I-*claps*-dennicul.

Because everyone loves My Cousin Vinny.

But you know what no one loves?  Iowa weather.

Seriously, it is April and it snowed yesterday.  It is now cold and windy.  All of the snow that had started to melt yesterday and turned into slush is now freezing into ice chunks.  Awesome!  On top of that, it causes unnecessary problems for everyone.

Case in point, the drive back to school.  So begins the story of the weekend.

Now, this weekend was a particularly good one–okay…well, nearly every weekend for the past 2 months has been “a particularly good one”, so let’s just say life has been pretty sweet lately.  Anyway, I went down to Davenport with Whitney and Will, after a somewhat awkward planning session in which I forgot to tell Whitney that Will went to ISU and therefore they’d be riding together–two people that have never met–for an hour and a half or so until I was picked up at UNI.  We all made it safely home, and Will and I watched Wall-E that night.  It was late, we didn’t get home until around 10:30.

We got up the next day and whittled away at this to-do list we had been compiling of stuff we needed to do over the weekend that we knew we’d forget.  Around 5 or so, my parents swooped us up and took us to Biaggi’s, which is definitely not something about which one can complain.  That place rocks.  So we had pleasant conversation, delicious food, etc. etc.

THEN Will and I scurried over to Assumption to see West Side Story, which was the reason we were in D-port at all.  Now, let me just say I am impressed with his fortitude.  He is not a fan of musicals and he knew none of the people that swarmed me afterwards and shanghaied me into performing in our brief Godspell reunion.  However, he agreed to go anyway, didn’t hate the show, and waited patiently in the wings of the stage while I flounced about the stage getting disgusting from exertion and bright stage lights.  My friends, I appreciate fortitude and patience.  I think I may be indebted now.

As for the show, now that’s a story.  I will simply say…I have seen better shows at Assumption.  …Well, alright, I was in them.  But that’s not why they were better (I’m not THAT egotistical).  The biggest flaw I found was the band.  Don’t get me wrong, West Side Story is a very difficult show.  The music has dissonance, strange melodies, odd rhythms…it is by no means a standard score.  However…our band was just not polished enough to make it work.  Parts of the show were great; second act had simpler music and it sounded very put-together and clean.  The first act had a lot of huge, crazy songs and I don’t think the band could handle it.  Apparently, LaCorte, Steph, and Catie all wanted to use prerecorded tracks (this is according to Brian AND LaCorte herself, so I know I’ve got this pretty close to correct).  Hayman didn’t want to use them at all, she was vehemently against it.  Wulfkuhle (I hope that’s how you spell her name, I know it’s a strange spelling) wanted to try learning it and then decide.  Evidently Hayman won, as I can’t imagine anyone would want to not use tracks after finding out the band sounded like that.  I do apprecite the effort they put in, but I think it would have improved the show as a whole had they used tracks.  Oof.

As for the performance of the ACTORS…well, I really have seen better.  Jessica was impressive, I was very pleased with her accent.  Her singing was a little flat, but Maria is a REALLY HIGH role and Jessica is an alto, technically, so that just blows my mind.  Kathleen, who is a soprano, got an alto role (right, these make sense) in Anita.  And she nailed it.  Her accent was very effective and she fit the role perfectly (despite not being Puerto Rican).  Plus the girl can DANCE.  Boy can she dance.  Seth, who was Bernardo, can ALSO dance.  I was very impressed with him–I knew he’d get Bernardo, though, since he is a much stronger dancer than singer and Brady was a shoe-in for Tony.  …And you know?  That’s a little disappointing.  Brady’s singing is fantastic, yes, but his acting is reeeeally missing something.  I wasn’t even convinced of his character until he was dying.  That’s kind of how most of the show was, though.  The cast was uninspiring, honestly.  I feel like they didn’t put enough energy into the roles, especially the Sharks (though they had less to do–the women were fine, but the actual gang members were lackluster).

That being said, I still enjoyed the show.  They really did much better than I thought they would after sitting in on a rehearsal.  And Will liked it (though some of his complaints were the same, particularly with the band), so I would say it was a victory for AHS.  And after the show, like I said, the cast of Godspell that was present dragged everyone on stage to do Bless the Lord, God Save the People, Turn Back O Man, and Day by Day, which made us all sweaty and disgusting (especially the people who had just performed in a show) but was highly fun.  And then we were off.

