 1 Empie Emporium performance
Extraneous - 1 dance show, 1 MTA meeting, 1 Formal
visited states - almost half!
create your own personalized map of the USA
visited countries - 4%. Go me.
Women Writers - 2 classes, 2 papers
History of Drama II - 2 classes, 1 paper, 1 final exam
Shakespeare II - 2 classes, 1 paper
Classical Acting - 2 classes, 1 final scene, 1 paper
Beginning Jazz Dance - 2 classes, 1 Empie Emporium performance
Extraneous - 1 dance shows, 1 MTA meeting, 1 Formal
Women Writers - 3 classes, 2 papers, 1 rewrite
History of Drama II - 3 classes, 1 paper, 1 final exam
Shakespeare II - 2 classes, 1 paper
Classical Acting - 3 classes, 1 scene workshop, 1 final scene, 1 paper
Beginning Jazz Dance - 3 classes, 1 Empie Emporium performance, 1 journal entry
Extraneous - 2 dance shows, 2 plays, 1 MTA meeting, 1 Formal, and a couple blackboxes to attend
The sad thing is that the number of written pages I need to hand in before I go home for summer totals at LEAST 34. Poo!
name four bad habits you have:
1. Stuff that Jen and Noelle like to yell at me about ;)
2. Eating just because food tasted SO GOOD
3. Not going to bed early enough
4. obsessing
name four things that you wish you had:
1. all that lottery money
2. more years before i have to go out into the real world
3. a great house for next year...oh wait, I DO
4. some more tank tops
name four scents you love:
1. LAVENDER
2. the seashore
3. fresh flowers
4. duck! (the kind that's being cooked for dinner, not the kind that's alive and walking around quacking...)
name four things you'd never wear:
1. i'm too lazy to think of anything
name four things you are thinking about right now:
1. my laziness
2. how I'm seeing Wicked this weekend
3. how I should be writing a paper right now
4. how my belly is sadly big
name four things that you will have done today:
1. gone to a dance concert
2. watched Friends
3. finished my women writer's paper??
4. gone to class
name the last four things you have bought:
1. dance concert tickets
2. lunch - pizza
3. stuff for our party on Friday night
4. lunch yesterday?
name four people you would like to spend more time with:
1. my mom and sister
2. my friends at home..
3. Orlando
4. Keanu
name four bands/groups most people don't know you like:
1. Five Iron Frenzy
2. Eve 6
3. do musicals count? Camelot
4. I think they do - Man of La Mancha
name four drinks you regularly drink:
1. Diet Coke.
2. Sierra Mist
3. water
4. wine
name the last four people you kissed:
1. Jason
2. Chris
3. Jason
4. Jason
name four random facts about yourself:
1. I want to go to Hawai'i and swim like a dolphin
2. There are chocolate bunny legs on my desk which are not mine
3. I am Glinda AND Bock
4. these are a few of my favorite things - lavendar, wolves, white roses, the ocean, lord of the rings, green
Women Writers - 4 classes, two papers, one rewrite
History of Drama II - 4 classes, one rewrite, one paper, one final exam
Shakespeare II - 3 classes, one paper
Classical Acting - 3 classes, two scene workshops, one final scene presentation
Beginning Jazz Dance - 3 classes, one Empie Emporium performance, one jounrla entry
Extraneous - two dance shows, two plays, one MTA meeting, one Formal, and a couple blackboxes to attend
...and thus the countdown begins...
May I just say, I am an EXCELLENT procrastinator...
10. I, Robot
9. King Arthur ??
8. I'm a big dork... Two Brothers
7. Dogville
6. Shrek 2
5. The Terminal
4. Spidey 2
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
1. Troy
Happy Birthday Mel! Tomorrow, that is.
So I ended up getting all my first class choices for next semester, which means I'm taking Fundamentals of Directing (Jim), Scene Design I, Basic Speech, American Writers, and Jazz Dance again. So I have class from 9:30 - 4:15 Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, but then on Mondays I have class NEVER, and Wednesday only from 9:30 - 11:30 am. Yay! Two of those classes are with Lydia, so next semester will be the semester of Lydia.
I just remembered I still need to hand in my contract for this summer. Oops. Yesterday I saw Bob and he was like, "um, you might want to hand that in soon." So I'll do that...
I woke up sick yesterday, and it's NO fun - sore throat, headache, lots of congestion, and possibly a fever as well. Right now I feel okay except for the heat and the sniffles. Despite that I'm definitely gonna go out for Mel's birthday tonight - it should be fun. I haven't gotten much homework done yet this weekend - I need to read Death and the King's Horseman, re-read Hamlet Act I, and write a paper on Othello. And write a dance journal entry, methinks.
Time to go do something else.
