Life Before Summer

I’m sitting in my living room, my dad watching baseball, my stepmom on the phone, my sister playing with her Scooby-Doo dolls talking incessantly, and my music playing from my laptop. My poor little MacBook is almost completely out of memory and is currently being held together with bright orange gaff tape. I have 3 exams left, but I don’t foresee myself studying for Religion. I’m wearing a brown school sweater for the second-to-last time before I get my Senior sweater. I have a hot cup of tea and no internet connection, so I guess I’ll write a blog post describing my life at this point.

My weekend consisted of Friday-night adventures from the second Courtney picked me up from school. I’m gonna miss the nights when I can hang out with Courtney, Val, Charles, and Kelsey in one night. Come Monday they’ll all be high school graduates and I won’t be. We stayed out with Charles on the lakefront watching a lightning storm until midnight, when we settled in in Chalmette to make the STK slideshow until 4:30 AM. Saturday, I saw many of my Millie peeps at the theatre banquet. I helped set up even though I’m not an officer, made a last-minute Broadway playlist and saved the day again, and had fun trying different teas and making fun of the speech team with Leo. Oh, and Sunday I learned of the most immature rumor that has ever been spread about anyone in real life, much less me. So that was fun.

I work with the girl who spread this lie about me for the first time in 5 months this Saturday, so I’m sure that’ll be even more fun. Let’s hope we both come out alive, but I make no promises.

On Tuesday, I finally got some courage and signed out of Acting class with the Director Devil who made my semester miserable. As much as I’d like to, I simply can’t stage manage next year. Something’s gotta give, and while I’d like to remain active in STK and close with my theatre friends, I can’t sell my soul again.

Oo I found this thing on Tumblr that describes you based on your birth month. Now, I don’t normally go for these things (I disagree with half of the things I should be as a Scorpio), but this one was very interesting and mostly accurate:

NOVEMBER=SWEETIE ♥

Stubborn and hard-hearted. Strong-willed and highly motivated. Sharp thoughts. Easily angered. Attracts others and loves attention. Deep feelings. Beautiful physically and mentally. Firm Standpoint. Needs no motivation. Shy towards opposite sex. Easily consoled. Systematic (left brain). Loves to dream. Strong clairvoyance. Understanding. Sickness usually in the ear and neck. Good imagination. Good physical. Weak breathing. Loves literature and the arts. Loves travelling. Dislike being at home. Restless. having many children. Hardworking. High spirited.

I don’t see myself as easily angered, physically good, or having many children, but the rest are pretty spot-on. If you know me, please correct me if I’m wrong.

I’m already going on adventures and living like it’s summer, which is making this exam thing hard. I hope this summer-before-senior-year is as magical as it’s already been.

Currently Reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson again. I had to take a small break to read a book for History class.

Currently Listening to "The City" by Chuck Criss

In Which I Evaluate...

...my plans for senior year.

I need to type this out for myself. I can't make the decision whether or not to stage manage for my school next year. This whole school, clubs, work, and STK's possession of my soul does not work.

Pros of Stage management

-Kristi kind of expects me to do it, and I hate disappointing people

-I'll be able to keep calling the PAC home

-I can work between shows

-I won't be leaving the play in some questionable hands

-I'll have some influence in what STK does even though I'm not an officer

-I can fix everything that needs fixing

-Tower and other traditions

-Cool title and senior room privileges

-There's a sick part of me that enjoyed it

Cons of Stage management

-I won't be able to work during shows

-Homework

-Celebration (the one year I'll be able to get solos)

-I refuse to work with Rebecca again, and she's prop crew head

-I did swear that I would never do it again

-If we do Hairspray, I'll shove fire ants in Carli's eyes

-I have no idea who will even be in these shows after the Millie nonsense

-I can do spotlight, and have enough experience to put on my resume to get into theatre in college

In other news, this week I got inducted into 2 new honor societies (music honor society and plain old National Honor Society in addition to French), spent a lovely afternoon with Courtney and Charles, played my first ukulele gig in front of people at my school's art show and actually made tips in my case, took my first AP exam (U.S. History) and I don't think I did too terribly (I expect a 4), lost the first club election I've ever run in, watched the first 2 episodes of the new season of Doctor Who (SO GOOD) and fallen even further behind in YouTube, Tumblr, and Twitter (still haven't seen Starship). That plus tons of schoolwork make for a trying week. Prom is tomorrow, I'm going with a friend from the play. I'll be sure to write anything I don't want to forget here.

Currently Reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan again. I passed my Frankenstein quiz in spite of the fact that I didn't actually read the last 5 chapters

Currently Listening to "Mister Cellophane" from Chicago.

lol iTunes

Format shamelessly stolen from Nick's tumblr, but I've been meaning to talk about my music library on here for a while, because nobody else cares.

