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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
2:04 am	you can't make this stuff up I've done 3 shows in NY since October. My current director is a shemale. And changing the ending of a Stephen Sondheim show from an elderly woman poignantly dying to said woman and her granddaughter waving at the audience and walking off. Sigh. Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
2:25 am	holidays in Manhattan Apparently, the holiday season brings out the brotherhood in New Yorkers. While sitting on the subway with Jake the other day, not one of the neighboring strap hangers but TWO struck up a conversation with us. Of course, the conversation ended up being a bemoaning of the MTA and how they throw away money, but it was in a friendlier brusque way that usual. (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
4:25 pm	silly New Mexico Who would name a city Truth Or Consequences??? And yet, there it is... Current Mood: astounded (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
11:52 pm	Tuesday, June 26, 2007 I wrote an audition rant on myspace a couple months ago and decided to move it to here, because you can't just find this one so easily. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Monday, August 6th, 2007
1:46 pm	Beyonce wtf???? This is going to be identical to my post in the other, less private weblog: So Saturday night, I almost got hit by Beyonce Knowles's limo. This was much less cool and much more annoying than it may sound to Beyonce fans, some of whom can apparently be completely psychotic. I have no problem with Beyonce, but I was trying to cross the street by Madison Square Garden to meet up with some people. There were barricades on the sidewalk and a bunch of big black cars and men with earpieces running around while people were standing around all over the block. I figured something was going on (duh), but I had no idea what and I really didn't care-- I was late meeting up for kareoke! I kept pushing on through and stepped to cross a street or driveway or something that comes out of MSG, when I had to JUMP BACK to avoid being KILLED by a limo. So much for all those men guarding the barracades watching out for the people on the street. I saw people with Beyonce posters, remembered seeing in the Onion that there was some concert coming up for her somewhere in NYC, and suddenly there was a MAD RUSH at the car by maybe two hundred people who were all screaming and taking pictures and trying to jump on the car. It reminded me of the footage I've seen of Beatlemania, though to a smaller scale. Jake had caught up with me at this point and I pushed him back to avoid getting trampled, and the most ridiculous part was there was a big black curtain preventing anyone from seeing anything in the limo anyway! There was no way to even see her! I've really never seen people act like that in person before; I couldn't believe it. And everyone was cooing afterwards about how they couldn't believe she was RIGHT THERE! It was crazy. I feel sorry for anyone who has to go through that just trying to leave their own freaking concert.... Current Mood: bewildered (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
1:23 am	What I did Wednesday night through Thursday: Went to my first rehearsal for the musical I'm doing in Brooklyn. Finished the last Harry Potter book. Saw Gypsy at the City Center. Saw the Simpsons movie (maybe that counts as Friday, it was 12:01am). Come see my show. For some reason, I found Harry Potter rather scary and I was actually on edge with other people from Wednesday - Thursday night. Gypsy was okay. I have never been to that theater before and heard such a gigantic, loud audience before. But really, it just made things too easy for people on the stage. And when you clap for everything anyone does for a full 30 seconds and they keep having to wait until the clapping is done to continue the scene, it makes the show REALLY LONG. I just used and and but to start sentences, wee! I think the most brilliant gag in the Simpsons movie may have been a glitch at our theater! That sounds weird, but if people have seen it, let me know........ if it wasn't real, I can't believe no one has ever done it. I think I'll write a movie just to put it in and seem brilliant now. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
11:11 pm	oh craigslist So we're past the brush with the automobile accident and on to the funniest response I think I've ever seen to a craigslist housing post. Now, my boyfriend is looking for a roommate in New York for at least six months. He requests a Kosher, clean, strongly implied normal 20-something single roommate. And he says nothing about parking. Let's see where this woman fits in: ( Read more... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 13th, 2007
11:38 pm	uh, yeah So, after I drove 1400 miles with Jake without incident over the past two weeks, my brother and I just went like a standard 15 minute drive from my cousin's house and almost ended up as freak road kill. We got SO lucky, and it was SO scary and I'm freaked out. He was going to drive me back into Manhattan and didn't take our usual exit off the highway. Then, because it was about 11pm, he decided he was too tired and went to make a u-turn. He has to do this by taking an exit around a curve to another highway, going a short distance, and going off the exit in the other direction he didn't take originally. So the problem is there is another curving exit going the other way right next to our exit to the other highway and no barrier inbetween except a little patch of grass. Bear with me here, and pretend the curve lines are each one road and the exit/arrows I drew show how traffic goes (__ lines are blank space, --| is just to frame it). It was easier to see before all the ___ but livejournal was deleting my spaces without them. |------________-------| |_exit_\______/_______| |___\___\____/________| |___v____)gr(_________| |_______)as(__________| |______)ss(______^____| |_____/____\____/_____| |____/______\_exit____| |---------------------| We go up around the right side and, out of no where in the dark, this car comes skidding in circles, OUT OF CONTROL, practically bouncing so that if it hit something it probably would have flipped, right towards us! That patch of grass is really small, and when it hits it it kicks up a huge cloud of dirt and I'm telling my brother go go just go we have to get away from it. He's going about 30 around our side of the curve, and it seems like only 5mph, and we drive through the cloud of dirt (which we can't see through) and JUST miss it because it slowed down just enough. If it hit us, it would have gone through our windshield. But we got out unscathed, save for a bunch of dirt that went through the air conditioning vents down my throat through my open, gaping mouth. We didn't call 911 because we didn't hear a crash, and I think they got lucky too: it seemed that they either stopped just at the edge of the grass, right off the road if someone else was quickly exiting the highway, or no one was behind us and other people coming would have been able to see them from far enough away to stop. Also, we were kind of in shock and just trying to get home, and out of the car, as fast as possible. They were definitely speeding. They went around that curve SO fast, my brother said that's why people can't go 50 around these curves, then conjectured afterwards that maybe they were going about 70 and it's possible they were drunk since the road was dry and there were no leaves or impediments that should have caused that. But this all happened in about 20 seconds, and we're pretty sure we got missed by feet. SO SCARY, looking foward to not having to be in a car for a while... Current Mood: scared (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