We watched My Cousin Vinny that night, and then stayed up with the Food Network for a while.  And that was Saturday.

Sunday was very disappointing.  We were going to get up at 10 and chill until we had to leave at 2 or 3.  However, my mom woke me up at 8:40-ish and informed me that the weather was going to be so awful that we should leave as soon as possible.  Me being hormonal and ridiculous, plus wanting to hang with Will, this rather upset me.  Not that there was anything I could do, the weather report really WAS awful.  So I talked to Whitney and we ended up deciding to go at 11.  Long story short, I woke Will up, we had breakfast and packed, and then we were off on the road.

You know, Iowa weather is really just stupid.  We had no problems at all until we got closer to Cedar Falls, at which point it got close to whiteout conditions and the roads were slushy.  We were behind a plow for a little while, which was good.  We had a number of shenanigans, such as the windshield wiper starting to break (man, that plastic is like nails on a chalkboard when it scrapes against the windshield) and something on the bike rack making a rattling noise.  Everyone got home safely, but it was just crazy.  Why did this have to happen, y’know, technically in the spring? Grr.

That being said, it was still an awesome weekend.  We finished it off by watching Dreamwork’s Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas over the internet.  Wow, I had no idea that movie was so GOOD.  Dreamworks’ 2D animated movies are really fantastic, I feel more people should take note of this.

Further, today my class was cancelled!  Hence why I am here typing instead of in class.  I suppose it wasn’t really cancelled, but we got there and waited for 20 minutes, and the professor never showed up.  Considering we were allowed to leave at 15 minutes after–and almost everyone did–I would say it was completely legal to leave.  Besides, it’s not fair of him to not show up for that long when we don’t even know how to start the next project.  It’s not like we could have started working.

So this has been a delightful string of events (minus the weater).  I am off to study a bit more for my Art History test, then the rest of the day should be mildly eventful.  More later.

Quick Update

Because perhaps I should update something other than the FF7 blog.  Seriously.  Nearly 2000 words in one post.

This has been a very good week.  Like, unusually so.  I haven’t had much homework, so I’ve been able to just chill out in the evenings, chat on AIM and play video games.  I got a few drawings done–I’m going to do a big FF7 collage (because I haven’t done one of those in a while), I designed a new character (someone should stop me–this time, it’s a member of Team Rocket…), and I just generally doodled some characters from the Wheel of Time books and my Org. Nu character.  I also wrote a section for the latest event in that club.  I am switching back and forth with Savvy to finish our collaborative mission.  I think it’s due this weekend, though…I’m not sure I’m going to get my next section done.  Whoops.  We’ve been a little tardy on finishing the whole thing, I admit.

Further, I am going home tonight!  My high school’s musical is this weekend, and I have a variety of friends going home for it.  Fortunately, one of them goes to the same school as Will, so she is picking him up (and she is a saint, since she doesn’t even know him and gets to ride with him in the car for an hour and a half until they get here) and coming to get me, then it’s 2 and a half hours until we’re home.  It’s going to be late when we get back.  That’s alright, though.  I get to be home, see the musical and all my Theatre friends, and hang out with Will.  All is right with the world.

Right now I am looking for new ringtones for my phone.  People are getting annoyed with my text ring (I don’t really blame them, it’s obnoxious and goes off a lot), plus I am aching for some new awfully rendered music.  I am kind of a loser like that.  Unfortunately, I can’t find anything I really want.  I am perusing the Final Fantasy 9 songs right now, as there are a few I really like, but I can’t find good arrangements of them.  They’re too quiet, or too incorrect (and that just bugs me), or just…weirdly orchestrated.  It is rather frustrating.

Well, I am off for now.  Until later, y’all.

Chiggety Check Yourself Before you Wriggety Wreck Yourself

Because I do so love that phrase.  It really has nothing to do with the entry, though.

Ah, it has indeed been a while since last I posted.  Let’s see, let’s see.

Everything has pretty much been awesome.  That sums it up pretty well, I think.