Number of Songs: 3421

Top 10 Most Played:

“Dog Days Are Over” - Florence + the Machine

“Teenage Dream (Glee Cast Version) [feat. Darren Criss]” - Glee Cast

“Starlight” - Muse

“I Belong to You/Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix” - Muse

“I Have Friends in Holy Spaces” - Panic! At the Disco

“Human” - Darren Criss

“House Song” - Ministry of Magic

“Undisclosed Desires” - Muse

“Never Forget You” - Noisettes

“Long As I’m Here With You” - Thoroughly Modern Millie OST

5 Songs That Come Up on Shuffle:

“Goodbye Love” - Rent Film Soundtrack

“Call to Arms” - Ministry of Magic

“Class” - Chicago Film Soundtrack

“Effington” - Ben Folds

“No Cars Go" - Arcade Fire

Search - How many songs come up?

sex: 6

love: 161

you: 431

death: 18

hate: 7

wish: 8

dream: 25

I reset my play counter thing with the new year, so you can see I've been listening to a lot of Muse, Panic!, and Darren Criss. You can also see I don't listen to much radio music. I honestly don't remember listening to Dog Days Are Over that much, but iTunes never lies.

Currently Listening to Fall Out Boy's cover of "Beat It" by Michael Jackson

Currently Reading Frankenstein still. I'm extremely behind and should be reading it right now instead of blogging. Oh well

Thoroughly Ghetto Millie

It's over! My play closed last Sunday and I'm almost fully recovered. I'm still a bit stuffy and coughy, but I've caught up on my sleep and can live through the withdrawals of seeing this cast every day. To give you some perspective, I see either of my parents every day for up to 5 weeks at a time. I saw these 30 people almost every day for ELEVEN WEEKS. I cried with them, laughed with them, complained, cuddled, stressed, sang, danced, even went to church with them once. Somehow, we put on what some people called the best show STK has put on.

I wish I could document everything I loved that happened over the last 11 weeks. Things such as

-Getting dressed in the guys dressing room before I found a place to change.

-Friday and Saturday show quartet sung to me in surround sound by Courtney, Carl, and Leo

-Helping Kelsey get ready for prom on Friday

-The line to hug me after I broke down, then Leo cutting that line to hug me

-Adventure to Charles's house

-Everyone loving me more than Ashley

-Getting in the cart for Maddy and Daws

-Jeremy at the piano

-Ghetto-rigging the curtain

-Seeing the sophomores and eighth-graders in the show in the halls

-The epic first Tower. Tower, Twisted, getting kicked out of Wendy's and sitting in Charles' car, then Leo driving me home

-Using Haley's and Kaitlyn's phones as candles for our romantic tech week dinners

-Church with the cast (and running late with Courtney)

-Riding home with Katherine and telling her my life

-The Wobble

-The ALCove

-Ganging up on Erica

-The moment Carli joined our side against Kristi

-Notes sessions with Leo

-Convincing a giant group of actors that they had to stay in rehearsal an hour later when they in fact were getting out early. I win.

-"Somebody get that girl a water bottle!"

-Anti-joke contests

--See whose joke offends Erica so much she leaves

--Francesca doesn't know who Helen Keller is

--Daws's face when Tom Robinson walked past as he was about to tell a black joke

-Hacking Jack's facebook with the guys

-When Leo called my mom to ask if I could go to Tower

-Painting the stage with Courtney, Kelsey, and Kelle then bonding with Jacobs and Petrie

-The small Tower night in which Leo, Carl, Courtney, and I caught Kelle up on our drama

-The Cast Party

--Riding with Courtney, Kelsey, and Charles to Chalmette, then food, truth or dare, pool, hot tub, pool(volleyball), hot tub, pool(getting untangled), hot tub(Cassanova...), pool, hot tub, food, ghost story, 3am

So that's it. Now you might understand how I didn't have time to blog.

Currently Reading Frankenstein for school

Currently Listening to "Let's Go Outside" by Luke Conard and Tessa Violet

What would I give for time to blog...

In Which I find it impossible...

...to comprehend it's only Tuesday.

So my director decided Monday would be a good day to realize exactly how much she hasn't done to get this play ready. We still haven't blocked the final scene and she says we aren't professional. Needless to say, it's frustrating. Then add the fact that every teacher decided this week would be a good week to assign every test and project possible, frustrating. Pile on my lack of Independent Study due to French play rehearsals that barely anyone shows up to, frustrating. Garnish with my impending service hour deadline and my lack of opportunities through which I can earn service hours and an all-around sore body from lack of sleep and moving around giant set pieces with minimal help because other ASMs are incompetent, and you have Frustration Nation.

