Currently Listening Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) By Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater, Skylar Astin, Lilli Cooper, John Gallagher Jr., Gideon Glick, Jonathan Groff, Brian Johnson, Lea Michele, Lauren Pritchard see related

So, Spring Break.

I'm feeling pretty good about it!

Had a wonderful trip to South Carolina, spent a lovely week on the beach with Mom, Dad, Jonathan & Tony. Bike rides, beach walks, snuggled-in movie nights. Peaceful, relaxing, perfect.

My one complaint is the fact that I've mysteriously lost a lot of hearing in my right ear, and it hurts from time to time. I'm getting it checked out tomorrow; it's most likely nothing. Shrug.

I don't know how I feel about going back, yet. The break doesn't feel long enough, and there's still so much I want to do while I'm here... stuff that needs to get checked out, time with Tony, food to eat, good movies to see in the theater...

Although I am looking forward to my classes this term. Classical & Medieval Drama, Environmental Psychology, and the impending doom of Directing.

Can't be as awful as rep term, though, so I'm feeling a bit optimistic.

Everything's lined up for me to AD this summer, and CJ's already emailed me, asking me what I'm looking for as far as responsibilities, and Tony's got a great job lined up in Florida. I don't know what the summer's going to be like without him around. I guess I'll find out.

Anyway, I think that's all I have to say. The Rep Term shows went well; and I'm very, very glad they're over.

Love.

Currently Listening Let Love In By The Goo Goo Dolls see related

Okay, so! Life update.

Let's see. Rep Term's obviously all "ooo crazy suck out your sooouull!!" and such. I was really kinda nervous about coaching my monologue, but when it actually happened-- it was pretty okay. Liz laughed and gave me a compliment (woot!). So, that was neat. Other interesting news, one of my costume shop projects is to make Evan Sawdey a pair of legwarmers for the Ragpicker in Madwoman. It started with razor-blading the arms off of 2 ratty old sweaters, and then stitching them together in a way that will let them have a lot of "give" still. I'm currently working on lining the tops so we can put elastic in them, and then we'll be adding little pieces of scrappy bits that will make them super fun. As for Dramaturgy, the big project we're working on currently is finding pictures for the slides in Working. So, that's pretty neat.

Everything's pretty stressful, and I sometimes feel like a special ed kid who's been accidentally thrown into AP Physics, but ... eh. It's just... so much new information, I wish I had time to process even half of it. It's a struggle not to get too down on myself when things get overwhelming, but I'm working on it.

As for this weekend, I managed to go home for less than 24 hours, but it was still very worth it. I feel bad that I wasn't around to work on stuff, but I needed to see my parents and Tony. It was a nice support-boost kind of thing, and it helped put a lot of things into perspective.

AND, bonus points! At the gas station on the Kickapoo exit as I was about 30 mi. outside of the 'Burg, there was a lovely sign taped to the gas pump that read: "Credit card receipt machine is burned up. Sorry." 

Only the 'ed' was scratched off, and someone had helpfully supplied a 't', so that the first line now read: "Credit card receipt machine is burnt up." Someone clearly recognized that this was a grammatical error, and had crossed out the entire offensive segment of 'burnt up', and replaced it with the supposedly correct word, in a nice bold  black Sharpie. So it now read:

"Credit card receipt machine is broke." Three tries.... and we still fail miserably. Good work, public school system. Bravo. The really adorable part is-- they were actually trying!

But! I've digressed. Back to Rep Term-y news: I'm getting really excited about the shows and all. It's the scary kind of exciting.

I have no idea what I'm going to do with myself once spring break arrives. I mean, I'll obviously be having fun, but I imagine the days will suddenly seem a lot longer without something filling absolutely every minute of every day. Hmn.

I guess I'm ready to jump into another week of this. I have to be, don't I? And hey--! We're actually going to block the show! It's not like there's only 3 weeks until opening or anything... Haha

Currently Listening Reefer Madness the Musical see related

OKAY!

My weekend. Soooo awesome.

On Friday, after working a bit on publicity "off-the-clock" (although technically logging my hours still), I brought the latest episode of House over to Post 5 where Hayley, Liz, Meg (a Post 5-er), Ian, and John joined us to watch. We ordered Domino's and it was a super-de-dooper fabulous time, although I had a horrible realization that I was drinking flavored vitamin water that was "inspired by" rapper 50 Cent. Say... what? And it had the most horrifyingly atrocious description of itself on the back. But it was so tasty...

Anyway, we hung out for a bit after that; I introduced Liz to the magic of xkcd. The gang was also introduced to the infamous fetish map and the horrors of the AOL Search Log Special from the website Something Awful.I feel like, with all these links, I must be selling something.

After all that good timin', I went home to study my monologue. So that on

SATURDAY, I could meet with Liz to work on it. It was a good session, I think. I learned a lot of stuff to work on, and she wasn't too terribly intimidating. I love her, but she can scare the beejesus outta me sometimetimes.

After this, I picked up Hayley, Liz, and Meg to go run errands. We went to Walgreen's and Target, but I got a flat tire at some point... and after Target, we had to take it across a parking lot to a tire place. We went to Applebee's while he checked it out. The tire's shot (not literally, of course, that'd be insane), so he put the spare on and is going to order the replacement Monday.... the tires are brand-new, so this is really kinda lame. It's gonna be like, $90, too. Mom says to just put it on my debit card and she'll cover it... which is really nice. She wasn't mad or anything, either.

So then we dropped off some of Liz's clothes at the Salvation Army, and went back to campus for the "Female Orgasm" lecture, which was awesome. We then took the online "purity test," which was fun and revealing. Following this, I went over to Brian Camozzi and Josh Roberts's room for some good times with them and Matt, Ems, newly-met Ryan, and Laura.

Which I think I'll avoid elaborating on, at least publicly.

Today, I slept until like, 4. I'm currently in the Neal basement with Matt, and we will eventually be getting our homework done. It's been a really good weekend, and I think I'm rested up to get down to work this week. :)

Love!