On Greeting a Stranger on the Street...

Where was I, I forgot the point that I was making...

Individuals yesterday. But before I get ahead of myself.

Thursday we went out to Jenny's, to Taco Johns, and then back to Jenny's.. stayed out till late, and it was kind of fun. I got in around 1 or so, left a note for my dad not to wake me up the next morning because there was no school, got on the computer for a bit, and then went to bed. Next morning I got up around 1 and didn't do shit all day. Around 5, I just had to get out of the house, so I started walking randomly. I wound up at Revelations. Hosbond was there with some old woman (oh you dog, you), and I passed him on the way to going upstairs. I didn't know what I wanted to read, and as I was about to leave the upstairs, I randomly looked at the Science shelf and spyed a big book on Chaos theory.

So I sat down and read it. For 2 hours. Good stuff. I've been interested in Chaos ever since reading Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World (seriously, they're nothing like the movie - look into them). Well, I only got through the first chapter. My attention was waning for the last 10 pages of the chapter (it was like.. 40 pages or so), so it took me a bit longer than expected, but I got all the way through the Butterfly effect. Interesting about how chaos came about.. an accident involving a simple weather model and a roundoff error on an early computer. Anyway.. After that I went home to see if anyone was on the internet that I could hang out with.. I ended up going to the coffee house with Kelsey while Tiffany was working there. Michelle showed up which was cool, and Kelsey said a few other people were coming back.. Not exactly people I would hang out with normally (except carrie and maybe steve), but good enough company. But then.. everyone came. Tyler, Justin, etc. They're not bad guys, but a bit too.. sophmoric for my tastes. Way too sophmoric.


You face.. The TICK

Anyway.. I went to Collin's house around 10, as I didn't want to be the guy who has to get called and woken up by someone on the bus saying "where the hell are you!?".. well, at Collin's, I went up into his room and we watched several episodes of the Tick (live action, or should i call it LOVE action! har! god I love that show. and if you dont, you should be shot. because it's better than any show you like), and went to bed around 1. There were no clocks in the basment that I could think of (I even checked the VCR at one point - nothing). Through the night I periodically woke up, but not knowing what time it was I couldn't tell how long it would be until we had to get up. Well, finally one time I woke up and I thought "wow.. it's awfully light outside... why hasn't Collin woken me up yet?" I went upstairs to the kitchen to check the oven clock, and..... 6:31. oh SHIT. I start running to the stairs, and.. the phone rings. I run back to pick it up, but Heather has already gotten it. I could tell it was carrie, but I hung up the phone as soon as Collin got it and started running upstairs. I popped my head into his room, and said (rather assholish, i must admit :/), "good job!" then ran downstairs and started changing.

We ran to the bus, and headed off. I sat next to Pappin and talked to he and Sam and others.. beautiful sunrise, fun showing people Soccor Practice, and when we got to Keokuk, we took our stuff to the gym and set up. It was still a while before anyone performed, so we all wandered around and played Stepmania on Evan's computer for a while. Eventually, it was Collin's turn to do improv, so a bunch of people went in there. It went pretty well, although you could tell he didn't really care all that much about the performance - it was still pretty funny, although a bit slow.

Throughout the day, some stuff happend, I owe some people money for food, and there were some good performances. I got a I, along with nearly everyone else. Sam's improv was great, too. Too bad Nolan got a 2 (though I heard he deserved a 1). But at 11ish, Collin told me he was going to drop out of his Acting because he had never practiced it, and, in fact, had almost none of it memorized. I convinced him that he should do it, and we wandered around and found a computer we could print it off of. He had till about 1 to memorize it, and the performance.. went as expected. He didn't have any time to work on characters, and switching between them was too slow, but at least he performed it. Oh, and Ann's acting was amazing. Even moreso that she wrote it.

