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Wow. I didn't realize exactly how long I've been off - and how long it has been since I made an entry. The last one was what...? April? Geez. So let's see, what's been happening to me since then?
The drama department at my high school performed our yearly night of one-act plays, where I was forced by my mentor to take up a part only two nights before we opened when the person cast for the part was suspended. I was stage manager for the four student directors and had been at the rehersals for a while, so Sensei decided that I could fill in. I hate acting. Don't tell anyone, but I cheated. I knew that I couldn't memorize all the lines in two days - not to mention that if I did happen to remember them, I would forget them the moment that I stepped into the lights (I have serious stage fright).
Not too long after that, we had our award show - known as the Patty Awards - kind of like a mini version of the Grammys. I didn't win anything, but the night was fun and sad at the same time. Most of our group was graduating and it was our last stand as The Drama Group - home of all the friendships that I have made over the past two years. I'll miss it.
During and after that, I had mounds of testing that led all the way up to the end of school and my experience as a Junior. I had AP testing, state testing, SAT's, and finals all in the space of about a month and a half. Talk about stress - I think I gained a couple pounds from eating a lot of comfort food.
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Earlier this summer, I went to Stanford University for a journalism workshop called Newspaper by the Bay. I stayed in a co-ed dorm for about a week and took classes in the old history building - a good fifteen minute walk from my dorm. The campus is beautiful and I would love to go to college there - but sadly, I'm not from a well off family and it would take all my lucky stars to get me a full ride. Oh well.
Right now, I'm at my Dad's house (my parents live several states apart from each other) and I'm hanging out with him and my step-mom. Both of my step-sisters are living on their own and going to college and my step-brother just shipped off for Navy bootcamp in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. So mostly it's just me while everyone is at work. But I don't mind. It's a good change of scenery.
I think that has be caught up. I start school on the 15th, so I should probably finish my summer reading homework - which is due the first day of school. Wow. Everything is moving so fast. I'm a Senior, damnit! Woot!
 Uilanna · Tue Aug 02, 2005 @ 06:27pm · 0 Comments |
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I've gotten into RPs recently. So far I've joined two, but their moving kind of slowly and I'm getting bored. I was looking for a good, literate RP and Blaec and I have decided that they're really hard to find. I like smaller groups, personally, but I can't seem to find any good ones that are still in the fledgling stages.
So Blaec and I decided to work on one of our own. Anyone intrested?
Uilanna · Sun Apr 03, 2005 @ 12:28am · 0 Comments |
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My BFF told me to avoid the Easter Event last night. He's been wandering around for the eggs that are appearently the same as last year's to get baskets and sell them cheap to people that are too lazy to find their own. He doesn't like the items and frankly, after he showed me, I don't either. I don't really like any of the Holiday Items from any of the events. I do, however like the Anniversary items.
A group of us drama kids went up to Ashland, Oregon to the Shakespeare Festival last week. It was a seven hour drive up in a bus, non-stop, but the plays and workshops were so fun and cool that I have no reason to complain. We saw Richard III, Room Service, and The Philanderer and we did an acting workshop on story plot, which I have a feeling helped my writing skills rather than my acting skills (what little I have). It was centered around Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey, which I can recite with my eyes closed and hanging upside-down with my hands tied behind my back. I think I impressed the actors that were running the workshop because I went into detail about it when they asked if anyone had heard about Campbell before. They looked like this: eek Then this: surprised Then this: biggrin Then this: 3nodding Then I swear it was this the rest of the workshop: heart heart heart
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I was sad to leave, but on the drive back I was listening to my Return of the King soundtrack and staring out the window as we passed Mt. Shasta and the green hills and plains that surround it and I had serious inspiration. It's amazing what dramatic music can do to scenery. xd
Uilanna · Sun Mar 27, 2005 @ 04:31pm · 0 Comments |
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The show is over!!! Last night was a big cry-fest for everyone. We always cry on the last show of the musical because it's the last show any of the seniors can do at the school. I usually start getting misty around the time our teacher/advisor/director/parent starts to cry while she's giving her speech about how much she's proud of us and how much she is going to miss everyone that is leaving, but I'm so close with most of the seniors and when she said "the upcoming freshmen, sophmores and juniors will have big shoes to fill" and I happened to look over at the stagemanager, who I've been really close to and am replacing next year, and found him crying - I started to bawl. It would have been really weird for anyone that may have walked in the room because there was about 65 of us and about 80% were crying and hugging each other.
And then we all go back to our positions, reapply make-up while trying to stop crying and get ready to start working on the last show of the year before we clean everything up and take everything down. It's kind of funny because it takes us a month to get all the costumes and sets and props, and it only takes a couple hours to take down and put away. One of the freshmen this year was inspired to write a song about the production - from things that happened everyday between cast and crew and played it (on the guitar) for everyone after we were all done. It was really funny because he targeted almost everyone (even me and my bossy-ness) and we all had a good laugh before he started to play Green Day's "Time Of Your Life" and we all started getting misty again - but not without waving our cellphones like lighters. Here's the song:
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
I hope you had the time of your life.