Classes, with a few exceptions, have been pretty delightful.  3D is destroying my brain with frustration (I shan’t go into the whole fiasco, as I am done being angry about it, but it is a tale of woe and teachers changing assignments THROUGHOUT the period given to work on them), and Soc. is really kicking my butt, but those things aside, I can’t complain too much (I actually can’t complain at all, I gave it up for Lent…look how well THAT’S going, haha…).  I am especially enjoying Drawing, surprisingly enough, where I feel I am doing much better than last semester.  Considering that I am actually trying this time, this is not a surprising development.

Socially, I also have no complaints.  Relations with David have been reset to the kind of friendliness we had near the start of first semester, which is awesome.  Finley is a delight as always.  In fact, I need to talk about him extensively here, as he refuses to read these posts unless he is heavily discussed.  He is, as always, quite awesome.  His hair is long and flowing, reminiscent of one of those ridiculous men on the cover of romance novels (but in a good way), and his guitar skillz are unmatched, truly.  He is also a button.  But for serious, he is just as fantastic as usual.  We are enjoying Religions of the World extensively–oh Robinson, your strange little off-topic discussions are so much fun for everyone.

I got to see Grace last week, which was wonderful.  Good Lord, do I miss that girl, I am dearly hoping she’ll  be around this summer so that we may annoy everyone with our squealing, girly, geekiness.  We did not have a ton of time to hang out (nothing like the multi-day sessions of nerdiness from days of olde–playing Yu-Gi-Oh!, watching the Nightmare Before Christmas…throwing knives in my backyard to be like Will Turner…), but we rock-rocked-awn on, watching videos and eating pizza and all that jazz, plus we had the most delightful adventures on Friday.  More on that later, when I talk about Spring Break.

Will is also great.  Just in general, he is great, haha.  This will sound awfully sappy, but we had our first weekend apart since meeting (“aw, boo hoo, Gilly”, I hear you say–well you can just can it, reader), which was very strange, I must say.  He did get to visit on Saturday, though, and see the new house (again, more on that part later), and I know I will be seeing him the next TWO weekends, when he visits here this coming one and I drag him to Davenport with me to see Assumption’s musical the following one.  In any case, things are just super on this front, and as usual in the last few posts, I simply couldn’t be happier.

(Wow, I didn’t notice before now.  My best friend is named Grace, and my boyfriend is named Will.  Will and Grace…)

NOW.  Spring Break.

Spring Break was last week and BOY, are my arms tired.  …Wait, no.  Boy, was it bizarre.  Haha.  See, my parents decided to buy a new house, so they spent the last two months packing for the move.  I arrived home just in time to finish packing MY stuff and move on Friday, just two days before going back to UNI.  The week leading up to the big shindig was strange and semi-chaotic.  Almost everything in the house was in boxes, so we really had no kitchen, living room, dining room, computer room, or basement.  We consumed lots of sammiches and fast food, and my parents took off work to finish the last few boxing duties.  I, on the other hand, got to fill out summer job applications, pack the stuff under my bed, and generally seclude myself in my room, where my cats were trapped for later capturing convenience.  The only real inconvenience, though, was the losing of internet Thursday night.  It’s not like it was that big of a deal–or shouldn’t have been–but for one who stays up so late talking on AIM, it was a ridiculous, minor crisis.  Thank God for texting and Facebook messaging.

Wednesday I went to catch up with my piano teacher, then I scuttled over to Assumption to watch a rehearsal for West Side Story.  It is looking promising–though I am hoping the band gets a little more refined by the time the performance rolls around.  I was thoroughly impressed with accents–not only are none of them from New York, but none of them are Puerto Rican, and with such good accents, I was nearly convinced of both.  However, as great as Brady and Jessica are at singing, and as great as an actress as Jess is turning out to be (sorry Brady, you are good, but you are still Jesus, I’m afraid), Seth and Kathleen are so going to steal the show as Anita and Bernardo.  Their chemistry is amazing, and they are both hilarious and wonderfully talented.  This is not bias, I promise.

