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I finally decided what to be for Halloween.
I'M GRANT!!!

One Song Glory

I'm watching the music video for that song right now. This song is so sad...
it makes me angry. At all the stupid freaking people who think they can throw their lives away like April. At all the idiots...on one hand, they're being selfish, not thinking of the people they'll leave behind when they die, the people who LOVED them, no matter how stupid they were being. On the other hand, they're not even thinking of themselves... they should know it will kill them!!! All the flipping care about is a ten minute high. what jerks.
if any of you ever even THINK about trying to pull something like that, come to me. As merciless as I sound, I'll understand.
And then, I will dropkick you to Hong Kong.

Halloween

It's that time of year again: the time where little kids get stuffed into pumpkin costumes and carry a pumpkin around asking for candy until they get to cold and go home, the time when older kids wander around with lipstick all over thier face and pillowcases in thier hands asking for candy, the time when preteens try to act like they used to but then feel really embarassed and get angy, the time when math teachers make you find the circumference of a pumpkin and the time when college kids find the sluttiest outfits they possibly can all while old people hand out candy - Halloween.

So, what will you be doing for Halloween?

OH MY GOSH...

I hope this worked. If not, can someone please teach me how to put videos on this thing?

Anyway...oh my gosh this is sad. And that one part was kinda gross...but really, what ARE we showing our girls? I love dove...

kinda off topic, but

hey guys, I really need something to be for halloween...I was thinking Buttercup (from Princess Bride, NOT the powerpuff girls), but I'm not sure enough people would know who I was and it's not that entertaining, and then I was thinking a gas station but it would be hard to wander around in a box and my immature friends would make immature jokes about hoses. So let me know any ideas you might have!

The Great Religious Debate(s)

1. Resolved: That the Universe was created by a divine being.
Affirmative: Kenz, Mo, Kelsey
Negative: UC1, Olive

2. Resolved: That modern Americans were sent to Earth in the circumstances that they were because God knew that they were the best people for that period.
Affirmative: Mo
Negative: UC1
People I'm Not Sure About: Kenz, Kelsey, Olive

3. Resolved: That religion does more bad than good.
Affirmative: UC1, Olive
Negative: Kenz, Kelsey, Mo

Let the debate(s) begin! Feel free to argue in new posts, comments, whatever. Ready... Set... Go!

Today in science mr. d was telling us how in the human body every cell has 23 chromosome doubles, except for one kind of cell in a boy and one kind of cell in a girl: you guessed it, the sex cells. And the next sentence out of his mouth is "now it's interesting in evolution-" I stopped listening there. After all, how on earth was he going to explain that one??? That we just HAPPENED to be perfectly able to bond and create babies? How babies had that same chromosome balance??? my BUTT.

Callback lists got posted today- or at least, two of them did. Matt and Nathan Otey's. David didn't make it...that puzzles me. he was amazing. AJ made both, haha.

What else is going on in my life?

Well...
Katie's worried about Mo's eating habits.
Mo insists she's perfectly fine, and continues defending her eating habits.
Hannah's phone is either broken, she's avoiding me, OR she's uncannily busy every time I call....lol
Kelsey still remains near us all, yet it seems there's a rift, as she repeatedly claims to hate thomas and myself...again, lol
Olive hasn't been around much- i mean, around ME in particular. She's still nearby, but I miss her predictible cynicism.
Mollie shared her eulogy today, which was both entertaining and SPEEDY. She did a stellar job.
Thomas is "addicted to 'H'" in his monologue. Still as frisky as ever in real life of course.
AJ is really excited for callbacks. That's fun.
David and I have the most amazing "handshake" ever. You guy's'd love it...I think :)

Wellness Day is tomorrow- yippie-ki-ay. Let's hope it's fun...and I'm actually in some sessions with my friends. Due to a college visit, I wasn't able to pick the same workshops as them, as far as I know. All I remember is I put "theatre games" first. haha. I wonder who's running that. Somehow even CAD sounds more fun than wellness day. I mean, it's like, "health!" ew

I built a tire swing today! Over by my house some of you have been to where there used to be a little rope swing tied to a stick over a ditch. Well today, it got an upgrade!!! It's really cool and I swang there for like 20 minutes in circles! I'm still a little woozy...

