So this semester, in many ways, is looking up. I'm liking pretty much all my classes, even Chinese (which, considering how HORRIBLE I am at foreign languages, is a surprise). I didn't get into the musical =( but I got into a straight play: The Furies, aka The Eumenidies, as a Fury, which is super exciting. =) KP has been pretty busy, having just finished competing in the ICCAs (we didn't place, but we still did really well and I'm so proud of us) and we have several gigs coming up, not to mention a birthday! =) I've been really busy and it's been fun.

On the other hand, it sucks. I'm maxed out at 18 units, plus the play. I'm in class until 6pm every day except Friday, going straight from 2-6 without a real break, plus classes in the morning. My Mondays in the future are going to look like this: class 11:30-1, class 2-3:30, class 4-6, rehearsal 6-10 and KP rehearsal 10-12. It's going to be insane. I may or may not actually study.

Of course, that leaves Friday and Saturday totally open. So I'm actually unsure how to use all this free time. It's a little strange. And everyone I know is busy all the time, so it's hard to coordinate things with them on those weekends. So I got from all-day busy Mon-Thursday to almost nothing on Friday and Saturday. Sundays we have KP rehearsal and some Furies rehearsals sometimes.

So it's a double edged sword.  Of course, I'm the kind of person who'd rather have it all spread out so I'm doing a little bit every day, instead of everything at once and then a few days to rest. But we'll see how the semester goes.

2 hours of a cappella singing rehearsal shouldn't be a big deal. I do it all the time, several times a week.
But tonight, singing so many high G-Bs, trying to control the vibrato and keep it soft so it balances with everyone else.... ahhhhhh!
Plus a round of high belting, which the highest notes (an F!!) I have only recently developed... and we sing it way sharp. Double ahh!!!!
(At least I can sing an F now. That's really exciting for me... I thought my belting range ended at E flat. But it's getting higher and higher! Hooray!! (now, granted, I can't sing that song more than 3 times in a row before my voice starts to give out... but still. It's exciting.))
So... no voice. But no need to talk for the rest of the night, so no biggie!

TiVo didn't record Privileged because of the Obama victory. Which is great, because I'm really happy he won... but also a bummer. I'd like to have seen the episode. I guess it's off to internet television methods to watch the show!

I've gotten a little off track with NaNoWriMo, but if I write a few extra words a day I'll be fine. I'm not worred. I can finish... I just need to get the willpower again to start. But I've been writing on and off during boring classes, so I think I'll be ok.

Homework time! Lets get this massive Philosphy exercise out of the way.

My printer and external hard drive have decided not to work properly today. I have no idea why. I feel like they've been acting up ever since I installed all my Alphasmart programs. It bugs me. I'll work on it later, but I wish they would function the way they were supposed to!

NaNoWriMo's going alright. I changed my story to a mystery, but it's going really slowly and I'm getting a little bored. I did write in a ridiculous character named Edna Mae today though, and I like her a lot. Stereotypical old lady with glasses and hard of hearing. She makes me laugh. Which is good.

I keep forgetting that I get cranky when I don't eat. So at 12AM, when I'm talking to Adam on the phone and getting whiny, I should remember to eat a snack. My late night snacks of choice lately have been apples. Yummy.

I'm pretty behind for my movement class: I need to be totally off book a monologue for Wednesday. I have the first half of the monologue half memorized, so nowhere near ready to rehearse. But whatever... that's what tomorrow's for. I just finished a plot paper on the play Tilt Angel (it's bizarre, and I'd like it much more if it weren't assigned for class!!), so now I get to go to sleep. Yaaaaaayyyyyy.......

Hope everyone votes today! (I'll be so ready for the elections to be over. I want to know who the next president is! And btw... that reminds me, I was interviewed for Channel 4's news broadcast today! I talked a bit about being a college aged citizen and how I thought the younger demographic would effect the election. They used a tiny snippet of it--not much, but I was happy just to be on TV. I figured they interviewed a bunch a people and they wouldn't include me. They wrote out my name and everything! It's pretty cool. =D)

Goodnight all!!

I got a new Blackberry Curve over the weekend. Charged it fully on Saturday and now it’s already at 55%. Similar amount of battery time as my last teeny-weeny phone, I suppose, and it’s a way more technologically advanced phone, so it’s not bad, I suppose. But I want a better battery! I want it to last a full week without needing to charge it. Oh well... I suppose we can’t have everything we want in life. It’s the price we pay for awesome new cell phones! Of course, now that I have a super-texty phone, I want more people to text me! I was at home and my sister was texting all the time. It was ridiculous! Drove me nuts. I don’t want to be like that, but I want more people to text me. Hehehe... well, I guess I can just text her anytime I want a long crazy conversation. And regardless of the texting, it’s an awesome phone. I love it. Not as small as my mini-Pantech, but I put in my whole calendar and it looks so cool on the not-so-little screen! I love love love it!

 

On another note, I turned in a super-rough draft of my latest Writing 140 paper. It totally sucks... but then I went in and talked to my writing professor and she says it’s good for a rough draft. It’s about cloning and the pros/cons of cloning. I’m arguing that therapeutic cloning is good, and maybe reproductive cloning IF it can save lives without harming others. It’s turning into more of a philosophical/morality paper than a research paper, but I like that. It makes it a little more interesting. I’m still considering minoring/double majoring in philosophy. It’s one of the easiest majors to major in, units-wise (only 8 classes. You could do that in a year!), and I actually find it interesting. I don’t love my political philosophy class right now though, because I find politics a little dull. But for regular philosophy, I find it interesting.

