Stuff and Spec

I kind of really don't want to blog today. I don't really know why, but I think I have to. Just because so much has happened over the past two days. Sorry, it's Hot Fudge Sunday but I forgot all about it. :[[


FRIDAY:

Friday was the best day of spec yet. After school I went to Cat's with her and Abby and we shopped at Walgreens for get-hype candy for the under-energetic actors. We found this heart-shaped Spiderman box valentine filled with chocolate and decided it was the PERFECT gift for Sam from--who else?--MINDY. So we wrote a note (including juicy tidbits like: "I love you more than I love sitting outside your window every night," "If you're still not interested, tell Otto I think he's really cute too," and "If you're both interested, something can be arranged.") and sprayed it with a ton of perfume and a lipstick kiss and put it inside the box. On the outside we drew Sam and Mindy on their wedding day with their baby Smindy as well as a bunch of hearts and x's and o's. We got Panzer to give it to Sam during practice and it was SO FUNNY. He read the note aloud and Michelle was freaking out (she didn't realize it was a joke). It was utterly hilarious. We were incredibly hyper (and Otto was "spec horny"...........................) and our performance was amazingly fab. We had a good time, especially getting our asses smacked by the tunnel afterwards--ASS-tricks! Tao was hanging out in D hall with some CRD people and so I conveniently hung out there too. We also offered them all a ton of chocolate. He was nice like always, and talked to me, too. Cindy and Mamall came with my family, so I saw them after the show. I went to Lizzie Evard's afterwards with Ellie, Alison, Kate, and Marie, and we had a nice time even though I could only stay for like an hour. Damn, Friday was a good day, despite all the sexual innuendoes involving me.


SATURDAY:

I went to work out and the woman who usually trains us wasn't there, so we had this guy who was really hard on us. I am insanely sore today. Afterwards, I showered and went to Tulip where I met with all of the spec writers about the all-spec party next Friday (so excited!!) and putting Waldo (from CRD) in all of the specs. We had a nice chat, and then Cat and I went to her house and bummed around for a bit. The whole spec came over for dinner (Yats!!) and it was nice. For once, Emily wasn't there, and that was really good. I'm kind of sick of her slutty, annoying self--doesn't she have a boyfriend?? Whose name is not Otto??--even though she can sometimes be fun. But we broke up into the cliques again...the annoying, immature group; the group that is kind of boring; and the group that I always feel uncomfortable hanging out with (henceforth known as the clicque) because they make me feel stupid and naive and ugh. Practice went all right; HU/TT had a really big dance party complete with strobe lights, so we hung out and danced for a while in the men's dressing room. Later, our room was so hot that no one had any energy and we all kind of collapsed in the hallway, which was cooler. Stuff happened which I don't really remember...Otto took his shirt off a lot (....and he's not as hot as he thinks he is....), some people had a sing-along, Lauren and Abby played Pokemon, Miles walked around in his boxers, Mitchell's pants fell off on purpose, Sam put on the pink Genevieve dress after the show, Ben and Amy kind of "bonded", we had a billion people in our room after the show instead of a tunnel, Ben and Otto sandwiched me very sexually during kill, rape, pillage, and burn, etc. We did great, surprisingly enough. We found some of TIS's confetti backstage and Otto used it during the gunfight (HOO-HAW! *confetti*). Miles won Tuesday's Best Supporting Actor for C.E. Quintio, and we won a few other awards related to our setting/scenery, Beowulf references, and most creative use of class year. HU/TT won Best Act (TIS should have won!) and TIS won Best Script for like every night. Cat cried for forever, I cried for like a minute, the three of us hugged for a long time. Afterwards, though, we all went to Tucker's. And this is when shit started to happen. We were having an okay time, though Cat and Jay were making out in Cat's car and people thought it was funny to disturb them (really, it was just not cool to picture that in my head). There was a fight between the people who wanted to play Rock Band and the people who wanted to dance (including me). We were having an okay time when most of the clicque left to go get "energy drinks". Ben said that he thought they were out smoking pot and cigars and so we all got pissed off. I don't care what they do on their own watch, but it's MY SPEC PARTY. Sam is a writer....he shouldn't leave, go get high, and then come back and stink up Tucker's house. Basically, that happened. And Sarah, Bobby, Lizzie, and I all went to TIS's party at Max's house. There, we had fun and hung out with Max and Scott for a long time. Big drama though, because Bobby was texting Daniel, who said that the CRD cars had gotten egged ant that they thought Sam and Otto did it. Of course, the last time I'd seen Sam, he'd been high, so I automatically assumed he had probably done it, so I texted him and basically yelled at him via text. He calls me up and says they were actually helping clean it up, but I said something about them being high and making Tucker's house smell like pot and he just yelled something like "YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING IN THIS SPEC, YOU'RE WORTHLESS, GO CRY," and hung up. That asshole. Sometimes he can be the nicest person and a really great guy, but sometimes he can just be a total douchebag. Whatever. I don't know what I'm going to do when I see him tomorrow. I've never been this mad at him before. He knew that would push my buttons and piss me off. Later, Lindsay showed up, and the girls (including me) and Scott all went to Steak and Shake at 3 am after hearing about the creativeness of Homer's Oddity--I really think it could have made a good spec, but the script wasn't so great and they didn't have the actors they really needed. Too bad, great ideas.