I'm rarely this pissy, but my month is sucking with no chance of turning up anytime soon. I can't break my reputation for being the comic relief that doesn't have problems or stress, only witty commentary, so I have to take it out on my poor blog. I'm gonna have to get happy soon just so I can blog good things and feel better about blogging the bad stuff.

Currently reading Mockingjay and Nation of Rebels still.

Currently listening to The new Panic! at the Disco album, Vices & Virtues on repeat. It came out today, I love it so much.

In Which I Write for You...

...as a means of procrastination.

It's the last day of Mardi Gras break and I just want my life to be like the past week all the time. I got to spend time with almost all of my friends and ate a ton of junk food. I also spent nearly all of my last two paychecks. Whoops. Simply so I can remember, here are the events (both good and not-so-good) of Mardi Gras 2011.

Friday I had a half-day of school so I spent my afternoon at the mall with Hannah and her sister and then finally watched The Social Network with my step mom. It was nice bonding before she went out of town and the movie was great.

Saturday I had taken Anna's shift so she could go to Endymion so I worked 10-5. The power went out from 1-2. It was crazy, I was so glad I could experience it. The owners wouldn't let us close but we couldn't sell anything while the registers were down so it was anarchy. We had our phones out behind the counter for light and at one point we were all just sitting on the floor telling stories. Needless to say, one of the most abnormal shifts at work. After work I slept at Hannah's house and we had a photo shoot with my web cam.

Sunday kind of sucked because I couldn't go to the parades uptown (Endymion was postponed due to the crazy rain that caused the power outage plus Bacchus and Thoth) because my dad is afraid of the city, so after work, Hannah left to go to the parades with Kathleen and not me. Instead I watched 4 episodes of SNL and went to 30 minutes of the Metairie parade while all of my other friends sent me pictures of the city at Mardi Gras. I was mildly bummed.

Monday, I worked again (I love my job so this is good news), this time with most of my favorite people. Hannah and Olivia surprised me and picked me up from work and we had a small adventure. :)

I spent Mardi Gras day in Metairie with my family. Basically the last way a teenager wants to spend Mardi Gras (and I don't even drink, I just like my friends and the city) Mardi Gras Day is mostly for the tourists anyway, the locals do most of their partying the Saturday and Sunday before.

Ash Wednesday I went bowling in Harahan with my lunch table. It was a lot of fun hanging out even though I didn't actually bowl. I also got Tutti Frutti and Popeye's (I'm a bad Catholic) which were delicious.

Thursday started rehearsals again; I was so excited to see all of my friends in the cast again. I had gotten used to seeing these people every day after school and this was my first time seeing them in a week. We worked on the set from 9-12 (I was DJ) and had rehearsal from 1:30-6:30. That left us an hour and a half to use as we pleased, so I ordered in Reginelli's pizza and Courtney and I had a picnic in Lakeview. Or, we tried to have a picnic in Lakeview. All was going smoothly until we sat in some ants. I have seven bites on my ankle and they itch terribly. We ate and talked about boys in the backseat of her car, but for all intents and purposes, we had a picnic.

Friday was more rehearsal and then Cast Tower Friday. It's an STK tradition that during Lent and show week, the cast (or as much of the cast as who wants to come) all go eat cheese pizza at Tower of Pizza together, because Tower of Pizza has the best cheese pizza near school. We take up nearly all of the tiny place but we have a waitress that loves us and always helps us. It's always an awesome time (so I hear, this was actually the first time I'd ever been with the cast) with awesomely hilarious topics of discussion. After dinner, Bailey, Leo, Yvette, and Ashley wanted us to go "get twisted," a Holy Cross theatre tradition. We proceeded to the nearest Wendy's for twisted Frostys. I'd never had one before, but oh my God. Now I have lived. I got chocolate cookie dough, yuuuuuuuuuum. People slowly started leaving until 6 of us remained at got kicked out because Wendy's was closing. That's how late we were there. So we talked outside, then got cold, then talked in Charles's car, then got tired, then went home.

Then we got right back up and went back to rehearsal Saturday morning. We finished up early though so Katherine and I went to Chick-fil-a (my favorite). But not before I, lowly assistant stage manager, convinced a room full of actors that the director decided we needed to stay late not leave early. I will never let them live down how gullible they were. I also worked again Saturday night with Hannah and Daniel and Brian, so yay.

Now it's Sunday. My friends are at the St. Patrick's day parade, my step mom and sister are on their way back from Huntsville, Alabama, and I have homework I should be doing. But I liked this week too much to forget it. Plus, I had to get a blog in for the week :)

And that's what you missed on Glee!

Currently reading nothing. I know I suck.
Currently listening to "Hakuna Matata." :P Gotta love shuffle