I suppose that's about it...hopefully I'll see y'all in the morning!
Good
Night
God
Bless

Anorexia

It has come to my attention that there are those who think I am anorexic. Let me say it once for all read: I am not anorexic. I know, that won't do it for some of you, so here are your contentions and my rebuttals:

1. We never see you eat much at lunch.
That's because you missed me stuffing my face during 3rd period. I get hungry then.

2. You don't eat often enough.
Here's my philosophy: Eat when you're hungry, don't eat when you're not hungry. I don't really get hungry when people are supposed to eat. I get hungry during 3rd period, after school and late at night. So I eat then.

3. You don't get protien.
I put protein powder in shakes, and man, that stuff is loaded! I also pile on the peanut butter with my sandwiches. And I just ate a half cup of peanut butter.

4. You give away your food.
Well, if I'm not going to eat it, someone might as well.

bleeeeeah

Current song: Something Bad (Wicked), Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield)

Current mood: contemplative

Current thoughts: I still can't believe that auditions for one acts are tomorrow. I realized this at 9:32 last night with a shocked gasp. I'm screwed, and y'all better not even think about arguing with me. Ah, whatever. Sam and Note just got home...I wish it wasn't so far to my tree, but biking the 3/4 miles there and then the same way back holding a rake this morning was enough. I nearly took out SO many cars! lol. I wish that people actually LIVED in our neighborhood. I've seen three people who live in our cul-de-sac in the past 2 weeks, and we ran into them at the PARK. I wish I had different neighbors, but I definitely don't want to move anymore. bleeeeeah
i'm bored

well bye guys!
~KENZER LOU

Another Speech Meet, Another Timeline

3:30 - Wake up and stumble into shower, rush to get ready
4:30 - Pick up UC1. Don't remember what we talked about. Did we talk?
4:50 - Arrive at school. Get on bus. Watch everyone fall asleep.
5:30 - Am UC1's pillow
6:00 - Talk about stuff with Camilla, that one dude and Em with occasional comments from other people, depending on if they're awake or not.
6:30 - We use my flashlight to practice.
7:00 - I realize that with Joe, Travis, John and Tylon with us, there are more guys that girls in our grade on the trip. I am shocked.
7:30 - We arrive at Platte Canyon and notice that the flagpole seems like it's about to fall over.
8:00 - We change. I am happy that I did not forget anything.
8:30 - Maithreyi and I compete in Public Forum Debate against these really scary twins. (Our topic: Resolved: That the US should encourage the implementation of a soft partition in Iraq.) We think that they ate us for breakfast even though we debated the negative side, which was easier.
10:00 - We debate a mean and scary blonde couple. We think that they ate us for lunch. We had to debate the affirmative side.
11:30 - We debate the twins again and do much better. Because we went in the same order with the same sides as the first round, we essentially have the same debate, but we do a lot better.
12:15 - Lunch. Which should actually be called snarf-down-a-sandwich-while-you-write-an-intro-for-your-afternoon-interp-piece-and-massage-your-feet-because-your-shoes-are-actually-your-little-sister's-that-you-had-to-borrow-because-you-need-to-move-around-in-interp-and-can't-do-that-in-your-own-shoes-and-also-try-to-tune-out-the-annoying-school-that's-doing-the-hokey-pokey-really-loudly-and-as-soon-as-that's-done-start-helping-people-memorize-thier-oratories-and-once-you-have-heard-an-oratory-about-how-someone-hates-Romeo-and-Juliet-or-sports-players-using-steroids-when-the-orator-keeps-pronouncing-steroids-as-steeeroids-because-you-can-only-listen-that-stuff-about-twenty-times-you-run-away-and-find-a-piece-of-wall-that's-unoccupied-and-start-talking-to-it-practicing-for-your-humor-interp-until-someone-runs-into-the-cafeteria-and-shrieks-"posting"-and-then-everyone-freaks-out-and-starts-yelling-postings-and-everyone-rushes-to-the-posting-to-find-out-where-to-go-and-we're-talking-serious-sprinting-here-and-everyone-freaks-out-and-wishes-each-other-good-luck-and-runs-off-to-thier-respective-rooms.
1:30 - First round of humor interp with astrology girl, DUI guy, dancing-in-my-underpants-british girl and self-help girl. I think I did pretty well.
3:00 - Second round of humor interp with Oz-lawsuit girl, Hillbilly-Rapunzel guy, and frog-prince girl.
4:00 - We are ready to be done.
4:25 - Last posting. Phew.
4:30 - Third round of humor interp with fourth-grade-boy girl, microphone-canon girl, some other girl and English transvestive guy.
5:30 - We arrive back and celebrate that we're DONE!
7:00 - Awards ceremony. Peak to Peak gets a ton. UC1 wins Excellence in Humor Interp and Superior in One-On-One Value. Caitlin wins 1st in Impromptu. Em wins 2nd in Oratory. Weston wins third in Humor Interp. Cindy and Weston win 2nd in Duo Drama. Proof that the judges are crazy: Maithreyi and I got 2nd in Public Forum. Wow.
8:30 - We stop at Qdobas. UC1 and I argue over whether or not I'm anorexic. I eat to make her happy, even though I'm not hungry.
10:00 - We arrive at school.
10:30 - I get home.
11:00 - I fall asleep.