SUNDAY:

We spent the night at Sarah's (got in at about 4) and Sarah's mom drove Lizzie and I back to Tucker's for our car's at about nine. She is so nice, the three of us had a cute conversation. When I got home, I did very little. I watched the two newest Bones episodes on Hulu and should have done homework but didn't. I texted Eli for like four hours and chatted with Alex, too. Nothing much happened. I needed to take pictures for photography again but it's so cold outside I couldn't do a thing. Brrr!

Writers Bonding After-the-Fact

Whoa, tonight was insane. Spec went off well, but we had some problems with the slides and light cues. Afterwards (after Trippy Trip made a hand-tunnel for us!! so nice!!) we (Sam & Cat & I) went to Qdoba (them: come on, live a little!!!) and I ran into Laura! I haven't seen her in forever. C, S, and I talked a lot and joked about the seemingly endless amount of girls in love with the Sipes (obviously they are blind and missed Sam's weird goatee last week). Cat and I kept fawning over Sam jokingly and making jokes about this girl Mindy who is totally in love with him. "Sam, I do not want to have sex with you!" was basically every third sentence. We played "spin the hot sauce bottle" but we all kept hitting ourselves and wouldn't actually kiss anyone if the bottle landed there anyways. It was fun. I realized that the three of us actually get along rather well when we're not yelling at each other. On the way to Cat's car I sat on Cat's lap in the front seat and hit my head on the window a lot. And then Sam and I talked on the way back to the NC parking lot and had an okay time. I miss when we all had fun together and didn't hate each others' guts half the time. And now I'm texting Eli and he said he missed me being Mercedes cause Emily isn't as good and it makes me sad.

Eat Babies!

I really should be doing my European History outline for an in-class essay I have to write tomorrow. But I don't really feel like it. I need to take pictures, too, but I've been way too busy every day to even think about it.

We had spec dress rehearsal today--tomorrow's the real thing! We've been preparing for so long that it seems insanely unreal. Wow. Tomorrow I'm Mercedes, and hopefully everything will go off without a hitch. I didn't forget any lines today (minus a "Fabulous!" that didn't really mean anything) and although my blocking/movement left a little to be desired I think I did an okay job. Eli texted me to be louder, so I tried, but I'm not really sure if it worked. Also, I think I talk way too fast. But whatever, I'm just really self-conscious. People told me I did well, though I think they would say that no matter what. Trippy Trip was okay, but I feel that they were kind of overhyped. I mean, they were all "we're so good! our dance is awesome! ours is perfect! we're amazing!" but it wasn't fabulous. Definitely good, but not as good as I'd thought. The acting was great and the effects/sets were good, too, but I just didn't laugh. This Is Spec was really good--they kept me laughing (a lot!) and, although I'm not a big fan of the storyline, it worked out really well. Ben and Tre were great and I loved their song "Guy Love." Camp Raindrop was all right. They definitely had their funny parts (most involving Andrew as a girl in short shorts...kind of embarrassing but hilarious) but a lot of it wasn't that great. I did like when all the GTA people came on (Andrew was great! And Will was...Will.). I hope we did well.

School today was so-so. I'm tired of spec drama and Sam getting all bent out of shape for stupid reasons (oh, my, god....CALM DOWN! even Otto was saying it in Physics!). It's almost over, though. Ian invited Lizzie and I (and a few other people) to the Trippy Trip afterparty, although we definitely will be attending our own party first. I just want to have some FUN!!! It's spec party! It's supposed to be crazy. And Asterisk isn't exactly crazy. I talked to Lizzie (E) about it and she said she thought it would be fine, but she's checking with Sam (W) and Amy (R). I hope it's okay...I think they'd be pretty chill about it as long as we didn't have a million people. Which we won't. I imagine that there would be a maximum of nine people, but probably more like five. I'm not going to tell everyone, just a few people, anyway.

I really enjoyed our pre-performance hype session. Also, I really enjoyed the post-dress rehearsal compliment from a certain someone in a yellow CR hoodie (!), showing me that maybe all is not forgotten. Maybe P---SA will come off? Probably not.

Biorhythms!!! Eeeek!

So Alex and I have had to do biorhythms for precal (something to do with sine curves) and I think it's kind of interesting. According to my biorhythm for this month, I will have a physical high tomorrow (the 20th), as well as an intellectual low--which sucks, cause I have a precal test! And of course my emotional low is approaching, around the 23rd. This isn't going to be a good end of the month. And next month, all of mine have a low around the same time! Not to mention that Valentine's Day will be a "critical" time emotionally and intellectually. Meaning that I'm probably going to cry a lot because I don't have a boyfriend. Yuck.

