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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
super fun?
I get into linguistic ruts sometimes and say the same phrase over and over again.
Hence the use of the phrase "super fun" in the last entry about 297349873420985734 times.
Hence the use of the phrase "super fun" in the last entry about 297349873420985734 times.
HELLOTHERE?
It has only been four days since I last wrote an blog entry
BUT IT FEELS LIKE FOREVER!
And it has been quite a busy forever:
I shall give you a quick summation of the last four days:
SATURDAY
I woke up way to early, because my dad needed me to work in the yard. (By early of course, I mean 10am; I am not a morning person.) I managed to get in a fight with him about my inability to keep track of time, and that just kind of put a damper on my day. But I did the work, and our yard looks really good, which is an odd occurrence. He also offered to pay me $50 a month to keep the garden weeded. I am excited to have money.
After I showered and such, I went to my friend Caitlin's dance recital. I had never been to a real dance recital, AND IT WAS SO COOL! She was in three dances (a jazz number, a tap number, and a ballet number), and they were all super good. It made me a little sad though, because I never took dance and I wish I had. (Well, I took it for a year, but my career ended when, at the recital, I spent more time looking at the disco ball than I did dancing)
After the dance recital, I went home and got ready for senior prom. I didn't go with a date, I went to help out with the photographs, but I still got to dance and talk to people and it was super fun. My hair caused many problems, and was icky, BUT IT WAS ALL OKAY IN THE END.
me, being a super hero at prom. I was SUPER PHOTO GIRL!
My friend Laura, who also assisted the photographer, and my friend Leanne, who actually attended prom.
Because we weren't actually guests of the prom, Laura and I couldn't go to the after-prom party hosted by the PTA, so we slept over at her house and debriefed. It was all super fun.
SUNDAY
After waking up (again) WAY to early, I left Laura's house, ran home, and got ready for auditions. I stage manage for my local theater, and we are putting on Seussical this summer. Sunday was the first day of auditions, and it was incredibly slow: we say 10 people in 4 hours.
After auditions, I went home, did my homework, and went to bed.
MONDAY
I went to school, and learned very little. I did get to witness some after prom fallout, which was interesting, but not really fun because it involved some of my friends.
After school I went to the Goodwill and bought some quite hideous clothing that I am super excited about. My purchases included:
-A pink mesh shirt
-A floral dress that my mother calls, "something right out of the eighties"
-A long floral granny skirt
-A puke yellow tee shirt.
I plan to modify the dress and skirt to make they prettier. The shirts, I plan to keep ugly.
After my excursion to goodwill, I ate a quick dinner and went to the second night of auditions. It was very unorganized and stressful; 20 people showed up in about and hour and a half. It was nice though, because I got to see a lot of the kids from last year that I hadn't seen in forever. After auditions were callbacks, which were SUPER FUN, and after callbacks we casted the show.
I think we did a super job, and it is going to be SO GOOD.
I am sure I am going to spend 88% of the next 3 months talking about the show; get used to it. The best part is my friend Laura (NOT the one mentioned above), got a really, really good role, and i am so proud of her.
I after casting, my director gave me a ride home, and I WAS SO PROUD OF MYSELF because I was able to make small talk. The director isn't that much older than me (22 to my 16), and we went to the same middle school and high school. I was able to talk to him for the ENTIRE 20 minute ride home. (You should be proud of me, everybody)
After I got home around 11:30, I stayed up WAY to late for a quiz. I went to be around 2 in the morning.
TUESDAY
I trudged through school on four hours of sleep and large amounts of black tea. We watched a movie in my world history class, after my teacher talked for an hour about how much our school sucks. It was kind of nice not to have to learn anything. The rest of the day was dull, and involved a quiz, sorting yearbooks, and learning about conic sections.
When I got home, I put the cast members' email addresses in my computer and sent out the cast list. Everyone was super excited. I actually called my friend Laura (the one with the big part), who didn't think she did that well. She was absolutely ecstatic, and we spend an hour on the phone talking about the show and how excited we are.