A) Acting performance and project got moved to next Tuesday. Hooray! An extra week to work on it.

B) Still not sure about NaNoWriMo. I think I've figured out a way to incorporate a bunch of sub-plots, so that it's not really about the girl on the bench, but about the people who pass her and see her daily. I feel like it's going to get a teeny bit philosophical. (Considering I'm in a philosophy class now, it's not surprising.) But then I want to write a teeny-bopper love story too... Well, maybe it'll be a giant combination of stories, so when I get bored with one I do another. It's going to be interesting. Let's see how this goes...

C) Spent 3:30-8:30 homeworking. Usually I can't sit down and just focus, but after class I just went and did a lot of reading, then worked on my paper due Friday in the library. Speaking of the library...

D) I discovered a bunch of new things about Leavey today. There's 2 floors of computers! And a periodical room! And a decent section of just plays! (Especially when compared to the library at home. That one sucks. This one's not half bad.) Can't believe it's my second year here and I'm just discovering new things.

E) Privileged=adorable. I love that show. It's not doing super well, as far as I can tell, but I haven't read a TV-blog that hasn't liked it a lot. And don't tell me if you know of any... I love the show. It's so cute! But I can't stand the title sequence. It's super-short, but no one can type like that! Drives me nuts everytime...

I just got around to watching this week's episode of Gossip Girl. And I only have one thing to say.
AHHHH AHHHH AHHHHH!!!!
I guess that's three things... but still! AHHHH!

....anyway..... 2 days until I finally start finals! It's been getting boring around here, watching too much TV and not studying. But that's going to change. I'm going to study and not watch TV, mostly because I finished Cat's copy of the 1st season of One Tree Hill as well as the stuff I downloaded off iTunes, so I just ran out of shows. But that's probably for the best.

AHHH AHHHH AHHHHH!

Just had to put that in there again ;)

Yes it does.
So I have 2 midterms and a paper due tomorrow. And I've spent all today (and I'm talking pretty much all) studying.
No, I'm not cramming, per se, considering it's only 9:15 and I still have hours and hours until the sun comes up. But I definitely feel like I've studied all day.
I didn't mean to! I meant to get work done over the weekend so I wouldn't be in this situation today. But family stuff took up the whole weekend, literally, and I had a lot less time than I anticipated. Plus the flight home last night was 2 hours delayed. So instead of getting back at 10 and getting a couple hours of work in before bed, I got in at midnight and was so emotionally drained that I couldn't do a single thing.
The sad thing is, it's only been 4 hours of actual work. But it was very concentrated work, and it wasn't all at once. An hour after lunch, a couple of hours between class and dinner, and an hour after eating. Now, according to my very specific schedule, I should be editing that paper. (According to that schedule I shouldn't be blogging right now. But my brain hurts, and my schedule didn't account for that.) But the idea of studying again makes me sad. Maybe I'll take another break and then finish that paper then finish that studying for East Asian Humanities. Yeah... hopefully.
Whatever. Most of what I've needed to do tonight has been done. And like I said... it's early yet. Still have hours and hours until the sun comes up!

 So these last weeks have been pretty crazy. Oliver opened last weekend, which meant insane amounts of Tech and a full weekend of shows (matinees and evening performances after a week of tech=very tired feet). And then we have one more weekend of it this weekend and it's done. So crazy to think it's only got a couple more days left! I'm a little bummed, but more excited to be done so I have more time. I'm pretty behind in my classes because of this. Lots of reading I need to do these next few days.

Speaking of behind, I'm now a few days behind in terms of Nanowrimo. Nothing I can't manage... but I'm just lacking the energy. Maybe this show is just taking too much out of me, or I don't like my plot as much anymore... I dunno. Call it a sophomore slump (though more like a junior slump... since technically I started 3 years ago but didn't get anywhere). I just don't care as much. but if I do decide to care after Oliver's over, I'll have Thanksgiving and lots more free time after that to catch up and keep writing.

 I discovered something fabulous the other day: Streaming TV. My friends watch their shows online instead of on the TV and I was always, "the quality sucks or blah blah blah." But going to the official websites for many shows makes it so much easier... and totally legal too! And yeah, there are those stupid commercials. But whatever. I'm enjoying catching up on stuff that TiVo refuses to record, for some strange reason.

I got my housing info last week. I'm in an upperclasmen/ apartment half a mile off campus. I was SO SO bummed, but I'm (mostly) ok with it now. Private bathrooms? More space? Kitchen? Living room? Air conditioner? Sounds good to me! And I found my roommate and another theatre major living in my apartment building on Facebook, and they both seem nice. Sure, that could change once I actually meet them--IMing and Facebook messaging is not a good way to really get to know someone--but so far, so good.

My USC Housing Letter (the fun-sized version)

Thank you for your spring semester 2008 housing application. This notice is just to inform you that the spring housing assignments will begin late this month and continue through November and December.

Another person's USC Housing letter (once again, trick-or-treat style)

As a result of unusually high demand for university student housing from our freshmen spring class and a lower than usual number of cancellations, we regret to inform you we do not anticipate being able to offer university housing this spring to transfer and continuing students.

 
Result

OMG RELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But wow.... some people won't be getting housing????? =(
This is freaky... wow.
But hey, it's starting to be real. I'm actually going to USC. I'm actually going to go to college. I'm actually going to study THEATRE!!!!! 
And it looks like I'll have a dorm to live in while I go there. =)