Busride back was fun, and afterwards was good too. Pappin, Evan and I went with Carrie and drove around. Steve eventually broke off and went to the MSAE night of theater thing (hopefully Ill see it next weekend), and it was pretty boring for a while. Carrie, Evan, and I went into the coffee shop.. Sable eventually showed up, and then.. Justin, Tyler, etc showed up.. that was.. delightful. But then Tiffany, Collin, and Michelle showed up, as did Joel. After showing them Soccor Practice, Evan left and Joel, Tiffany, Michelle, Collin, and I were going to go on a walk, and all the other people left.. but they left sable behind, so she joined us.. we went to Howard park and it was pretty boring. I started to get a headache, which sucked.. Joel informed us that if we didn't leave soon, Lisa Matt and friends would come and join us, so.. we left. We walked to the square, waited for Joel and Collin to do various things and rejoin us, then I said I was cold because I didn't have a coat, so.. we drove to Tiffany's to get it. After that, we decided just to drive somewhere.


This is a car. This is what you drive around in. But this is no ordinary car. This is a delorian. Michelle's car isn't nearly this cool.

They asked if anyone had any preference, and I just said "country." Someone else agreed, and so we started driving out of town, Northwest. Tiffany suggested Waterworks, so we eventually made our way there, but decided we would rather just drive around.. so we started going in the direction of Iowa city (forget what the road is called). We started driving, and listening to Fiona Apple.. It was just peaceful and quiet and beautiful. At that moment, I couldn't think of anything I'd rather be doing. Throughout the drive, several people said they wanted to just lay in a field, and after driving for about 15 minutes, I suggested a certain field.

For those of you that went up to Iowa City on October 2, you'll remember it. It was where we all stopped because Tasha forgot her purse at Sara's. The one carfull, including Tiffany, Quinn, Jenny, Gemma, and myself (I believe), stayed there, waiting for the other car. It was just a beautiful fall day out, and everything was just quiet and perfect. Well, aside the occasional Quinn "this sucks" and others complaining. I probably did some myself, and although I jest about it now.. that is one of my favorite birthday memories of all time. Just sitting on the hood of the car, listening to the crickets chrip, the sun shining down on me, good company, and the beautiful Iowa landscape (never thought Id hear myself say that).. The rest of the day kind of sucked, but.. that had been really nice.

Anyway.. we went to that field and just layed down, talked, made jokes, and looked up at the sky. It was just calm and peaceful. And cold. It was great. Well, aside from the seering pain in my head. That part really sucked. Eventually, Michelle asked if anyone wanted to go home, and although I wanted more than anything to just stay there, my head hurt way too much (I had a migrane :/), so we all drove back into town. They dropped me off first and I went straight to bed when I got in. I don't know if they did anything after, though I'm guessing they did.. Oh well.

And now.. I'm about to go to Open Mic at the library. Fun times.

I’d like to put a knife in her and send her to the grave, In suburbia

God my layout is so lame. Maybe I'll make Collin make me a new one. It's not like he does anything during the day anyway, that bastard.

Maybe we can be happy again...

Sigh.. Friday was a good start, getting away from life for a while, but.. I need more.. maybe just my mom going on vacation for a week or something.. It's not that I don't want her around, or that she even really nags me at all, just that.. i feel so trapped when I'm here, just because I have to call, she's almost always home on the weekends, and.. I don't know.. gaah...

Saturday was pretty fun. Not as good as last year, but still fun. Sucks that Pygmalion didn't win - it deserved it.

Just a little something

Eh, I feel like I'm doing nothing in TAG right now (though hopefully I'll be doing a head sculpture with clay sometime soon), but today I did a bit of writing. I started off just writing what came out without paying attention to spelling, grammar, punctuation.. anything. I didn't let myself use the backspace key, and I just wrote whatever came out. I of course, didn't save that, as what comes out would generally be your most private thoughts, and.. although they werent the most private ones, they were close.

Anyway.. after that, I started writing in a similar manner, but allowing myself to use backspace, and spell right and such.. I didn't try to write anything great or even anything that meant anything to me, but I came out with this:



