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My dad's reaction to me sending him a text message saying that "the cast party last night got broken up by castle point security, but not to worry, everyone is fine"? "you girls are wild"

How many dads, or parents for that matter, would react like that????

And I guess that's just one of those things that makes college experience complete. It was my first experience like that, that's for sure.

Also, my greatest investment since I began college (beSIDES all 5 dvd players)? A hamper that has wheels and is pulled like a suitcase. Seriously. It's ingenious.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I've come back to my room every night this week with the intention of checking my email, putting in a dvd and crashing by 830. Cuz I'm exhausted...cuz I've been staying up til 3 every night for the last week+. Guess what? It hasn't happened yet. Balls. Of course, having to schedule the costume fittings for the opera hasn't helped in this plight...

Here are the movies I've watched instead (in no particular order): Harry Potter and the ORder of the Phoenix, the birdcage, the many adventures of winnie the pooh, must love dogs, 2 yoga dvds, the three musketeers, 101 dalmations. and i think there are 1 or 2 more...

For my Intercultural Studies class, I have been assigned a community partner (minority) who I have to meet with at least twice before the end of the semester and write a paper about it. I was really excited about this to begin with, but my phone conversations with my partner this week made me nervous (deeter, nervous to talk to someone???WHAT?!?). Plus, all I could think about after today (which included a less than stellar day at work and being semi-insulted by katie in vouce and movement) was getting to bed.

BOY WAS I WRONG. My community partner is FANTASTIC. She is a GORGEOUS Indian Muslim woman, and is just the nicest and most amazing person I have ever met. Seriously. She is so full of hope, and love for the world and people, and kindness that it blows your mind. Seriously. She has done so many things and is so gifted and experienced and is only 27. Plus she was so totally, genuinely fascinated by my theatre work, which was awesome. And she really supports my dream of wanting to work with productions to help make a difference in peoples lives and help promote social change or get out social messages. For our next meeting she is going to take me to a Mosque service (I'm not sure what you cal it. I know, I'm terrible) and then we'll go out to eat afterwards and talk about it. I can't even begin to list the amazing amount of things we talked about tonight. All sorts of topics. It was incredible.

Man.

hopefully i get to paint the caboose some more tomorrow.

Agador!!!!

I also forgot to mention that SMC security/VP accidentally sent out an emergency text message and phone call on our emergency system today telling us there was a tornado warning and to take shelter immediately. I was in the department office and got to be a part of the chaos that ensued with Katie et al. Quality. Of course, I was there when they sent out the "disregard" texts. And then we received like 3 apology emails that were sure to tell us not to ignore these alerts in the future. Nice

nice, nice, nice

Today was a good day. I feel like I bitch about things so often (on here and elsewhere), and I know it gets old.

But today was good. I had a great time at the Civic-while the train painting is on hiatus, I helped Greta with some seriously awesome light hanging and genie using. It was awesome. Work was uberfun for one reason or another. My good stories (ok, I think they are good) were actually good today and loved (or maybe people just had had a break and so their tolerance for deeter stories had been emptied to be refilled now, whatever I'll take it). There was plenty of joking and making fun of to go around. My favorite of which is:

Caroline talkign with Melissa about coloring her hair (in regards to upcoming production). She then says "But I'm not going to, because I have a special visitor coming, I don't want to risk anything." And we all just kind of pause. She's standing by the cabinets and (unbeknownst to me) takes a sip of her diet coke, I'm sitting at the surger (not using it, no way, id blow it up) and (apparently) as she takes the sip I say, half joking-half kidding, "what, your period?" and everyone about dies. Caroline does the almost spit out her coke thing. It was fantastic. Not cuz I was funny, I don't mean this in the 'gimme attention' sort of way, i just mean that it was just a generally funny thing that we all bonded over. Gawd, I sound like an idiot.

Plus, people in my ICS class were bitch about our work load (which is actually isn't much, and I'm the first to complain about work loads), so our professor eliminated one project (by giving us the choice between the two, and one of them is the one I was most dreading), and making our 3 required intercultural campus events extra credit. sweet.

Plus I didn't have rehearsal or anything. The one bad thing about today was the working on scheduling of costume fittings for the opera. There aren't words for the frustration it causes. Don't get me wrong, I love stage managing and all it entails, but this was intense. I literally spent about 3 hours straight working on it. I know it doesnt sound like osmething that would take that long, but trust me. lists of names and emails to compile, figuring out who's who, and other things. gah.

