Thursday, June 05, 2008
I'm actually blogging! Because I am not sleeping. Because there is a SPIDER in my BED.
I was attempting to kill a freakishly large, gross, brownish-yellowish spider, the likes of which seem to be drawn to my house by the strangely magnetic force of fear. I grabbed about 18 tissues and attempted to grab the beast off the wall. In the process, it nearly scuttled onto my hand and then tumbled (meaning that it sensed my fear and disgust and threw itself) down the wall and into the folds of the blankets on my bed. I proceeded to do what any sane person would do faced with such a situation and tore from the room, grabbing a blanket from the closet on the way.
Which brings me back to the computer that I had just put to sleep to tell anyone who will listen about the pathetic situation I just found myself in, as well as to blog about it so that it would be documented forever, because I don't even now how that possibly happened, as this is real life, and not a hilarious movie.
I will now sleep downstairs for fear that the beast will suffocate me in the night.
Fuck spiders.
I was attempting to kill a freakishly large, gross, brownish-yellowish spider, the likes of which seem to be drawn to my house by the strangely magnetic force of fear. I grabbed about 18 tissues and attempted to grab the beast off the wall. In the process, it nearly scuttled onto my hand and then tumbled (meaning that it sensed my fear and disgust and threw itself) down the wall and into the folds of the blankets on my bed. I proceeded to do what any sane person would do faced with such a situation and tore from the room, grabbing a blanket from the closet on the way.
Which brings me back to the computer that I had just put to sleep to tell anyone who will listen about the pathetic situation I just found myself in, as well as to blog about it so that it would be documented forever, because I don't even now how that possibly happened, as this is real life, and not a hilarious movie.
I will now sleep downstairs for fear that the beast will suffocate me in the night.
Fuck spiders.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
I've been home for more than a week now. Call me. That is all.
Ok, here's some more. The year wrapped up pretty much the same as the rest went. Busy and crazy. After some intense all nighters and general insanity, I made it through with some really awesome things to show for it. My jerkface advisor was really proud of me and it felt awesome. Then I spent 2 hilarious days in the city with some friends, and now I'm back home. It's nice to just be around for a change. Leaving for Williamstown Theatre Festival on June 11th to paint and assistant design and probably get some coffee. I'm nervous. I hear good things though. Back on August 18th. We should play before then. Now that's really all. Yay!
Ok, here's some more. The year wrapped up pretty much the same as the rest went. Busy and crazy. After some intense all nighters and general insanity, I made it through with some really awesome things to show for it. My jerkface advisor was really proud of me and it felt awesome. Then I spent 2 hilarious days in the city with some friends, and now I'm back home. It's nice to just be around for a change. Leaving for Williamstown Theatre Festival on June 11th to paint and assistant design and probably get some coffee. I'm nervous. I hear good things though. Back on August 18th. We should play before then. Now that's really all. Yay!
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Happy Groundhog Day to anyone still in blogland!(...it's now March... Happy almost St. Patrick's Day?) As you can probably tell, I've been busy. Things have been going non-stop since I got to Boston. The semester in review: I was wary at first, no one was around just popping their head in to say hello like college kids supposedly do.
Eventually the rest of the people living at West Campus surfaced and I met a bunch of other design and production majors. Keren, the other designer in my really sweet quad is awesome and we're going to live together again next year. I got really lucky as roomates go. The actresses in my room are nuts and obnoxious at times, mostly Sophie, but it could be far worse.
Classes are a little nuts, projects immediately from the first class. It was scary being thrown right into everything like that, but it was the best way to go probably. Theatere Ensemble, one of my new classes for second semester is a big crazy-fest for 6 hours a week in which we writ terrible angsty poetry and are then forced to present it standing on our heads and crazy things like that. Definitely makes for good stories though.
Production on The Magic Flute wrapped up right before spring break (which is right now, I'm home by the way, if you're reading this, stop wasting time and call me!) and it was challening and exhausting, butalso fun and worth it. Nicole came and saw the show and we spent an exciting weekend running through the snowy streets of Boston and not doing very much. It was fun, but next time she comes I'll actually plan fun things for us to do.
And that's that in a nutshell. I know, months, and all you get are a few paragraphs, but really that's all there is. Life is better than I figured it would be looking ahead from this time last year and I'm glad about it. I saw The Wizard of Oz and everyone was awesome and I definitely got nostalgic for drama and all those people and things, but college is good too. Other than being severely sleep deprived a great majority of the time, I can't really complain. I'll try to update more often, if only with quick thoughts or something. Just to keep everyone interested. (Everyone meaning just Tessa...maybe.) Yay!
