At the beginning of the summer, I had a huge list of projects I wanted to get done before school started again. Out of at least 10 massive projects, I only ended up getting a couple of them done. Oh, well. At least I got to go on a real vacation. And I earned enough money to buy a Playstation 3, a new phone, and some other fun stuff.
High School Musical is turning into one of the most frustrating shows I've ever worked on. The kids cannot shut up. Granted, there are some good ones, but some among 80 is not that many. I haven't raised my voice at a cast since I was an immature teenager music directing way before I was ready to. With this show, it seems like every rehearsal I have to yell at least a few times. And some of the kids are so irresponsible it makes me furious. Out of a group of 15 or so, only a few brought their music to rehearsal yesterday. And the ones that didn't bring any music didn't know the song we were working on. Luckily, we're halfway there, time-wise. The music is all taught, so assuming they can remember it from here on out, I just have to do polishing at this point.
Our youth theatre musical workshop this month was fun. We had two groups. The oldest was ages 12-18, and the youngest was 7-11 (and completely made up of girls). With the oldest group, we did "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray and "Can't Help Falling in Love" from All Shook Up. With the youngest, we did "I Will Follow Him" from Sister Act and "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now" from Hairspray. It was a blast.
Speaking of youth theatre, this fall, we're starting a new group. We're so popular this year that we're completely full- AFTER adding space in each group. We had a big enough waiting list that we decided to add a second day of classes each week, where we'll be working with 6-9 year-olds (again, mostly girls). I'm stoked.
The Fray concert was incredible. They were much more fun and joked around with the audience more than the last time I saw them. They did several new songs, too, instead of just playing everything from their album.
The Oregon trip was nice. It really did feel like a vacation. Complete with my dad pissing off everybody and arguing with everyone. It was JUST like old times. :)
School starts in 3 days. Guh. I'm not excited at all. Oh, well. In a year and a half, I should have a degree. However, the director I clashed with during O, Pioneers! is going to be one of my professors again this semester AND next. I'm not looking forward to that. And the department is only doing one musical this year, and based on what I've read of it and heard of the music, I don't like it. I'm crossing my fingers that I don't get stuck working on it when there are so many other plays I could do this year to earn my scholarship.
I've been trying to keep up with my goal of watching movies this summer. I saw The Invasion last night. MUCH better than I expected. I also saw The Bourne Ultimatum this week- which was INCREDIBLE. And on the DVD/Blu-Ray front, I saw Night at the Museum, Fracture and Bridge to Terabithia this week. I enjoyed them all immensely.
On Thursday, I saw Anastasia and Brady for the first time in a couple years. Stasia and I had been planning it for a couple months. I was the only one who knew when they got back to the states. Teri, Bristol, Kimber, and I went to Stephanie's house and left to go to PF Chang's. On the way, I asked if we could stop at Best Buy- where Stasia and Brady were waiting. We went back into the CDs to look around and Stasia was browsing through CDs. Teri and I saw her right away, but Stephanie and Kimber were totally oblivious. When Stephanie finally realized that it was Stasia she yelled "HOLY S***!!!" right in the middle of Best Buy. It was great.
One of the hardest things about school for me last year was the limited amount of time I had to see friends. Luckily, I've been able to spend time with a lot of my good friends the last little while before the summer officially ends. In addition to seeing everyone on Thursday, last night I got to spend time with Matt, Mindi, and Kevin. Tonight, I spent time with Lindsay. Adam came over and recorded with me for a while the other day. Robbie and Sarah came and played with me and EmDab last weekend. Heather, Wendy, and their husbands came over last weekend as well. I'm lucky to have so many good friends.
I'm getting tired and I'm starting to ramble, so I'm going to end the blog now. Thanks for reading.
If you haven't already seen this, you must watch it. Robbie & Sarah introduced me and EmDab to it last weekend:
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