FRIDAY!!!!!!

It's FRIDAY! Hooray! I am SUPER psyched about this, because it means the WEEKEND is coming up, which means I can actually sleep. Trust high school to teach you the value of a good sleep.

I'll also be able to talk to my friend on the phone. So what? You say. So I tell you that she lives in Australia and I have not seen her in almost two years. Before that, she was one of my best friends. Yes, I miss her. Yes, I am SUPER psyched about talking to her.

In other news, I am FINALLY going to have a voice lesson today, after two and a half months of not having one. So that is super exciting, except for the part where I can not find the book we usually use during my voice lessons... eep! Anyhoo, it'll be cool to see my voice teacher again. I hope I can actually find the book, because it would really stink if I could not. I will have to work on one of the (multiple) guy's solos in the Shrek book, which won't work, because they're all WAY too high. Okay, not WAY too high. But they're definitely up there. And it's annoying. I love the songs, but the fact that they're all taken up the octave is kind of annoying. And I don't think my voice teacher knows any of the songs from Shrek the Musical anyway.

new phone!

Well, in a sort of random enterprise on my mom's part, I now have a new cell phone. My brother's phone broke, and I guess they went to get a new one, and cashed in on that whole have-a-phone-for-2-years-and-we-will-give-you-a-free-phone thing on his, and somehow we both got new phones. I'm not complaining. Well, I sort of am. I liked my old phone. But I also like the new phone. It'll just be hard to adjust to having a keyboard on the phone, because my old one didn't have one. So I'm going to have to adjust to having the letters in a totally different place on a phone than normal. But I like the new phone, though. It's got a touch screen. And it's blue, which is my favorite color. And it's NEW, which is the thing I like most. I've dropped my old phone countless times, at which point the battery fell out, so both the phone and the battery are kind of beaten up.

It's kind of awkward, though, because I charged my old phone last night, not knowing I was going to get a new one, so I still had full battery when I got the new phone.

My mom just randomly texted me this afternoon and was like, "So, do you want a new phone?" So I said okay, and now I have a new cell phone. Hooray!

Another story.....

Well, I started a story in English/ Creative Writing a few days ago, but I'm not posting it yet. Why? Because I don't want to post it until it is done, because I do not know where it is going. That and the fact that I often edit stuff when the story goes from paper to screen, so it would just be confusing for me. So that is why I am not posting the story just yet. But I like it. Yes, there are magical creatures in it. Yes, there is romance (sort of, anyway). Yes, it involves people going on quests for other people. But, on the other hand, there is a girl as the main character. How many times has that happened in my stories? Oh, I do not know, maybe the main character is a girl in EVERY ONE OF MY STORIES. Why might that be? Oh, right. I'm a girl. I know that there are a lot of female authors who can easily do a guy as the main character, but I'm not one of them. I don't understand a guy's brain enough to do that. I know that guys are people too, but when they're at my age, they count as an entirely different species. In other news, I have to go to class soon. But I'm going to stay here for a little while longer because I don't have to go just yet. I love free blocks. But I'll have to leave soon because my TA actually has a class.

Poo

Today's the REAL last day of the musical, because today's when we break down the sets and bring home all the props that we brought in in the first place. It's probably going to be really depressing. Like when all the crew of "Lord of the Rings" had to burn all the extra elf ears and the unused film and stuff at the end of "Return of the King." I don't know whether I want to go or not, even though I have to. It's probably just going to be depressing. On the other hand, people who haven't signed my jeans can sign them. Surprisingly, there are a few people who haven't. So they'll be able to do that. But that's probably going to be the only cheerful bit about the entire enterprise.

Well, yesterday I went to Tae Kwon Do for the first time in ages, and it was harder than I remembered. It's probably because I'm way out of shape. And because I was the only girl. And the only one who didn't speak fluent Korean. It was kind of fun, though. When I wasn't about to barf up my guts because I was so tired. But other than that, it was nice to be back. Well, that and the part where we had to do these sitting-in-horse-stance exercises in warm ups that are the sole reason that my thighs are currently about to die. But it really was nice to be back. I'm probably going to enjoy Thursday more because that's when all my friends go. So it'll be nice.

And now I have to go break stuff. :(. Bye.

Whatever Post Number This Is

I really don't want to go to school tomorrow. I don't want to have to wake up at seven ten to go half fall asleep in chemistry, even if I DID do my homework. I really don't want to take an 8:20 next year, but I'm probably going to have to if I'm going to be able to take all the classes I want to take and have a free block so I can finish my homework before midnight during musical season. I'm probably going to go through high school with at least one free block each year. My TA suggested doing independent study, but that would take the fun out of some of the classes. Like I enjoy creative writing because of the peer critique and such, and how you can do a bigger variety of stuff with three people than you can when there's just you. So I don't know. I'll probably talk to my TA about it when we have to submit the course request forms, because then I'll have an excuse to be thinking about classes for next year. It's defenitely an option, though. I really don't know what I want to do. I'm too tired to want to think about it. The worst thing about the tail end of a show is the cast party. Although it's usually fun and sweet and stuff, you're always tired afterwards from staying up until two in the morning and then having to wake up and go to church or something.
On the other hand, the musical photos are on Facebook now. Hooray!

