It's April 8th. WTF?
I honestly have no idea where time goes. It just disappears. I am in some serious need of a Time Turner. For real.
In any case, I'm done with my two classes for the day, turned in my time sheet so I can GET PAID, and now I'm chillaxin in my room killing time before Ben and I go see The Scarlet Pimpernel tonight at Faulkner Dinner Theatre. I'm pretty excited, Ben loves this show, and he used to do shows at Faulkner, so it's gonna be an adventure =]
I'm considering using the lovely alone time in the house to work on a song that I bought last weekend to put in the Pop/Rock section of my audition book, since I literally have none and I don't often listen to the radio, so it's nice to have an option now. It's The Story by Brandi Carlile, which I recently re-discovered after the musical episode of Grey's Anatomy. As lame as that sounds, I remember when it was popular the first time around, and I really liked it then, but after blasting Sara Ramirez's version from my iTunes all week, I've become obsessed with it. After all, anything Sara sings, I can sing!
So I bought the sheet music and printed it off and I'm considering learning the piano part for fun, since, you know, I like to do that sometimes. I genuinely miss playing piano, and last semester, despite its annoyance, Piano Skills was fun. It reminded me that I am, in fact, a musician, and I have some skill at the piano, and I should have developed it further. One of my biggest regrets, as I'm sure I've mentioned on this blog before, is that I didn't continue taking piano lessons in childhood. Something about practicing for it and doing piano recitals made me want to throw up or faint or something. That's why I switched to taking viola lessons, because I never minded practicing that. Either way, I probably should have been an instrumentalist, but instead I'm pursuing this crazy career in acting and singing which I love... I have to many musical interests xD
So perhaps I'll take a break from my computer and do something fun AND constructive. Have a wonderful Friday, everyone, and try to avoid having to choose which seat to take =P
HPRT: LeakyCon is under 100 days away. FREAK OUT TIME!
Current Book: Still Anna and the French Kiss... alas, with my schedule, I'm at a standstill...
Current Song: The Story cover by Sara Ramirez
Friday, April 8, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
BEDA Day 7
Well... today has been... an interesting plethora of emotions...
Jazz was great today. It's really nice to get both a good stretch/toning work out in and then have plenty of time to work on choreography. We got in both dances that we're doing for the outcome at the end of the month, and it was just overall really fun today!
MT Acting was great because it was literally a 10 minutes segment where we went over the music for our scenes. Bridget and I are singing Take Me or Leave Me, and we really only had to go over it one time, we're so solid on it. And since we were done so soon, it allowed me to spend the rest of regular class time studying like a maniac for my Biology test. So I basically studied almost non stop from 9:30 to 1, with a brief like, 20 minute period when I got food, and then the 10 minutes to rehearse.
Work was fun, as usual, but I'd really started to stress about my test, since I literally didn't study for it almost at all this whole week like I'd planned. So when it was time for my voice lesson, Joey was like, I'm not worried about anything you're working on for the rest of the semester, so if you need to go study, you can. Which I was grateful for.
I found Sarah Jean and Tyler outside studying on the park benches that are on the hill right outside the theatre, so I joined them. They'd been using my notes to study, which I'd highlighted and everything, so we sat outside in the gorgeous weather talking about the endocrine, excretory, and reproductive systems... and I was getting more and more nervous because even though I understood the material when we talked about it, I had no idea what he was gonna ask on the test, so I had no way to know what information was more important than the rest. So the three of us and Kelly all made the trek to take the test... and I can't speak for SJP and Tyler, but I know Kelly and I and our friend Malcolm all feel really really bad about it. It was like we studied the information forwards and he asked the questions backwards... so it was really hard to tell what information I needed to recall back to my forebrain to remember... it was insanity.