11:40 pm	I have lousy luck when it comes to minor medical issues that come about because of lousy luck. Because of a cyst that may or may not have to get surgically removed one day (only 5% of people get it), I have taken on paying way too much for COBRA health insurance since leaving my job. I'm sure it paid off this month, though. Yesterday, I slept very little and took a two hour nap in the middle of the day. I woke up around 4pm with a slight irritation in my eye, which I thought was nothing, I would blink out, and could flush out with water if it didn't go away on its own. 7 hours later, after trying to flush it out, using eye drops, and looking in the mirror but seeing nothing, my eye was burning, tearing, hurting, and feeling worse when I laid down than when I stood up. So after deciding I'd have to find some kind of doctor if it didn't get better in the morning and having to prop myself up so I could kind of sit against the pillows and fall asleep (and waking up at 5am to my eye tearing and burning), I woke up this morning to find it better than it was at 5am, but not better. Cut to my squeezed in doctor's appointment with my mother's ophthalmologist! Apparently, there was a miniscule piece of dirt or something that got lodged in my cornea and had to be taken out with an eye clamp and needle. Now I have to put drops in my eyes 12 times a day for a couple days before I go back and find out when I can stop doing that. And, of course, it hurts!! It sure beats having lousy luck with major or long-term medical issues, and I certainly appreciate that. I can't wait until it doesn't hurt to blink or lie down, though. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
9:39 am	busy couple of days Now it's off to Nashville! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
11:24 pm	lookame It's Alan Tudyk! And the back of my head! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
12:41 am	I love video games I just watched An Inconvenient Truth. Now, I'd seen most of those "rarely seen" charts before because I took an earth science class as a required course in college, and it was such a shame that most of that huge class couldn't care less about paying attention. I guess the Biosphere wasn't cool enough. But I didn't realize global warming has really been thrown out there since the 1960s and 1970s. Has anyone ever played Civilization II past winning mode? No matter what scenario I played on and how my land was structured, if you let that game go, global warming always destroys the planet. Always. Well, I didn't necessarily build up all the recycling options in my gigantic civilizations with a zillion cities, but the cities would collapse from overpopulation if you didn't regulate the food to regulate growth, and the world would turn into desert and ocean. It's kind of like how in Sim City 2000, if you took out a bond to pay off another bond, the interest rates would get higher and higher and you would almost always plunge into bankruptcy. Sometimes you could get away with raising taxes enough and cutting funding for everything to deal with it. But my point is, I learned lots of valuable lessons as a kid about running municipal budgets and global warming from video games. Actually pertinent life issues! I knew enough to reject one of Schwarzenegger’s proposals for California to pay off a loan by taking out a bigger loan. I wasn't a resident and had nothing to do with the actual vote, but had I a choice, I would have rejected it! Which the voters eventually did... And what may you learn from the Sims, you ask? Well, life can be boiled down to a bunch of desires that need fulfilling (ie sleep, hunger, comfort), and that the point of working is to save enough money until you can buy everything offered. And when you run out of things to buy through cheat codes that give you infinite money, it gets boring. I mean, if you live for nothing but basic survival instincts, money and stuff. Current Mood: concerned (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
8:28 am	Do you know my last day was March 2nd yet somehow I'm still working there? Current Mood: aggravated (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
10:35 pm	I bought a used silver flute for $50 today. I'm very excited! Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
7:52 pm	Contacts = in. And out! In an hour. Could use some work, but now my eye is irritated. (Comment on this)
1:01 am	Did you hear me laugh on the Colbert Report tonight? It was very distinct. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
8:52 pm	do I actually look like any of these people? Well, some of them aren't too shabby. Young Brooke Shields? I can deal with that. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Friday, January 26th, 2007
10:23 am	headshots! Headshots (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
5:59 pm	contacts Those of you who have known me a while know how I have struggled with CONTACT LENSES for years. And if I want to audition and actually get a job, I really need them. Yesterday, there was a great success and even bigger failure! The eye doctor got contacts in my eyes!!! And I couldn't get them out. An hour later, the employees of the doctor were flustered and had to do it for me. So I'm going back next week for an hour "lesson", but if I can't get them in and out myself I can't really get them. The most frustrating thing about it is they don't hurt when they are in, so why am I still flinching like crazy? They don't hurt to touch in your eye even because you are touching plastic. I can't really practice before I go back because I don't have spare lenses (I can't take them unless I can get them in and out myself), and I'm sick. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Current Mood: sick (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 4th, 2006
12:06 am	repost I decided to clean out my other blog because it was kind of silly, but I didn't want to throw it all out, so I'm reposting it here under a cut. I thought it would be funny to have a really shallow, celebrity-chasing blog, but it wasn't as funny as I'd hoped. In fact, it kind of made me sound stalkerish if you didn't know I really don't chase celebrities around. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)