BEDA Day 27

Ha. Wow. Would you look at that? 45 whole minutes with which to write this blog post!

I truly am sorry for how crappy the last couple posts have been. This week has just about killed me, and I honestly just have to get through tomorrow afternoon and I am done with classes. All I'll have are finals. Which, don't get me wrong, are going to suck, but at least classes are officially finished!!

Yesterday was hectic between trying to find time to eat amongst all I had to do. I don't even know if I mentioned the fact that I had my first mandatory audition as a BFA student on Monday, but I did, and it was for the first fall show next semester, called La Bete. I ended up getting a callback, which was last night, so between that and my Theatre History assignment, I was stressing pretty hard last night.

Turns out I got cast in La Bete, too, so we had our first company meeting after classes ended for the day. I'm really excited for this play! I was talking to my friend Garrett, who got cast as well and is in my BFA class, and he said that (referring to our characters) we have just enough lines to make our parts worth the effort, but so few that we can really concentrate on just having fun with the show. Everything about this cast is making me excited =]

Back to Theatre History though... I was lucky for my Godot assignment because of how much work I got done on it on Friday that I only stayed up until 12:30 last night. SO MUCH EARLIER than past Theatre History assignments. I put some last minute touches on it this afternoon and submitted it to Blackboard. It was like someone lifted an enormous weight off my shoulders, to see the other side of that assignment xD

Both my Jazz and Tap outcomes were this week, and I think all dances went really, really well! I have truly loved the dances we've done in my classes this semester, and all were really fun to learn and work on. I really have learned a lot this year, and I'm excited to keep going with my dancing through college.

So now I'm sitting in bed on the eve of my last outcome for the semester (MT Acting) and I'm loading some YouTube to catch up on (I'm SERIOUSLY behind. The amount of videos in my sub box is kind of scaring me...) and I'm pretty sure I'm fighting off some sort of upper respiratory illness but it's not in like, any kind of stage, I can just feel my lungs like, ache every time I breathe out... I'm sure that's not a good sign, but I haven't been sick all semester (*knocksonwood*) so I'm hoping that will continue until after finals and after I get my wisdom teeth out early next month. Being sick for that would SUCK.

I realize even this post wasn't that interesting, but all my creative juices were poured into that awful Godot assignment, so hopefully I'll be feeling more creative as the month draws very nearly to a close. Hard to believe April's almost over!

Hope your Wednesday's were all good!

HPRT: Apparently the trailer for DH Pt. 2 came out today, and I'm avoiding it like the plague. No spoilers, please!
Current Book: It's a play, but La Bete by David Hirson
Current Song: I Won't Say I'm In Love from Hercules (My friend Mallory sang it at the Senior BFA outcome that I went to tonight.)

BEDA Day 26 *Angsty post*

Literally too busy to blog. I would post a snippet of my assignment online so you knew what my excuse was, but if I did that, I'd get an F for plagiarizing or something, so I'll just have to wait until after I turn it in. If I do at all. Which I probably won't because by the time it'd be safe for me to do so, no one would care, and I wouldn't care.

Sorry about the sucky post.

HPRT: Deathly Hallows in the stadium = awesome. Pure awesome.
Current Book: Script Analysis for Actors, Directors and Designers by James Thomas
Current Song: None. Too distracting.

BEDA Day 25

REALLY SUPER LATE I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THIS BLOG. AHH.

So. My day was exhausting. Between class from 9-5, auditions and then watching HP7 on the Jumbotron of our stadium, I'm totally beat. I really should work on my Godot assignment, considering it's due Wednesday, and with any luck I'll be in call backs all tomorrow evening, but I'm just too tired and all I want to do is veg out and catch up on youtube.

Sorry for the lame post. I know I say this every time, or at least I think it, but I'll try to make my blog for tomorrow better.

HPRT: I have now cried through every single viewing of HP7. Always at Dobby. Always. I never cry this much in movies, ever.
Current Book: N/A
Current Song: Caroline by Mike Lombardo

BEDA Day 24

I'm a terrible person. I always inevitably end up failing BEDA...