If I want to find it where do I go to find the boxes in my room close me in and hold me down until I conform to the future of today's society and I find that I can no longer think for myself and I buy the TVs they want me to and I watch the shows they want me to and I become part of the mass media machine only to die with nothing in my life and nothing after life and no accomplishments and I have no clue what happens to the world without me and does it truly go on without my guidance and my support because it seems so unlikely and so unreal that some day I'll be dead, me, the only human on the earth that is truly conscious from my point of view and some day I'll find that I am old and sick and I'll look back on my life and think of the regrets I have for not doing things now and not having experienced life while I still could or maybe I'll die in some freak accident or be killed by some madman holding a gun to my soul which I don't believe in, and then, does it truly exist if someone can take it away from me but in my mind, the mind that shapes the world from the only perspective I can take, it does not exist? How will the older self feel that I know this now but that I could not have had the simple foresight to stop it from happening and is that truly what life is about, the total chaos of existence but why does life have to be anything except the simple piece of beauty that it is, a random occurrence in the life of the universe, only existing for a split second but for that second it is the most beautiful thing that the universe has created more beautiful than the birth of planets or entire galaxies full of stars that glow, but not with love and peace a human thing, a natural thing, but how can nature exist only of life if life is but a second in the universe, but the universe is really only elemental gasses that we'll look back on in hundreds of years and think "did they really believe that? How ignorant they must have been" and its true because we know nothing, and in hundreds of years they'll look back on me and think "how unfortunate he was, to live in that time" just like I do to people who lived hundreds of years ago, because they don't have the TVs and the media which are the perks of life of the time that I live in, but some day they'll have things that I only wish I could imagine that I only wish that I could think up and I would cry if I were still alive, if I were still conscious enough to understand that what happens after I die is simply this:



And that's it. It's not profound, doesn't make sense, but at least it's full of things that I can piece together, and although they won't mean anything to anyone else, the piece has significance to me, and that's all that really matters. I don't really expect [m]any people to read it, but.. oh well.

It was sweet like lead paint is sweet

A Valentines Day spent single. But not alone.

In the afternoon, Kelsey invited me to come over and watch anime with her and Molly until Katie's birthday party started. I accepted and got there around 5ish. We all baked cupcakes for a while. We decorated them and sprinkled and such and then went to watch.. Fruits Cake, I believe. Or something like that. Some anime from '96 with the typical generic 90s style of animation I'm not a big fan of, the pacing was shitty, the series didn't get you to like the characters, and the concept was just kooky-japanese. I'm not sure if it was a series or an OAV. It was about people that turn into zodiac animals when they get hugged or something. Had some funny moments.

People then started showing up, and so we turned off the anime and started doing stuff. We milled around and talked and such for a while, fun times with Rachel's valentines, talked, etc. Fun times. Joel came sometime throughout the night (I dont really remember details about the party >_>), and after a while, we went off to walk to the big band thing at morningstar. That was pretty cool - got to know him a bit better. Right as we were about to go inside, Quinn, Jenny, Collin, Nandi, Gemma, and Johnny showed up. We went inside and my mom was working the door, so I ended up getting in for free instead of having to pay Joel back.


These people enjoy swing dancing.

We went into the bar first and met up with some other people there. Sara, Chris P., Lance, Tiffany, and probably others (bad memory) showed up. The bar was really overpriced so I didn't buy anything, but they had free candy hearts, so I had quite a few of those (along with the quite a few from Katie's party), and free tap water. After a bit, we all went into the dance and sat down and talked for a bit. Tiffany eventually got all of us to get up and dance. Joel and Quinn couldn't swing at all, and my skills are.. not great, to say the least, but the only other guy that can do it is Collin, and.. well, his mom teaches swing. Bastard. Anyway, so I danced with Nandi for a while, and then we were about to go get water and..

Pink Panther :D. God I love that song. It was the only thing I really recognized throughout the night more than vaguely, so we went back in and danced to that. After that, we went to the bar again and socialized more. Had fun times writing things on the table with sequins (..right?). Spun candy hearts, had more tap water, and.. well.. i'm sure there was a bit more to it than that. But regardless, it was fun at the dance. We stayed until the end (11), and then we were all going to go somewhere, and the obvious choice was Tiffany's. We all drove there, but Lance, Joel, Tiffany, and I wanted to go to Katie's party.

When we got there, they were watching coupling. I sat down wishing we were actually doing stuff rather than watching a [quite funny] tv show. We watched it for around 2 hours. Joy. I mean, I know I missed most of the real party stuff, but honestly.. if you're going to have a party, don't just watch a movie or a tv show for a long duration.. seriously. I was wanting to leave from halfway through the first episode on, even though I like the show. It's just not what I wanted to do at midnight on a saturday. Eventually, Tiffany took Evan and I home, and I got on the computer for a bit then went to bed. Overall, a very fun night.