So Kelly and I were super depressed about that until we got back to her apartment and started watching Youtube with her friend Matt and finally we ended the day with our crazy selves as per usual. We make a little mini road trip to Montgomery to drop Matt off and then belted out Glee and musical soundtracks on the way back. Bones was new tonight, too, for the first time in WEEKS, so today ended well at the very least =]
Now I'm off to shower and sleep early-ish, since this week has been surprisingly really stressful, and I have a big weekend to look forward to!
Night, world =]
HPRT: Kelly and I made at least a couple "Did you get my text?" "Well, you didn't text me back!" jokes from AVPS tonight =P
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine
Jazz was great today. It's really nice to get both a good stretch/toning work out in and then have plenty of time to work on choreography. We got in both dances that we're doing for the outcome at the end of the month, and it was just overall really fun today!
MT Acting was great because it was literally a 10 minutes segment where we went over the music for our scenes. Bridget and I are singing Take Me or Leave Me, and we really only had to go over it one time, we're so solid on it. And since we were done so soon, it allowed me to spend the rest of regular class time studying like a maniac for my Biology test. So I basically studied almost non stop from 9:30 to 1, with a brief like, 20 minute period when I got food, and then the 10 minutes to rehearse.
Work was fun, as usual, but I'd really started to stress about my test, since I literally didn't study for it almost at all this whole week like I'd planned. So when it was time for my voice lesson, Joey was like, I'm not worried about anything you're working on for the rest of the semester, so if you need to go study, you can. Which I was grateful for.
I found Sarah Jean and Tyler outside studying on the park benches that are on the hill right outside the theatre, so I joined them. They'd been using my notes to study, which I'd highlighted and everything, so we sat outside in the gorgeous weather talking about the endocrine, excretory, and reproductive systems... and I was getting more and more nervous because even though I understood the material when we talked about it, I had no idea what he was gonna ask on the test, so I had no way to know what information was more important than the rest. So the three of us and Kelly all made the trek to take the test... and I can't speak for SJP and Tyler, but I know Kelly and I and our friend Malcolm all feel really really bad about it. It was like we studied the information forwards and he asked the questions backwards... so it was really hard to tell what information I needed to recall back to my forebrain to remember... it was insanity.
So Kelly and I were super depressed about that until we got back to her apartment and started watching Youtube with her friend Matt and finally we ended the day with our crazy selves as per usual. We make a little mini road trip to Montgomery to drop Matt off and then belted out Glee and musical soundtracks on the way back. Bones was new tonight, too, for the first time in WEEKS, so today ended well at the very least =]
Now I'm off to shower and sleep early-ish, since this week has been surprisingly really stressful, and I have a big weekend to look forward to!
Night, world =]
HPRT: Kelly and I made at least a couple "Did you get my text?" "Well, you didn't text me back!" jokes from AVPS tonight =P
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
BEDA Day 6
SO TIRED. SO STRESSED.
I'm also in a fair amount of pain from my Jazz class yesterday xD
Today isn't over yet by a long shot, but it's been a pretty good day over all. World Lit was amusing because my professor dropped the f-bomb when talking about Othello, and every single person in my class except for the people in my group freaked out. One guy even went up to her after class to talk about it, and Jennie and I just looked at each other and were like, really? How old are you? Are you even in college? Are you not used to hearing curse words all the time now?
Tap was fun, mostly because there were a ton of people missing so our class was small. Honestly, smaller dance classes are way better. Not only do you get more personal attention but it's just better space-wise as well.
Rep class and work were fine, but Theatre History was the slowest two hours of my life. They seriously dragged on and on and on and on and it was probably that way because I was unprepared and didn't even have my copy of Mother Courage to use, but it's over now and I don't care anymore. Brecht is stupid.
In any case, I'm catching up on some Youtube, waiting for dinner and procrastinating on studying for my Biology test tomorrow afternoon which I'm fairly certain I'm going to fail. Or maybe get a D. Whatever.
HPRT: Still not sure how I feel about the fact that Daniel Radcliffe is on Broadway... can he even sing?
