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My new little rat Walter is sitting her with me and he’s climbing on top of the unlit lightbulb. I feel a little better already.

Walter being cute

Where to start… I feel like I’m sort of falling into a black hole. I’m feeling worse and worse every day (Probably due to the ever-present lack of sleep, w0rking 15-20 hours a week and trying to get tons of volunteering in.) I feel like my composure is deteriorating and IB Theatre isn’t helping. I mean, I can’t say it’s not my own fault, I have to turn in muy PPP so Koller probably hates me, and I’ve barely started my RI. On top of that I have my SPanish oral this week, I’m having issues in Chemistry(no surprise there) and I’m constantly getting awful headaches. Also, I’ve started gaining some of the wigh I lost back. I spent 60 dollars on patterns, and my seamstresses needed fabric this weekend that just passed. Guess who couldn’t afford it? ME! Therefore, Tobi (who is my friend’s mom) is getting kind of mad, but the soonest I can get it to her is friday when I get paid unless I get refunded the money for the patterns. Ben still doesn’t have any set design, which only makes things worse, and it seems I’ve become and edublogs stalker. I’ve been going and reading everyones blogs and it seems that everybody seems to think that nobody else cares. I desperately weant this to be a good show, and the effort being put out by the Juniors (and one Senior in particular) really makes me mad. I think what pisses me off the most is that Alex has been harping on ben nonstop, which he rightfully deserves, but when told she couldn’t use her script, she said she hadn’t been there. That is outright hypocrisy(I don’t know if that’s spelled right and I don’t care)! If she’s going to get on somebody else about tneir effort, she needs to put out just as much. This week she was much better, but that one incident still angers me.  “Beware the Ides of March” is right(even though I mean all of March, not just thye 15th)!

Anne Frank isn’t going quite as well as I had hoped. We’re having mutiny from the Juniors over Ben and his lack of a set design, which in his defense he just started. Also, the blocking isn’t going so well. Everyone’s standing in a line, and we’re using a makeshift set for now. I’m worried that we won’t be able to put together a good show in time. I also need to get on the ball, because I’ve been told that it would be a good idea to design and make the costumes rather than buy them. So I’ve started designing but I’m still conflicted over my costume designs. I keep playing around with shapes and accent colors (because apparently we’re doing all grey with accent colors, another thing I need to talk with everyone about.) I also still need to get fabric swatches and patterns and give my seamstresses (Tobi Campbell and Danielle Davis) an idea of what they’ll be doing.

So with auditions over with and whatnot, us IB Seniors can get started with rehearsing for the show, and starting our IPP’s. I chose to design costumes for the show, which is really a plus for me because I’m good with finding time appropriate clothing, especially for the 1940′s (It’s one of my favorite eras of fashion). I’ve gone through the costume room and I’ve already found a lot of good period pieces that would work. I think the hardest part of the costuming process will probably be the shoes and maybe hair. Shoes that fit the time period will probably be hard to come by because the style of women’s shoes has changed a lot. I have one pair that will work, but I need shoes for all the other girls! I will definitely have to do some serious thrifting, but I’m excited to see how it all turns out.

Sweeney’s over . I’ll really miss everyone and all the fun. One thing I won’t miss, however, is te Pie Shop. That’s right! It’s capitalized! As one of the 5 set movers, I came to realize how hard it could be to pull things together. Especially when there’s a stupid rotating set!!! We often fought (because someone seemed to think that she was the leader, and tried to tell us all what to do, which ended up being wrong). But even so, there was so much tension because we knew that if we messed up, it could be reeeeeeeeeeeeeally bad. We had so many prolems during practices and we all ended up with scratches and bruises and in my case even a couple scars. So it all worked out set-wise. I feel I grew a little during this process, because I realized how high-strung everyone can get as it gets closer and closer to performance time. I was particulary angry at everyone who talked loudly during the practices, and the people who gathered behind the Pie Shop because they were too lazy to go under the curtain, or they didn’t feel like it. This left the set movers to squish themselves inside of the Pie Shop with the leads, which led to Cindy missing The Letter . She felt so awful too. It wasn’ t her fault though, she got stuck! I also found that it was kind of difficult to comeup with a unique character, and I realize that I should probably work on that. My powers of concentration, however, I thought were pretty good, seeing as I had to stand out front without moving whil practically all the leads ran by me. I wish we could do Sweeney forever

Yes. That’s right. I said AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And why do I say argh you ask? Because of the Anne Frank auditions.  Not only was there a complete lack of respect for the people auditioning or judging the auditions (is it really necessary to BLAST don’t stop beleiving?), but then people are complaining about what they got.  I’M SORRY YOU WERE GOOD FOR A CERTAIN ROLE!!!!! IT IS NOT OUR FAULT!!!!!!!!!!! I mean…nicole and Alex were really proffesional in how they handled it. They were obviously both dissapointed, but they were okay with our decisions. Schuyler, however, did not. I have no problems with
Schuyler, but seriously, WE ARE NOT OUT TO GET YOU!!!!! I know that Schuyler doesn’t get along with Morgan and I actually feel really awful about the way that it turned out. But, if you’re going to act, you’re going to have to kiss people you don’t want to kiss. It’s not that big a deal. Despite the drama of last class (lol), I’m extremely excited for Anne Frank (especially the costumes). I can’t really act and I love fashion, so I’m really happy that I didn’t have to fight anyone over the role of costume designer. 

P.S. Everything I said in this journal is with love

Just to forewarn you Koller, these are all out of order

So I’m stuck with Toni as a partner again. And I mean that with love. I love Toni to death, but she’s not the most creative person ever and neither am I. So I was a little worried. But, when we got together to come up with some sort of proposal, we had a really nifty idea! I suggested that we portray some sort of government scandal, because that’s always interesting, and then she took it a step further and suggested Watergate! What genius! I have a creative Techie!!!! Then we decided that it should be a one-man show for emphasis and should highlight Nixon’s possible insanity while he was going through Watergate. I think we could steer it in an absurdist direction, but I’m not quite sure on the specifics of absurdist theatre. My exposure to absurdism is through The Stranger, and I don’t think literature and theatre genres necessarily coincide.

Why oh why did I have to choose the hardest character ever to be for our little group thingamabobs. Paulina Salas is the new bane of my existence. Besides being ridiculously unprepared for the run through we did the other day (we only had one copy to work out of because Sameer forgot to copy L), I really hadn’t even started to develop my character yet. I also really had no idea how to. On top of that I talk really quickly when I’m nervous and I was deathly ill and congested so nobody could understand me except when I cussed. Big surprise. I’m still having trouble figuring out how to play Paulina. I think I might watch the movie version with Sigourney Weaver to see how she does it. I’m not going to copy her or anything, but it would give me a better idea of the character in general. I’ve been thinking that maybe I could cry while I was talking to Oleg in the beginning of the scene. Not in a spastic or super emotional kind of way, but more of a subtle way with the tears running down my cheeks as I’m talking. I’m pretty sure I could do that; my life’s a little crazy right now.