You can see why it meant a lot to all of us. This is officially the theme song of this year.
Uilanna · Tue Mar 15, 2005 @ 05:41am · 0 Comments |
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It's been a while. School got busy and Gaia seemed like a side thing that could wait awhile. Arsenic and Old Lace went really well and the show got great reveiws from everyone. Right now, I'm actually working in the Spring Musical that my school puts on every year and it's a blast. We're performing "Bye Bye Birdie," a Elvis spin off. It's pretty short for for a musical, but full of hilarious moments and catchy songs. xp I'm head of Costumes.
About a week after I wrote that I could update this in the morning in my computer class, they blocked Gaia. stressed Oops. After that, classes got harder, I started the show and now I have to start thinking about next year and what I want to accomplish as a Senior in highschool. Now that's a scary thought. whee
Okay, back to laundry duty.... Toodles!
Uilanna · Sat Mar 12, 2005 @ 08:10pm · 0 Comments |
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It's finally here... and I'm not sure we're ready for it. Last night's dress rehersal went okay - with only a couple of errors - but I have a feeling that there will be a couple tonight as well. It'll be our first audience, and I'm hoping that everything will be ready for it - actors, crew, set and props alike.
Wish me many broken bones! xd wink whee
Uilanna · Thu Nov 04, 2004 @ 11:59pm · 0 Comments |
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Ugh. I need sleep, I could be doing that now, but I'm writing this instead. This week is what drama people at my school lovingly call "Hell Week." Mostly because it's a straight week of dress rehersals leading up to an entire weekend of performances. That means that on a good day, I'm home by 10 pm.
The show is coming along really well, I just don't have a lot of free time to kill. And what little I do have is at school - where the computers have all blocked Gaia, otherwise I would be writing much more. My zero period computers class is now my chance to catch up on lost sleep.
Halloween for me was awsome, though I missed the celebration here on Gaia. The Drama Club at my school had a party and we all got dressed up and had a good time. I was supossed to be a Punk Fairy, but the terms "Slut Fairy" "Dark Fairy" and "Gothic Chick" were thrown at me a lot - all in good humor. Two of the guys came as Bill and Ted from "Bill and Ted's Amazing Adventure" (an hilarious movie if you haven't seen it already). Normally that would sound really dumb for halloween costumes, but these are actors and they managed to stay in character the entire night. A lot of the costumes had really good acting along with them.... something only an entire house full of drama majors can pull off.
I decided that I'm not trying to get Fairy Wings any more. It's not that I don't have enough money (actually I had much more), I just decided that I'm not really going for that look anymore. I had bought the September and October letters when they first came out and were really cheap and decided that I'd open those and work off of the Pimpin' stuff that I've wanted since the beginning but never got. So for now I'm content and I still have some money to spare.
I love the staffs, they're actually very well done, and I'm enjoying all the new upgrades and features. I can't wait to see what the Gaia team has in store for us next!
Well, goodnight!
Uilanna · Wed Nov 03, 2004 @ 07:48am · 0 Comments |
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Work, work, work, work... |
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We had a work day for the show today. It was all screwing and white-washing (that's for all the perverts out there) wink . Our set is stationary because the scene never changes, so we just bolt the set pieces into the floor. I was drenched in paint - mix that with about a pound of sawdust and you have the stuff that covered my work clothes. Ew. whee
I'm watching Hocus Pocus right now and I never realized how much I was not-getting until now. The whole "Boris Karloff Jr." crack just now makes sense because of Arsnic and Old Lace (the play we're doing right now, if you haven't been following this journal-thingy). And the tape that they play in the kiln to lure the witches, I now understand what it's saying since I'm taking French this year. Funny how that kind of stuff happens. xd
Uilanna · Sun Oct 24, 2004 @ 05:25am · 1 Comments |
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Wow. Rain hit my area really hard earlier this week. It's stopped now, but it's freezing cold! *shiver* My school is doing Arsnic and Old Lace for our fall play and I'm stage manager. It makes me so proud of myself to know that the Asst. Director and Director trust me enough to give me such and important job.
I finished all my work in my zero period computers class, so now I can surf the net without getting into trouble. In fact, I'm doing that right now. xd That probably means that I'll start writing in this every day, although I can't promise that it will be anything interesting or intelectual.
Last weekend, a handful of drama students went to the Renassiance Faire down in Southern California. I had my own costume since I've been going to the Faires for a couple years now, but everyone else borrowed costumes out of the drama department - mostly ones from The Comedy of Errors and Much Ado About Nothing - shows from last year and a couple of years before, respectively.
Well, zero period has let out and I have some time before first period starts, so I'm going to log off. Toodles! biggrin wink heart
Uilanna · Fri Oct 22, 2004 @ 03:50pm · 1 Comments |
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