I have found an amazing new musical

At a suggestion from a fellow thespian, I have discovered yet another amazing musical: Jekyll and Hyde, the production we will hopefully be doing as seniors. I haven't seen the video yet, and I've only heard 6 songs, but I've loved every one of them. These being:

This is the Moment
Facade (defiantely my favorite)
Murder, Murder
In His Eyes
Someone Like You
Dangerous Game

If we actually do this musical, I can already see it being absolutely amazing, despite the fact that some of the parts sound incredibly hard. I can already think of two or three people who would be amazing as Jekyll/Hyde, in our year alone. Kenz would be a perfect Lucy, not because she's anything like the character, but because she is a) an amazing actress and b) really really good at belting. And Emma Carew sounds like an amazing part too, which I think would be really fun to play :). I hope Ms. West really has us do this as seniors!

I am mad at Mr. Lehr.

I am mad at Mr. Lehr. What kind of math teacher assigns an essay? Ugh. Well, being the dork that I am, I decided to get back at Mr. Lehr by inflicting upon him something horrid: I am using big words on my essay. He's horrible at English. Haha. Here's my favorite excerpt:

Well, I suppose part of getting the A is understanding the material. So let’s say that this year I would really like to finally indisputably understand a truly enigmatical and puzzling concept that has baffled and bemused me since it originally entered into my consciousness: sine, cosine and tangent. Honestly, every year my teachers endeavor relentlessly to drill this “truth of mathematics” into my brain, sometimes lucratively, but the end consequence has always been thus: what with all the other ineffectual nonsensical lampoonery crammed into my thoughts by subsistence, this “truth” indeed has never manifested itself unto me in all its logical grandeur.

Total Words: 100
Total Syllables: 182
Total Sentences: 3
Estimaded Readability Level as indicated by that one graph in our Writer's Handbook: College.

Down you go, Mr. Lehr.

What happened?

Whatever happened to actually commenting on things, carrying on whole conversations about a certain post? I mean seriously, no one ever comments any more- and a lot of you aren't posting either.
most things lately seem rather docile and ho hum. I'm ready for excitement, something different! I mean, that comes from all of us getting together and hanging out, so let's do that again soon. I want to have friends over like every night, and not huge ordeals either. They can just be simple things, like friends over for an hour after school to play knockout, or even 15 people over for 3 hours and a groundies tournament. It doesn't have to be gigantic, but it can be. I just want to be WITH people! *sigh* oh well. :)

The PSAT

Well, today was the day. We took the PSAT. And it was really boring. Painfully so. 45 minutes of filling out personal information. 25 minutes of reading. 25 minutes of math. 25 more minutes of reading. 25 more minutes of math. 30 minutes of writing, which was really grammar. Zzzzzzz.....

And then we went and waited in the cold. And shivered.

And then we tried to go outside.

