Well, here it is. The moment of truth.
LAST BEDA POST FOR APRIL WOOOOOOOOO!
Yeah, I don't know why I'm so excited about this, but I did my sappy, heartfelt post last night, so I'm just gonna have fun with this one.
This month in April I:
-Finished two major assignments for Theatre History, and breathed a huge sigh of relief when they were over. Through this I learned that I have the ability to push myself through a tough situation, even when I'd rather be doing ANYTHING else.
-Had my first experience as costume crew for a show. I learned that I loved it. And now I'm dying to be Wardrobe Mistress for a show every semester I have left at Auburn.
-Was cast in my first play of college, and let me tell you, I'm SO excited to start working on that!
-Realized what things in my life truly are and aren't important. Grades in non-theatre classes have unfortunately slipped into the latter category...
-Rediscovered my love of Sudoku. Seriously, I've been playing on my iGoogle for probably the last two weeks straight. It keeps my mind constantly focused, and I love it.
-Figured out that I make a pretty scary zombie, as do some of my friends... =P
-Got to see in my opinion, one of the best films made from a book in a very long time (yes, it does just so happen to be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1... I'm obsessed, ok??)
-Visited an old teacher and through it was reaffirmed in my belief that I'm right where I ought to be.
-Officially signed up for Lit Day as part of my Rockstar package for LeakyCon. IT'S OFFICIAL. I WILL MEET JOHN GREEN THIS SUMMER. I LITERALLY AM ABOUT TO DIE FROM HAPPINESS.
-Discovered my love of iCal. It's seriously revolutionized my life.
-Fell in love with my friends time and time again as they taught me what it is to be a good actor and, above all, a good human being.
So. I think those are all some pretty important lessons and realizations about myself. What did you learn in the month of April, world?
Thank you so much for being my constant outlet this month. It's gonna be weird not to have to write a blog post at the end of every day anymore, but I'm almost positive that I'll be doing BEDA again in August.
And thus concludes my second BEDA ever. Thanks, internet, for always being there =]
HPRT: 73 days until LeakyCon. Just saying.
Current Book: I really should just finish Anna and the French Kiss so I can give it back to Jennie...
Current Song: Oh crap... I've forgotten the title of it, but it's by Journey, and it was in Tron: Legacy, which I just watched tonight xD
Just looked it up. It's called "Separate Ways" by Journey =]
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
BEDA Day 29
It's hard to believe how close we are to the end of BEDA. Some really fun and important things have happened this month, and I'm sorry if I've somewhat neglected my posts, or made them short or half-assed them. I guess we might be able to attribute it to me feeling that real life is more important than writing it all down...?
In any case, it's been really nice to return to this blog every day and relive each day as it happens, even if the events were less than pleasant. It's important to reflect on things as they happen, and even later on to gain perspective.
I watched a really important vlog from VEDA this month from Alex Carpenter from the Remus Lupins, and he talked about how just because something is amazing and incredible doesn't mean that it should last forever. Sometimes things that are these awesome experiences are better to remember than try to force to last. He was talking about wizard rock and the Harry Potter fandom, and cons like LeakyCon which is coming up oh so soon. I think I'm referring to school years and college experiences.
I had my last voice lesson of the semester yesterday, and my voice teacher and I were reflecting on the past two years of my life that I've spent at this school and with him. I've made some really important decisions and had some important growth experiences, even in the last four months, that have completely changed my life. If you had told me at the beginning of freshman year that I was going to be in the BFA program, have played Clara Johnson in The Light in the Piazza, and was about to have the most incredible summer ever, I probably would not have believed that any of that was possible.
Really, what it comes down to is confidence. There was just something about the knowledge that we were going to do Piazza that brought something out in me that I almost didn't know I had. I had almost this obsession with getting what I wanted that nothing was going to stand in my way. And that was the chance I needed to show everyone what I am capable of. I just needed one shot to prove that I can do this, that I can live this life, and thanks to Joey, I got it.
