Danger: SUPER-ANGST RANT AHEAD

This has been just about the worst Halloween ever.

Maybe if I hadn’t been building up my excitement all week, the blow wouldn’t have been as hard.  But I had already planned a costume, I made a Boo-Gram at school for someone, I was going to go Trick-or-Treating, I was going to trick people at school into thinking I had cut my hair and dyed it black using a wig, I was going to have an excellent night.

I came to school with the wig and started out the day well.  Despite the fact that my blonde hair was visible in the back of the wig, I convinced several people that I had actually cut and dyed my hair (3 days before our play, at that).  I also got lots of compliments on the hairstyle–and for some reason, a lot of people were talking about the fact that I messed with my hair.  It was rather surprising.  In any case, I started the day on a high note and I assumed it would continue in the same manner.

But instead everything went wrong.  For one, we were told yesterday by our tech director that we could wear Halloween costumes to rehearsal.  Well, our actual director didn’t know about it–and even if she had, it probably wouldn’t have made a different–and so we all weren’t allowed to wear costumes and instead ran the show with our show outfits.  I wore my costume anyway (I was an emo kid–it looked like normal clothing for the most part), but then changed for our performance.  It isn’t as if this surprises me–our first performance is tomorrow and we needed to practice quick changes–but it was just one of several disappointments.

Then I found out that the girl with whom I was going to Trick-or-Treat was unable to go due to homework, and for the life of me I couldn’t find someone else to go.  Everyone had homework.  I couldn’t have gone alone–not only was it in a different town than my own, but I wanted someone to walk with, have fun with.

Then the Boo-Grams got messed up.  Ze boy was sick today so he didn’t receive mine, and our teacher 6th period didn’t get hers from her mail-box so if I got any (which I highly doubt I did) , I didn’t get them today–and for that matter, neither did the rest of my class, or even most classes.

So all of my planning, all of my excitement went right down the drain.  I feel like Halloween, my absolute favorite holiday, just flew right past me without so much as a ‘hello’.

Now I have to go write a paper that’s due Friday.  Because I simply don’t have enough going on with HELL WEEK and MY ART CLASS I MISSED and the HOMEWORK I NEED TO MAKE UP with the MODEL which I can’t DO and I have to call other students whose NUMBERS I DON’T EVEN KNOW.  I can’t DO THIS.  I have TOO MUCH GOING ON RIGHT NOW AND I’M SO SICK OF IT.

The Great Warrior

This has been a strange and lovely weekend.

For one, I had no school on Friday, so we had a long rehearsal from 9:00 to, like, 3-something.  But following rehearsal I got to go up to the library to exchange AP Bio stuff with a friend and see not only that friend, but another PLUS ze boy.  So plusses there!

Saturday was the day of my piano recital, which was fine.  A little long (there were only, like, 6 or 7 students performing, but one of them…sang 5 songs…), but otherwise fine.  My song sounded decent, considering it isn’t done and there are only two more weeks until the competition and I can’t go to my lesson next week.  Yikes.

After the recital, I started texting with ze boy, and through a string of messages, we made plans to see a movie!  But, haha, we couldn’t decide on one.  Apparently we’re both horribly indecisive, isn’t that wonderful?  So we were going to visit Blockbuster and just rent one, but then we remembered that I had yet to see V for Vendetta, so I went to his house and watched that.  It was great fun, we watched the movie, he played guitar, it was nice.  ^^

And TODAY, a friend of mine is home from college and he is coming over.  Not for long, since I have a bit of homework, actually, but still.  We are going to play Folklore?  I have heard it is good!  But in all honesty, I have never seen it, I simply remember hearing about the title and how it is dark and spooky and fun.  We shall see!

Returns a King

Lyrics and/or title from songs will probably continue to make up the majority of my entry titles.  Why?  I can.

Another good day today!  Text messages abound, a good rehearsal (albeit lackluster, apparently), a simply DELICIOUS dinner, and a (mostly) finished digital painting.  I simply cannot complain about this.

I can, however, complain about rehearsal tomorrow.  9 o’ clock to 2-something will certainly not be fun–or, at the very least, it will not be all fun.  We start mics tomorrow, which means mic checks (boo) and cell phones off (sorta boo).  Also the obnoxious faulty quality of the microphones, that too will be a scourge of the rehearsal.  I suppose I shall continue to project as best I can.  At least we get lunch, and the show really is coming together.  I shall try to make the best of it.