Friday was okay. Went cruisin' with Corey and people, and amazingly we got Talon out of the house for the first time in over a month. Choji is so cute :D. We went to Quinn's and.. I don't remember what we did, but eventually we ended up at Tiffany's. Corey left, and thanks to boring conversation and Lisa Matt (shudder.. thanks a lot Joel..), I layed down face down on the floor for 20 minutes. Call it a social experiment. Anyway, after that we went for a walk, and Collin, Jenny, Gemma, and I ended up at Taco Johns. Other people showed up, and we went to Tiffany's again. As far as I recall, we stayed there until everyone went home early.

Today.. I didn't do much. I went on a walk at 5ish with Kelsey, and ended up getting home around 7. I sat around and did nothing till around 9, when Gemma and Nandi showed up fresh from the peace committee. They stayed for about 10 minutes, then had to be home. After that I watched 15 TMBG music videos, and.. well, that's about it.

..sigh. It sucks that I can't actually say anything in here that I want to. Thats what paper journals are for, I suppose.

..and tribunes with their tongues doom men to death

*cough*judges*cough*

..anyway. Titus didn't get shit for allstate. But I don't mind. I had a great time doing it, and I know that it was good, even though I wasn't satisfied with it, so I don't really need anyone else telling me that they think it deserves to go on.

But I knew that I didn't really care that we didn't go on the moment Quinn ran into the room and said: "TITUS GOT..!!" and I though "hey, that's pretty cool" and then hes like "..nothing." and my thought turned into "eh, too bad."

Congrats to both mimes, really. They were the big ones I was rooting for. And everyone else that got in. I'm a bit surprised about a few.. namely Choral Reading (wow.. it wasn't too good), Othello's recognition (again, it kinda sucked, in my opinion), Domo (I loved it, but I didn't really think the judge would go for it).

I love it how all 5 mimes from our section of Iowa were Fairfield mimes. There were 3 MSAE mimes and 2 FHS mimes, and Hosbond should feel pretty damn prod of himself. Marmalade tomorrow, bitch. And especially congrats to Sam, who finally, after 2 years of getting robbed of allstate for improv, his team (along with the always-funny David Philips and Sara Rhum) finally gets to go - first time since his freshman year. Not only that, but his solo mime went as well.



Next year? Steel Magnolias for everything. Everything.

'Cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

I just want to create art. How hard is that, to go out and make something? For me, it's harder than you would think. I doodle a lot, make little scetches quite a bit on school assignments, in notebooks.. I fiddle around in photoshop every once in a while, and I write, sometimes. But this isn't what I mean.

These things are a product of boredom. I draw because class isn't interesting, photoshop when I've got nothing to do, and write when I've got absolutely nothing to do and the computer is off. Today I was downloading some music and waiting to see if anyone was doing anything, and there was a lump of sculpy (clay) next to my computer. I'm in advanced art right now, and I am really looking foreward to the sculpture part of it (and get over with this coat of arms crap - unless I end up painting it - i never paint) because we're sculpting human heads. Now I know that I've at least got some talent in sculpture - I've always loved working with clay, and I just seem to have a natural ability to mold and visualize in 3d. I've also taken to being increasingly interested in the human face as of late, usually just for something to draw, but because of this, I think I know the human face pretty well.

The other day I was looking at a batman messageboard as I do every once in a while, and I noticed that one of the sculpters on the board who makes cowls had a website in his signature. I followed a series of links to end up on some latex-mask site. Looking around, I found the profile of one man and his art, and I just studied his amazing busts for a while. I wondered how well I would actually be able to sculpt a face. So when I was fiddling with this sculpy, I started to make a nose. At first with no reference, just making a nose from memory. And it looked good. I wasn't so sure about the sides of the nostrils and the actual nostril size and shape, so I looked up some reference images and started to form and shape the nose I had made. I had really messed up on the nostrils in general, so I just kept working with it for about 10 minutes, and when I finished, I came out with what I think is a really fucking accurate (though not scale) nose. I could still work with it a bit more, smoothing it out and making both sides a bit more exact to each other, but other than that, it was great.