Spec practice today went super well, I think. Except for when Darius, Ben, and Otto (and later, after I tried to get him to come up to STOP them, Sam....) lit like thousands of napkins on fire in Tucker's kitchen. They were rolling fake napkin "joints" and trying to smoke them, too--with nothing in them. It was really stupid-looking, though kind of funny. Our hour "break" was okay, though afterwards Otto and Miles crashed and were half-asleep doing their lines. Then I kind of fell asleep. But I didn't explode and everyone was fairly nice, except Otto who is never nice and Emily who kept criticizing my Mercedes--uh, hello, I'm not a very good actress but I was kind of doing my own thing.

I'm tired. And I got too many movies at Hollywood Video again--didn't watch Endless Sunshine like ALWAYS (I always get it but never watch it! I have no clue why). And I needed to take pictures for photography but it was too cold outside this entire weekend. I just wanted to sleep. Which, frankly, I really want to do right now. I guess I could have slept in instead of watching three episodes of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, but it's kind of addicting. I am SO middle-America.

Y=FML

Blech, screwed up yesterday and forgot to post. I'm just going to post when I get the chance cause last night was a bitch to try to get anything done. Too much to do!

I got my schedule semi-fixed; independent study photo first period, euro second...and still espanol third and precal ninth. FML!!!! I miss Ms. Wendt!!! SOOO nice, such a good teacher. Independent study was awkward...I don't really know anyone else in the class except for Meredith, who was in my advanced drawing and whom I didn't really talk to very much (but she's pretty nice), and I didn't know where to sit so it was really awkward. And I felt so out-of-place! I can't wait to just start taking pictures and developing and being awesome. Then again, I really need to work on actually taking good pictures...I waited until the last minute a lot last year so my stuff wasn't so hot. Walking into euro yesterday after recieving the word that that was my new class was SO NICE....everyone was like "DELANEY!!!!" and really happy that I'd gotten in the class. You know, for the second time that day. YAY.

Currently I am helping Eli find purple skinny jeans. He wanted the same ones from Delia's that I just bought ($15 on clearance!! w00t!) but they don't have his size in his inseam. I think it would be actually insanely rad for him to have the same pants that I do, but it would kind of make more people think he's gay. And he doesn't want to be like this one guy...who is too hipster for his own good...and wears uggs with skinny jeans...and is totally straight (and uber tall!)...and is very, very hipster (cool style, but too "put together").

I might have to take on this speaking part in spec...yeah, not what I wanted, but I guess Emily thought Sam was kicking her out for missing a night or something (??) and quit. So I might be stepping in as Mercedes. I was going to memorize lines for tomorrow but I had to blog...soo...looks like I'll be doing that all day tomorrow. I already know most of them anyway, I think.

In IB Physics today Allison, Amy, and I messed around and drew stupid pictures. Gibson was showing us something about equations...*yawn*...and trying to make them linear (y=mx+b). And I wrote Y=FML on the top of my page, all legit-like, where ML is the x-coordinate and F is the slope. Duh. We had a lovely time in IB Land...like usual.

Dia De Enero

I've heard a billion good things about The Tudors, so I started watching it tonight. Just the first episode, but I liked it and plan on watching more. I liked the costumes and all the history, as well as the political intrigue, but I did get annoyed at all the BOOBS. I don't mind seeing guys with their shirts off (and in fact, I really like that part of the three sex scenes in the first episode), but I don't really like seeing all the shirtless girls. Ugh. Still, I'll at least be watching a few more episodes. I love, love, love Britishness (accents! *swoon*) and history and everything else about the show. I'm a really big Dexter fan (though we don't get Showtime; I have to watch it online), and I like what I've seen of Weeds, so I'm thinking that this is probably just as good as those other Showtime shows.

Had spec practice today. Junior Spectacular is a program that raises money for prom, and it consists of four one-act plays written, directed, and acted by juniors at my school. I'm a writer/director of one, but more about that some other time. Anyway, I had a good time even though there was some animosity about the fact that I've missed three of our practices in the past two weeks. Frankly, I had no control: the first time, I was out of town; the second, my dad had to take relatives to Chicago and took my car, and so I couldn't go; the third, I had to babysit my sister. Since I live a half hour away it's really hard for me, and no one seems to understand my familial obligations and the sheer logistical problems of the whole thing. Whatever, I'm fine with it.

Out of all my friends, I haven't seen Eli in two weeks!! And that's totally a bummer, because we're getting to be really good friends, and his utter hilarity doesn't really come through via text message. Other than that, I think I've gotten to see most of my friends, even cilts, so it was a pretty satisfying break for all involved. However, I still have to finish my book for English, and write the stinking reader responses. AND memorize radians for precal. Ugh. Homework over break. Vomit.

Luckily, I can listen to Shakira--Dia De Enero is one of my favorite songs...soo pretty...and it's January (enero). I used some stick tape to tape my laptop lid together, and it seems to be working pretty well, better than scotch tape was.

One of my favorite things in the world is driving home on a dreary day and just listening to music and being all at peace with the world. I can't listen to anything too depressing or else I get very moody and introspective (in a BAAAD way...I really start hating my life...), but chill songs are always good bets. The Decemberists are perfect, as well as Sufjan Stevens.