Rehearsal, AIW, and a time with an old friend much missed

We got almost nothing done in rehearsal. It was just the leads yesterday and so we went over a few scenes and that was it, because we kept stopping and going off on tangents. I blame it on the absence of the director, but it's not bad blame because I love Ashley.

Anyways, at least it was semi-productive.

Afterward I went shopping downtown with Chloe and that was great because I hadn't seen her in forever.
So now she's our queen of hearts because we couldn't find any good duchess dress.
I love us.

AND also I found this dress at Dandelion on sale for like 9 bucks and she bought it for me because I was broke. Yeah, I spent all the change I had on twix and snickers at springer.


Purim carnival was today. I got to work with people that, for the first time in purim history thus far,treated me like i was actually intelligent and not just some over enthusiastic airhead.

The carnival's coordinator.....person..... pretty much had me help her lug all this stuff to the north pod. it was cool though, she was really nice and she actually had a sense of humor.

Which by the way is pretty rare for most adults as far as I'm concerned.

That's really all I have the energy to write about today. I'm tired and I still have homework.
Hasta.

Fruitcake with no nuts, so good you could go nuts!

ZOMFGBBQ.
I GOT THE DIRECTOR
Two parts in a row I wanted and I got 'em.
WIN.
Thats the third role so far I actually wanted.
I have a lot of friends that didn't get what they wanted, and I feel really bad they didn't get those parts.

But usually complainers grow to like and/or tolerate thier parts, and I know this show will be great.
As for UTDS I feel a little larger partwise :D

Jessica and I memorized our first scene, which is good, because i have seventy three lines in the 82 page script....Darbus had like 50. Jewsus. By the way, I forgot I have the second effing line of the entire show. Eeep!
Rehearsal and band practice should be fun.
I also need to get Chloe's duchess dress, stuffed pig, fan and gloves.
Ergh this little project of mine is bothersome.
Miranda got grounded so she can't show up as alice. Which sort of ruins the whole thing.
And Tab is in new york for the mock UN project Montessori is doing.
SO WE CAN'T GO TO THE MIDNIGHT SHOWING AS A WHOLE GROUP. AND IT'S A SCHOOL NIGHT SO OTHERS WILL LIKELY CANCEL.
god damnit,

So now the entertainment bit of the project is gone.
All i have left is the photoshoot I'm doing of the costumed group and that's all.
We might see the movie in costume, but it's not as cool if its not at least opening weekend. i feel so dumb.
Thanks a lot blogger, you left me in a bad mood.
Hasta.

No Hidden Meanings, No Billion Dollar Ad Campaign, And No High Fructose Corn Syrup.

it was on the back of the jones soda I was drinking. Yup, I kept it on my desk since yesterday afternoon. I am a teenage slob. :D


I am secretly pissed off at one of my friends. Lately they've really been getting on my nerves.
I'll keep their animosity lest they find this, but............urgh.
I am a bitch.

Rehearsal was great, I love angela and ashley . I memorized my first scene and it's been great fun working with Jessica.
Also my mind is kind of out for a stroll at the moment.
I ended up staring at the wall for most of the math period.
It's okay, though, it was a district test and it's not for a grade.


*sigh*

Also I didn't get called back for Cinderstien.
First school show I never got a callback for. :(
But I think it's because Tay-Tay already knows what i can do. Or she thinks she does.
I'll have to trust her instinct as a director. Cast list goes up tomorrow, I'll likely get a bad part. Whatever. at least at UTDS i have my own freaking door.

I'm tired and don't feel like typing much. I have to type up an essay.

Hasta.

I was kidnapped by the sasquatch. Why would I lie about that?

I owe you big time if you can name the song in the title and who wrote it.

This is a rant on nothing in particular, by the way.
Today in science I talked to some people I wouldn't normally talk to. They say I'm a nerd like it's a bad thing.
The whole label thing....it's dumb. If you say something like, "hey, you're a thespian." not a problem. If you say i'm a nerd and no one likes nerds, you don't want to be a nerd.....problem.
Like I said it's dumb. Besides, most people that get called geeks or are outcast from society grow up to be either something positive, like Bill Gates, who is pretty much the king of all geekdom, or something negative...
*coughcoughLADYGAGAcoughTAYLORSWIFTcoughcoughcough*

Point is that its wrong to judge people....yeah. not the best thing to rant about, but whatever.
It snowed again today. I feel sorry for the people in AIW I put in miniskirts now.
Way back in october I was all "oh, yeah, we can have you in a sexy mini, its march, it's cool..."
SO WRONG.

Stupid Molly.

That's all I got today. Hasta.

Algebra can wait for two seconds.

I'm having a stroke of Jewish, I needed to upload this.
The blacking stuff in the center of the cookie is poppyseed filling. Sounds awful, tastes amazing.
And the tase varies on who makes it. This is my great grandma mollye's recipe-she was raised in the 1900's, thats how they spelled it back then-, and the dough is really soft and kind of melts in your mouth.