And got kicked out.

And shivered some more.

At last, we were let in, free to... go to science class.

And listen to Mr. D talk about going to CU.

And realize that he had my dad's hair when he was young.

Wierd.

Then we went to lunch and vented.

And then I went to tech. And photoshoped. Which I was supposed to be doing, for once. I tried to give myself good violin hands and it didn't work. My hands died.

And then we listened to Ms. Quinlan. Always interesting, if not a little crazy.

So that was PSAT day!

My Scintillating Humor Commentary on our beloved home of learning, Peak to Peak

DISCLAIMER:
Hey y’all! So this is my…scintillating humor piece. Lol
Well no…I mean, it’s a bit of sarcastic commentary on Peak to Peak. Don’t take anything it says seriously, and if this falls into the wrong hands, be assured it was only for the sake of amusement, and those who live in the nearby neighborhoods shouldn’t take offense. It was only for the sake of the piece!

“Here at Peak to Peak…” “Here at Peak to Peak…” “It’s a LEARNING environment…” No it’s not. It’s an insane asylum. Those adults aren’t teachers, they’re “accountability partners,” or even “friends.” More importantly, they’re our counselors. They’re there to “bring us through the hard times” because they “know what we’re going through.” No they don’t. NO ONE knows exactly what we’re going through but us! Sure, they drag themselves to Peak to Peak every morning like us, but this is their job. They are paid. We are patients.
Maybe, just maybe, we don’t have an exact mental disorder in the brain. But we certainly are teens, adolescents. The poster children for a hormone imbalance.
It’s an isolated building. The administration believes the only people who can stand living the nearby vicinity are senior citizens. They’re old already, so no big loss to society if we accidentally kill them off, right? Other than the retirement centers and the run-down low-income neighborhoods two streets away, Peak to Peak is abandoned in a barren, undeveloped field, overlooked by the over-inflated economy.
They say they’re building a football field. More like they can’t stand the “lack of structure” in physical education classes. Yes, the dreaded classes that remind us of the days when we were young, and free to run about the fields and hills like little mountain goats. Why are they so dreaded then? Because they also remind us of our families and how when we came of age they heartlessly shoved us off, left to fend for ourselves in the big wide world. Or rather, left to be fended for by the counselors. So those schleppers were our parents, sloughing off their duties and dumping them on someone else. When you’re rich you can do that.

Funny Quotes

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. - Unknown

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. - Senator Patrick Leahy

Why be a man when you can be a success? - Bertolt Brecht

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. - Cullen Hightower

Speechletes unite!

The Battle Mountain speech meet was amazing! You all should ditch soccer or dance or whatever and come to the Platt Canyon (sp?) meet. Here's the day's timeline (with ballpark times - I wasn't really keeping track):