Kidnap! Romance! Tap dancing!

Well, that should have been the title of one of the earlier summaries of the musical, which is now, sadly, over. Well, not technically. We officially finish on Tuesday, which is when everyone turns in their scripts and such. But still. It's pretty much over. Although I didn't hugely enjoy tap dancing till the cows came home, I'll still miss it. The thing I'll miss most is hanging out with the SUPER awesome cast and being onstage. I will NOT miss the makeup and the hair and everything. I honestly look like a raccoon in stage makeup. I'm not kidding. It's because of the eyeliner, I think. My eyeliner pencil is terrible, so it gives a really thick line, and I had to put it on the top and the bottom of my eye, so it never fully comes off, which is the most annoying thing ever. I also found out something about one of my friends that I'm not saying for his privacy, but it was kind of awkward when I found out. Even though I sort of kind of already guessed... nevermind.
Last night was the best night ever because on my friend's solo during "Forget about the Boy," she was supposed to sing "Barney Schriver, CPA," (not sure if I spelled that right), but instead she did the name of our director/ chorus teacher, Chorus Guy! It was officially the best thing in the world.
We do quotes for each person every year for the musical. Like, the director or someone writes down something that the person said (or sang) that really describes them on a piece of paper folded into a fortune cookie and stuffed into a miniature Chinese take-out box or something like that (that's what we got this year, anyway), and then at the cast party everyone gets their quotes. Anyway, the director did some explaining before he gave some of the quotes, like mine. For mine, his explination was that apparently I have a lot of potential and I'm super active in the musical/ drama department (which is sort of true), so my quote was my second line: "this one, you'll want to see," because apparently I'm going to be going places. Something like that, anyway. I thought it was sort of sweet. And everyone was like, "awwww," when he said it.
So now I have to go do the inevitable: homework. Groan.

hooray!

Well, I've gotten the first set of annoying bits for my Gold Award out of the way. The first set of annoying bits for my Gold Award includes figuring out whether the Girl Scout insurance covers martial arts (which it does) and getting a sponsor (which has happened). Now comes the next set of annoying bits: getting together with the sponsor to work out a plan and getting her to write the letter of reccomendation that I have to send in with my project application. That should be easy. The hard part is figuring out a time and place for us to meet so we can discuss it. I'm SUPER psyched that I actually have a sponsor. I wasn't sure whether I was going to be able to get one, honestly. Well, actually, I wasn't sure whether I would be able to do this particular project, because I wasn't sure whether the girl scout insurance would cover martial arts, because there was nothing in the Official Girl Scout Safety Book (no, that's not its actual title) about martial arts. So that's all well and good. Hooray!

So anyway, closing night for the musical is tonight. I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad because of this. I'll be happy because I'll finally be liberated from having two-to-five hour rehearsals five to six days a week. On the other hand, it's been quite fun. Okay, learning the tap dancing was hard and kind of miserable. But once I actually LEARNED the stuff, it was quite fun. Even though my feet hurt a lot. But still, it was worth it.

Recap 2

So last night's show went quite well. I FINALLY got all the dance steps right, and I didn't sing too early, and I think I was acutally able to be heard on the harmony in one of the songs. Hooray! Anyway, my mom got a straightener and a curler for me yesterday. I asked her to get the straightener, but not the curler. It was to be used for shows and nothing else. I'm not the makeup and hair straightening every day type of person outside of shows, when I have to. The thing is, I appreciate the help she gave me and everything, but it was kind of annoying when she was just like, "here, I can do it." I wasn't sure whether it was the fact that it was my mom or the fact that I was just used to having my friends or my cousins helping me with curling and straightening my hair, but I didn't really like it when my mom helped. I am not really sure of the reason. I just like doing stuff myself or with friends or people my own age. I have no idea why I have kind of an aversion to my mother, but it probably has something to do with the fact that she's my mother, and I am a teenager, so the two things don't really go together in my mind. However, aside from the annoyingness of my hair, the show, prep, and other things like that went fairly well. Apparently my brother and his girlfriend are coming tonight. I'm not sure what to think about it.

Recap for opening night

Well, opening night for the musical went fairly well. I only messed up two dance steps, came on late for one scene that was very ensemble heavy so it didn't really matter, and started singing a bit early on one song. Overall, it went quite well. My voice coach was there, and my chemistry teacher, and my Ancient Civ teacher, and the guy who played Bernardo in West Side Story last year and who's the older brother of one of my sort-of friends and is currently a freshman in college.

The only really annoying thing that happened was that we finished ten thirty, which meant I got home at eleven, which meant I had lights out at eleven thirty, which meant I was so exhausted from the adrenaline and the dancing and everything, so I couldn't get to sleep until three in the morning, and that didn't really count as sleep because I don't remember having a dream.

I had tea that had caffeine this morning, but all the caffeine did was to give me enough energy to almost fall asleep during chemistry. At least today is Friday, so tomorrow I'll be able to sleep in.

