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As a little experiment, I have been taking pictures of my friends and me at every rehearsal to track our expressions and the deterioration of our happy little faces, etc. I print them out at home and put them up in my locker the next day labeled with which day it was. So far, all this little exercise has done is give me an even worse self-image than I had before. Day I - my eyes were half closed. And in all of those thereafter I'm sort of leaning back because I'm the one holding the camera and you can either see up my nose or I look fat because of my chin and my scarf. Here's hoping it gets better. No likely. I was counting on random pictures of John dancing down the hallway, but the bad news is that Johnsiedoodles isn't in the play this year. He applied for an appeal, but it fell through or something and he's missed too many rehearsals. Bummer. No one to pick on and laugh at. And as much as I love my friends, Charlotte can be a big-time Debbie Downer and college applications and senior year haven't exactly made us all Mary Sunshines. I'll have to dig deeper than expected to fulfill my cheerleader persona.
- Music:"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo
Suprise, surprise. I learned this weekend that my character shoes have the most sucky traction in the world. On Saturday we learned the dance for "Shakin' at the High School Hop." I broke out my character shoes (basically hideous tan old lady mary janes for those who aren't familiar with them) which had grown just the tiny bit small and uncomfortable. I was fine doing the dance on the stage, but as soon as we hit the hallway for practice, I was sliding all around on the linoleum floor. Not good.
On Sunday, I went to my friend, Marie's, house to work on a French video project. I was wearing my character shoes around and when I went to walk down the hardwood stairs, I fell down them not once, but twice. I fell down about three stairs, stood up and was about to say something like "Oh, it's okay, I only fell down a few stairs," and then I fell the rest of the way down. My back and butt still hurt and I have an ugly bruise on my arm, but my ego took the biggest beating.
- Mood:
amused - Music:"America:And the Dream Goes On."
"Helping out" with the haunted house fundraiser at the Valatie Community Theater.
Night 1: Took 2 steps in to find my place as a student in the Wizard's Classroom and was unable to stop screaming. Sold tickets instead. Helped generate publcity by standing by the sign outside in my Joker boxers.
Night 2: Halloween. Worked up enough courage to be able to sit in the first room of the haunted house and welcome people in. Everyone always looked so expectant, but nothing scary ever happened. (Well, to them anyway. I think I may have been hit on by a Mexican man in a mask.) Thought people would be thrown off seeing a nice, not-scary girl in a big princess dress greeting them in the doorway of a haunted house after hearing manic screaming from inside while they were waiting. Spent most of the night talking to Irving - a head in a plastic globe and playing with my dry ice cocktail. Just chillin' and watching the obnoxious talking heads on the walls and listening to people scream. I also heard that a girl from school and her mother fell through a wall when the devil came after them.
I was reading the comment book in the foyer and it is appearently a very good haunted house, though it needs to be darker and the chainsaw bit is "too much for young children." I still refuse to go beyond my first little room in the haunted house. I've seen the volunteers in their costumes and I can hardly handle that. So far, I know that there is a scary clown, a bloody doctor, a tourture chamber, a witch, and a girl covered in neon polka dots. Something also involves large amounts of spaghetti. Yeah.
- Mood:
embarrassed - Music:"She's in Love" - Little Mermaid (Broadway)
An update on the M. Pain and Teve sitch.
Mrs. Teven and Weesha's mommy called me tonight. She said that she had talked to M. Pain and Teven.
Two points:
#1.) Would I mind tutoring Teven? He said that he was getting behind, etc. But when she talked to M. Pain, he seemed to think that it was more of a 'tude prolem and that Teven just wasn't doing his work. I said yes, of course, that I would help as much as possible if that's what they thought would help.
#2.) She asked me what had been said in class that day. Oh crap. I can't exactly tell her that M. Pain was making fun of her son. So I kind of sugarcoated it. Think of it as a translation from M. Pain's kinda difficult to understand personality and sarcasm. I told her that I thought that he was really just trying to get a better idea of who Teven was, asking about what he liked to do, trying to see where he's coming from. But I also sort of mentioned that he said some not-very-nice things. But I didn't elaborate.
So Mrs. Teven's Mommy has a meeting with M. Pain. I'm just so scared that she's going to bring up that I told her that he said something bad about Teven. I don't want him to think that I was telling them that he was saying all this bad stuff about him. He'll have my head for sure. I like doing well in French! I just have to pray that she doesn't bring me OR Charlotte up. In fact, if she could stay away from us having a conversation in class about him all together, that'd be great. But I don't think that's gonna happen. She seemed kinda upset about the fact that he was talking about Teven in front of our class. Which I agree was kind of unprofessional and rude, but what can I do?
Mrs. Teven and Weesha's mommy called me tonight. She said that she had talked to M. Pain and Teven.
Two points:
#1.) Would I mind tutoring Teven? He said that he was getting behind, etc. But when she talked to M. Pain, he seemed to think that it was more of a 'tude prolem and that Teven just wasn't doing his work. I said yes, of course, that I would help as much as possible if that's what they thought would help.
