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Today is the first official day of the school tour! The Wind in the Willows. We have a show at 3:10 and we're going to Academy Prep in St Petersburg. Quite a short trip from our shop, but as it is the first time we're setting up somewhere unfamiliar we're going to get there early. I think this is the best tour yet. The past two years we had good ones, but perhaps this is the most fun tour for me. It's definitely the biggest work out. Drew may come to visit me on Tuesday! Or Wednesday! I'm very excited. I think I may be terrible about writing blogs, they always seem like a laundry list or a diary entry. I should talk about some big issue or pop culture thing... but those things don't really seem as important. I baby sat for Jan and Steve last night. Lil Val and I watched Sleeping Beauty... well not really watched it, we played too! And then she went to bed after me reading a book with those buttons on the side that make the corresponding sound effects for the book. But the buttons weren't working so I tried to make the sound effects myself... It was pathetic and amusing. She went to bed and I got my first taste of cable TV in a really long time. Watched the Kardashians in Miami and Project Runway simultaneously. Because when I watch TV I watch it for the trash. Where else am I going to get it? Tags: acting, babysitting, blogs, friends, kardashians, kids, project runway, tour, tv, wind in the willows
feeling:  excited
hearing: The Gufs
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Two and a half years later. I'm still alive if you were worried. I feel actually quite content. I went to church this afternoon (service at noon=awesome) and I realize I have been a practical atheist frequently and recently. And by practical atheist I mean believing in the concept of Jesus and having faith that way, but not allowing Him to be in my life practically. This has been just recently but something that I have been struggling with all my life. I guess it's difficult in my surrounding relationships with people who are are struggling too. I really don't have any strong Christians immediately around me. If I do, they certainly have been shy about it. Of course I have too! So no fault to them, but I feel quite alone with my beliefs. I'm tired of complaining about this and feeling detatched from the church that I've been attending off and on for about two years now.. and so I signed up for a small group today at church. 18-24 yr-olds. Maybe I'll meet some people to connect with. I just hope and pray that I will be able to make the meetings, rehearsals for plays don't often make room for that. But it's at 8:30pm on Sundays. So here's to a jump off the boat into the water. I purchased my own lappy top and love love love it. Who knows if I'll continue to blog about things... But it's a start after so long of a hiatus. Tags: church, connections, friends, god, jesus, life, love
feeling:  cheerful
hearing: Caedmon's Call
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UPTAs (Unified Professional Theater Auditions) was this weekend. And my mother and I drove all the way up to Memphis, Tennessee so I could participate! My 90 second package consisted of a monologue entitled "Non Bridaled Passion" from A.. My Name is Still Alice and the last bit of "Always a Bridesmaid" from I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change . I auditioned on Friday at around 12:15. It went okay. I messed up the beginning of my song, but I pulled it together. And I got a chuckle in my monologue! Huzzah! When I was done I was certain I had sucked majorly... but I got SEVEN call backs and 2 "we kept your resume"s. Granted one of the call backs (a company called Poetry Alive!) didn't apply to me because they require you to be 25... and I am not. But it's cool that they thought I was that old. Kind of weird. I went to the other call backs with high hopes and joy! The companies that called me back were: Missoula Children's Theatre Prairie Fire Children's Theatre Lexington Children's Theatre New Stage Theatre Playhouse Merced National Theatre for Children Poetry Alive!, Inc The companies that kept my resume were: Matt Davenport Productions Old Creamery Theatre Company Bwahahaha! Okay so Missoula and Prairie Fire are two very alike companies that put you into pairs and you tour the country gathering local kids together for a week of rehearsals that ends in a show. So... both were a call backs involving interviews/info sessions. Lexington, New Stage, and Merced are non profit theaters that were looking for interns. So my call backs for them also were interviews/info sessions. I really like these options. They don't pay all that amazingly, but I think they'd be good for my resume... and fun to do. Merced is all the way out in California, which I don't know if I could handle. New Stage is the best option for me, it being only in Mississippi. And it pays better than the other two, though the housing is not free. All the internships have acting oppertunities, so it wouldn't be all work and no play. National Theatre for Children is awesome. It's also a tour but it's a tour where