I have a confession to make: I watch Project Runway. It's just so entertaining! I don't know the first thing about fashion or making clothes, but I love the drama and the final products and seeing who gets booted. If you know the show, you will get the title and the explanation. Otherwise skip to the next section.

I HATE RICKY. Will he stop crying for just one second?! My suite hates him too. My roommate actually at one point said, "If he cries one more time, his ass is grass." I laughed my own ass off at this because I COMPLETELY agree.

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

I turned 21 just today. God knows what that means will happen, but BIRTHDAY!!!

This past week was kind of a roller coaster. SOOOO busy with homework, which I got all done. At the same time I'm doing rehearsals for Liaisons, which are a blast and I know are going to get better. THEN I auditioned for You Can't Take It With You, which I originally wasn't going to do because I didn't want too busy of a semester. My roommate convinced me to do it and I actually got cast! I will be playing Wilbur C. Henderson, the IRS agent. Exciting!

Classes, although busy, are a lot of fun. I have a feeling this semester will be loaded, but with creative growth (sorry to get all euphonious on you).

PS If you come for nothing else, come see Les Liaisons Dangereuses for the set and costumes. Had my fitting the other day and it was AMAZING. Probably the best costume I will ever wear.

Choir Tour to New Mexico is next weekend, which should be a blast. It's a great group of kids and should be a lot of fun.

If you came to Trinity in Focus, I hope you enjoyed the weekend and that you got to see the Broadway Revue. If you are coming up again, check to see if a production is showing!

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This was my favorite quote from the Broadway Revue. It pretty much speaks for itself.

The Revue took place this weekend during Trinity in Focus. Overall I felt the show went over quite well. I was very happy with what I wrote (in case you didn't know, I was the writer for the show). I've been stressing out over this thing for ages, but now I am FREEEEE!!!

First week back! I've had a pretty good first three days, too. My schedule is a little odd this semester because I have almost all my academic classes on Tuesday/Thursday, leaving my Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays open. I am starting Voice this semester with one of the best vocalists and vocal coaches. Choir is getting ready for the New Mexico tour in February soon. My other classes this semester are Costume Design, Advanced Production Techniques: Computer-Aided Design, Contemporary Literature, and Shakespeare's Tragedies. As I said before, so far so good!

We start rehearsals for Les Liaisons Dangereuses next week, where I will be playing Azolan. It's a nice little role that will give me time outside of the theater, so I'm pretty excited. We also have You Can't Take It With You auditions coming up and some student-directed pieces will happen soon, including Tick Tick Boom, Man Talk (student-written), and more.

Mocha Life will be coming up in February and the Trinitones, among other groups, are performing. We will have other performances soon, including our Happy Friday performances (every Friday around lunch we perform in Coates. It attracts quite a crowd!).

I have summerstock auditions coming up in a month, so I need to get monologues and songs prepped if I want a summer job!

Oh, and PS, I'M 21 IN A WEEK!!!!

That is all.

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I just saw The Dark Crystal for the first time. Okay, I'm sorry to those of you who are lovers, but what? What a messed up flick! Those puppets were frickin scary, man! I was shocked it was supposed to be a family movie because I found myself cringing or jumping at things. Even the little pillbug with fur gave me a heart attack when it jumped out of the log with that Pit of Sarlacc for a mouth. Aaaaaanyway though, at one point the Skekses (bad guys) are arguing with one another over who should be the new emperor, and eventually two of them stare each other down and then scream "TRIAL BY STOOOOOONE!!!!" And they all repeat it and, forgive me, but it might have been one of the funniest things I have ever seen and I laughed my ass off. Ahhh, the puppet drama...

So I haven't been too good about keeping up with my blog lately. Apologies to all. This break has been completely necessary and very relaxing, although the semester turned out to be my best, which is shocking because it has also been my most stressful. That aside, it was definitely a GPA booster and pretty fun. Mostly been hanging around the house or out with friends seeing movies and the like.

Oh, and may I just say, hasn't this been a good holiday for movies? Wow. Juno and Sweeney Todd, right up at the top for me. Enchanted was cute too and I still need to see Atonement, but I think this has been a pretty good box office season.

I've also been revising the script for the Broadway Revue. I had to do it just recently because one of our actors is ill and had to drop out, unfortunately. Thus I had to write a character out of the show, which turned out to be a lot easier than I imagined it would be.

I've been my big geeky self and playing Dungeons and Dragons with my fellow geek friends at home. My battle sorcerer rocks though! You... you can relate, right? No? Not so much? Yeah, ok...

Ooh, go play Rock Band. Dude, that game totally (no pun intended) rocks! You have a microphone, guitar, and drums and you just do this Karaoke Revolution/Guitar Hero/drum game combination game! So much fun! I don't own it unfortunately, but it's awesome nonetheless.

I got some nice Christmas presents, some DVD's, some Wii games, lots of clothes, nothing worth throwing out. It's so interesting to me that the days leading up to Christmas Day used to tear me to pieces waiting for the day when I could rip open some presents. Now it's Christmas Eve and I'm thinking "Huh...... Got that present thing to do tomorrow...." How about that?

Went to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra? Oh yes, that was me. Dude, I know I've seen them before, but WOOOOHOOOOOHOOOWWW!!! So much fun! The lights and the music and..... aarrrrgh. So good.

My family and I took a short vacation in Wimberley, a small town just outside of San Marcos. We used to own a river house there, so we stayed in a bed and breakfast nearby our old house. It was the most relaxing experience. Granted I was playing Metroid and Super Mario Galaxy for most of it, but it was just what I needed. If you are ever there over the holidays, go see the Trail of Lights. Magical.

I got to see my high school friends on New Year's Eve! I don't get to actually see them very often except for those who I keep up with and are my closest friends. It was so good to see everyone and see who changed and who didn't change and all that jazz. That's something that's worth doing after you graduate.

Well, semester starts back up soon. We've got Broadway Revue to put up, Les Liaisons to get ready for, a choir tour in New Mexico, ADAM PASCAL IS COMING TO TRINITY... should be pretty awesome!

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