Friday was the move.  Grace came to help, as did both of my aunts and a slew of movers.  Grace, Aunt Sue and I were in charge of cat wrangling, which means that after Mom and I managed to somehow trap the cats unhappily in the bathroom in the old house, the three of us had to later return and take the miserable felines OUT of the tiny room and cram them into even tinier cages.  They were not happy, and that is a vast understatement.  At least the caged part shook them up so much that when we put them in the NEW house’s bathroom, they were too shocked to try and escape while we exited the room and shut the door.  After that, Grace and I ran back and forth between the houses, grabbing forgotten items and cleaning up for the new owners.  And then we arranged my room that night, making it look as decent as possible without any accessories, belongings, or a bed (since I got a new daybed for the room and it wasn’t going to arrive until Saturday).

Saturday, Will visited, which means he, too, got shanghaied into lifting heavy things and putting items on very tall shelves (as all the women putting them away were quite short, especially in comparison).  However, there was much gaming to be had (I do love me some Phantasy Star Universe: Ambitions of the Illuminus–character creation for YES), as well as Food Network watching and lounging on my awesome new bed (much to the worry of my mother, I must say).  Plus sandwiches.  I have a new love of wheat bread, mounds of cheddar and swiss, and roast beef.

I got back to school on Sunday (and it was so nice to have internet again), and finished off the break with a nice, relaxing evening.  It was a good week, I must say.  I’m looking forward to getting back home and painting my drab, white room, though.

Oh, I am starting various comic projects.  I think Grace is writing a short script for me to work on, plus I am doing a comic strip-type webcomic with Will about Phantasy Star II, and I am going to FINALLY start Cursed as a weekly webcomic.  Hopefully.  I’ve been doing a lot of concept work, figuring out exactly how I’m going to draw the characters, which has been very fun.  Everyone finally looks unique, I do believe.

I think that is all for now.  More later, plus probably a review of Uncharted, as I realize I never said anything about that wonderful, wonderful game.

Alright, why not?

Man, I have the weirdest dreams sometimes.  Last night, I dreamt that I was going on a trip somewhere.  I don’t remember where it was, except that it involved a ton of my friends and a ton of people I didn’t know very well.  And a certain someone we’ll call Frodo was there.  So after this random trip, at night, we all…went to a hotel.  Like one of those hotels where all the doors to the rooms face outward and there are balconies.  Not like a new hotel.  Anyway.  We all went to the hotel, but instead of going inside, a bunch of us just sorta…decided to go to a cast party type thing.  For some reason.  I didn’t know how to get there because I didn’t even KNOW the person hosting it, so I decided to follow Frodo.  However, we somehow ended up at my house.  No idea.  Anyway, we went inside and talked to my mom, but Frodo kept hanging out really close to me and he, like, rested his head on mine while I was talking with my mom.  I actually recoiled out from under his head and scooted over.

Then I thought he was mad at me or something, and even though he was being annoying, he’s still my friend and I needed directions to the cast party.  Sooo I dunno, I couldn’t tell if he was mad, but he said he’d let me follow him to the party.  And yeah.

Okay, next, we were suddenly at school.  But our school was laid out all crazy-like.  And for some reason, it was the Friday before Prom and we were all at school in our outfits.  And our schedules were crazy, too.  Like, fourth period involved doing SOMETHING for Prom.  But I kept skipping classes and hanging out in the halls, talking to TEACHERS.  And I really wanted to talk with my date for Prom (because, believe it or not, I like talking to him), but I kept running into Frodo, who wouldn’t leave me alone and kept, like, rubbing my back.  And I never did get to talk to my date.

Oh, and then I went outside (and the school was located someplace other than where it actually resides) and was talking to Seth, and we were just walking around.  I guess I wasn’t paying attention to where we were, because I know we passed the playground/parking lot of St. Paul’s school…and then we were going the opposite direction for some reason, and we passed the front of St. Paul’s, where a bunch of juniors/seniors (including my date) were hanging out.  And I wanted to go talk to them, but I think I was too scared or something.  Then we went into St. Paul’s, and I got really frustrated and was like, “WTF, how did we get to St. Paul’s???”

And then some weird thing happened and we had a class that I finally attended, but it involved Grace and…some kind of video-game-level-type place and a water slide layout with Aztec designs.  Which came out of NOWHERE.