The ones they serve at the Purim carnival are crunchy and the filling has too much sugar in it.

Okay, i need to stop posting multiple times a day like this. It makes me seem like i have no life.

Bye for rizzle.

Work Our Tails Off Everydayyyy........

Yeah. Auditions was pretty much the best number of high school musical stage version.
I miss that show.

Anyways, auditions for Cinderstien were today, I think I did pretty well. I could point out a million things I did wrong but am not really in the mood.....plus that's bad thinking.

Anyone that was trying for the director had to try a cockney accent. no one did a very good job but me according to the seventh graders but the truth is I don't think I'm going to get that part.
A random sixth grader cam up to me and said I did a really good job. But I'm like a sixth grade magnet so i doubt I was the best as this girl said later.

Afterwards Jackson and I were talking about HSM. I started randomly softly singing Cellular fusion when Ms,Taber mentioned callbacks.I heard Jackson echo it next to me.
Ms. T: Callbacks are on thursday, the list will be on the site.
Me: "they got a callback?""what will sharpay and ryan do?"
Jackson: "they got a callback?"
I love you Action Jackson.
Rehearsal for UTDS in a bit. The show is coming together already!
I think I'll wear my pink beret and my Mac pin. yeah.

buh bye for now.

edit 9:22:

Rehearsal was amusing and confusing.
drama in drama. 'nuff said you guys.
I called a little late and my parents were having a jewish bake-fest and forgot I got out and 9:30 so I had to call them and then the director and the assistant director came out and it was just a little bit awkward but they said I was doing a good job.
I suppose it's better than Brannigan.
I get a few juicy little lines to play with. In guys and dolls I barely got a crumb of comedy to work with. The evil laugh in 2 scenes was about it.

That show is now rotting in the dumpster I call my acting career. Moving on.
Purim is next week and I am vaguely excited. Purim Carnival at my temple: All the cute little kids dressed up in costume, stealing candy from the mishloach manot(Its basicallly baskets of gifts you send to people to wish them happy purim, usually filled with cookies, candy and sometimes little toys considered a good deed.) table, playing random games and lining up just to get a butterfly painted on thier cheek......

Sigh.

I have mounds of homework to do and hamentaschen(triangle shaped cookies with filling inside to represent haman's hat. look up the damn story of purim yourself.) to eat.

Hasta.

jig-a-low, jig-jig a-lo-oh....

I was sick today and made ramen. Not instant really, I just used the noodles from the package and added in rice vinegar, rice wine, and fish flakes, plus some spicy thing with a Japanese label. Also I forgot to wash the carrot slices so the water kind of yellowed in the pot after I let the carrots cook for a bit.

I put in too much rice wine and rice vinegar so was kind of like eating metal or something. Most of it ended up in garbage. Blurgh it was nasty.
Afterwards a bowl of rocky road made up for it.

Cooking fail.

All I've really done today is sleep, eat, and watch junky shows on my computer.
As in Winx club. Yeah. Not fun.
Overall I am tired, sore,and could really use another nap.
That and I'm not really in the mood to put much effort into making my blog post sound all pretty.

Apparently the audition clinic for Cinderstien was today. That means auditions are tomorrow and Wednesday, callbacks on thursday and cast list up by next monday.....i honestly doubt I missed much by doing so, mostly because I've been to so many i kind of know the drill by now. Also I've read the script already. The cold reading will still be pretty cold, but at least I'll know the context a little better than i did last year.

I may or may not be SCREWED. Oh well.

Wow, this post is short.
Hasta.

Two posts in a row...

Around 8 am:

This is history in the making.

Okay, not really. But Its not usual for me to post two days in a row and you guys know that.
i have sunday school today. Its not bad once you've had a bar mitzvah because they let you pick an elective to do for a third of the day. I did Yiddish first semester, which was really confusing but now it's over. I'm currently taking "Judaica Watercolor."
It's pretty cool but its not really "Judaica." The teacher is just telling us how to do washes and gradients. It's really fun for an art geek like myself.

This woman is a profesional watercolorist and she told us last week that next we're actually doing a judaica piece. She says that her judaica paintings actually sell the fastest, and I know she's really good at what she does.

Anyways, the morning is always exciting but afterwards is a little more difficult. This other teacher is using this book from the 90's about comparing the religions of the world to judaism. She makes us do "current events" and then each week she gives us a quiz on the current events, which is bad..... I'm really unorganized on the weekends and will probably forget to do a current event when it's my turn.

While cleaning my desk for the millionth time this week i found some brass beads left over from an old project. I'm going to see if I can go to Michael's after Sunday School and after I finish my algebra homework.

I might post more later.

Sundays are so monotonous, and I'm kind of dreading my voice lesson tomorrow.
Can it be Saturday again, please???


Peace, Love, and Calvin Klein argles.

12:50 am.

I hate winter.