After I got off the phone, Katherine came over and we stalked people on facebook, watched youtube videos, and hung out for about an hour, until dinner time. For dinner, we walked to a local Italian restaurant for and Enivrothon team dinner. It was nice; our advisor bought us pizza and calzones, we exchanged phone numbers, and our teacher gave us all photographs of the team. It was actually bittersweet, because our advisor told us that she is being transferred next year and will no longer advise us. Its upsetting, because she was the best advisor ever: she made us food, let us come to her classroom if we needed a break/help, let me take naps on days when I was too tired to study, and put up with me and Katherine explaining stream conditions via interpretive dance. We have a new advisor, but she won't be as good.
Well I need to do my homework, i just spent 45 minutes doing this instead of trying to do my math homework.
Sorry for the spelling/grammatical errors, I don't really have time to proofread.
I will tomorrow, maybe.
SOPHIE
BUT IT FEELS LIKE FOREVER!
And it has been quite a busy forever:
I shall give you a quick summation of the last four days:
SATURDAY
I woke up way to early, because my dad needed me to work in the yard. (By early of course, I mean 10am; I am not a morning person.) I managed to get in a fight with him about my inability to keep track of time, and that just kind of put a damper on my day. But I did the work, and our yard looks really good, which is an odd occurrence. He also offered to pay me $50 a month to keep the garden weeded. I am excited to have money.
After I showered and such, I went to my friend Caitlin's dance recital. I had never been to a real dance recital, AND IT WAS SO COOL! She was in three dances (a jazz number, a tap number, and a ballet number), and they were all super good. It made me a little sad though, because I never took dance and I wish I had. (Well, I took it for a year, but my career ended when, at the recital, I spent more time looking at the disco ball than I did dancing)
After the dance recital, I went home and got ready for senior prom. I didn't go with a date, I went to help out with the photographs, but I still got to dance and talk to people and it was super fun. My hair caused many problems, and was icky, BUT IT WAS ALL OKAY IN THE END.
me, being a super hero at prom. I was SUPER PHOTO GIRL!
My friend Laura, who also assisted the photographer, and my friend Leanne, who actually attended prom.
Because we weren't actually guests of the prom, Laura and I couldn't go to the after-prom party hosted by the PTA, so we slept over at her house and debriefed. It was all super fun.
SUNDAY
After waking up (again) WAY to early, I left Laura's house, ran home, and got ready for auditions. I stage manage for my local theater, and we are putting on Seussical this summer. Sunday was the first day of auditions, and it was incredibly slow: we say 10 people in 4 hours.
After auditions, I went home, did my homework, and went to bed.
MONDAY
I went to school, and learned very little. I did get to witness some after prom fallout, which was interesting, but not really fun because it involved some of my friends.
After school I went to the Goodwill and bought some quite hideous clothing that I am super excited about. My purchases included:
-A pink mesh shirt
-A floral dress that my mother calls, "something right out of the eighties"
-A long floral granny skirt
-A puke yellow tee shirt.
I plan to modify the dress and skirt to make they prettier. The shirts, I plan to keep ugly.
After my excursion to goodwill, I ate a quick dinner and went to the second night of auditions. It was very unorganized and stressful; 20 people showed up in about and hour and a half. It was nice though, because I got to see a lot of the kids from last year that I hadn't seen in forever. After auditions were callbacks, which were SUPER FUN, and after callbacks we casted the show.
I think we did a super job, and it is going to be SO GOOD.
I am sure I am going to spend 88% of the next 3 months talking about the show; get used to it. The best part is my friend Laura (NOT the one mentioned above), got a really, really good role, and i am so proud of her.
I after casting, my director gave me a ride home, and I WAS SO PROUD OF MYSELF because I was able to make small talk. The director isn't that much older than me (22 to my 16), and we went to the same middle school and high school. I was able to talk to him for the ENTIRE 20 minute ride home. (You should be proud of me, everybody)
After I got home around 11:30, I stayed up WAY to late for a quiz. I went to be around 2 in the morning.