I was SUPER relieved when I found out it was just a dream.  For some reason, it didn’t register that it wasn’t real until I actually fully woke up (I woke up a few times, but I kept falling asleep again).  I reeeally don’t want Frodo to be that clingy.  Mostly because it’d be annoying.

Anyway.  No updates.  Wait, yes, updates.  I have a date for Prom!  It is boy mentioned earlier in journal posts before I started dating…uhhhh, boy whichever number.  XD  I forget.  Not Seth (with whom I am still remarkably excellent friends, which is kinda awesome).  He asked me in quite possibly the cutest way EVER.  Even if I hadn’t already wanted to go with him, I don’t think I could have turned him down after he sang me a song.  ♥  So officially, I have moved on.  Things are looking good.

Oh, and Godspell was MARVELOUS.  We performed four excellent shows, then they liked the show so much (plus it was about Jesus plus the crucifixion) that they let us perform it on Good Friday instead of Stations of the Cross.  So we got to have a hilarious pick-up rehearsal (slap fight = win) plus a fifth performance.  The show was truly a blast, nothing like I expected.  And we still haven’t let go, by the by.  Yesterday four of us performed a reenactment of the show in the courtyard of our school.  …Yes, it’s Spring Break.  We know.

Oh, and I made my college decision!  I have chosen UNI.  It isn’t that I don’t love SCAD…it’s just that I don’t think I could handle being that far from home.  I seem to be so much happier having made the decision to go to UNI, so it must be the right one for now.  And my parents are being very flexible and say I can switch schools if I really want to do so…or I could go to graduate school at SCAD.  So it’s an all-around good situation.  (Plus I think I get to graduate with no debt!  Win!  Yay parents and scholarships!)

Alright, that’s all for now.  I mostly wanted to get that dream written down.  It was a little horrifyingly annoying.  Anyway.  Good times to be had otherwise.

It’s So Nice To Be Back Home Where I Belong

Well hello, WordPress. Miss me?

I truly am terrible at keeping promises. I know I said I was going to try and update every day, but alas, I have grown lax. Here follows a brief summary of the last month or so:

Godspell is finally starting to be fun
Disney movies = LIFE
Dark Kingdom is WON, now I just have to decide what’s going on with the prize thing
Phoenix Wright has changed my life FOREVER
I LOVE MY LIFE–seriously, everything about it, I’m so happy right now

As one can reasonably assume, things have been going extremely well. School has been lovely, musical is finally making itself enjoyable, and drawings have been successful. On ze boy front, I’m so terribly happy right now. He is such a sweet guy, I couldn’t ask for more. Onnnn…uhh…college front. I visited Savannah! SCAD is BEAUTIFUL! And I got to see Grace, which is fantastic. It’s looking like it’s still my top choice; we’ll just have to wait and see about money.

ANYway.

OH OH. KINGDOM HEARTS THE MUSICAL. Let me count the ways (in which we’ve made leaps and bounds). Firstly, we (meaning the original group consisting of me, Kathleen, and Seth) have added on several new members to our…cult. We have been joined by Marinda, Nicole, and Whitney. And from this group, we have made the Bifteck Committeea, the codename for our seekrit project. At the moment, this group is planning the BEST THING EVER (next to the whole KH musical itself); we are going to perform the Gummi Ship scene for our Drama banquet! We have been meeting periodically to cast people and discuss matters (of life and death) on the production of the skit. We now have a full cast and we are set to discuss costumes at our next get-together. FANTASTIC, I say.

I think that’s all. I really should keep up with this. It is truly a tragedy to let it sit without updates. Life is so unnerving for a…blog…that isn’t being written…on…(my reference and my grammar died, so I’ll stop here).

Dodge Roll!

School has not yet bested this site!  I can log on and, more importantly, write!

So I have been a bit lax on update lately.  Let’s see.

Last weekend was the children’s show.  It went tolerably well, and people seemed to really enjoy it (especially at Saturday’s show).  I, personally, had a really good time doing the show.  I got to hang with friends–and ze boy.  ^^;  The cast party on Saturday was AMAZING.  It was certainly the best party I’ve ever attended–there was Harry Potter scene it (it was KINDA intense, two o’ my friends in particular were REALLY NUTS ABOUT IT), Hairspray, and ze boy and some friends and I went out and played in the snow.  And saw Mrs. Clause!  It was exciting TO THA MAX.

