Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Caught in a sunshower...


Hello, it has been ages and ages since I last blogged but today was such a glorious New York day that I had to impart a bit of it to you all, my cyber-friends. (: This week has been amazing! My friend from high school, Josh, is in town from Chicago. He goes to DePaul University and he’s staying until Monday—so I get to play tourist for awhile! It’s been great! Let’s see, he even helped me study for my art history midterm Friday. Thursday night around 10 o’clock I thought, “CRAP! I have a midterm tomorrow!” So I studied, studied, studied four FOUR HOURS. Then I looked at my syllabus. My midterm is next Friday. Yay. So, I know a lot about art! Instead of having a midterm we went on a field trip to a printmaking studio near Times Square! It was SA-WEET! We, the class, collectively made a lithograph; I looooove lithography and I think I would love to do it forever. (: Good news. Also, today Josh and I went to Grand Central and checked out the New York Public Library. It’s BEAUTIFUL. Go! Both of them are amazingly gorgeous old, ornate, detailed, sculpted buildings from a time when people spent time getting things they wanted. After that we went to Jamba Juice and I got an orange juice (12 legit-ly juiced oranges), which I don’t typically like but it was delish, and took the Madison Ave bus to Central Park. It was so great. (: I can’t even explain it. We walked in and there’s people everywhere, but everyone is just relaxing and enjoying the 65 weather. There’s a clown guy juggling Beanie Babies and bowling balls and doing handstands, and people selling balloons and cotton candy. Little kids were playing everywhere and it was literally like a breath of fresh air. I just love seeing the humanity that you don’t really see when people are pushing past you on the sidewalks or squashing you in the subways. So we layed on a huge rock and listened to two little girls berate another one for stepping in CROCODILE RIVER! Haha. Cuties. After that we parted ways on account of Josh is going to hang out with his friend Emily and staying there tonight. I came back home and visited Jamie at work. I love how here, all of the restaurants have those glass sliding doors and can open up into a huge open-air restaurant. (: After visiting I came to the apartment and went running which was awesome—it was my first outside run of the year. Rah! I ran…[I’m calculating]…SEVENTY-TWO BLOCKS and FIFTEEN AVENUES! Wowzers, I a little bit amazing. :P Then I visited some more with Jamie at Pomme Cafe where she works and came home and stretched on my roof while watching the sunset over the skyline. Gah. It’s a beautiful life. I hope you guys have an awesome weekend! I’m going to meet Jamie for dessert tonight and then singing at church tomorrow. I hope the weather continues to delight me! Byby all!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Academy Awards

Sooo…hi erryone! Guess what I just realised!? I’ve been a musical theatre major for a year and a half and I didn’t know that the Academy Awards were synonomous with the Oscars! (: Awesome. Anywayzz, I’m watching them now, and I’m crushin’ on some major Zac Efron and imagining meeting Meryl Streep. I’d fall over. I’d just…fall over. OMG I just realised that I’ve been to the Kodak Theatre! I’ve been on the stage! Ah…can’t wait to be back! Haha. Okay, well I’m sure you don’t care for an update. TiVo it or something. Also, that was the best invention ever. My roommate and I TiVo everything. Especially White Collar, Grey’s Anatomy, and Project Runway. We watch marathons of those things.
So, I feel so productive lately! In Art History, which got snowed out last Friday, we have a research paper outline due next Friday [you follow?] and I’ve ALREADY started on researching!!! This is unheard of. I am the Queen of the Procrastination Nation. But hey check me out! I wanted to do the artist Ron Mueck, check him out his stuff’s amazing, but he’s so recent that my professor [YES I even talked to him about before it was due!] thought it was too recent to find book sources on him. However, he told me that Ron Mueck was showing in a gallery in the city curated by Shaquiell O’Neal. Um, whatnow? Haha. I’m gonna need to go see that. Also, I want to go see Alice in Wonderland! [I always type Alice and Wonderland and always have to erase it- aka backspace] And then I also want to see my old Spanish teacher’s apartment in the city. I want to tag her in the picture on Facebook. She’s gonna be so surprised. (:
I think it’s funny that I’m becoming really good friends with my professors and the old people in my classes. Haha, I hope that I start making more friends. Maybe once I audition for theatre I’ll meet some people at auditions or something. I really hope I get in! I signed out a rehearsal space the other day and rehearsed my monologues a bit…it was a good rehearsal! Discovered some stuff and I really connect with the piece so I think that will be good. I really need to find an accompanist sometime soon though…so I can practice my song.
Anyway, I keep getting distracted by these dang Academy Awards/Oscars. Did you know my dog is named Oscar? (: PS—I found an apartment for this summer when I go back to work at Busch Gardens! Yayyyy. Now to find someone to sublet. I think my roommate has a couple of people interested. Obviously we’d rather have someone who she knows…
Oky byby lovelies! Come visit the cityyy! (:

Internship Time!

Hey everyone,
Sorry I’ve been MIA for a while. I got an internship at the end of the fall semester, so I’ve been extremely busy. I’m interning at Theater Ten Ten as the assistant stage manager. It’s an equity theater, so everyone that works there is very professional. I’ve made some amazing connections, friends, and had a ton of good experiences.

This semester so far is a lot tougher than last semester. Not only do I have four classes, but I have to figure out how to juggle all of my school work with my internship. It’s really tough since I’m at the theater almost every evening. I like being busy though. It totally beats just sitting around bored. I do miss hanging out with my friends and going to Broadway shows like I did last semester. I do get to hang out with my friends about once a week though which isn’t great, but it’s ok. It will all work out in the long run though since I’m actually benefiting my future career with this internship.

I’m sorry that this is short and not very coherent. It’s really late and I’m exhausted from a full day of classes plus doing a show tonight.

I’ll write more later.

xoxo