TUESDAY
I trudged through school on four hours of sleep and large amounts of black tea. We watched a movie in my world history class, after my teacher talked for an hour about how much our school sucks. It was kind of nice not to have to learn anything. The rest of the day was dull, and involved a quiz, sorting yearbooks, and learning about conic sections.
When I got home, I put the cast members' email addresses in my computer and sent out the cast list. Everyone was super excited. I actually called my friend Laura (the one with the big part), who didn't think she did that well. She was absolutely ecstatic, and we spend an hour on the phone talking about the show and how excited we are.
After I got off the phone, Katherine came over and we stalked people on facebook, watched youtube videos, and hung out for about an hour, until dinner time. For dinner, we walked to a local Italian restaurant for and Enivrothon team dinner. It was nice; our advisor bought us pizza and calzones, we exchanged phone numbers, and our teacher gave us all photographs of the team. It was actually bittersweet, because our advisor told us that she is being transferred next year and will no longer advise us. Its upsetting, because she was the best advisor ever: she made us food, let us come to her classroom if we needed a break/help, let me take naps on days when I was too tired to study, and put up with me and Katherine explaining stream conditions via interpretive dance. We have a new advisor, but she won't be as good.
Well I need to do my homework, i just spent 45 minutes doing this instead of trying to do my math homework.
Sorry for the spelling/grammatical errors, I don't really have time to proofread.
I will tomorrow, maybe.
SOPHIE
Saturday, May 16, 2009
In which I echo the vlogbrothers
I always have really good ideas to write down here, but then I just can't figure out how to write them down.
Does anyone else have this problem?
HOW DO I CONQUER IT?
WELL, THIS BLOG COMES IN THREE PARTS!
PART ONE: Sentimentality
Today was kind of weird. It was the last day of school for the senior class, and the energy in the school was...intense? extreme? It was interesting, to say the least. I could feel the restlessness and the excitement, and I am only a sophomore.
I was about to say that I don't actually know that many seniors and so it doesn't really even matter, but now that I think about I have four seniors that I would qualify as some of my "best friends" and about 10 more that I have "semi" friendships with--people I know well enough to have conversations with, say hello in the hallway, get rides home from. As the last 4 weeks of school go by, I will most likely realize that there are so many more.
Two of my very best friend are seniors, and even though I am going to keep seeing them (as I said to one of them, Nick, "I plan to spend everyday with you this summer. Is that okay with you?"), it's going to be weird knowing that they aren't in the building anymore.
I didn't actually see that much in school, but it was nice to know that I could if I wanted. It's quite upsetting.
I don't really like the idea of all these people leaving, of this year ending, and time going by. I haven't had the best year, but I have changed a lot, grown up a lot, and made so many friends.
I feel like another chapter is starting in my life, and I am not sure I like it.
PART TWO: Music
I don't know if I have talked about this, but I have an obsession with Ben Folds (I seem to get obsessed with music a lot) and his new CD is the best thing ever.
EVER!
It is called Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella, and consists of 16 of his songs arranged for A Cappella groups. It is the coolest sounding thing ever-- it is amazing what people can do with their voices. GO LISTEN TO IT NOW! It is on myspace in its entirety: CLICK HERE
My favorite song is Effington, followed my Jesusland, and then the rest of them.
And I realize that this review uses the words "coolest" and "exelent" a little too much, but I have trouble descirbing it in a better way.
"Love+Happiness+Warm Baguettes+Perfect Weather=this album" is the closest I can get.
PART THREE: Me, small-ified
My uncle sent this to me, AREN'T WE SO CUTE?!
I hope everyone is having a lovely day.
SOPHIE
Does anyone else have this problem?
HOW DO I CONQUER IT?
WELL, THIS BLOG COMES IN THREE PARTS!
PART ONE: Sentimentality
Today was kind of weird. It was the last day of school for the senior class, and the energy in the school was...intense? extreme? It was interesting, to say the least. I could feel the restlessness and the excitement, and I am only a sophomore.
