CAST! And hired!

I've been cast as Duchess Guinea Yen in Titus Theatre Production's The Frog and I! Our show will be playing at the Murray Historic Theatre on December 15, 16, and 17. Each performance will be followed by a Christmas-themed olio with songs and sketches. This show has a very fun feel to it, perfect for the whole family. :) I'm glad to be a part of it.

Also, I am no longer a member of the unemployed! The new Brick Oven in South Jordan hired me yesterday, and I go to orientation next week. It is a good feeling to know that I'll be having a paycheck!

Song that's been stuck in my head lately: "One More Sad Song" by the All-American Rejects [Funnily enough, I'm not sad at all. I've been very positive lately. C:]

Job Searching

I am searching for a job. And searching for a job. And following that by searching for more jobs. Bleh. I just want to be onstage. Which isn't happening right now. :C

Someday my play will come.

On a brighter note, starting in October I'm going to be ushering at Abravenal Hall and/or the Capital Theatre. I'm not getting paid, but I'll be seeing the shows for free, which is just as good, if not better, in my book. I am beyond excited for this opportunity.

I'm also trying to keep my eyes out for summer stock theatre opportunities. There's nothing thad I'd rather be doing with my summer. Things will start pulling together. Things will start pulling together. Things WILL start pulling together.

Interview and Audition

Well, I've completed both my first job interview and my first audition here in Salt Lake City. Although I got lost on the way to the interview, I felt like it went well once I actually got there. As for the audition, well, I think it could have been better, but it also could have been a lot worse. If only I'd been able to stop my legs from shaking. But we'll see, about both, I guess.

Salt Lake is really....big. I can't think of any other word to describe it. Especially at night when everything is lit up and it goes forever, and you can't imagine how anyone could ever see all of it. There are so many different people here! All these stories, twisting and intertwining everyday. I've never been around so many people in my life. What can I say? I absolutely love it. There's so much to do, so much to see!

Moving Days

I can't believe that I'm actually going to be in Salt Lake City in a little over a week. It still doesn't seem real. I'm supposed to be boxing up stuff right now, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Not yet. I've been crying at the drop of a hat for the last two weeks, and I don't think it's going to get any better until I get established in Utah. Oh boy.

I have so much stuff to get done today, and all I want to do is watch YouTube and play snake. What a responsible and mature person I am.

One of These Days

One of these days I'm really going to make it, and people are going to know my name. Someone is going to look at me and say, "Wow, I wish that I could be like her." I'll be on a stage every day of my life, and see my name in the program.

I just don't know when.

O.W.L.s

Which girl kept track of each Harry Potter character's first line and is now going to quiz her siblings on them?

This girl.

Because I wanted to do it the Hogwarts way, I wrote everything in the four tests by hand. Rather monotonous. It's actually going to be pretty sweet, though. I'm excited. I don't know how well I would have done on the test if I hadn't been prepared-- there are some that you'd have to be asleep to miss, but others are pretty unexpected or tricky. Who would've thought that Vernon Dursley, one of the most unfeeling characters, has the first line of "Sorry"? Or that all Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter's arch-enemy, says is, "Hi."?

It's brought me to wonder what people remember me as saying the first time I met them. I've said and then forgotten a lot of words in my life, I'd like to know which ones are actually remembered.

Harry Potter rocks.

Summer Time and the Living Is Easy

It's been a while, so I thought I'd post a recap of what's going on lately. K-mart's been taking up a lot of my time. And guess what? It's not the living hell that I thought it was! I've made some good friends, met some cute guys, and learned some things. Of course, I'm still anxious to be done with it and on to something more enjoyable, but it turns out that you really can be happy anywhere.

Summer has been pretty much awesome this year, in spite of my nagging fears of forthcoming failures. I like the sun on my face and the grass between my toes, with the lovely feeling that comes on my days off from having nothing to do and all day to do it in. :)

I turned nineteen a couple weeks ago, and had an absolutely fantastic birthday. My family is just the greatest. My little brother, Matthew, got me a Broadway quizbook, and I have been discovering so many new musicals from it. Awwwesome! :D Candide, Martin Guerre, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Phantom (not to be confused with the Andrew Lloyd Webber show), and Lucky Stiff are great listens, just to name a few.

After school got out in May I made a goal to reread the Harry Potter books by the end of the summer, and I am thrilled to say that I did it. It had been quite a while since I had actually read them, (I tend to go for a while just coasting on my remembered knowledge) but they are just so GOOD! Especially, of course, my all time favorite Harry Potter character, and one of my favorite characters of all time, Severus Snape. That man is freaking epic.

I've been housesitting a house that I dearly love with my best friend who I dearly love, and it's a perfect way to start ending the summer. I'll be moving to Salt Lake next month, and I'm not sure how that's going to go, but I'm just trying to enjoy the moments that I have right now as they come.

Peace out.