I swear I tried to post yesterday, but the internet doesn't work at Kelly's and for whatever reason Chris' iPhone didn't want to let me click inside the text box to type ANYTHING. It hated me! I swear it wasn't my fault!

But you know what? I'm not gonna let it get me down. I'm going to use that bonus post from a while back and claim that as my BEDA Day 23, how about that???

So. Yesterday was filled with the dance show (I went to BOTH performances for Kelly, Sarah Jean and Nancy =] ), shopping with my mother (I got a really adorable dress for my La Bete audition tomorrow, and two super cute shirts which I wore to usher in last night) and real talking until 3 in the morning with Chris and Kelly. It was relaxing and much needed, but it made getting up for church this morning extra difficult, even if the service I attended was an hour later than normal...

Either way, I'm sitting on my bed, in comfy clothes, considering taking a nap, but then realizing that I can't afford one because I need to memorize my monologue for auditions tomorrow. But even saying that I'm hypocritical because I've been catching up on youtube, reading people's blogs and playing Sudoku since I sat down to start memorizing about 3 hours ago. So much for productivity...

In other news, the season for next year has officially been announced. I found it had been printed on the program for Gotta Dance. I was kind of upset about this since last year we received an email in like, February telling us what this years' season was going to be, but that didn't happen this year because everyone was scrambling around to figure out what shows we were gonna do.

Overall... I'm pretty disappointed with our upcoming season. So many of the shows we're doing have super small casts, which isn't fair to all the BFA students and underclassmen who would like to be given a chance, and NO ONE wants to do Cabaret, except for a few random people, and most of the shows just seem extremely random. This years' season was incredible. It was so tight-knit and it flowed really well. We had huge-name shows, too. The Fantasticks, The Light in the Piazza and Hamlet alone were enormous draws, and Machinal and The Birthday Party and Summertime all made really interesting points and represented some really cool movements in theatre. Next season?? It just kind of seems smattered together.

Ah well. In the words of Beckett, "Nothing to be done."

Aw eff, Waiting for Godot has taken over my mind. I suppose for the purposes of getting my Godot assignment done for Theatre History, that's not necessarily a bad thing, but GEEZ it's so annoying. I hate that play.

The semester is thankfully coming to an end in two weeks after all my finals are over, and I legitimately cannot wait. It just sucks that all my finals (ALL OF THEM. ALL 4) are tests. This has never happened to me. I've always had like, a couple final performances and maybe one test, but more likely I had papers. This finals week is gonna kill me. Biology on Monday, World Lit on Tuesday, Theatre History on Wednesday and Musical Theatre Acting on Thursday. EFF. MY. LIFE.

I hope your semesters are less stressful than mine, and I'll see you all tomorrow for more blogging fun =]

HPRT: Last week I received my very own plastic snitch model! It sits on my desk now, but I'm hoping to permanently glue the wings in to the body (they keep falling out) and I would like to engrave "I open at the close" on it, and then put a little hook in it so I could hang it from something. It's adorable!
Current Book: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. I know it's a play. So sue me.
Current Song: Caroline! by Mike Lombardo

BEDA Day 22

Do any of you believe in ghosts?

Typically I haven't been a believer myself, but there's a certain amount of superstition that surrounds the theatre that causes even skeptics like myself to not only acknowledge the potential of the existence of ghosts, but even defend their presence.

My high school in New York has a ghost living in the vent in the back of house right named James. My friend Jasmine feels the presence of ghosts and stuff, and she used to tell us when James was angry or upset for some reason. It's funny, because even though I don't really believe in ghosts, I never once doubted her authority or the existence of James.

In our theatre here in Auburn, our ghost is Sidney. It's the stage manager's job to always make a peace offering on opening night of every show by leaving candy, usually Peanut M&Ms, in the catwalks. We always joke about how when anything goes wrong during rehearsal or a performance, it's Sidney's fault. "Oh, Sidney must be angry!"