#2.) She asked me what had been said in class that day. Oh crap. I can't exactly tell her that M. Pain was making fun of her son. So I kind of sugarcoated it. Think of it as a translation from M. Pain's kinda difficult to understand personality and sarcasm. I told her that I thought that he was really just trying to get a better idea of who Teven was, asking about what he liked to do, trying to see where he's coming from. But I also sort of mentioned that he said some not-very-nice things. But I didn't elaborate.
So Mrs. Teven's Mommy has a meeting with M. Pain. I'm just so scared that she's going to bring up that I told her that he said something bad about Teven. I don't want him to think that I was telling them that he was saying all this bad stuff about him. He'll have my head for sure. I like doing well in French! I just have to pray that she doesn't bring me OR Charlotte up. In fact, if she could stay away from us having a conversation in class about him all together, that'd be great. But I don't think that's gonna happen. She seemed kinda upset about the fact that he was talking about Teven in front of our class. Which I agree was kind of unprofessional and rude, but what can I do?
- Mood:
worried - Music:"If Only" - The Little Mermaid (Broadway)
Had an interesting conversation in French class today. Disturbed me somewhat. And I'm not talking like the time we spent almost a whole class discussing the guy that cut up people and put them in his fridge or when Monsieur Pain threatened to hang our cats.
Firstly, M. Pain is not someone you want to piss off. French dropouts and a few friends of mine will tell you that. But Weesha's little brother (and my surrogate little brother) seems to be struggling with this concept. In other words, he's doing everything in his power to piss the man off from what I hear.
Well today I was walking down the hallway and M. Pain must have seen Charlotte and me say hello to Tevie (ruffle his hair, etc.) And when we got in the class, he asked us if that was our "freak little friend". And it wasn't in a joking sort of manner. I could tell he was mad. He then proceeded to ask about Teven and even made fun of him for being in acting troupe and being "emo." He also cautioned that he was about to have his head/ass handed to him if he didn't shape up in class. Teven is a smart kid, he just doesn't apply himself, which bothers me. But what bothered me even more was when M. Pain looked me in the eye and asked "what endears you to him?" It was like I was friends with someone that another friend of mine didn't like and they were asking "ugh, why are you hanging out with HIM?" I just thought it was kind of rude and unprofessional. (I don't ask him what endears him to Spanish teacher that dresses like every day is Halloween. Ooh, yeah, I went there.) But it didn't stop there. When I told him that it was because he was Weesha's little brother, he said that he had heard bad things about her, too. He then asked me if I was dumbing myself down and hanging out with the local hillbillies. That really upset me.
So I went right after class and saw Tevie in chorus where I told him that he should try a little harder in French and that M.Pain was gearing up to hand his ass to him. I also told him that I was there in case he needed any help or someone to look over his homework or projects. To which he said "what homeowkr?" which worried me.
My Verdict:
M. Pain is really hard to read. He has an odd sense of humor and I can never tell when he's joking. It's taken about four years of French class, but I kind of have a basic understanding of him now. And I've never really seen him upset like he was today. He was kind of not thinking about what he was saying. I know that he has Teven's best interests at heart, but that he doesn't always express that clearly. But I still don't think that a lot of the stuff he said today was okay.
Firstly, M. Pain is not someone you want to piss off. French dropouts and a few friends of mine will tell you that. But Weesha's little brother (and my surrogate little brother) seems to be struggling with this concept. In other words, he's doing everything in his power to piss the man off from what I hear.
Well today I was walking down the hallway and M. Pain must have seen Charlotte and me say hello to Tevie (ruffle his hair, etc.) And when we got in the class, he asked us if that was our "freak little friend". And it wasn't in a joking sort of manner. I could tell he was mad. He then proceeded to ask about Teven and even made fun of him for being in acting troupe and being "emo." He also cautioned that he was about to have his head/ass handed to him if he didn't shape up in class. Teven is a smart kid, he just doesn't apply himself, which bothers me. But what bothered me even more was when M. Pain looked me in the eye and asked "what endears you to him?" It was like I was friends with someone that another friend of mine didn't like and they were asking "ugh, why are you hanging out with HIM?" I just thought it was kind of rude and unprofessional. (I don't ask him what endears him to Spanish teacher that dresses like every day is Halloween. Ooh, yeah, I went there.) But it didn't stop there. When I told him that it was because he was Weesha's little brother, he said that he had heard bad things about her, too. He then asked me if I was dumbing myself down and hanging out with the local hillbillies. That really upset me.
So I went right after class and saw Tevie in chorus where I told him that he should try a little harder in French and that M.Pain was gearing up to hand his ass to him. I also told him that I was there in case he needed any help or someone to look over his homework or projects. To which he said "what homeowkr?" which worried me.