It was raining AND there was snow AND it was icy.
Today during watercoloring Alleya asked me about Colorguard and I had one of those sudden sparks where you remember something. I went to Colorguard with Lacy a few weeks ago and they want to know if I'm coming back because they're doing flagwork today. I told Alleya that I was busy, but it's almost out of embarrassment I'm not going.
I wore jeans and converse to the first meet, and they said "no jeans, no converse."

The problem with being a nerd, in this situation, is that I'm not particularly into sports and so the only athletic clothing I own ends up in my locker for Gym.
Its not exactly 'cool' to show up in a shorts that say FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL on one leg to Central High School.
Anyways, now I'm all self conscious.

The Judaica watercolor thing is going well. I settled on using this postcard of a pear tree, which was detailed and majorly over complicated, as a basis for my painting. My sketch was simplified, so no big deal. I'll be able to get a lot done next week, which is Purim.

The teacher wants us to put on a little skit about Purim for the third graders, but knowing the attention span of our class I doubt it will ever happen.

At my synagogue, we have a big carnival with games and food and cheap prizes...I used to love it,now i'm manning a booth. It's next week and I'm probably going to throw together a lame costume.
I liked doing face painting last year so hopefully I won't be as bored, but it won't be the same without Ruth there.

I love all these minor holidays. I hate winter. That is all.

The Show, a recap, and the alleged laptop

After meeting a cast member in Up The Down Staircase that blogs regularly, a sudden spark of motivation came to write here more.

It feels good to barf out all the stuff going on right now.

The rumors were true, Christy wasn't directing, but it was for other reasons that make sense.

Drama in drama is always amusing.

Aside from that, Rehearsals have been pretty normal. Angela is fantastic and really gets involved.

And for the second time in my life, I got the part I wanted.

I auditioned with Bea as my first choice and pretty much convinced myself I was getting my third choice so i wouldn't get disappointed.

Butterflies in my stomach and all usual symptoms of post-audition stress ensued before the read through.

Its always an awesome feeling when you get the part you want.

Just as we were about to start the read through I had to leave for choir.

The concert was......meh. Claire was singing "I want it Now" from Willy Wonka.

She's a lovely soprano but awfully quiet and was really nervous.

That was probably me in 6th grade, except I was too scared of Smithers and didn't dare join choir. I stayed with Dedman, that was about it. But I digress.

Alex didn't get the part he wanted, but he got a male lead and is a lot less bored than in Honk.

Andrew actually got what he wanted, a small part with only like 9 lines.

Really reaches for the stars, doesn't he?

Jessica, being Jessica, tried for the lead and got it.

She makes a good Sylvia. I've been in shows with her before and never really worked with her closely so I'm kind of excited to finally have some good scenes with a good actress.

All but 2 people in this cast were in either Guys and Dolls or High School Musical(or I knew them already from school..) so there was little use for name games. A lot of people cast as small roles with Christy finally have lines. It feels right somehow. Anyways Angela gives off good vibes even on the Parent Radar.

I'd put a row of Smilies here, but it'd ruin the more-formal-than-normal pace of the post....

I finally got the laptop funded by Jewish people. Instead of waiting for me to find a cheap dual core old model, my dad rushed me out and got a Macbook Pro with a webcam built in plus a laptop case, and then we got Jamba Juice. He made me stop at the fishtank on the way out of the Union.

In a family of 3 children, it was sort of nice to get spoiled a bit but I don't think he's ever acted that childish since I was little.

So this laptop now has Microsoft Office, Chrome, Skype,and I'll probably put MapleStory and Paint.net onto it later, plus whatever Jeremy or Andrew suggest to me....

Skype is awesome. That is all. I get calls from Emma at six at night and then she starts to bite the microphone. She's adorable.

I'm way ahead of my math class homework wise and my parents won't shut up about it.

Also both my brothers are having trouble in school and are getting more than they need in lectures from my Dad.

New actors are appearing in weird places for Cinderstien. Wyatt is making Geordie audition, and I just talked to Darian about it because his piece in drama class was awesome. And during Drama club last week we spent the entire time making posters for auditions and ran around the school taping them to walls. Pre-show stuff is brewing already and auditions aren't till March!

That's life right now. I have virtually nothing else to do for the rest of the day, except fix a few bracelets(I fixed them but then they broke during the informational meeting of UTDS. Urgh.) and finish my algebra.

(witty signoff goes here?)

Gossip, Rant about trust, and gaurdin dem colurrs.

The FMS spring show has been anounced to the Drama Club. Just us, cause we're made of special cereal.
It's Cinderstien.
l4/\/\3. I know.
I'm going to audition anyways.
Also there's a rumor going around that Christy isn't directing up the down staircase,
and I'm kind of hoping its true.
She picks favorites sometimes, and its nice to have a new director every once in a while.

Lotsa drama going around. Everyone hates eachother. It's confusing.
If I get a laptop, my parents won't let me have free use.
They don't trust me much. Which is dumb.
buh bye.