And I lost myself in it. I completely ignored everything, I wasn't bored at all and just created. And it just felt really good. Because I can't ever really get into art that much anymore, and I do really love making things. Maybe i'll dig out my giant box of sculpy and make more. But probably not. But not everything is good....

...My mom just set Steel Magnolias on my desk :'( It is truly the YEAR OF STEEL. No way in hell I'm going to watch it. She heard me making fun of it the other day, so she must be trying to get me to watch it.


Year. Of. Steel.

I found this wonderful site a while ago, Listen to a Movie, where you download an MP3 of the audio of a movie and just.. well... listen to it. I'd listened to Big Lebowski and Office Space a while back, and last night I nearly fell asleep listening to An Evening with Kevin Smith. Loved the part where he called the guy's boss during the show to try and get him rehired. And.. well, the rest of it I heard. I started drifting off about half an hour into it. On a completely seperate note, I went to the library earlier to pick up Dave Barry's Guide to Guys. I've read it 4 or 5 times already, but I'm going to read through it tonight to find a passage for individuals. Or maybe I'll do that after I finish writing.

Oh yeah, and yesterday was that crazy little thing called State. But I'll get to that in a bit. I had gotten sick on thursday with a bad sore throat and a cold, and so I was really worried that I wouldn't be able to perform on Saturday. Readers Theater practice last week was normal, same old everything, but Titus barely got to practice at all. I skipped out (with permission) on Readers Theater practice friday just so I could get a bit more Titus practice in, as Titus is a hell of a lot more important to me than readers theater - plus I don't need any practice in readers theater. So practice went pretty well on Friday.


Is it just me, or are these bunnies.. uhh.. on a grill?

Friday night was the artwalk. Hosbond set it up so a bunch of FHSers would be performing there. So after hanging out with people for a bit, we went to there. I guess we arrived right when it was starting (or maybe we missed a bunch of stuff?), but regardless, the first act we saw was.. Lemonman. Collin got his dad's guitar from his days of being in The Who (or something like that ;), heh), and Davey went up with him. Davey stood behind Collin and while Collin pretended to play, Davey made guitar noises to some song. It was beautiful. A bunch of people performed various things - from Speech Team stuff to singing to reading to.. well... Lemonman. Everyone was there (dont feel bad if you weren't and you still consider yourself part of my "everyone" - just go cry. Because I have no recollection of who was actually there and who wasn't. So I'm pretending you were) and I talked to a bunch of people and there were free cookies and such. At one point, I didn't think I wanted to do Titus at it because my voice was bad, but Hosbond convinced me to.

It went pretty well, and Tommy got it recoreded along with everything else of the night. But we'll get to that later (or maybe I'll forget about it). Overall, really fun night. A few surprises and cool little details, but nothing I really feel like writing down here. Fun times though.

I spent the night at Collin's for convenience sake. My awful cold of the past 2 days seemed to have been gone at 5 am when we woke up which was just peachy, but my throat wasn't doing too hot. I drank a bit of water. When Collin woke me up, he said some stuff and I mumbled some stuff, but my first clear thought was "..are you going to make waffles?" I didn't actually hear his answer, but... he didn't. :'( which sucks. Because he totally made pancakes last time I spent the night, and there was a waffle iron in the kitchen the night before. I got ahold of the Titus tape from the previous night and reviewed it - the first time I had ever actually watched it (a bit late to try to improve my performance, yes?) and found a few helpful things. Well we got to walking to school and saw Kris Johnson on the way there and walked with him a few blocks. We went on the first bus and I sat alone with Corey and people near me, but he was talking to other people, so I just ended up exchanging a few words with Bovard and David and then just laying there for the rest of the ride up.

When we got there, I helped Corey not hear that One Act had to unload their stuff and went to stake our ground. Once again, just like districts, we were first there. We set up our stuff near the TV - just like last year, and walked around a bit doing nothing. Evan's laptop and his 5 stepmania songs, old school Power Rangers, expensive Doughnuts, and many tissues filled my early morning. Hosbond gave me some tea to drink throughout the day and.. well.. thats about it. At around 7:30, I went with people to near the mime, watched Domo Arigato practice, watch Sammy and 5 other people try to scrape off her nail polish, and then went into the mime room.