My Verdict:
M. Pain is really hard to read. He has an odd sense of humor and I can never tell when he's joking. It's taken about four years of French class, but I kind of have a basic understanding of him now. And I've never really seen him upset like he was today. He was kind of not thinking about what he was saying. I know that he has Teven's best interests at heart, but that he doesn't always express that clearly. But I still don't think that a lot of the stuff he said today was okay.
- Mood:
distressed - Music:"Dear Child" - The Little Mermaid (Broadway)
Trying to "get into character" any random way that I can.
1.) Maija and I made up a cheerleader handshake. (It'll look great with pom-poms.)
2.) I looked up the synopsis of Grease on wikipedia (the movie and the Broadway show).
3.) I wore my hair around in a side ponytail. (It looked ah-dorable.)
4.) I tried to look for cheerleader clips from Grease on Youtube.
5.) I looked up what the cheerleader costumes looked like in the show.
6.) I looked up what clothes they wore in the 50's.
7.) I watched what seemed like hours worth of one of those lifetime CD infomercials that were selling Greas-era music. "Malt shop favorites" and "oldies but goodies." Stuff like that.
8.) I watched this hilarious variety show. (Lawrence Welk, I think it was called.) It was from the sixties, but they had some songs from the 50's and there was one part where a bunch of girls were dressed up in poodle skirts and singing a polka. Loooooved it.
I am bound and determined to be the best f-ing cheerleader ever. Totally going to kick this part's ass.
- Mood: chipper
- Music:"Positoovity" from The Little Mermaid (Broadway)
Acting Troupe Check List:
1.) Worry over and bomb audition - check
2.) Worry some more over how badly you did and wonder if you'll get in - check
3.) Check the bulletin board compulsively for callback lists - check
4.) Make idiot bet with Weesha over whether I'll get a callback or not - check
5.) Hear rumor that show is Grease (or RENT) - check
6.) Spread rumor that show is Grease (not RENT) - check
7.) Find out that show really is Grease - check
8.) Kick self for not attending dance auditions - check
9.) Find out that callbacks have been up for a week and that no one told you - check
10.) Win the bet and write I Love (Vampire KenKen) because your name isn't on the callbacks and she lost the bet - check
11.) Worry and wait for the cast list to go up - check
12.) Make another bet with Weesha about whether you'll get a part or not - check
13.) Gossip about who you think will get lead parts with Jacquie and Shiloh (theater fiends extraordinaire) - check
14.) Cast List Goes Up!!! - check
15.) Get an ensemble part (Rydell High Cheerleader) - check
16.) Get to draw on Weesha's face again becuase she lost the second bet, too - check
17.) Realize that you're the only senior who didn't get even a tiny speaking part - oh crap
Cast list went up yesterday!! Consensus is that it sucks because a lot of juniors got lead parts when seniors didn't, but I think that my friends are just saying that to make me feel better. I know what it's like to be the better junior on the team who gets passed by because of seniority. (tennis last year) But I refuse to complain. I am going to be the best damn cheerleader I can be. It totally suits my cheery personality. Maija and I already made up a cheerleader handshake.
Can't wait 'til we get our schedule and all the fun starts rolling. I hope I'll get to see my friends even though they're all speaking parts. I wanna know what scenes I'm in and the songs and I can't wait for costumes and makeup and hair and blocking and everything!!!!
1.) Worry over and bomb audition - check
2.) Worry some more over how badly you did and wonder if you'll get in - check
3.) Check the bulletin board compulsively for callback lists - check
4.) Make idiot bet with Weesha over whether I'll get a callback or not - check
5.) Hear rumor that show is Grease (or RENT) - check
6.) Spread rumor that show is Grease (not RENT) - check
7.) Find out that show really is Grease - check
8.) Kick self for not attending dance auditions - check
9.) Find out that callbacks have been up for a week and that no one told you - check
10.) Win the bet and write I Love (Vampire KenKen) because your name isn't on the callbacks and she lost the bet - check
11.) Worry and wait for the cast list to go up - check
12.) Make another bet with Weesha about whether you'll get a part or not - check
13.) Gossip about who you think will get lead parts with Jacquie and Shiloh (theater fiends extraordinaire) - check
14.) Cast List Goes Up!!! - check
15.) Get an ensemble part (Rydell High Cheerleader) - check
16.) Get to draw on Weesha's face again becuase she lost the second bet, too - check
17.) Realize that you're the only senior who didn't get even a tiny speaking part - oh crap
Cast list went up yesterday!! Consensus is that it sucks because a lot of juniors got lead parts when seniors didn't, but I think that my friends are just saying that to make me feel better. I know what it's like to be the better junior on the team who gets passed by because of seniority. (tennis last year) But I refuse to complain. I am going to be the best damn cheerleader I can be. It totally suits my cheery personality. Maija and I already made up a cheerleader handshake.
Can't wait 'til we get our schedule and all the fun starts rolling. I hope I'll get to see my friends even though they're all speaking parts. I wanna know what scenes I'm in and the songs and I can't wait for costumes and makeup and hair and blocking and everything!!!!
- Mood: anxious
- Music:"I'm in Heaven" by ATC