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Hey Soul Sister by Train
I'm also in a fair amount of pain from my Jazz class yesterday xD
Today isn't over yet by a long shot, but it's been a pretty good day over all. World Lit was amusing because my professor dropped the f-bomb when talking about Othello, and every single person in my class except for the people in my group freaked out. One guy even went up to her after class to talk about it, and Jennie and I just looked at each other and were like, really? How old are you? Are you even in college? Are you not used to hearing curse words all the time now?
Tap was fun, mostly because there were a ton of people missing so our class was small. Honestly, smaller dance classes are way better. Not only do you get more personal attention but it's just better space-wise as well.
Rep class and work were fine, but Theatre History was the slowest two hours of my life. They seriously dragged on and on and on and on and it was probably that way because I was unprepared and didn't even have my copy of Mother Courage to use, but it's over now and I don't care anymore. Brecht is stupid.
In any case, I'm catching up on some Youtube, waiting for dinner and procrastinating on studying for my Biology test tomorrow afternoon which I'm fairly certain I'm going to fail. Or maybe get a D. Whatever.
HPRT: Still not sure how I feel about the fact that Daniel Radcliffe is on Broadway... can he even sing?
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Hey Soul Sister by Train
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
BEDA Day 5
AHHH I HAVE 17 MINUTES!
Today was long, but at least it ended well.
Jazz was brutal on my legs, MT Acting was amusing. Bridget and I are singing "Take Me or Leave Me" from RENT, and we basically just played the entire 2 hours, figuring out what we wanted to do with the scene. I worked some in the Costume shop, had a good voice lesson, wanted to shoot myself in Biology when we weren't singing Disney songs or talking about who our favorite princess/villain was xD
For dinner, Kelly, Jennie, Ben and Kelly's friend Matt and I all went to Marco's Pizza, the one owned by Kelly's second cousin. It was good pizza, I'd never eating there before. But then we went to get Sno Biz for the first time all season, and then it was back to the theatre for Hamlet crew view!!
I was a little apprehensive about Hamlet at first, just because of the fact that it was cut to be 90 minutes and there's a lot of like, heavy metal music playing in it, but I actually can't wait to see what it'll be like with lights and costumes and everything because I think it's gonna be really cool. I'm excited that I get to work on it!
After the run through, a whole bunch of us went to Chill (a FroYo place downtown) and stood outside in the FREEZING-NESS and talked and laughed and had a good time. Now I'm back home, having thawed out in the shower and putting the finishing touched on my freaking Plot chart that's due in Theatre History tomorrow... at least it's basically done and I don't have to worry about it tomorrow =]
Good night, moon.
P.S. Every time I try to type the word "pizza," I always accidentally add the extra "a" which makes it "piazza." I'm pathetic T_T
HPRT: Another memorable moment of Biology today was that we need to start calling whores "Gryffin-whores" and sluts "Raven-sluts." Yup. That's how we spend our review time in Biology xD
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Let's Go Outside by Luke Conard and Tessa Violet
Today was long, but at least it ended well.
Jazz was brutal on my legs, MT Acting was amusing. Bridget and I are singing "Take Me or Leave Me" from RENT, and we basically just played the entire 2 hours, figuring out what we wanted to do with the scene. I worked some in the Costume shop, had a good voice lesson, wanted to shoot myself in Biology when we weren't singing Disney songs or talking about who our favorite princess/villain was xD
For dinner, Kelly, Jennie, Ben and Kelly's friend Matt and I all went to Marco's Pizza, the one owned by Kelly's second cousin. It was good pizza, I'd never eating there before. But then we went to get Sno Biz for the first time all season, and then it was back to the theatre for Hamlet crew view!!
I was a little apprehensive about Hamlet at first, just because of the fact that it was cut to be 90 minutes and there's a lot of like, heavy metal music playing in it, but I actually can't wait to see what it'll be like with lights and costumes and everything because I think it's gonna be really cool. I'm excited that I get to work on it!