you perform educational theater in schools. You don't have to direct the kids in shows, and you get to do these hilariously fun shows that involve improve and great comic timing. This call back actually had us reading from a page long side, and doing some improv. I think I did well. I made the guy laugh that was doing the call back so that's good. I think I would most like to do New Stage. But I will take any of the internships and I'd LOVE to do National Theatre for Children. The pay is great and I love to make kids laugh. The only set back is it's not year round. Hmmm. I have to apply online to these internships, and wait patiently for news about NTfC. Missoula is in the back of my mind, but it's 12 months of kids 7 days a week... so I'm reluctant to apply. Anyway... I got to hang out with my best friend Mara and that was great! She auditioned on Sunday, and I got to see her! Todd let me sit in with him in the audition room. I got to hold the reject pile of headshots. That man is PICKY. Mara did such a fantastic job! Then, went and hung out with Daniel, who I haven't seen since my freshman year when I met him at SETC. We went to ihop and had a grand old time. I'm still waiting to find out how he did today. *hint* *hint* By the way, I hate Memphis. It is a dying city. It's sort of sad. and the roads suck butt. I had to scrape ice off my car on Friday morning and drive over frozen bridges to get to the theater! Talk about being out of place. This Floridian had no idea what to do! But yeah, there's NOTHING in Memphis. Don't go. It's a waste. And that's it. I'm excited to have more options than Campus Ministries Intern at Eckerd and American Stage. Although, I'm still going to apply/audition for their upcoming season. Todd, you WILL cast me in The Cherry Orchard. You WILL. Just you wait. Current Location: Gainesville
feeling:  hopeful
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Tomorrow I start the last semester of my college career. I'm scared. It'll be an easy semester, I think. No morning classes. I need to find an easy morning job, so I can start raking in the money money money. It's not going to be scary for any academic reason that'll happen during this semester. It's what comes next. Everyone is asking me what I'm going to do after college. It's sort of like highschool, when everyone was asking me what college I was going to. But now, it's a little less certain. I've got this UPTAs thing coming up. I may or may not get a job. What happens when I don't get a job? What happens when plans fall through? If I do get a job, how long will it last? Maybe I'll end up living in St Pete for the rest of my days working at American Stage (not a bad prospect, that). I know I don't want to live in Gainesville fucking Florida. I'm scared to fall back on these parents I have, because it's too easy and I don't want to get stuck. One of the reasons I refuse to think of grad school, it's too easy and I don't want to get stuck. Is it time for me to settle somewhere? Is it time to be a gypsy? How do I know? I have little to no money skills, I have no idea how to pay rent. I'm going to have insurance and bills and things I don't even want to think of. How did I get here? How do those kids who move straight out of their parents house at 18 do it? Granted, I'm not there yet, I've got 5 months or so to figure it out. But it looms ever nearer. And people are starting to ask. I have friends who are getting married. I have friends who HAVE been married for a while. Not that I want to get married at the moment, but my last relationship was 2 1/2 years ago. I don't want to get married, but it wouldn't suck to have someone to be there and to be there for. Trouble is, I feel like after college there's no one in my situation anymore. Is it time for me to join the masses? Is it time to go buck wild? Honestly, it's something I wonder about. No use talking about that sort of thing when there's not a feasible relationship in sight, when the prospects are all taken, some in very odd ways. I'm in a funk. As is usual. Big Love went really well, and I saw the tour of Spamalot on Sunday night. It was good. Very funny. Well done. And tomorrow I have class at 1:30. The beginning of the end. Or the end of the beginning. Current Location: St Pete
feeling:  discontent
hearing: Jason Mraz: No Stopping Us
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And here we are again... Working on a new show for winter term. BIG LOVE. Being directed by the amazing Todd Olson of American Stage fame. He's fantastic. And the show is going really well. It's intense. A little scarily so.... Last night we had a little get together with some people from the cast and that was fun as well.... very fun in parts. I'd like to repeat it sometime.  