I wasn't able to do my hair properly yesterday either, because people kept using the curlers and I really have no idea how to curl my own hair, and the girl who said she could help me kept having to help other people, so I asked my mom to invest in a straightener for me. I tried to half-straighten my hair with the curler last night. It didn't work. As my hair looks more 20's-ish when it's straightened, it makes sense. Anyway, I'm going to go finish my lunch now.

And when I get home today, because I'll actually be home at a reasonable time this afternoon, I'm going to take a nap. And then I will have enough energy to look like I'm having fun. Hooray!

post number i don't care

Well, I was able to replace my library card, and for some reason, I am nowhere near as stressed about losing my bag as I was before just by replacing the card. Weird.

Anyway, in other news, we performed some of our musical for the school today. Well, some of the school, anyway. At least part of the school. It didn't look like the whole school was there, because if the entire school was there, the auditorium would have had people in every seat and people sitting in the aisles and standing in the back. However, as it seemed that about half the seats were filled, I highly doubt that the whole school was there. And there was the fact that one of my friends couldn't go because her teacher was still holding class.

Anyway, I think it went rather well, for a first real performance, although it wasn't a full one. Last night was really annoying and hard because it was our first day with the full orchestra, and they were completely drowning us out, especially with the soloists. But at least we worked through it. We have one more night to completely work it out. Brilliant. Just brilliant.

However, the show is coming along well in every other respect. I have learned to tolerate my dress, which is better that before. I still think it looks like a rotten peanut, though, but that's just me.

Well, I have to go rehearse my feet off for five hours. Again. And I had school today. Great. And I have math homework. But it's not due tomorrow, it's due on Friday. That might be the only nice thing about school being back in after a four day weekend. That and the fact that it's a three day week. And tomorrow's Thursday. Which means the next day is Friday. Which means the next day is Saturday. Which means it will be the weekend.

I can't wait for summer.

Gold Award

I just got done spending an hour and a half working on my gold award project application. Okay, not even the application. We were figuring out the logistics of how I'm going to do it and when I'm going to submit the application. This means figuring out what I'm going to do about safety, getting a sponsor who represents the people I am going to help, then getting them to write a letter to send in with my application to say that yes, they're my sponsor, and yes, they do represent the people I'm helping. I drafted the email and tried to figure out what sort of funding I need, if any, and when I'm actually going to do the project, and when I'm going to write to the lady that I want as my sponsor and do it in good time so I can meet with her to get her advice on the project. I haven't sent the email yet because I want to make sure the proejct complies with all the safety things first. Well, that was my mom's idea. But still. It's a good one. I think. Anyway, I still have to get the email done and get everything checked with the Girl Scout insurance. I'm going to teach self defense to underpriveleged teen girls who probably can't afford to pay for martial arts lessons and the tests and everything else that goes with it. So yeah.
My total hour count: 3.5.
The minimum number of hours I need: 65
The minimum number of hours I have left: 61.5.
Brilliant.

Who I'd Be~Shrek

BEST SHREK SONG EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shrek]
I guess I’d be a hero,
with sword and armor clashing,
Looking semi dashing,
a shield within my grip.
Or else I’d be a Viking
and live a life of daring
while smelling like a herring.
Upon a Viking ship
I’d sail away,
I’d see the world,
I’d reach the farthest reaches.
I’d feel the wind,
I’d taste the salt and sea,
And maybe storm some beaches;
That’s who I’d be.
That’s who I’d be.

Or I could be a poet,
and write a different story:
One that tells of glory
and wipes away the lies.
Into the skies I’d throw it,
the stars would do the telling,
The moon would help with spelling,
and night would dot the ‘I’s.
I’d write a verse,
Recite a joke,
with wit and perfect timing,
I’d share my heart,
confess the things I yearn,
and do it all while rhyming.
But we all learn.
But we all learn.

An Ogre always hides
an Ogre's fate is known
An Ogre always stays in the dark
and all alone

So yes I’d be a hero
and if my wish was granted
life would be enchanted,
or so the stories say.
Of course I’d be a hero,
and I would scale a tower
To save a hothouse flower
and carry her away
But standing guard would be a beast,
I’d somehow overwhelm it,
I’d get the girl,
I’d take a breath,
and I’d remove my helmet...

We’d stand and stare,
we’d speak of love,
we’d feel the stars ascending
We’d share a kiss,
I’d find my destiny
I’d have a hero’s ending,
a perfect happy ending,
That’s how it would be
A big bright beautiful world

But not for me.

[Fiona]
An ogre always hides
An ogre's fate is known
An ogre always stays in the dark

[Donkey]
You're all alone

[Shrek and Fiona]
All alone

[Fiona]
So I know
He'll appear
Cuz there are rules
And there are strictures
I believe the storybooks I read
By candlelight

[Shrek]
So yes I'd be a hero
And if my wish were granted
Life would be enchanted
Or so the stories say
Of course I'd be a hero
And I would scale a tower
To save a hothouse flower
And carry her away

[Donkey]
You need a pal
My calendar's open
You need a friend
You need me

[all]
A perfect happy ending
That's how it should be