After the run through, a whole bunch of us went to Chill (a FroYo place downtown) and stood outside in the FREEZING-NESS and talked and laughed and had a good time. Now I'm back home, having thawed out in the shower and putting the finishing touched on my freaking Plot chart that's due in Theatre History tomorrow... at least it's basically done and I don't have to worry about it tomorrow =]
Good night, moon.
P.S. Every time I try to type the word "pizza," I always accidentally add the extra "a" which makes it "piazza." I'm pathetic T_T
HPRT: Another memorable moment of Biology today was that we need to start calling whores "Gryffin-whores" and sluts "Raven-sluts." Yup. That's how we spend our review time in Biology xD
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Let's Go Outside by Luke Conard and Tessa Violet
Monday, April 4, 2011
BEDA Day 4
THEATRE HISTORY MUST DIE.
Ok, now that that is over-with... xD
Do you ever get sick of people not knowing things that they should? So to make up for their lack of knowledge and instead of asking the person who's in charge, they ask you? Yeah.
So... that's kinda how my day went. How about yours? Here's to hoping you had better days than mine!
In any case, there are moments in life when you get some real clarity, and last night may have been one of those moments for me. I was talking to a friend who is very interested in Musical theatre like I am, but is three years younger than I am and hasn't started college yet. She kept talking about how she wanted to double major in theatre and something else that would provide a more secure job after graduation. She said that just a theatre degree wouldn't get her much... Which, you know, kinda made me wonder if that's what's going to happen with me, since that's all I'm getting, is a BFA Musical Theatre... But almost immediately I shoved that thought away.
Yes. Being an actor means you're not going to have job security. In fact, almost no job in the arts is going to be secure. But for whatever reason, maybe I'm dedicated, maybe I'm just crazy, that doesn't dissuade me at all. Yes, I will probably be eating half a packet of ramen for dinner every night. Yes, I will need to get a day job, probably waiting tables and audition my brains out for anything and everything. But that's just how it works. That's what I signed up for when I decided that this was what I wanted to do. There is no doubt in my mind that this is what I want, and it just seemed so silly to me to worry about things like job security. Job security isn't part of the deal in this business, so I just never even worried about it. And it felt really refreshing to know that I was still sure about this life knowing all I know about it. I don't know... I guess having that kind of clarity was unexpected.
Anyway, I recently (by which I mean just now) remembered that I won NaNoWriMo in the fall, and that my prizes still await my redemption!! So I'm downloading my free trial of Scrivener to see if I like it any better than word, and/or well enough to buy it, and I set up my CreateSpace account. Here's to hoping I can finish my novel by June 30th xD
Sorry for the sporadic post... It was kind of all over the place, but then again, I'm kind of all over the place right now! =P
Night, all!
HPRT: A ton of HP stars were in NYC today for the HP Exhibit. SO. JEALOUS.
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine
Ok, now that that is over-with... xD
Do you ever get sick of people not knowing things that they should? So to make up for their lack of knowledge and instead of asking the person who's in charge, they ask you? Yeah.
So... that's kinda how my day went. How about yours? Here's to hoping you had better days than mine!
In any case, there are moments in life when you get some real clarity, and last night may have been one of those moments for me. I was talking to a friend who is very interested in Musical theatre like I am, but is three years younger than I am and hasn't started college yet. She kept talking about how she wanted to double major in theatre and something else that would provide a more secure job after graduation. She said that just a theatre degree wouldn't get her much... Which, you know, kinda made me wonder if that's what's going to happen with me, since that's all I'm getting, is a BFA Musical Theatre... But almost immediately I shoved that thought away.