We shook our groove things and sctuukas and all was happy and hazy in a drinky tipsy way... Except when someone stepped on my Katie's toes. I honestly don't know what these people thing they're doing. It's not smart to do so, because they'll get me and my girl Riki on their butts for making Katie sad. The party ran out of gas at around 3 am, which was fine cuz the three girls, Katie and Riki and I sat up til 6 am chatting and weeping and giggling... and being girls. It's funny how alchohol makes time out of joint. Like life seems to jump forward and back with out any regard for the logic of a clock. We suddenly looked up and it was 5:50. Maybe it's not the drinks, but the company. Katie, Riki and I have become very good friends. I like it. I like being a part of a group. I must work not to distance myself from them. It hasn't happened yet, so I'll keep my hopes up. They're awesome girls. Women, really. Harry in the play makes me miss Clayton. Something in the way he laughs. Gosh I miss you man. Come visit? I know you can't this year. I just might have to come visit you. We'll go hiking and make fun of mormons together. Who the heck was that Joseph Smith guy anyway? I wonder if anyone there could tell me... Met someone I've wanted to meet for a while last night. Ever since I saw Krapp... a couple entries back. And All the Great Books. He's goofy awesome. Kind of cool in a dorky theatre dork way. These are all good things, as I am a dorky theater dork myself. Smiles are great things to hold. I didn't get up til 1 today and proceeded to get nothing done all day. Awesome. I don't have to go to the costume shop tomorrow, but I still have mad errands to run. That is, IF the offices I need are even open. Stupid Martin Luther King Jr. Why the heck did you have to be martyred? Gosh. feeling:  amused
hearing: Last 5 Years: The Next Ten Minutes
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Clayton, if you still read my few and far between entries, you must go see Blood Diamond. It's a fantastic movie! And I'm curious to know how you feel about it. Also, Julie, you should see it too! I think you'd really like it. So GO see it! Or wait til you get netflix, whatever cheapskate. All those who read my blog, I really recommend it. I don't think I've been that short of breath while watching a movie ever. I seriously was on the edge of my seat the whole time. And the performances are superb as well, for those of you who are acting junkies. It's hard to tell which DiCaprio's better in, this or The Departed. I can't over gush about this movie, so in order to not sound like a teenage fangirl, I will refrain from being over zealous. Just know that the moment the end credits rolled, I knew that this was one of my new favorite movies, not even top 10, top 5 probably. Went and saw it with Mara last night and just to give you a clue about how much this movie is awesome, we both came out singing it's praises. That only happens once in a blue moon for us, because we have such different tastes in movies. But when we both love a movie, you know it's a good choice. Also when we both hate a movie, it's gonna suck. We're like the Statler and Waldorf guys, but not old, not crotchety, and generally nicer to people. We also got smoothies, and watched Mrs Henderson Presents which Mara can't stand and I thought was cute. I'm still sick, it's moved down to my chest and throat, huzzah. I feel better though. :0) feeling:  chipper
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I just think its sad that two Trekkies had nothing Star Trekky to amuse them that they had to read a post that said "You know you're a Star Wars Geek if..." I mean, I wouldn't read a Trekkie post. But that's probably because I'm not a closet Trekkie. *ahem* I enjoy your side of the argument. And I enjoy some of the series that I've seen. But come on, the Death Star wiped out an entire planet if you'll remember. And it did have weaknesses, true, but if it had been completed again in episode 6, those weaknesses would have been eliminated. The "Puney" Star had to orbit a planet because it was being constructed in Episode 6. And this is why Star Wars will always be better than Star Trek, because these massive ships do not just appear out of nowhere magically. There is a process and a progress that makes sense. And the weaknesses of these periods of construction can be exploited in complex plot designs that involve infiltration and planning. Rather than to outrun and outshoot, which is the main impression I get from a lot of Trek plot lines (although I could be quite wrong and I'm sure you'll comment very loudly that I am). The great thing about Star Wars is that everything is not all shiny and new... the technology looks old and used and lived in, at least on the Rebel Alliance's side of things. (Granted this doesn't always apply to the crappy new trilogy but I refuse to accept them at all.) I just posted a list of things that make me as a crazy Star Wars geek happy, and automatically I get picked on by the starved fans of a dying TV show. If you don't like my post, sorry. Find your own list of Trekkie or LOTR or Harry Potter or whatever geeky things and post them. I won't read them, I won't comment on them. In fact I would just as soon kiss a wookiee. What you Trekkies should be watching now, is that new Battlestar Galactica series. It's pretty darn awesome from the episode I saw. Have you seen it? It's pretty intense and very very good. feeling:  mellow
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"What is it that we're living for?