4:00 (am of course!): I wake up to a mysterious sound coming out of my radio. It takes me a full five minutes to figure out that my alarm clock has gone off, and that I actually set it to ring at such an unholy hour for a reason. This is seriously how incoherent I am in the morning.
4:05: Upon figuring out what the alarm clock is, I get up and get ready for the meet.
4:25: I argue with my mother over whether I'll really need a heavy overcoat and extra socks for the bus ride.
4:30: I call Mo's family with Mum's new cellphone to see if it actually works. It does.
4:35: Riah's family takes me to school. I try to stay awake until I get to P2P so I don't seem totally rude. (Really, this was a challenge for me.)
4:50: We get to school and hop on the bus. Everybody else arrives within 10 minutes.
5:00: We leave P2P. I start to wake up.
5:10: Mr. Schafer and two of the seniors give me a crash course on value debate, which happens to be my first event and which I happen to know nothing about.
5:25: We all talk about completely random topics such as famous opera stars, actors who lived horrible lives and died in their fourties, and scientific notation.
6:10: Everyone except Moriah and Mr. Schaefer crashes and falls asleep. I doze.
6: 20: I fall off the bus seat and decide that the floor is more comfortable than the chairs.
6:30: I get back on my seat. Everyone slowly starts to wake up.
7ish: We get to Battle Mountain. It might be more like 8ish, I'm not sure. I'm going to pretend it's 7ish for the sake of my timeline.
7:30: Everyone changes into their formal clothing. Mo realizes she has forgotten her skirt, and Cindy saves her life by providing an extra one.
7:55: Mr. Schaefer gives everyone their codes for the morning events. We search the school for the rooms we're supposed to be in.
8:00: I go to the value debate prep room for round one, and get my first topic. My wave spends thirty minutes madly coming up with contentions for our resoultion: "When in conflict, is it better to fund a preschool program or an athletic program?"
8:20: I run out of ideas for either side, and spend the next ten minutes trying to organize my thoughts so I can actually use them.
8:30: We are released from the prep room to go debate.
8:35: My opponent shows up; we flip a coin, and I get to choose sides. I pick affirmative.
8:36: We debate! I don't totally blow it, but I'm not brilliant either. I decide that my opponent is either very stuck up or very awkward at this. I muddle through my arguments.
9ish: We finish the debate, and go back to the auditorium to wait until round 2 is posted. Mo comes back and tells me about her CST round, which I'm sure was amazing.
9:45: I go back to the prep room for my second debate. We spend thirty minutes madly coming up with contentions for our next resolution: Is it moral to ticket drivers who talk on their cellphones?
10:15: I do my second debate, and end up arguing the affirmative side. The other girl is REALLY GOOD and talks really fast. I muddle through my arguments again.
10:45: We go back to the auditorium and sit around waiting for round three postings.
11:30: I go to the prep room and get my last resolution.
11:31: Everyone freaks out because the topic is "Is it moral for Bush to continue funding the war in Iraq?"
11:32: We quiet down and spend 28 minutes madly coming up with contentions for our debate.
12:00: I go to the debate room and wait for five minutes while the judge from the last round finishes her notes.
12:05: We debate! I get very lucky and get the affirmative side again, which is the side I had MUCH better arguments for. I think I won this round.
12:35: Yay! We're done with all the morning events! We eat lunch and practice for humor interp.
1:30: Round one of humor interp. I am okayish.
3:00: Round two of humor interp. Just for the record, my piece is all about how ridiculous credit cards are. I read it, and there's a girl and her dad sitting on one side of the room who are just laughing their heads off the whole time about it. I'm thinking, "Gosh, I must be better than I think I am!" and am feeling pretty confident. Then the round ends. The girl comes up to me, still lauging, and says, "My Dad works for VISA." Oh. My. Gosh. I can't believe I read that piece to someone who actually works for a credit card company. But it's all good.
4:30: Round three of humor interp. I'm okay, but everyone else in that round is REALLY GOOD. Oh well.
5:30: Yay! We've made it through all our events, and neither Mo nor I threw up the entire time! This we consider an achievement. We all sit around and socialize.
5:45: We do about 10 rounds of impromptu duet acting. Lexi and Josh represent P2P and are amazing with their response to their prompt: "An intense game of hungry, hungry hippos." Or something like that. Anyway, they manage to be one of the few groups that isn't eliminated by the boredom gong. I'm not even going to try to explain that.
5:55: Awards for impromptu duet acting. Lexi and Josh win first place! Obviously, they were way better than everyone else, but we all know how brilliant they are at acting.
6:00: Awards ceremony. P2P totally cleans up with a million awards. I'm not even going to try listing them all. Go P2P! Mo gets an excellence award for her mad creative story telling skills. I get excellence for humor interp, and by some miracle, 2nd place out of 26 competitors for value debate! Considering I was learning how to do value debate on the bus this morning and it was my first time, I think that's pretty good, although I'm sure luck had something to do with it.
6:25: Everyone compliments everybody else on how amazing everyone was.
6:30: We leave for the long busride home.
6:40: Mr. Schaefer gives us back out comments from the judges. Apparently, I won all three of my debates, and averaged a score of 49 out of 50. I am pleased. :)
7:30: Dinner. We refuse to listen to TB's insistence that we eat at some soup place called Zappapos, or Mizappos, or something like that, and go to Subway instead. TB is very annoyed.
7:42: Lexi manages to spill soda all over Kate. No idea how this happened.
7:50: We get back on the bus, and it's snowing! First snow of the year!
8:00: We talk about everything from the meatpacking industry to unjust treatment of minors to cloning to sleep deprivation to what a horrible teacher Mr. Cegelski apparently was. Cindy falls asleep.
10:05: We realize that Cindy has completely crashed - she falls off her seat and fails to wake up. Little wonder - apparently she got something like 3 hours of sleep last night. Poor Cindy!
10:10: We get back to P2P, and try to wake up Cindy. She opens her eyes, but has difficulty recognizing us, and can barely stand up, although she insists she will drive herself home. We leave TB to argue with her over the likelihood that she will fall asleep at the wheel and crash her car.
10:15: Dad picks me and Riah up, and we go home.
11:00: I fall asleep.

