July 18, 2007
I still exist. Really.
Well, I've spent the last 2 months stranded in South Dakota eating grapefruit, serving drinks at a 50s style nightclub, and sleeping in the trunk of my car and pawning my clothes to save enough cash to make it to the west coast.
Not really. But that certainly would have been interesting if I had.
But reality isn't to be sneezed at. I made it out here to Seattle at the very end of May. And now, I have:
--a room in a brightly colored duplex in a cheap neighborhood, exactly a five minute drive from my internship
--a wonderful new job starting next month
--two very fun roommates
--matresses given to me by a lady in the thriftstore parking lot who, when they wouldn't fit in my car followed me to my house and helped me carry them inside
--five other peices of furniture that cost me a total ot $15
--2 cats, 2 rats, a fish, and a spider; on speaking terms with all but the latter
--a really groovy chinese lantern with a blue light
Varied experiences include being a catwalk model in a fashion show; swimming fully clothed in the lake. Twice. Taking myself out dancing on Friday night; and statistically more frightening than death, my first public speaking speech-giving occurance; heading back to the east to the most fun wedding ever to be the lime green bridesmaide.
And now, at last, at long last, after years of waiting-- listening to my Lawyers in Love record.
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December 20, 2006
meet Ackerman
Garden gnomes facinate me.
http://www.garden-gnomes-need-homes.com/Detail.bok?no=55
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December 16, 2006
just my feet in the water
It's been awhile. A semester, in fact.
I'm 7/8ths of the way through college, and as I poured juice into a glass (a real glass!) I found that I'm okay with that. Still don't know what I'm going to do after it's all over.
But I've done my SIP. It was there: it was the loud, alive, moving, breathing thing that made people laugh and cry. And that's what I'd hoped for and worked for this entire year. Yes, a whole year, November to November. From the first time I read it, to sitting and watching it happen. Now that I've directed my second play, I'm rather looking forward to acting in the next one.
This semester is also the end of my time at UTC. I've taken classes there since the beginning of my sophmore year and I'll be mighty strange to be a student at only one college.
Today is second day of break, and the first time in a long time I haven't been doing theatre. I directed all last spring at Covenant, worked all summer at a theatre, had one day off, then directed my SIP here at Covenant. This was a sort of test I made for myself, to see if this is something I really want to do, and I think it is.
But now it's time to rest for a bit. I'm going to read hoards of books, light candles, cook on a stove, walk out to the old barn and all sorts of other things before I even touch my resume. Of course, all that will be after I drive back home.
For now, I have one more day with my girls. Talking late into the night with Jenni, making dinner Bekah, sleeping in Em's bed since she's out of town.
And tomorrow I'm having lunch with Mark and Pippi.
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September 18, 2006
rule #1 for a Monday morning
Never get in an argument with a philosophy major in a stairwell about whether or not life can or cannot suck.
Here's a quote from a play I'm studying for my directing class:
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning. Many, many unhappy, bewildered breakfast faces"
(from Sam Shephard's True West)
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September 07, 2006
my life in briefs
(my favorite Freudian slip of this semester)
My SIP is what's happening. Me, directing Graham Greene's The Potting Shed.
Here's the cast list (in no particular order):
James – Jonathan Horne
Father Callifer – Adam Carter
Kreuzer – Noah Barnett
Baston – Will Minich
John – Brendon Keene
Corner – Jonathan Davis
Sara – Janel Corbett
Miss Connolly – Ashley Saturday
Anne – Molly Mallory
Mrs. Potter – Amy Knutson
Mrs. Callifer – Sarah Hamilton
(That list is the result of 7 hours of auditioning, and 3-4 of deciding)
And as for the rest of life, it's been the hardest beginning-of-a-semester that I've had so far. Loosing someone is huge, and then all the little things just add to it. Feeling terribly old and like I shouldn't be here anymore.
Things are getting better, gradually. And I do enjoy working on my SIP. And my dear roommate Reverend Saturday.
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August 16, 2006
thirty truths and no lies
I turned 21.
I was in a parade, dressed in 30s clothes.
I was Cleopatra.
I chased buses.
I learned to make children respect me.
I walked till I couldn't walk any longer.
I drank mixed drinks in the lounge.
I regretted my shyness.
I did a hippy oompa-loompa dance.
I got 'picked-up' for the first time ever.
I cried in a library.
I swam in a lake and turned purple.
I learned that to be mysterious is to be lonely.
I layed hands on a copy machine and prayed for it.
I decided to go to grad school.
I was told I was beautiful.
I was told I was "super huge"
I wondered what a deguarritypist was.
I was laughed at by strangers.
I rediscovered my love of books
I felt more southern than I've ever felt before.
I made friends.
I never found a rollar skate.
I discovered predjudices I never kI knew I had.
I spent time in other people's sprinklers.
I got addicted to coffee.
I developed a strange obsession concerning the song "without you"
I chased, and was chased by squirrels.
I learned how to breath into my legs.
Tomorrow is my last day in Seattle.
Then comes my senior year, and my SIP and graduation.
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