Applause! Applause!
Nothing I know brings on the glow
Like sweet applause.
You're thinking you're through,
That nobody cares.
Then suddenly you
Hear it starting...
And somehow you're in charge again
And it's a ball!
Trumpets all sing, life seems to swing,
And you're the king of it all
Cuz you've had a taste of
The sound that says, "love."
Applause! Applause! Applause!
It's better than pot,
It's better than booze,
A shot of applause
Will stamp out the blues.
You work til you're dead,
It ain't for the bread.
Call me out of my head.
Your bank account's bare.
Your cat has the flu.
You're losing your hair.
Then you hear it...
That happy sound rolls over you
And just like that
Everything's right, this is the night.
Love hits you right where you're at
Cuz you've had a taste of
The sound that says, "love."
Applause! Applause!
It's wondrous applause,
Thundrous applause,
Beautiful soaring, magnificent roaring.
It's better than pot,
It's better than booze,
A shot of applause
Will stamp out the blues.
What ever you do you do better because
You're doing it too the beat of a paw,
And nothing can beat the beat of applause.
When you hear it....
Why do we work our asses off?
What is it for?
Cares disappear soon as you hear
That happy audience roar
Cuz you've had a taste of
The sound that says, "love."
Applause Applause
Applause Applause
Applause Applause
Applause Applause
Applause!"
~Applause from the Broadway Musical "Applause"
Love Sounds was fantastic. And this song makes me happy. It's a very theater person song I think. Yay.
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And It seems that Scothh sours make me happier than I really should be at this time of the evening. IT has beein a wonderful night of seeing people and plays and drinking. I wasn't this drunk ntil i had some drinks after the swing dance at the pub. Wen and saw MOon on a Rainbow Shawl at USF tonight with Lem and Marissa. It was fabulous. I loved the set design and the linghtingh was just amazing. The acting awas also very impressive. the story did NOT make me cry at the end. like our town did. but it was good nonet he less. Afterwaerds I swung dancd for the last half hour of the swing dance at hhe pub. we got back really late. and then i drank a scotch sour, a scot in a box, and a rum and coke. and.... i'm pretty gone. I WAS worse off earlier. but seeing as how i'm having trouble typing, it seems that i'm still not quite as sober as usual. I was wondering if Avril got her music for her audition i sent to her. I sent her some sheet music for GIMME GIMME from thoroughly modern millie. and i had to overnight ti to her. because it took me a while to make the copies. break a leg avril! Speeking of breaking legs, last night was the sorry excuse for "fall ball" and i danced my little butt off, then went to nu to dance my little butt off somemore. then.. smoochiy smoochiy... the night was over. Love Sounds is going very well and i had my last rehearsal with my actors today. now we get into those whole like runthroughs ... i m gonna miss my one on two timy with my actors... but a whel.. ok ... i'm done. You see? I do update! Granted its when I'm drunk and sitting around in my bra in my appartment at 5 in the morning. peace. feeling:  drunk
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"Ain't It Crazy How Love Works" Ferdinand loved Imelda Bought her a lot of shoes. Adolf loved Eva You know what he tried to do. Romeo loved Juliet More than a priceless gem. Henry the Eighth loved all of his wives Look what happened to them. Ain't it crazy how love works? Ain't it crazy how love works? Hinckley loved Jodie Thought he'd give romance a shot. Nobody loved Cambodia More than it's leader Pol Pot. Jesus said that loving thy neighbor Is the name of the game, Some people love Jesus so much They kill people in his name. Ain't it crazy how love works? Ain't it crazy how love works? When a woman says I love you There's never a proper response; When a man says I love you You know what he really wants And wants And wants and wants and wants and wants... Though Melendez loved flying Ended up taking a fall. O.J. loved Nicole so much He never killed her at all. Dodi loved Diana, Howard Hughes loved all of his wealth, If you look at the way all these people end up You can see love is bad for your health. Ain't it crazy how love works? Ain't it crazy how love works? Jimmy Hoffa loved the teamsters so much He went on a permanent strike Maybe it's safer for everyone To only go falling in Like. Ain't it crazy how love works? Ain't it crazy how love works? ~From "The Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged)" by Reduced Shakespeare Company feeling: amused
hearing: The Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged)
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let's go back a bit 
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