YOU: How was your spring break?
ME: I had the flu.
YOU: (see Below)

Below: There are two types of people in the world… they give me the two common responses.
people one (the realists): Oh man! that sucks.
people two (the always helpful, never empathetic optimists): Oh man! well at least you didn’t get it during school.

To people one I respond: yes. yes it did.
To people two I respond: you know i didn’t even think of that, geewillickers! thank goodness i got the flu over spring break!

No, but really, it wasn’t that bad. I only had the flu for the beginning of spring break, and for real thank goodness I didn’t get it during Dangerous Liaisons…cause then Mike would have gotten it, then Erica, then Robby, then Lindsey…(if you saw the show, this makes sense. if not, poo on you!) I guess If you’re going to have the flu, spring break is a good time to have it cause you don’t have to worry about classes. But why “if you’re going to have the flu”? Why not NOT have it at all. I’ll take that option.

Anyway, all flus aside, my spring break was wonderflu, flutasticly flufilling, full of flun…

i’m done.

Mother and I showed horses at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Actually we showed horse (singular), who ended up very tired when all was said and done.

a very tired Spencer.

Spencer, the horse, and I did really well – especially considering I had not been on him in months. Our proudest placing was a 2nd in amateur western pleasure. Along with the 25 cent red ribbon, the admiring congratulations from our adoring fans, and the defeated glares from our wannabe rivals, I think we might have also won a little money in the whole endeavor. not to shabby.

here’s two of me and Spense in a class called western pleasure. this competition is sort of a horsey fashion show, where you strut around the arena at different gates looking as gorgeous as possible.

As for the two giant bags of books and schoolwork I brought home to study, I am proud to say that they remained, for the most part, untouched for the duration of the break. I hoped to come back to Trinity with a flu plate (sorry, i’m done for real now.) a full plate of tests, papers, projects, and more. I wasn’t disappointed.

that is all.
mady

Posted by Maddy at 9:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Without further ado,
I now present to you:
Pictures form our sexy show,
With beautiful girls and handsome beaux.

your two favorite bloggers.

makeup, corsets, and wigs...

and more wigs.

waiting backstage.

scene change.

i don't even know...

scandal!

that is all.

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses opened last Friday and it was super-dee-duper fun! (and as the French say, super-du-duper fun!) We are really getting some great feedback! AND there have been no major snafus. Sometimes the Theatre gods decide to blow the vapor from the fog machine backstage rather than on stage, but our performances are amazing fog or no fog.

…yea, there’s a scene with fog in the show. if anything, you should come just to see the fog. it’s intense.

Opening night party was fun too. It was small, but a lot of the times the smaller parties are more fun – there’s not really any dancing, but you really get to hang out with people, rather than constantly flittering around from group to group. Unfortunately, A few of us had to come back to campus early though – Chemistry of Crime Lab the next morning…oh right, the whole higher education thing. you know i think college would be a lot more fun without the classes…or better yet, just get rid of the grades, and we’ll just study exactly what we want: arts and crafts, nap time, recess…oh wait that’s called elementary school. dang, i really do miss elementary school.

Anywho, I will eventually post some Dangerous Liaisons pictures, but I’m waiting until the show closes this Saturday. (you have to check back to see the costumes – they are beautiful. special thanks to our costume designer, Jodi, and everyone in the costume studio!)

interesting thing about the costumes though: the girls wear corsets. Each night we squeeze our insides into a space about half the size of what they deserve. At first this was not fun, but now we like our corsets. … what’s that condition called when you start to love/need you captor…stockholm syndrome, i think. corsets are fun, but i guess i like my internal organs where they are, so i think i’ll stop wearing mine when the show closes...

But right now that’s kind of my life: Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
As for the fast-approaching spring break, my activities might or might not include acting, riding, and relaxing: hopefully, I’ll get to work on some film in Austin— I’ve got a few auditions that I’m trying to set up right now. If I’m not acting, Mother and I will be attending several horse shows, where I will get to show for the first time in about a year…it could be scary.

that is all.
madie (an especially unique spelling found in the Dangerous Liaisons program)

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