I have so much to be thankful for, especially when it comes to this semester. When Piazza ended, I was so depressed. I wanted it to last forever. But now I'm starting to realize that it's more important that it ended, because it taught me that all great things come to an end, and that I can learn from the experiences that I had through it. I grew closer to some amazing people, I figured out some important things about myself, I was moved by beautiful music and a beautiful story every night for almost two months, and I'll never forget any of it. I think I've finally come to a point in my life where I'm starting to realize who I'm going to become as an actor and as a person.
And that's really exciting.
I hope April has brought some great realizations for all of you!
HPRT: Still trying to stay away from the DH Pt. 2 trailer. It's harder every day.
Current Book: N/A
Current Song: N/A
In any case, it's been really nice to return to this blog every day and relive each day as it happens, even if the events were less than pleasant. It's important to reflect on things as they happen, and even later on to gain perspective.
I watched a really important vlog from VEDA this month from Alex Carpenter from the Remus Lupins, and he talked about how just because something is amazing and incredible doesn't mean that it should last forever. Sometimes things that are these awesome experiences are better to remember than try to force to last. He was talking about wizard rock and the Harry Potter fandom, and cons like LeakyCon which is coming up oh so soon. I think I'm referring to school years and college experiences.
I had my last voice lesson of the semester yesterday, and my voice teacher and I were reflecting on the past two years of my life that I've spent at this school and with him. I've made some really important decisions and had some important growth experiences, even in the last four months, that have completely changed my life. If you had told me at the beginning of freshman year that I was going to be in the BFA program, have played Clara Johnson in The Light in the Piazza, and was about to have the most incredible summer ever, I probably would not have believed that any of that was possible.
Really, what it comes down to is confidence. There was just something about the knowledge that we were going to do Piazza that brought something out in me that I almost didn't know I had. I had almost this obsession with getting what I wanted that nothing was going to stand in my way. And that was the chance I needed to show everyone what I am capable of. I just needed one shot to prove that I can do this, that I can live this life, and thanks to Joey, I got it.
I have so much to be thankful for, especially when it comes to this semester. When Piazza ended, I was so depressed. I wanted it to last forever. But now I'm starting to realize that it's more important that it ended, because it taught me that all great things come to an end, and that I can learn from the experiences that I had through it. I grew closer to some amazing people, I figured out some important things about myself, I was moved by beautiful music and a beautiful story every night for almost two months, and I'll never forget any of it. I think I've finally come to a point in my life where I'm starting to realize who I'm going to become as an actor and as a person.
And that's really exciting.
I hope April has brought some great realizations for all of you!
HPRT: Still trying to stay away from the DH Pt. 2 trailer. It's harder every day.
Current Book: N/A
Current Song: N/A
Thursday, April 28, 2011
BEDA Day 28
I've been really wanting to do a picture post all month but I haven't had time to upload all the pictures, but I believe that today is now the day!
These are all the things on my mind:
I took this picture myself from a cool, touristy spot in Paris where it's easy to get amazing pictures of the Eiffel Tower =]
I think that's enough for now! So, I'm gonna go keep watching Bones, and I think tonight I'll try to catch up on either Youtube or TV shows.
Hope your Thursday nights are good!
HPRT: I'm really starting to get freaking excited about LeakyCon!!
Current Book: None at the moment.
Current Song: Resistance by Muse
These are all the things on my mind:
I took this picture myself from a cool, touristy spot in Paris where it's easy to get amazing pictures of the Eiffel Tower =]
I think that's enough for now! So, I'm gonna go keep watching Bones, and I think tonight I'll try to catch up on either Youtube or TV shows.
Hope your Thursday nights are good!
HPRT: I'm really starting to get freaking excited about LeakyCon!!
Current Book: None at the moment.
Current Song: Resistance by Muse
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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.)
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.)
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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.
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.
Monday, April 25, 2011
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
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
Sunday, April 24, 2011
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
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
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