And it's really funny how we defend him and his integrity. Fred, our Production Stage Manager, was outside the costume shop one day close to the end of the school day, when these two people came in to the building. They asked him a whole bunch of questions regarding the building, and somehow they got on the topic of Sidney. They honestly looked at him like he was crazy and proceeded to say that Sidney was a demon, and by allowing him into our theatre we were accepting the devil into our presence.

... O_o

Like, wtf? Why would anyone say that? When I heard that story for the first time, I got so mad!! How DARE anyone abuse the good name of Sidney!

Anyway, I bring this up because today I was in the library all afternoon working on my last Theatre History assignment, and I walked into the bathroom, and as I was about to enter a stall, I heard this ridiculous creaking noise that freaked me the eff out! I wouldn't at all be surprised if the library was haunted, too xD

In any case, I'm watching Fringe and about to hang out with some friends from high school whom I haven't spend a lick of time with all semester/year, so I'm really excited about that. Tell me your ghost stories in the comments if you have any, and I hope you all have wonderful Fridays!

HPRT: These guys from our theatre made their own wands from sticks they picked up, and I found out from my friend I'm hanging out with later that she and her friend did the EXACT SAME THING today. I should totally make my own wand xD
Current Book: N/A
Current Song: Undisclosed Desires by Muse. I've been on a huge Muse kick since yesterday.

BEDA Day 21

This has to be a quick post since I'm doing this with an hour and a half (less really) to spare of the day on Kelly's computer, but it's getting done!

Today started out with a good jazz class and just a good school day overall with a few hiccups, and then it just started getting worse for no reason. I started letting the little things get to me instead of not stressing about them (because I, obviously, am a natural stresser) and it kind of ruined about 3 hours of my day. Then I went to the preview for the dance show that Kelly and Sarah Jean and a couple of my friends are in and that totally perked me up. The dances they're in are so amazing that even the crapshow that followed couldn't get me down. Now we're off to the cast party, Kelly still in her zombie make up, and we're gonna have fun, despite the crappy occurrences of today.


So there it is =P

Have a good rest of your day!

HPRT: Fun stuff. About Harry Potter. I have nothing xD
Current Book: Don't ask. -Kelly
Current Song: Too Far by Kylie Minogue

BEDA Day 20

Well... tonight was gonna be a lot more awesome, then things got postponed. Lame.

I was going to go see Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 at our nationally acclaimed and recognized stadium on the jumbotron (perks of going to a school who won the football National Championship xD), but because there's supposed to be some sort of inclement weather (that doesn't even start until after the movie would be over), they postponed it to Monday.

At first I didn't think that I was going to be able to go, because La Bete auditions are that same night, but I just realized that my audition is at 7:02, and the movie starts at 7:30! I CAN STILL GO. But it should still be shown tonight. Whatever.

Either way, now I get to go to the Bach Contata that my parents put together at my church. I think Ben is coming, too, which is nice, I feel like I never see him anymore. Come to think of it, I feel like I don't see ANYONE anymore. I constantly talk to Sarah Jean about how much I miss her and we are always in agreement that we need to hang out more but this semester is just so ridiculously crazy that no one has time for anything. Literally. I don't know how some people fit it all in. Or how other majors that aren't Theatre even have time to do anything extra curricular. It seems like even when I'm doing things that are extra curricular they're curricular. Because they all still have to do with theatre xD

So the semester is kinda/sorta winding down, not really, since I still have a week left of classes and a couple major things to get done, but I legitimately can't wait for everything that accompanied this semester to be OVER, since the only thing about it I liked has been done for a couple months now (*cough**cough*Piazza*cough*).

Speaking of Piazza, look at how legit this picture is?



In case you were wondering, yes, that our production from this semester and yes, that is me =P

I hope you all have a wonderful night and I'll see you here again tomorrow!

HPRT: Ummm... When I first found out the showing was postponed and I thought I couldn't go, I literally fell to the floor I was so upset. There. That shows you how ridiculous I am xD
Current Book: Same. Still. Forever.
Current Song: Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine. Kelly posted the video on my wall to cheer me up after I was so devastated.