Oh, and can I just say that there’s something about the Children’s Show?  Because last year, the day after the show, my ex asked me out.  This year, ze boy asked me out.  ♥  (It was really, really sweet!  He taped a letter to my locker telling me there was something for me on the stage, and he left a present for me in the aud.)  So that was part of yesterday’s AMAZINGNESS.  Once again, no one knows yet (well, a few people do, but they were close to the whole issue).  XD  I’m kinda overwhelmed by a sense of slightly altered deja vu.  But in a good way!

Also, I got an A in my college art class!  Which basically rocks, as well!  Yesterday was kind of awesome in general.  XD

Aaaand the Kingdom Hearts musical is coming along rather nicely.  I don’t actually think I’ve talked about this lately, but…we’re making a KH musical!  Ze boy, Kathleen, and I have all been planning it for a while.  We have set designs, plot outlines, MUSIC written, it’s truly excellent.  Anyway, we made some headway during the Children’s Show.  Officially, we have most of act 1 planned out and we know almost everything that will happen in act 2.  Yay!

Lastlylastlylastly, Dark Kingdom’s final round has started!  A while ago, actually.  I might have already mentioned it.  Anyway, I’m up against Serain.  I finally planned my comic…I felt so bad because I realized it was due the 23 and I FREAKED out because I have finals this week and I had the Children’s Show last weekend.  So I sent a note to LawrenceRoyBloodwing asking if she could push the due date back…and she did!  So I have until the 30th to draw my truly epic comic.  I hope I can make it in time!

That’s about all for now.  I shall update further when I’m not at school and/or I know when the class period ends (thank God we don’t have a final this period, haw).  XD  That’s how cool I am.  Merry Christmas, all!

*…runs off to finish presents for people, ackk*

Okay.

Better now.  Still conflicted, but…better now.  I need a second opinion on this matter (other than my best friend, who was EXTREMELY helpful, yay, but also does not know ze people persnoally…so yes, I’m covering my bases?).

Annnyway.  Yesterday was Clavinova Festival.  Second place = sadface, but apparently the judge had such a close call with it that she insisted I play at the recital (first time ever–usually only the first place winners get to perform their pieces, but this year I got to do so, as well).  So that was good.  It hit me a little harder than usual because this was my absolute favorite of all the songs I’ve arranged for Clavinova (and I personally thought it was the best of them, too).  Oh well.  It’s over now!

Dark Kingdom is progressing!  I really should have worked on it more today…but I kinda got on the phone and couldn’t concentrate.  At least I designed the bottom windows and got the flats done on Jo for the first page.  1 out of 10, woo!

School begins anew tomorrow.  Le sigh.  At least everyone will be back from NCYC.  And I need to finish my project with Brian and Danielle HARDCORE!  We don’t actually know what we’re doing yet, and I’m pretty sure it’s due either Tuesday or Wednesday.  I’ll pitch my drawing idea to them (idea is thus: I draw some amusing summaries of the happenings in our Decameron story and…we make it into a Powerpoint or something).  lawl, I say.

Lastly, I really hope we get to pick our own songs for musical auditions (and also that we sing them alone in a room with our judges).  I totally have a song (I’m pretty sure people sang it last year BUT I DON’T CARE)–it’s Home from Beauty and the Beast.  I feel extremely confident when I sing it, so…that’s good.  I don’t really care that it doesn’t fit the part I want AT ALL (Mary Magdalene in Godspell much?).  I can sing it.  I’ll do a monologue that caters to the part instead.  XD

…But father…I just want to…SING–
NO NO SINGING

Oh right, Thes Fest recap later.  Now I have to go to bed!

HELL HATH NO FURY

What the HELL.  I normally wouldn’t swear, but in this instance I have no other choice.

Just when I was complimenting our show on how the drama just disappeared on opening night, someone rushes in and STAMPS ALL OVER MY COMPLIMENT.