Yes. Being an actor means you're not going to have job security. In fact, almost no job in the arts is going to be secure. But for whatever reason, maybe I'm dedicated, maybe I'm just crazy, that doesn't dissuade me at all. Yes, I will probably be eating half a packet of ramen for dinner every night. Yes, I will need to get a day job, probably waiting tables and audition my brains out for anything and everything. But that's just how it works. That's what I signed up for when I decided that this was what I wanted to do. There is no doubt in my mind that this is what I want, and it just seemed so silly to me to worry about things like job security. Job security isn't part of the deal in this business, so I just never even worried about it. And it felt really refreshing to know that I was still sure about this life knowing all I know about it. I don't know... I guess having that kind of clarity was unexpected.
Anyway, I recently (by which I mean just now) remembered that I won NaNoWriMo in the fall, and that my prizes still await my redemption!! So I'm downloading my free trial of Scrivener to see if I like it any better than word, and/or well enough to buy it, and I set up my CreateSpace account. Here's to hoping I can finish my novel by June 30th xD
Sorry for the sporadic post... It was kind of all over the place, but then again, I'm kind of all over the place right now! =P
Night, all!
HPRT: A ton of HP stars were in NYC today for the HP Exhibit. SO. JEALOUS.
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine
Sunday, April 3, 2011
BEDA Day 3
I've always had OCD tendencies, but I've never really been one for hyper-organization. I like a little messy in my life. Usually it is found in the form of a nearly unrecognizable floor in my room. I'm too lazy to fold my clothes so they sit, clean but wrinkly, in the basket. I throw my textbooks all over the place. I don't remember the last time I dusted.
In high school I would always have a neat locker. That was about the extent of my OCD. But as I got into college, I've found that with the institution of the laptop has come a whole new way to take OCD to the next level. The name of that invention?
iCal.
I've always had a planner that I write my assignments in. In high school I used to decorate the cover to whatever show or musical I was obsessed with at the time. I got a planner for college, too, but as this school year has gone on, I've found that I use it less and less, but spend more and more time on my computer. So I tried using a Sticky note on my desktop for Homework assignments. It worked for a while, but as with most things, my fire for that kind of died and I lost track of it.
But then.
I discovered iCal. Let me just show you what my iCal looks like for the month of April. It's kind of disgustingly AMAZING.
I basically am in love with iCal. So much so that I stayed up until 2:30 yesterday morning adding my summer classes and fall classes that I've registered for but HAVEN'T STARTED YET. It's kind of ridiculous how excited I got about it. I made a To-Do list and deleted my Homework Sticky, which I never thought I'd do. I'm just blown away by the fact that I'm so excited for being organized. I should have had this in high school. It would have made my life so much easier xD
In any case, I'll try not to scare you any more with my extreme love of iCal. I'm still working on my effing Plot Chart, but I want to get most of it done before the week starts so I can talk to my professor about the one question I don't understand. But if you look at my iCal picture, the first five To-Do list items are all for Theatre History. Ridiculous.
So I'll just have this random excursion into my academic life be my post. I have a crap load of work to do, as you can probably tell xD
Have wonderful days of BEDA-ing, one and all!
HPRT: I keep getting tweets and youtube videos in my sub box about the screening of Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 and I keep avoiding them like the plague. STOP TRYING TO RUIN THE MOVIE FOR ME.
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Still The Story by Brandi Carlile, with Sara Ramirez's voice in my head xD
In high school I would always have a neat locker. That was about the extent of my OCD. But as I got into college, I've found that with the institution of the laptop has come a whole new way to take OCD to the next level. The name of that invention?
iCal.
I've always had a planner that I write my assignments in. In high school I used to decorate the cover to whatever show or musical I was obsessed with at the time. I got a planner for college, too, but as this school year has gone on, I've found that I use it less and less, but spend more and more time on my computer. So I tried using a Sticky note on my desktop for Homework assignments. It worked for a while, but as with most things, my fire for that kind of died and I lost track of it.
But then.
I discovered iCal. Let me just show you what my iCal looks like for the month of April. It's kind of disgustingly AMAZING.