So instead of climbing into bed to watch movies at 7pm as planned, I;ve been scheduling...and now it 1245. damn. and ive been up til at least 3 every night since getting back to school. balls. oh well. it was still a good day. Also, I did the paperwork to get my SMC license plate :)

somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly.

2 things. One is important. One is not. You should read them both.

Important Thing: I am working on compiling my pre and post show music for my comp. Of course preshow is more important, cuz afterwards (i hope) there will be much rejoicing, celebrating, cheering, etc, so people won't be listening to the music as much. I'm looking for mellow stuff. Not love songs. To give you an example, my show is closing with Counting Crows' "Color Blind". It fits with the nature and the message of my show. Other stuff I have found that I like: Simon and Garfunkel-The Sound of Silence, Elton John-Levon, Rufus Wainwright-Hallelujah. Anyways, I'm looking for some suggestions. Anything. I have others in a playlist, but I'll keep compiling it all and then choose the best 60minutes of it. What do I definately need for my comp music???

Unimportant thing: For one reason or another I was really exhausted today. I know, today isn't over. So I actively decided it would be best for me (and those who have to work with me tonight) if I skipped my 3-415 class and slept. No biggie right. It's an intro class, just need the credit, blah blah. So for my hour of work in the costume shop today, Melissa asked me to run an errand for her at JoAnn fabrics. So i did, and it was snowing and nasty, so while rushing back to the costume studio to get it to her, I cut thru the student center so that I can dry off and warm up a little. Who do I run into? someone in the class who says something along the lines of "see you in class." Great. Whatever, I've already decided. Then I'm headed back to my room COMPLETLEY SOAKING WET because of the slush and snow the bottom of my pants, literally, all the way up to mid calfs, were soaked. I go to open the door of Le Mans, and a gaggle of girls are coming out, headed towards Regina (where said class is) and someone smiles at me and says hello. Who is this person? I wonder. Someone else from said class. Of course. Then, I get to just about the elevator and someone ELSE from class is walking towards regina. What does she do? "Are you going to class?" Well, there's person number 3. And I'm not the lying type. So I just straight up say no. But I get to thinking about it and realize, for one, its none of her damn business. For all she knows I could have just thrown up a lung or something. Ok, I know, I;m being a little mean. But really? 3 people? I know you're going to say, then don't skip class. But it's my choice.

EDIT: I just realized today was the day that we were supposed to be playing some sort of game in class and we were all participating. The professor couldn't find enough guys to volunteer to come into class today, asked for volunteers for to cross dress, and I had been one of the volunteers. Oops. Now I feel like an idiot and an ass. *sigh* thus is my life.

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So my "competing" at ACTF went well. I succeeded in not saying "um" 1000 times. I was well spoken (according to Melissa who only says such things if she REALLY means them) and the judges were fairly impressed. So it went well. Good news is that I don't suck at stage management. **PHEW** **Wipes brow** The girl who won the whole stage management competition??? The girl who was right next to me. What to know what her show had??? Te quarterback as well as 2 other starters from the MICHIGAN football team and a horse. YES, you READ RIGHT, a fucking HORSE on the MOTHERFUCKINGSTAGE. WTF???!??!! She was intense. When I arrive to set up my display, all of her crap (which mind you was not finished being put together, at least I came organized and ready to just put up my boards and put down my books) was spread ALL OVER my part of the table. Aren't stage managers supposed to be organized? She also wasn't very nice about moving her stuff so I could set up. Oh well. I'm excited to get the feedback in a few weeks :).

Annaliese came up to me after she presented and said:
So is "stand by horse" kind of like "stand by fly cue balls"?

I guess that needs back story...During Red Herring last year, I had a lot of cues to call, besides light cues, sound cues, and other cues, there were fly cues, which is normal. But there were lots of things to fly: a bed, bar lamps, 2 different signs, and the walls to an apartment. One night, in the middle of the run, I got my tongue tied, and while trying to say "Stand by: fly cue: walls" I thought bed in my head, combined bed and walls, and said "Stand by: fly cue: balls." And it has forever been written down on the SMC theatre quote wall and ingrained into everyone's memories. My mother would be proud.

My first day of classes was uneventful, i had one class. Although it was nice because I thought I'd be the only senior in the Intro to Intercultural studies class (last class for my minor), but there are like 5 other seniors doing the same thing. One of my close friends even. Yay.

Also, I got really sick. Well, not got sick, but continued to be sick so I couldn't attend my first day of my internship. awesome. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.