Also relating to the show, I swear a line from the show is on the tip of my tongue no matter what I type.  It’s on the brain.  But then this is usually how I am by tech week of the show, so I cannot say I am surprised.

I have lots of homework this weekend, which is a pity.  I have to finish reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (but it’s an easy read, so I’m not terribly concerned), finish a couple labs and read the packet for chapter 9 in AP Bio.  Plus I have the picture for my college class.  Le sigh.  I shall cope, I’m sure.

Okay, time for me to retire to bed.  More later, I can safely assume.

Mmm, whatcha say?

I LOVE that song.  And the SNL skit using it is hilarious.  I thank my choir teacher for telling me about it–I had just heard it through (what I think was) a parody of the skit (which is a parody of the OC, but I digress) using clips from Xenosaga 3.  Irony strikes again!

Today was a truly lovely day.  I got to have a choir lesson, which is always fun, and play some Scarlet Pimpernel songs for my choir teacher, plus hang out with ze boy mentioned in earlier posts.  And rehearsal went REALLY well!  I thought today’s runthrough was just wonderful, and it was speedy!  Way to speed things up, tech, you guys make my life!

I also worked on my portfolio piece!  Lakai’s hair, eyes, and facial features are finally done.  Unfortunately, this means I must attend to clothing, which is a great deal harder than faces and hair (at least as far as color choices go).  I would ask for luck, but I know not from whom I would be requesting this luck.  I am fairly certain I have but one reader, if that.  Oh well.  More privacy, I say!

Alright, I am terribly late for my shower.  I am off.

Shiny

Okay, so I didn’t get any portfolio work done today.  But I did get a new iPod (a beautiful, shiny black classic, thanks–I will forever remember Mimi mark I, fret not, but I love mark II, too), bought ballet flats (crazy weird shoes–the soles freak me out because they slide around under my feet), worked on my Clavinova piece (not too shabby at the moment–good enough for Saturday’s recital anyway), and went to rehearsal (going well so far, I thought today’s performance was good, but the whole adding techies part of it was a little stressful).  Woo?

Tomorrow is school again.  Sadface.  Plus my art class, which I always seem to enjoy, but to which I never look forward.  I really don’t want to sit in the aud from 7:40 to 10:30 listening to some college presentation…but there is little I can do about it.  Hopefully it won’t be too terrible.  ^.~

Almost Poetic

So I went to Spaghetti Supper. And didn’t wear my costume! Isn’t that hilarious? Yeah, I chickened out instead and just wore nice clothes. But I brought the costume with me, which later led to Seth wearing it and us laughing about him being a monk. And then he turned it into a toga…but it was a mere half-toga. And the brown looked really cute with his black pants and black shirt. Haw.

Yeah, Spaghetti Supper was strange. XD My job was supposed to be standing behind a counter and filling pitchers full of water, lemonade, and coffee so the people sitting in front of the counter could fill up other glasses with the pitchers and floaters could take the pitchers and go around the room filling up people’s glasses. However, I was also charged with playing piano in between choir and band performances, so I was very often seated at said instrument. And on top of that, whenever I went back to the counter to ask if they needed my help, our supervisor said no. So I spent 70% of the time playing piano and 30% wandering around talking with my friends. It was fun! Strange, like I said, but fun.

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. Buying ballet flats for the play, recording Clavinova tracks, buying a new iPod (I’m sorry, Mimi, but you’ll live on in my heart through the new model of you), working on a CG for my portfolio, and going to rehearsal. Une boum, je dis!

Yap Balsamic

Thank you, -ek-.

Set Construction was today.  I now have even more paint all over my painting pants.  Le sigh.  At least the stage is fully painted.  I also got footage of our resident haunted site (it’s not really haunted at all–there aren’t even rumors of haunting–but it would certainly be scary enough to be a haunted place), the broken-down convent next to the school.  The place looks like it walked right out of Silent Hill, I swear.  Broken glass, locked doors, rooms with scary bathrooms, anything and everything you could want in a survival horror game.  I wanted to videotape it before they started really cleaning up the building (they’ve already patched some of the broken windows–but there are a LOT of them, they’ve just scratched the surface on that front).  But I digress.