I was about to say that I don't actually know that many seniors and so it doesn't really even matter, but now that I think about I have four seniors that I would qualify as some of my "best friends" and about 10 more that I have "semi" friendships with--people I know well enough to have conversations with, say hello in the hallway, get rides home from. As the last 4 weeks of school go by, I will most likely realize that there are so many more.
Two of my very best friend are seniors, and even though I am going to keep seeing them (as I said to one of them, Nick, "I plan to spend everyday with you this summer. Is that okay with you?"), it's going to be weird knowing that they aren't in the building anymore.
I didn't actually see that much in school, but it was nice to know that I could if I wanted. It's quite upsetting.
I don't really like the idea of all these people leaving, of this year ending, and time going by. I haven't had the best year, but I have changed a lot, grown up a lot, and made so many friends.
I feel like another chapter is starting in my life, and I am not sure I like it.
PART TWO: Music
I don't know if I have talked about this, but I have an obsession with Ben Folds (I seem to get obsessed with music a lot) and his new CD is the best thing ever.
EVER!
It is called Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella, and consists of 16 of his songs arranged for A Cappella groups. It is the coolest sounding thing ever-- it is amazing what people can do with their voices. GO LISTEN TO IT NOW! It is on myspace in its entirety: CLICK HERE
My favorite song is Effington, followed my Jesusland, and then the rest of them.
And I realize that this review uses the words "coolest" and "exelent" a little too much, but I have trouble descirbing it in a better way.
"Love+Happiness+Warm Baguettes+Perfect Weather=this album" is the closest I can get.
PART THREE: Me, small-ified
My uncle sent this to me, AREN'T WE SO CUTE?!
I hope everyone is having a lovely day.
SOPHIE
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Spring Awakening
For some reason, I keep having have these random bursts of thought and thinking, "I should blog about that."
But none of them are very long or very thought out.
Hence the last entry.
And this entry
I am totally in love with Spring Awakening. I have been following the touring cast's blog and vlog religiously, and today, a friend of mine burned me the sound track. IT IS SO GOOD!
I cannot wait untill it comes to Baltimore.
Hopefully I can get tickets.
sleep?
I need to sleep more.
All I can think about is school and being tired.
There was a point in time where I did more than sleep and homework.
SEE! LOOK AT ME! I THOUGHT NOT OF SCHOOL NOR SLEEP!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
SWINGDANCE
So, tonight I went to a swing dance at the local dance studio with a few of my friends. It was the most fun I have had in a while.
I have been swing dancing on and off for about 2 years now, without formal lessons. I still am not very good, but when you dance with some one who is really good, all you have to do is follow, and you look good.
It's great.
I hadn't danced in a while, and I was surprised how quickly I picked it back up. Hopefully can convince my parents to pay for some lessons.
And then, maybe I will be able to do this:
Or not. It would be nice though.
While I was searching youtube for good videos of swing dancing, I came across this clip from the movies Swingkids:
Its a depressing Holocaust movie, but I HIGHLY recommend it.
We watched it in middle school and i fell in love with it. Its really, really, really good.
As much as I like it, I had completely forgotten about it until saw this clip.
Tomorrow's(well, today's) plan is to somehow locate a copy and watch it.
Wish me luck
SOPHIE
I have been swing dancing on and off for about 2 years now, without formal lessons. I still am not very good, but when you dance with some one who is really good, all you have to do is follow, and you look good.
It's great.
I hadn't danced in a while, and I was surprised how quickly I picked it back up. Hopefully can convince my parents to pay for some lessons.
And then, maybe I will be able to do this:
Or not. It would be nice though.
While I was searching youtube for good videos of swing dancing, I came across this clip from the movies Swingkids:
Its a depressing Holocaust movie, but I HIGHLY recommend it.
We watched it in middle school and i fell in love with it. Its really, really, really good.
As much as I like it, I had completely forgotten about it until saw this clip.
Tomorrow's(well, today's) plan is to somehow locate a copy and watch it.
Wish me luck
SOPHIE
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