My English teacher has just assigned the AWESOMEST homework in the history of awesome homeworks. Yes, I know that "awesomest" and "homeworks" aren't words, but I DON'T REALLY CARE RIGHT NOW!!! This homework is officially amazing. It's a long story about how the assignment works, but it involves IMing people. Since none of my friends have IM (well, some of them do, but none of them are in my English class), my friend and I are going to do it in Gmail Chat. The only annoying part is the actual discussion. There's a prize for the pair with the best set. The assignment is basically to IM (or Facebook or Gmail or whatever) another person in the class and have a discussion about all the characters that we've encountered in the bazillion readings that we have done and what they believe in. This is based off of her last assignment, which was to go onto the website This I Believe (you can go there here) and print out your favorite essay of the selection they have. The stuff on This I Believe is basically what people believe in. For example, one of the essays is called "Be cool to the Pizza delivery dude" and Bill Gates did one on creativity and how it's affected him in his Microsoft-ness.
Anyway, I'm going to go now.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Well, then.
Well, we got a free block from Chemistry. Funny thing is, none of us knew about it until the teacher actually came in and said, "oh, you guys have a free block." The other funny thing is that he came in 14 minutes late, and as anyone who goes to my school knows, if a teacher doesn't come for fifteen minutes after a class starts, all the kids automatically get a free block. So he came after 14 minutes and we all groaned, and then he told us we had a free block, so it was all good.
So then I came here after a while.
And then I had to wait for seriously about ten minutes before I was able to pull up any sort of internet browser thing. That's the annoying thing about school internet. It always takes forever to upload.
So here I am.
The musical auditions are today. I'm kind of nervous. At least I'm more prepared with my song, practice wise, than I was last year. Last year I sang "on my own" from Les Miserables, and it totally failed. I know the song by heart off the recording of like the Live Concert 25th Anniversary or something, but I totally fail at karaoke without the words in front of me, so I totally failed at the audition. In short, my timing is terrible.
But this year I actually prepared, partially because my mom made me and partially because I have realized that a better audition means PRACTICING first.
Plus I found the CD that goes with this Teen's Musical Theater Collection book I own (I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. Something like that, anyway.). The book has the lyrics and the notes and everything, but it also has the piano part. So the CD is helpful for auditions because you know what it sounds like first.
I'm probably going to do better this year, because
1. I prepared.
2. I know what's going on.
3. I'm not totally dependent on the fact that I know the song from memory.
4. I'm wearing my lucky jeans.
I didn't even have the lucky jeans last year, because they didn't exist.
They're a pair of typical, light-wash jeans from Wet Seal, except you'll never find this pair at Wet Seal, because I got the entire cast (or most of it, anyway) of last year's musical, West Side Story, to sign them in different colors of Sharpie.
So I should be good.
District auditions are on Saturday. I'm nervous, but, once again, I prepared better, I'm probably going to get in.
last year I was out by fifteen points.
SINGING ROCKS!!!
By the way, the musical this year is "Thoroughly Modern Millie." And I'm singing "I could have danced all night" from "My Fair Lady."
YAY BROADWAY!!!
all right, nobody talk to me about Broadway or Beethoven until Monday. Maybe Tuesday. It depends on when callbacks are and when the cast list goes up. I don't even know if I'm getting a callback yet, but you never know.
I'm going now.
So then I came here after a while.
And then I had to wait for seriously about ten minutes before I was able to pull up any sort of internet browser thing. That's the annoying thing about school internet. It always takes forever to upload.
So here I am.
The musical auditions are today. I'm kind of nervous. At least I'm more prepared with my song, practice wise, than I was last year. Last year I sang "on my own" from Les Miserables, and it totally failed. I know the song by heart off the recording of like the Live Concert 25th Anniversary or something, but I totally fail at karaoke without the words in front of me, so I totally failed at the audition. In short, my timing is terrible.
But this year I actually prepared, partially because my mom made me and partially because I have realized that a better audition means PRACTICING first.
Plus I found the CD that goes with this Teen's Musical Theater Collection book I own (I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. Something like that, anyway.). The book has the lyrics and the notes and everything, but it also has the piano part. So the CD is helpful for auditions because you know what it sounds like first.
I'm probably going to do better this year, because
1. I prepared.
2. I know what's going on.
3. I'm not totally dependent on the fact that I know the song from memory.
4. I'm wearing my lucky jeans.
I didn't even have the lucky jeans last year, because they didn't exist.
They're a pair of typical, light-wash jeans from Wet Seal, except you'll never find this pair at Wet Seal, because I got the entire cast (or most of it, anyway) of last year's musical, West Side Story, to sign them in different colors of Sharpie.
So I should be good.
District auditions are on Saturday. I'm nervous, but, once again, I prepared better, I'm probably going to get in.
last year I was out by fifteen points.
SINGING ROCKS!!!
By the way, the musical this year is "Thoroughly Modern Millie." And I'm singing "I could have danced all night" from "My Fair Lady."
YAY BROADWAY!!!
all right, nobody talk to me about Broadway or Beethoven until Monday. Maybe Tuesday. It depends on when callbacks are and when the cast list goes up. I don't even know if I'm getting a callback yet, but you never know.
I'm going now.
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