Tomorrow is Spaghetti Supper.  I hope to GOD the Ephors really wear those brown robes.  I actually can’t remember…but I refuse to wear a toga.  If someone objects to my costume (name tag of “Hello I am an Ephor” included), I’ll just wear something nice under it so I can opt out of dressing up or something.
In other news, I saw the sneak preview of “Dan In Real Life”.  I highly recommend it, it’s a very sweet, funny, and well-made movie.  Steve Carrell is wonderful, as always, and the story is just extremely endearing.  One really grows attached to the characters.  It’s lovely.

For whatever bizarre reason, I started a piano arrangement of “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”.  I lost a lot of steam after the first refrain (read: I stopped working on it), but it sounds nice so far.  Sometimes I can’t tell when an arrangement is just too busy or not.  Considering I have absolutely no formal experience in arranging, this doesn’t surprise me.

Speaking of piano, Clavinova Festival is swiftly approaching.  Even more swiftly comes the Halloween recital where I usually play my song for said Festival.  I’m afraid Up is Down in running far behind.  It sounds pretty good for how long we’ve been working on it, but it’s nowhere near up to par with the rest of my songs–or the rest of my division, I can assume.  I’m having trouble figuring out where it’s missing parts…again.  I always hit this spot in the song at some point, but this year I have no time to go out to Foster’s and work on it.  Which is terrifyingly problematic.  I wry.

I believe I’m going to go draw and watch Chicago.  Or something of that sort.  I’ve wanted to watch Chicago for a while now, so I might as well do so at last.   But then again, my friend is likely to call very soon, so perhaps I should not invest in the movie when I know I won’t have time to finish it.  I suppose I could do my homework while I’m waiting…but that would be responsible.  And I am not on good terms with responsibility this evening, so I will instead slack off.

Facebook is High-Maintenance

Okay, I don’t really mean that.  I more mean that I actually like Facebook usually, but when I get e-mail notifications for the 20 thread posts my friends made, it’s kinda a pain to delete them all.

So on to somewhat more pressing topics.  I haven’t posted in several days.  I’ve already broken my resolution to post an entry every day.  I could certainly blame some of this on being in Chicago for two days, but I have no excuse for the other days I missed.  Boo me.

Next order of business, I made it past roung 5 of the Dark Kingdom tournament.  I had hoped the elimination round would be stress-free, but it’s turning out that another battle will be necessary.  My mom is going to kill me.  I told her I would only have one more round of this…  I need to be focusing on my portfolio pieces and my schoolwork, but at the same time, I don’t want to forfeit the competition!  I’m rather proud that I’ve made it so far.  I’ll just do my best to NOT make 30 page comics anymore.  >_>

The play is also improving.  At two weeks out, I should certainly HOPE it’s improving!  We actually have a set now (today, in fact), and that is just extremely exciting.  Also confusing; we all had to get used to climbing up stairs onto the highest platform and crossing down two other platforms instead of just walking across the stage.  It was really exciting, like I said, but kind of worrisome for those cast members who had to dance on the high platform which was missing a corner.  Our Emma looked extremely perturbed when she was getting closer to the edge.
I believe that’s everything for now.  Not terribly interesting, but then my life is probably not a good read, per se.  I mean, I enjoy it.  I find it interesting and fun, and that is just delightful for me!  But to an outsider, it probably sounds like the every day babble of a 17-year-old girl.

Wait.

Good Night

As in this was one.  Unexpectedly so!  In a good way.

I had just been planning on sitting around my house all night, perhaps working on my homework (er, right…about that).  But I ended up in a text conversation with mah friend and eventually asked if he wanted to come over to play video games/watch a movie.

Which he did!  So we played the end of FFX and watched Howl’s Moving Castle, then we talked in the doorway for, like, 10 minutes.  It was excellent.

So a good night indeed.  ^^

I Take it Back

I’m less worried about my art class.  I started my big picture today and it’s going really well.  So that’s one worry down.

Also, meet Corrigen! I managed to get enough will to scan him.  Ta-da!

Next order of business, I’m off to finish the poster for Emma.  I was supposed to have finished it by Monday, but…well, one can see how well that went.  With any luck, I’ll have the piece finished for tomorrow and I’ll be able to add the words after getting LaCorte’s approval.  I feel bad for being so late about this…

Well, that is all for this evening.  Tomorrow there will be rehearsal.  And it will be grueling.  Or possibly not!  I hope not.