This is a mime.

The first mime was some awful one about babysitting. They had no music, and nothing they did was clear at all. As Collin said, I would have had no idea what was going on unless I saw the sign. And even then I didn't get most of it. Neither of the people were very good at any part of mime as far as I could see, and.. well, it sucked. May have helped Domo a bit. They performed and it was the same as usual. Its good, funny, etc and I think the judges appreciated it. Regardless, they got all 1s. After that, I caught Sam in the hallway after, and asked him if he was about to perform, and he said yes, he was heading to the center. I was confused and said it was center 16. He thought it was 14. I checked the schedule and I was right. So we went over there with quite a bit of time to spare. He did his Solo Mime and was really well recieved by the judges (the fat one was just laughing the whole time - that one was an Allstate nomination right there). Sam changed quite a bit of stuff for the better since his almost-improv first one. Oh yeah, and I was a god at running the music. Or something.

I did god knows what for the next stretch of time, but fun, no doubt. After a while, I went off to watch Improv. Tons of people were in the room. Even.. like.. Stephen Hoffman, that Ayden guy, and Ronnie and Zoe. That was weird. But.. The improv was great, though not quite as good as the Sam/Sara/Nolan last year. A couple (Sam, Sara) out to get married, and the husband didn't fit into the tux, so they had to call the Tailor (David). He rode his moped over and hilarity ensued. Eventually they used the corset and a hammer to get him to fit into it, and then they went to get married, and Sam exploded all over. Good stuff. They also got all 1s. I hope they go to allstate; they deserve it. The one after them was good as well - had 2 people playing 2 parts - mom and dad, and son and daughter. It was good stuff, and even the one after was okay. Then we left to do something else. The details are lost on me.

Eventually, Pygmalion went. I got a bad seat - but at least I got a seat. They did it great, but I think their timing was off a bit on a part - Eric and Nandi both seemed to be hurrying to get to the right part in the music. But nobody but Hosbond and I would have noticed that, so.. whatever. They got all 1s, obviously. Before them was another awful mime about two women going fishing. One of them had good facial expressions, but was a really bad mime with objects and such. Well, everything about it was bad, really. Oh, and the mimes wore jeans.

I did fun stuff for a while - the details escape me for the moment. But eventually Hucke came up to me and told me he would have to judge, and we knew where everything was so we would be fine without him, and gave me the ballots (because I'm repsonsible, or something?). Well, at about 1:30 (we were to perform at 2), I was having people take stuff up, and.. where the fuck were the scripts and the stools? We had no idea, and none of the teachers were there. Darin and I went to look for the van, but couldn't find it. Panic ensued, but eventually Steve and someone went out to look for the van again and I guess they found and got into it. They came back triumphantly with the stuff, and we went up to practice. I went in the elevator (the only quiet place in the entire school) to test my voice for Vader, and was a bit disapointed that I wouldn't be able to go all out - the level at which I usually hold my voice I wasn't able to attain. But I could get kind of close.

We went in and performed. Not our best performance (that would be our Districts), but still pretty good, I guess. Chewie still got laughs, as did the pilot deaths, but it was good overall, I think. Carrie singing during the Vader/Luke part worked really well, I think. We got all 1s.


Hey look! It's me, and Me, and Katie, and Steve!

After that, I headed across the hallway to Improv - Collin/Chris/Evan were going to perform soon. The ones around them were pretty good. The one with the guy with the crazy guy and the weird chin was really good. The little kid who they kind of ignored should have gotten more of a Donnie (Big Lebowski) part.. "Shut the FUCK up!!" all the time or something. But it was really good. The grasshopper disecting one was pretty good at parts, too. But back to Collin's. It wasn't the most hilarious one of thiers, but it was extremely well done and well structured. Evan did good compared to what I normally think of his improv as, Chris was great, Collin was great (Happy Burger was great), neither of them had any questions, as far as I can remember. They got all 1s.