I basically am in love with iCal. So much so that I stayed up until 2:30 yesterday morning adding my summer classes and fall classes that I've registered for but HAVEN'T STARTED YET. It's kind of ridiculous how excited I got about it. I made a To-Do list and deleted my Homework Sticky, which I never thought I'd do. I'm just blown away by the fact that I'm so excited for being organized. I should have had this in high school. It would have made my life so much easier xD
In any case, I'll try not to scare you any more with my extreme love of iCal. I'm still working on my effing Plot Chart, but I want to get most of it done before the week starts so I can talk to my professor about the one question I don't understand. But if you look at my iCal picture, the first five To-Do list items are all for Theatre History. Ridiculous.
So I'll just have this random excursion into my academic life be my post. I have a crap load of work to do, as you can probably tell xD
Have wonderful days of BEDA-ing, one and all!
HPRT: I keep getting tweets and youtube videos in my sub box about the screening of Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 and I keep avoiding them like the plague. STOP TRYING TO RUIN THE MOVIE FOR ME.
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: Still The Story by Brandi Carlile, with Sara Ramirez's voice in my head xD
Saturday, April 2, 2011
BEDA Day 2
Do you ever randomly miss movies from your childhood?
I was in our local book/movie/music store, Hastings, tonight, and at the ends of the aisles of movies were sale items. I ran across The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules on DVD, and instantly I lusted after them. Only problem was that they were $14 each, and that's honestly not much of a sale. Then I came across The Pagemaster and The Prince of Egypt, both fabulous movies from my childhood. Those were only $6 each. But being surrounded not only by those films, but also by Mulan, Princess and the Frog, The Emperor's New Groove, The Rescuer's Down Under, and many other old Disney movies got me thinking. I haven't seen most of those movies in years and I truly miss them. It also reminded me that I don't own nearly enough Disney DVDs and that I'll try to build up my collection as I finish college.
But some movies just meant a lot to me when I was younger. The very prevalent ones I demanded that I own immediately, like Mulan and Sleeping Beauty and Tangled. But some of them were lost to me when I got older, like Pete's Dragon and The Great Mouse Detective and The Little Mermaid. So I've decided.
I MUST OWN ALL OF THESE MOVIES.
Goodnight xD
P.S. I ended up buying The Pagemaster and The Prince of Egypt. I look forward to watching the prior tonight before bed =]
HPRT: Apparently some website, as an April Fool's joke, came up with a new show premise called The Aurors to be aired on FX on July 31st. They almost had me going. It looked bad, anyway xD
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: The Story by Brandi Carlile, but the Grey's Anatomy cover sung by Sara Ramirez. She's an effing genius.
I was in our local book/movie/music store, Hastings, tonight, and at the ends of the aisles of movies were sale items. I ran across The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules on DVD, and instantly I lusted after them. Only problem was that they were $14 each, and that's honestly not much of a sale. Then I came across The Pagemaster and The Prince of Egypt, both fabulous movies from my childhood. Those were only $6 each. But being surrounded not only by those films, but also by Mulan, Princess and the Frog, The Emperor's New Groove, The Rescuer's Down Under, and many other old Disney movies got me thinking. I haven't seen most of those movies in years and I truly miss them. It also reminded me that I don't own nearly enough Disney DVDs and that I'll try to build up my collection as I finish college.
But some movies just meant a lot to me when I was younger. The very prevalent ones I demanded that I own immediately, like Mulan and Sleeping Beauty and Tangled. But some of them were lost to me when I got older, like Pete's Dragon and The Great Mouse Detective and The Little Mermaid. So I've decided.
I MUST OWN ALL OF THESE MOVIES.
Goodnight xD
P.S. I ended up buying The Pagemaster and The Prince of Egypt. I look forward to watching the prior tonight before bed =]
HPRT: Apparently some website, as an April Fool's joke, came up with a new show premise called The Aurors to be aired on FX on July 31st. They almost had me going. It looked bad, anyway xD
Current Book: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Current Song: The Story by Brandi Carlile, but the Grey's Anatomy cover sung by Sara Ramirez. She's an effing genius.
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