So, once again time has passed since I last updated. Easter break was this past weekend, tomorrow I register for classes, and I know what I'm doing this summer. After quite a lot of complaining and worrying and debating, I decided to stay here this summer again, stage managing the big middle show, Annie Get Your Gun. I wasn't expecting to be offered that show, so it's great that I was, and now at least I know I have a good job that won't be boring or eat up my entire summer. Which reminds me, I need to get my contract back to Bob. I'm not sure who I'll be living with, or even who all is in my cast! Anyone need a roommate? ;)
I went home from Thursday night through tonight for Easter, which was nice but wayyyy too short. Mom and I went into NYC on Friday to stand in the TKTS line and ended up seeing The Boy from Oz - not high quality, but an entertaining show and Hugh Jackman is great. On the other days we visited grandma and grandpa in Lancaster, rented Intolerable Cruelty (blah...) and Under the Tuscan Sun (I wanna go back to Italy!), and on Saturday night I spent time with Jason while mom went out. I played lots of Grand Theft Auto :)
Since registration is tomorrow, I'm not positive yet which classes I'll get into, but my top choices are Jim's Directing class, Scene Design I, American Writers, Basic Speech, and Jazz dance (again) - I need to take 4.5 credits both semesters senior year in order to graduate, but my independent study (also known as SMing a mainstage next year) will count as at least 0.5 credits. I'm not sure yet which semester that'll be yet though - I guess it depends on whether I get directing first or second semester, as I wouldn't want to take that and SM a mainstage at the same time.
In other news, I recently registered to vote and filed all my tax return stuff, AND Lydia and I have a house for next year. I feel like a grown-up! Almost.
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I don't want to be back here! I'd much rather go to Hawaii, so anyone willing to pay for that, let me know ;) I haven't written too much this semester just because I've been pretty insanely busy. When it wasn't an insane amount of work to do for M4M, it was an insane amount of work to do for class.
Spring break was pretty low-key and lovely. I spent a lot of quality time with mom, some with Jason, and visited Lydia for her birthday, the big 2-1! Mom and I saw The Passion of the Christ - good, and rented Mona Lisa Smile - eh, as well as buying me anew prom dress, shoes, and a purse. They're purty. I had a lot of trouble deciding between two dresses that I really liked, and my mom wasn't much help because she really liked them both, too. I finally decided on the one that was more "pretty" than "fun" - because I think it'll last longer and I can wear it to more things in life. So, anyway... Jason and I saw LOTR again, because I missed it and he wanted to see it again, and we also saw 50 First Dates, which was really cute! And FINALLY had our Valentine's Day dinner! Oh, and we watched Lost in Translation, which was good, but didn't impress me as much as I thought it would. Hmm.. And we visited Lydia for her birthday! I put make-up on her, hehe, and we went out for dinner and to a few different bars, and then slept over that night and the floor was hard but at least I could sleep because Lydia's house isn't haunted like mine. No, really. I also got to see Jen once (we went to lunch at the Olive Garden), and she got to step into my house for the first time in like, two years. I can't believe it's been that long. I unfortunately didn't get to visit Danielle and Jeni in NYC, but hopefully we can go up to Richmond to visit Jeni sometime this semester, cuz I want to see her!
I really need to update my pictures... Maybe I'll go work on that now...
Not really, just some links:
Measure for Measure site, thanks to Jon
And Oscar.com
I also added the Penguin game to my links on the right. My high score is 593.5..beat that suckas!
Something to look forward to :)
Muhlenberg is way too much work. What happened to carefree London? :(
Being back at school is really odd. I can't really explain it, but I know that people who were with me understand, and the people who've been abroad in previous years.
"Lydia is the essence of sex." - and she wants to go places with me...
On Sunday night I officially go back to Muhlenberg. Crazy! I went back today to move some of my stuff in, and meet with Beth, and was utterly weirded out by being back. I got to see some people I really wanted to see and get myself more organized for our first production meeting Monday, but it's just so...oddddddd.
Right now the house is really freezing, but I already turned the heat up and put the fire on. Brrr! Mom went out to the movies, I guess, and hasn't come home yet, so it's just me and the animals, who like to follow me around when I'm home alone. Seriously, if I walk into a different room just for a minute, they follow me every step of the way. They're bizarre, especially the cat. :)
Last night I finally saw Keanu's movie (or Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton's...whatever...), which was quite enjoyable. Watching a movie that talks about that whole age difference thing got me thinking about how Keanu's ONLY 18 years older than me ;) and his band is ALMOST named the right thing... It's named Becky. Sigh - Hehehe.
This past week has been the slowest one ever without my sister home and my mom back at work, worrying about having to go back to school and plunge into stage managing a mainstage.
I'M COLD.
How does it feel to be 21? Same as it did to be 20, of course.
I have no desire to go back to Muhlenberg and resume my life there, but I have to as of next week, Monday. Ick... That first week better be fun!
I've been going out with Jason for one whole year now :)
I finally upated my pics. The end.