I missed His Girl Friday, but I hear they did well. They got all 1s. But at this time, I was off to Titus practice. There was a scare for a minute when everyone thought we had to go half an hour early (There was a sign next to the room that said "Prepare to go EARLY" that I saw earlier in the day when we went to check the room out), but Shea had just read the sign wrong. By this time, I was on my second thermos of tea and I had already had tons of cough drops. My throat was doing okay, but not great. We warmed up, and then eventually, went into the room. The blonde judge that i like(d) was in there, along with 2 I didn't know (Hosbond later informed me that the blonde lady was the one that gave a 2 to WSS at districts, so I dont like her now...), and Mr. Voorhees had come to watch us, along with our regulars and a few new faces.

Cliff messed up 2 lines, but nothing the judges would know - only wording things. I got "dear heart" right, instead of saying "dear niece" (she's my daughter, not my niece - so saying it wrong would be bad), the looks between Quinn and Cliff and I at the point that I usually really like weren't quite as intense as usual, but, again, nothing anybody else would notice, Kaycee didn't sob enough, Cliff was really strong on "Now let hot etna cool in sicily..," the hand cutting scene must have been a bit weird for one of the judges - she was at an angle where she saw Quinn and I switch hands, but other than that, nothing worth mentioning. I didn't think it went badly like I did after districts, so maybe that means it went well? I don't know how my voice held up, but reviewing the tape earlier that morning deffinately helped me. We got all 1s.


Its me!

I ran off to Madwoman after that. Kelsey was fantastic in it - I absolutely loved her performance. She was extremely attentive the entire time, carried herself perfectly, had a great accent, and acted everything really well. Unfortunately, the entire group wasn't as good. Emily had a good accent, but didn't have good presence and didnt act well, Robyn was... well......... *cough*, Abbe had a great accent, but I think it ended up way over the top in a bad way, but her acting was okay. Lisa had some good acting parts, but it wasn't consistant, and she was really weak at parts. Overall, the piece didn't have much flow, and there was no real meat to it, and the pacing was just.. off. I enjoyed it. It got two 2s and a 1.

I ran off with everyone else to Moulin Rouge, but got there about 2 minutes late. Everyone that came out of the door raved about how fantastic they were, and that it was just beautiful. Sorry I missed it. They got all 1s.

After that, we were waiting for other events to get over for a while. Quinn, Jenny, Nandi and I snuck off to a quite place and just sat around for a while. We found Collin and kept on doing the same. Quinn deepthroats moose.

See a pattern anywhere, though? Every single group but madwoman, that is 15.. FIFTEEN groups got three 1s. That is simply amazing. Congratulations to everyone who went to state. Your performanes were all top notch. You should feel proud of yourselves.


Yeah. We got 46 of these.
...not the yarn version, though.

Some hilights of the day: Kris, Givan, Justin, Sam K., Carrie, and 1 other girl had a contest to see who could get the most of the opposite gender's numbers - Kris got about 170, Givan and Justin similar figures, Sam got about 200, and I didn't hear the other figures. Collin-the-weak.com plates, meeting district chick, Laura, again. Meeting.. what was her name? Mary's friend from last year and thespians again. Meeting Sam's friend from thespians again. Davey and Corey's crazy hijinks, BAM! shirt, and.. god.. a ton of other stuff I don't remember.

Afterwards, a few of us went to Nandi's afterwards for a few minutes, pretty much just to get the car. We drove over to quinns to pick up a few others and headed to Jim's party to make an apperance. They were watching Jackass: The movie, which most of us weren't too hot on. I had a couple of sprites, a few pieces of pizza, talked to Corey, and then we all head off. We went over to Tiffany's and sat around for a while. Gemma and Jenny went upstairs to change, and we talked for a while... a bunch of people came over, then. Jed, Corey, Davey, etc. We put in a movie based on the play that His Girl Friday was based off of. The Front Page, I believe. It was good. Tiffany, Joel, Evan, and Kelsey went down to the basement to watch Roman Holiday and had taffy. After Front Page was over, I went down and talked to Kelsey for a bit, other people came down, then we all went upstairs and talked. Fun times ensued, people went home. I listened to An Evening with Kevin Smith and such, as stated above, and.. now...

I spent all day doing nothing while listening to Ani DiFranco, and now i'm about to read Guide to Guys to get an excerpt for Individuals and I'm having a tiny pizza. Yay.