Wow, what a day. Speech is so much fun! You should all join. Those of you who are on the team should come to the Platte Canyon meet next Saturday!

Fall...DUCKS

haha. so hannah and i had a sleepover last night. it was really fun...we made a really funny cooking movie. and none of you care. lol

Mixed Feelings

Life has been kind of difficult lately. I mean, it's been good, and I'm enjoying it, but rather challenging at the same time. Things are always happening...which is so much better than when things aren't happy. And I'm discovering day by day (as if I didn't learn it last spring) that I'm a hopeless extrovert. Ah, well. God's always there!
With every day comes a new revelation- a way I can make life better, I suppose. Like I said before, it keeps changing, and it's exciting. Then again, it's not the type of excitement that makes me want to jump up and down or talk about it, it's a more quiet type. Or maybe it's maturity finally kicking in...
More and more I realize that the world literally is as big as we make it. It's been said that it doesn't matter where you are but who you're with. And it doesn't matter what you know but who you know... This life revolves around people, and whether we know them or not. In essence, the earth is just the airplane on our way to somewhere so much bigger! The airplane may always be the same, but no flight ever will be. This world is always changing, and we have to document our experiences, so that they aren't lost between the countless strands of time. Then again, they'll always be filed away distantly in our memories...

My Take On Saturday

3:45 - I wake up. Totally awake. And ready to go.
5:15 - I arrive at school. Olive, Kaylin, UC1, and Maithreyi are there.
5:20 - We board the bus.
5:25 - Tuberculosis arrives
5:30 - The bus leaves
5:40 - We are excited and establish that most of us were afraid of Disneyland characters when we were little.
5:50 - We begin practicing for Creative Storytelling
5:55 - Most people fall asleep.
6:15 - We give up on practicing for Creative Storytelling
6:20 - We establish that none of us could eat this morning
6:25 - We establish that I am a morning person.
6:30 - We watch the sun rise
7:15 - We arrive at Brush High School
7:30 - We change into our formal clothes
7:45 - We are all nervous and jittery.
8:30 - I am called to the CST prep room
8:40 - I get my topic (a poodle in a salon about to get a bath) and prepare for it.
8:55 - I go to my competition room and while waiting, tell a story to a wall.
8:59 - I finish my story shortly after hitting the three minute mark.
9:05 - I celebrate being done and not throwing up.
9:10 - I help people practice for round two.
9:30 - Round two begins; I watch humor interpretation.
9:35 - Kaylin is amazing at her humor interpretation!
10:45 - I am finally able to eat.
10:46 - But just a little.
11:00 - Round three: socializing.
12:30 - Awards Cermony: We cheer for Peak to Peak a lot.
1:15 - We get on the bus
1:45 - People fall asleep again
2:00 - We glimpse "syphillis-ation"
3:30 - We arrive at school
4:00 - I actually leave school
4:30 - I shower again
5:00 - I go to Olive's house to get ready for Homecoming
6:00 - We take forever to get ready.
7:30 - We are still curling Kelsey's hair.
8:00 - Homecoming!
10:00 - All the Speech people get really tired.
11:30 - I arrive home
11:35 - I fall asleep.

HOMECOMING!!!

It's finally the big day!!!
yeah, so I'm a little excited...or a lot!
Well can you blame me? It's going to be so much fun
Kacey'll be at my house from 2-4ish
Lorien'll come over at 4:45ish
The guys'll come pick us up at 5!!!
Don't worry. you'll hear ALL about it!!!
:D
:D
:D
:D

My Amazing Day!

