maybe several things

So, today I finished coloring a piece I was having problems with last night, watched the first BSG webisode series, and forced my mother to watch the first episode of Supernatural.

Yesterday, I talked to Jesse and Lamar. We are all in the same acting class! I think the rest of our classmates are going to hate us, because the three of us have four years of inside jokes and teamwork behind us already. I hate hanging around people who've been friends for a long time. They always make me feel left out. I can only infer that we do the same to other people. Also: man I miss those guys.

Tomorrow, I go on a photoshoot for the new hardcover edition of FWOAP.

For now, I've only been up for three hours, so I guess I'm going to try to write? Or draw? Or maybe sew?

My life is so very exciting. But really, I'm just trying to distract myself from getting nervous about college. Living with a stranger! Communal bathrooms! Not having pets! I'm not worried about the classes at all, though. I'm studying theatre, math, history, and german. These are all things I'm pretty okay at. The school part of things don't worry me anymore.

But the whole interacting-with-people thing does. OH WELL OFF TO DISTRACT MYSELF AGAIN.

My exciting news for today is that I hate actors I wrote nearly 2000 words of smut.

And also I hate actors. Rather, I hate when my actors forget that I am their director as well as their friend, and that the director-bit takes precedence over the friendness. And by actors-plural, I mean my lead, Sonja. Sigh.

(this icon is totally necessary because not only do actors make me angry, the smut stars a vampire. I am so very clever.)

So I guess the universe takes my tweets too seriously? I spent this morning in the emergency room. Mom got like crazy sick. Vertigo, throwing up, trouble breathing, super low heart rate...it was the funnest Christmas morning ever.

But she is okay now, and I am actually sitting down to eat for the first time all day (I had a donut and a thing of orange juice at the hospital), so everything is A-OK all right now.

An aside: it is really weird to have to be the adult in the house. :/ I mean, I am used to taking care of her and keeping her on track, but that is more of a teamwork thing and less of a mothering thing. Right now I am making sure she takes the medications the ER doc prescribed and pouring her ginger ale. And helping her walk to the bathroom. V. strange.

(Of course, I just heard her answer a Jeopardy question so I know she is feeling all right.)

So...I got the part.

Which is totally cool and everything! Except it just hit me...

...I have to sing like seven songs in this show. And I'm always onstage, talking. WHY DID I WANT A LEAD ROLE WHAT but no seriously this is so freaking cool.

Today I am once again a prime number of years old. Also, I am now allowed to do magic outside of school. Woo!

ALSO ALSO TODAY WAS MY BEST BIRTHDAY IN SEVERAL YEARS.

I got a laptop. <33333~! Also a scanner and my mom picked up a wireless router so I'll have teh intarwebz in my room. And a bunch of art supplies and a book by Will Eisner and my whole drama class glomped me (seriously guys, I don't need to breathe, totally not, it's okay to SQUASH ME) and it is maybe possible that the latest in my string of ridiculous crushes on fellow drama students is actually an okay guy who is not actually hung up on someone and/or really mean. Also also also I did absolutely no work today and I am still really behind in all my classes, but I got to see my sister and I got a fucking laptop so really (and it's a very nice laptop) I am A-OK.

People I don't even know that well were shouting Happy Birthday at me in the halls. It was really super cool.

Just got back from the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Item A: drama kids need to learn to deal with their own gorram problems. Item B: this was the best of the three years I've gone. Item C: the drive home! Was so! Awesome! We took a different route and I went to Nevada for the first time and we stopped in Vegas to pee and crossed the Hoover Dam and took some dam pictures and got yelled at by the police and waved at by some kids in a station wagon and listened to a bunch of musicals and Tom Lehrer and! The annoying JROTC guy who I totally hate because he is ignorant and acts as though he is smarter than all the students, which he really is not--anyway, he yelled at some people in some hick gas station for having up a sign that compared Obama to Osama. Like, he yelled at some lady he didn't know for twenty minutes. I mean, okay, other people are entitled to their own opinions, kay Sarge? Also it was more amusing than the jokes usually are. (Also, right next to this was an anti-war Calvin and Hobbes strip, which made me very confused about the store owner's political views.)

