Go me! Go me! It's almost my Birthday!!!

Yay!! Music is back!!! Enjoy!

Wahoo!

Ok!! So I got an A- on my Civ. paper, B+ on my super crappy Alexander the Great paper, Dan Stearns is letting me take his Shakespeare in Performance class, I just sent off my application for the 500 Clown class, and Jackie might be coming to visit the weekend after I turn in my final papers!?!?!?! Hootey-Hoo!!

Fun new band

Listen to some stuff here:
http://myspace.com/nousnonplus

You can get the lyrics in english here:
http://www.nousnonplus.com/nnp_lyrics1.html

I especially liked the lawnmower song. So silly!

Vale!

"And I can't sleep. I need to tell you... Goodnight."

Bah on the world. I have class at 9am and I am so not tired. I tried to go to sleep and it totally failed. So now I'm gonna read mamet's True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. We'll see how it goes. Vale!

Change of Plans

I think I am going to stay at UofC for my final year and not graduate early. My BA is a mess and there are a bunch of acting classes being offered next quarter and next year here at UofC that I would like to take. So I went and talked to David Spatz who didn't want me to just forget about my BA and goof off, but said it would be fine for me to do. I just have to talk to my advisor and preceptor. Yeah, so I think I'm gonna do it. I am meeting with my BA and academic advisors tomorrow and working it all out. Hopefully, it all goes well!! Only sad thing to note: I can't pre-register cuz i forgot to meet with my advisor. I'm such a space case sometimes. Thank God auditions are OVER!!!! Vale!

"Nobody needs to know"

How many times can I listen to this song? Why is this the song? Right now I find myself in need of a little morale. I did my last audition this past weekend. It went very well, but they only take five girls, so there's not much hope really. But I have plans set in place for next year. Patience and hard work. I can do this.

The Best Valentine's Day Ever

Jon, my oh so awesome valentine, gave me the nicest card. It said: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, but not even lime green egyptian theatres are as groovy as a chic like you!" He also gave me raspberry Lindt chocolate and godiva raspberry ice cream!!! I wanted to get Jon some manly stuff for valentine's day, so I gave him 2 cards (one tacky one that played music ;), a KING sized snickers, and a manual can opener (I mean what's more manly than a manual can opener???) :p

Memories

So I'm watching eternal sunshine for the millionth time, and all of a sudden i started thinking about where I would hide memories, and you know just random childhood memories. It's dumb the stuff we remember. So here are a few of mine:

~Running all over the house with lame excuses like i need to clean my stuff in the kitchen, so i wouldn't have to keep watching Jurrasick Park, but invariably I'd come back, freak out, and make another lame excuse to leave.

~Sitting on a stool in the kitchen as my mom cut my hair short for the one and only time i had my hair cut short.

~Playing in my mom's room at her dresser with the big mirror. One time I kept brushing my bangs to the side to make them look like Ariel's from the little mermaid.

~All my barbies, my barbie comforter, the alladin stickers on the wall.

~Ultimate Hide and Go seek

~Putting on my old purple clothes to go play in a big pile of dirt they just brought in for building a new house.

~The little boy named Eric who lived across the street.

~following a creek to a lake no one knew existed

~getting caught in a storm of bits of dandelions when i was walking in the woods

~jamming to alanis morsett for hours while walking my dogs

~performing skits for my mom on the tile entryway to the house

~the christmas room! our extra living room became a christmas room. Lights everywhere and the little village that my mom made. I remember sitting on the couch in there just enjoying the lights.

~my mom's big closet that was filled with tons of craft stuff. she always had just what you needed.

~falling off the monkey bars and having the wind knocked out of me for the first time. i thought i was dying.

~my too perfect first date/first kiss under the stars at my first homecoming dance

~the huge argument that same night with my mom because everything fell out of my purse during that kiss and i didn't notice. My mom got all pissed that there weren't any pictures and we were screaming and i was crying. My mom decided she wanted those pictures so she took some of me crying in my dress. I don't know what ever happened to them. My mom never remembered to develop film. I remember thinking this was the most "perfect" way to end such a great evening.

~crying in the bathroom to my dad when i finally decided i had to leave

~crying in my dad's arms when i found out my parents were getting a divorce

~my dad hitting me so hard my mom called the police. the next day when all my teachers kept asking my what happened.

~exploring every inch of every neighborhood i ever lived in

~birthday cakes. my mom always made the best birthday cakes. green ones, pink ones, ones with trolls, one shaped like a worm. whatever i wanted. green icing with pink cake.

~spending summers at my dad's and reading all day and all night

~hours spent volunteering in the library

~kick ball

~the fire drill that lasted an entire day cuz they couldn't figure out what had tripped the alarm

i guess that's enough for now.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I don't get why everyone is so anti-valentine's day. It's like one of the silliest, funnest holidays every. This just goes to show that people take themselves too seriously! I mean it's so cliché to hate Valentine's day! Anywho, I picked Jon to be my Valentine so I would have someone to lavish my affection on, and I've been having waaay to much fun with it. And it's so nice to be done with mid-term papers. Since Saturday I have done the following:

Saturday: 8pg paper on ethics and evolution
Sunday: 7pg paper for Civ. on Roman attitudes on slavery.
Monday: 2pg paper about Male vs. Female long-term/short-term mating strategies
Tuesday: 5pg paper refuting the relevance of the entire topic for my Alexander the Great class
Wednesday: 7.3pgs of introductory material for my BA

Total: 29.3pgs in 5 days, including all the research for each paper. A Personal Record!

Anywho, yup. I'm glad to be done writing!?!!!

Thank God it's Valentine's Day!

One Down, Six to Go!

So I did the Illinois Theatre Association open call audition yesterday, which was crazy. I only had two minutes, and neither of my monologues really worked in that format... Anywho, I got in there, told them my name, and they started the timer!!! Normally the timer starts when you start you actual pieces so you can take a moment to breathe and then start, but no such luck with these people. I led out with my smaller, emotional, personal piece cuz that's the one that usually gets people, but my heart was racing and my whole body started shaking and I couln't center my breath! Bah! So I think I need to lead out with a very active piece, where I can use that energy to propel me forward. So I think I'm gonna start with Violet ;) The cool thing about this audition was I got to watch the other 12 people in my group audition and I can sum up their work in three bullets:

~No one used the space
~No one was really personalized
~No one had a sense of humor!

And violet has all of those things. So, I'm doing it! lol. Let's hope for the best!

In other news: My BA is a disaster!

Vale!

OMG!!!

Harry Potter 7, July 21st. I want to die!!!! ;alskdjf;alskdjf;alskdfja; lsdf I want this weekend to be over already! Vale!