Seminary: Trashketball!
NJHS Meeting: Sweet. Better with less people. Ryan is funny.
History: We watched Hercules!
Orchestra: Theory. Need I say more?
Assembly: My entire right leg fell asleep. It was boring, but oh well.
Scrabble Club: Um, great. UC1 and I kept singing.
Lunch: Just great. Four pages of pure magic!
Tech: Unbearably hot. Oh well.
Forensics: Absolutely amazing!
After school: Talking with UC1 was great, but homework wasn't. Now I'm off to practice!

Saturday is going to be sooo incredibly amazing!!!!!!!!!

Ag.

Two things of significance happened to me today:

One: I got braces, just in case you guys couldn't tell today. I'm already counting the days 'till they come off.

Two: I forgot my locker combo. I honestly have no idea what it is. Aren't I too young to be going senile?

Yup, that's my day, summarized. Hope you guys had better ones. Cheers!

Reviews of Musicals I've Seen Recently

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: This is a fun musical. It reminds me a lot of Oklahoma! Basically a bunch of guys and girls singing and dancing out in Oregon territory in the 1800s. Catchy tunes, and astonishing dance numbers. And Howard Keel, amazing baritone and actor that he is, is of course brilliant. I recommend this as a nice, completely g-rated film that isn't particularly deep but still proves entertaining to watch.

The Producers: Without a doubt the worst musical I have ever seen in my life. In fact, I didn't even get a quarter of the way through it before giving up in disgust. The humor is crude, rude, obnoxious, and quite frankly, not very funny. The plot is...well, stupid, to say the least. The acting is poor quality, and the songs are less than brilliant. Frankly, I don't get why this was such a hit musical. I don't recommend it.

Cabaret: Hmmm...hard to say. Probably the best of all the musicals I list here, but it wouldn't appeal to everyone. There's a lot of material that's...well, scandalous is putting it mildly. It's a pretty dark musical, and the PG rating is very deceiving. But I think that the juxtaposition of the devil-may-care attitude of a thirties nightclub with the rise of the Nazis is very well done. Joel Grey is amazing! I can easily see why he won both the Tony AND the Oscar for his role as the emcee. Anyway, I would recommend the film if you're okay with a lot of inappropriate material, because it's very well done.

Kiss Me, Kate: This is such a classic. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson are the leads. Love the songs, love the choreography, love the story. A few of my favorite numbers: I hate men; I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua; Tom, Dick, or Harry; Brush up your Shakespeare; and Too darn hot. I recommend this musical for anyone who likes good singing and acting, and Broadway in general!

Shall We Dance?: An old Rogers/Astaire movie. It follows a pretty predictable plotline, but I still like it. The dancing is amazing (what do you expect?), one particularly incredible number including a dance done on roller skates! If you like old movies and a lot of dancing, this is a nice, fun, g-rated musical.

Happy movie-watching!

Homecoming

For those of you who have been living under a rock for that past... month, Homecoming is on Saturday and Homecoming fever is at its height. Symptoms include:
-Giggling
-Staring at the opposite sex
-Talking of nothing but shoes, dresses and plans for Homecoming
-Frequent glances at where they're selling homecoming tickets
-Idiocy
-Sudden change in appearance
-Fantasizing
-Obsessing over who's going with who, what they're doing and everything else possibly involving homecoming.

Now, this disease is not to be confused with lovesickness, which shares the symptoms of idiocy and fantasizing. However, the staring and obsession are always directed at one particular member of the opposite sex. Lovesickness has no cure, while Homecoming fever has one cure: Homecoming. Only after Homecoming will Homecoming fever go away. Lovesickness only goes away with time.

Ways to avoid contracting Homecoming fever are:
-Remember that Homecoming is just another school dance
-Be cynical
-Don't have school spirit.

Unfortunately, these don't always work. If you are afflicted with Homecoming fever, do not hesitate to seek the help of a therapist. Remain calm and lie down if you feel faint. Do not hyperventilate.

We hope that this information will be helpful to you.

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