Item D: I have been reading for almost two hours trying to catch up with my comics and spies and flist and have just now started to even approach the end. Ahahahaa stupid internet-less school trips. Still haven't managed to watch any Due South, but Mom finished the first disc while I was gone and this week is fall break soooooo! I have plenty of time for brilliant Canadian television.

In sum: this weekend was fuckin' exhilarating!

So. Flower Drum Song is finally over. After State next weekend, I will officially have no pressing engagements until next year, assuming none of my friends/family do something monumentally stupid or I come into an enormous windfall.

SO! I'd like to say that HOLY CRAP I CAN GET A FULL NIGHT'S SLEEP NOW but what would even be the point? I'm now so used to running on like five hours of sleep that I couldn't get to sleep last night until like one, and then I woke up at six and was a-ok all day. Yes. Exciting.

Also! There is now art up on my DeviantArt account. So if you'd like to check out the crap drawry things I use to fill up my spare time when I'm not writing, rehearsing, performing, studying, or competing ('cause there's so much of it), there it is. Go ahead. (that's only the good stuff anyway, so ha! You no can has making massive fun of Annie. Only large amounts, not massive.)

So yeah. I have no idea what to do with myself anymore. I don't have to practice dance steps. I don't have to clamp together platforms to make a makeshift stage. I don't have to sew buttons back onto shoddily-made but very pretty Chinese shirts. i don't have to help anyone get dressed and I am no longer at school for 12+ hours every day.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF.

But I'll get over it.

Okay, so, while I have gotten very far in Kingdom of Loathing, I have not been keeping up at all with LiveJournal. Which is, for sure, utterly deplorable given the three to six hours daily I've been on the Internet for the past two-three weeks.

But anyway! I went to pick up my schedule yesterday, and because of how sucky the scheduling is for a: drama magnets and b: smart kids at my school, where I am most definitely a member of both groups, mainly because I know basic grammar and don't spell "South" "souf", I cannot take academic decathalon OR musical theater. And I have first lunch, and trust me, only lame people have first lunch.

BUT ANYWAY. While I was there, waiting in the counselor's office to make FOR SURE that I couldn't have Musical Theater (stupid honors geometry. I should've taken you last year anyway!) I ran into a bunch of other sophomores/people who were in Cats with me and also a dance magnet who is on my bus and is one of the rather more tolerable people who ride my bus. And a good thing too, because we waited for an HOUR to see our counselors. Hmm, do you think maybe there's something wrong with the scheduling system? ANYWAY. After I made SURE I couldn't get musical theater, I went to try to go get my books, but since they were out to lunch, hung out with Lamar until they opened again. And who should walk by us but Ms. St. John, head of the drama department!

Evidently, there was a meeting for the drama kids that same day at two, just an hour and a half from then. Amazing! So we went and long story short, we're (all nine of us who showed up) doing a skit about the dress code. But, being drama students, made it somehow not boring. Mostly by having seven of us walk into a classroom on stage grossly out of dress code and practically give the teacher (played very convincingly by Lamar) a heart attack. So six out of the seven get sent to the office, and I am one of them, because my skirt is WAY too short (I actually had to doctor one of my skorts to get it to look like a really short skirt--yay safety pins) and I'm also chewing gum. It has the lame school spirit ending, but since it's for the freshmen, they won't know the difference it's actually informative, 'cause we're awesome like that. Once we figured out who was doing what violations, we basically improved the whole skit, with minimal suggestions from Ms. McKenna. Because we rock.

And somehow, because of the gum-popping and short-skirt wearing, I play a slut pink lady. It's fun because I get to be obnoxious.

....And in non-drama-slash-school-related news, I'm almost done sewing an (incredibly awesome and paisley) vest. And...um. My kitten is pretty grown up now. And....um...It wasn't completely being around Aaron Chee even though the last time I asked him out. And since I'm boring, that's it.