I got a call from my techie friend (she runs curtain) who also does my hair and make-up for the show (and has for two and a half years now) and she said she got a call from our TD.  Apparently she was fired from the show.

Now I’ve been relatively up to date on the techie drama.  Apparently, a good friend of mine (who is normally our stage manager) let my ex-bo (our techie-diva-nazi–but usually in a good way) be stage manager for this show, and according to she and my curtain friend the power has allegedly gone to his head and he thinks he has more power than he did before (which he doesn’t).  This is coming from my good ex-stage manager friend.

I’ve also heard that he was shirking responsibilities in the booth while talking on the headsets with our TD.  We are NOT supposed to talk on headsets, they are strictly for cues, rehearsal or no.

Now I have nothing against our TD.  I actually get along with her very well.  And, for that matter, I get along really well with my ex, too (better than when we dated, actually).  But I’m also on excellent terms with my curtain friend–she’s stuck with me through all of my hair/make-up problems and we rant backstage when we’re upset.  I love her dearly.

I’m trying to see both sides of the stories.  Admittedly, my curtain friend is a free spirit.  She knows what she’s doing and knows her cues, so she can be snippy with our TD (who she pretty much hates and greatly disapproves of) and my ex (diva power tripping style).  The relationship between the booth techies and curtain friend has been extremely volatile during this show.  Curtain friend really irked the TD when she directly refused to lower the curtain during a run (it was the run where our TD was acting in place of our director) because she didn’t feel like the run was being taken seriously.  She’s told me our director has let her not do curtain sometimes because it’s “kinda a pain” and she knows what she’s doing.  According to my ex, she’s been really disrespectful of TD and ex throughout the run of the show and she pushed it too far when she sent a rude text back to my ex when he told her to wear ALL BLACK tomorrow (she usually wears jeans or something because she never leaves the curtain area).  So the TD fired her.

In curtain friend’s defense, she really does know what she’s doing.  From my standpoint, she doesn’t do anything wrong, she knows her cues, and really doesn’t leave the backstage wings.  She may be snippy, but she’s good at what she does.  And her antics have never caused problems before.

Curtain friend says she is on good terms with our director and threatens to tell her about our TD’s irresponsible swear-fests during the techie meetings (f-bombs shouted at Freshmen techies) if she’s called out when she comes to rehearsal anyway.  When she called me, she told me that she would be showing up anyway, regardless of being fired, because it’s unfair of our TD to fire her not only with one show left but without talking to our director.

On the other hand, my ex (who called me shortly after curtain friend did) says he and TD have been talking with the director about curtain friend all week.  I told him it was unfair of TD to not ask director first, but he fired back that she knows about curtain friend already.

I can’t really express how furious I was on the phone.  I just got off the phone with curtain friend, who was extremely angry but very nonchalant (“This is completely ridiculous, right?  Anyway, I’ll see you at 5:30 tomorrow.”), when I get a text from my ex telling me I need a new hair person.  I responded with “No, I don’t.”  So he called me back and I was literally struck speechless with anger.  I don’t think I’ve EVER been that angry.

Curtain friend may cause problems, but for one, it’s COMPLETELY unfair to fire her with one show left.  Second, she KNOWS WHAT SHE’S DOING.  She’s quiet backstage, she does her job, and in terms of practicality, she shouldn’t be fired at all because she’s doing what she’s supposed to do.

All I know is that I’m going to kill my ex if he mentions it again.  Had he been talking to me in person, I’m not really sure what I would have done to him.  I want to talk to our director TERRIBLY and find out what she thinks about this whole issue.  Curtain girl is one of my best friends.  I’m not going to stand by and watch her get fired from theatre.

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In other news, I had an otherwise excellent night (that sorta dampened the whole thing, but I digress).  The run was AWESOME, and the crowd was really big!  And they laughed at the jokes, huzzah!  PLUS my stuffy nose cleared up rather miraculously and my throat survived the show!  And then after the show I got lots of hugs and flowers–and ze boy came and sat by me on the stage during the post-show greetings and whathaveyou.  Plus he gave me a rose with a really hilarious note (hilarious because of how little it said, awww…<3 ).  So had this issue with curtain friend not happened, it probably would have been a perfect night.

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!