Eventually the rest of the people living at West Campus surfaced and I met a bunch of other design and production majors. Keren, the other designer in my really sweet quad is awesome and we're going to live together again next year. I got really lucky as roomates go. The actresses in my room are nuts and obnoxious at times, mostly Sophie, but it could be far worse.
Classes are a little nuts, projects immediately from the first class. It was scary being thrown right into everything like that, but it was the best way to go probably. Theatere Ensemble, one of my new classes for second semester is a big crazy-fest for 6 hours a week in which we writ terrible angsty poetry and are then forced to present it standing on our heads and crazy things like that. Definitely makes for good stories though.
Production on The Magic Flute wrapped up right before spring break (which is right now, I'm home by the way, if you're reading this, stop wasting time and call me!) and it was challening and exhausting, butalso fun and worth it. Nicole came and saw the show and we spent an exciting weekend running through the snowy streets of Boston and not doing very much. It was fun, but next time she comes I'll actually plan fun things for us to do.
And that's that in a nutshell. I know, months, and all you get are a few paragraphs, but really that's all there is. Life is better than I figured it would be looking ahead from this time last year and I'm glad about it. I saw The Wizard of Oz and everyone was awesome and I definitely got nostalgic for drama and all those people and things, but college is good too. Other than being severely sleep deprived a great majority of the time, I can't really complain. I'll try to update more often, if only with quick thoughts or something. Just to keep everyone interested. (Everyone meaning just Tessa...maybe.) Yay!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Well, it's been all summer. I've been busy with one thing and another, but mostly I'm just excessively lazy. Last time I wrote I was on my way to BU for orientation. That went well enough, at first I wasn't too thrilled, then I was happy, and now...well now I'm here. Moved in on Wednesday, met 2 out of 3 roomates so far. They seem nice enough and the room is pretty great, kind of hot, but otherwise. I was wary of being in a quad, but it's a nice space. So far I do like the school, location and atmosphere and stuff, but I'm still nervous about the program. Everyone seems kind of intense, but I'll figure out what I need to be doing. As you can tell, it's 9:00 on a Friday and I'm sitting in my room blogging, but I guess it'll just take time, I'm like that about making friends. This weekend is official move in though, so I'm hoping to meet a bunch of people. Mostly people that are already here have been busy with a volunteer program or orientation. Hoping for the best. Classes start on Tuesday. oyyy. wish me luck!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
So it's been a long time. I kept meaning to write soemthing new, when the show ended to say how great it was and to inform anyone who might still check this that I have not in fact been eaten by lions or some such thing. The muscial was crazy as always, this time something that can really be called Hell week for me, painting (and building too I think) up until a half hour before show time, but I think it was all worth it. Great end to my drama career. Other than that, since then I've been busy with one thing and another. AP tests, final projects, modules, FSS show, the usual. Everything's been pretty good, senior activities, all that.
And now, today was my last day of school as a senior. It's weird, I'm excited but at the same time dreading it being all over. Yearbooks are being signed, love is being spread all around, it's very nice. But it's still sad. We all had a nice moment after school as Dr. Murphy shouted over the announcements that everyone was to be in their cars, on their buses, blahblah, just sitting around on stage, talking and hugging and yearbook signing, while Ricky played Billy Joel as usual. Cheesy on our part I guess, that we spent our last moments of high school sitting on a dark stage, but it's what we all really had to do. And then, I walk out of the doors and to my car for the last time and it just starts to rain, (how about that for symbolism?). It was a nice moment actually.
So, to make this last high school moment really final, I have to go pack because I leave early tomorrow morning for 3 day orientation at Boston University. (Wow, I never even put that in here, the whole college thing. Lots of tears in deciding, but what doesn't require tears with me? Still lots of doubts, feelings that I'll probably crash and burn, but I guess everyone's in the same boat, and we'll all make it.) So that's that, and I'm off to Boston.
More about that when I return.
Oh. My. God.
And now, today was my last day of school as a senior. It's weird, I'm excited but at the same time dreading it being all over. Yearbooks are being signed, love is being spread all around, it's very nice. But it's still sad. We all had a nice moment after school as Dr. Murphy shouted over the announcements that everyone was to be in their cars, on their buses, blahblah, just sitting around on stage, talking and hugging and yearbook signing, while Ricky played Billy Joel as usual. Cheesy on our part I guess, that we spent our last moments of high school sitting on a dark stage, but it's what we all really had to do. And then, I walk out of the doors and to my car for the last time and it just starts to rain, (how about that for symbolism?). It was a nice moment actually.
So, to make this last high school moment really final, I have to go pack because I leave early tomorrow morning for 3 day orientation at Boston University. (Wow, I never even put that in here, the whole college thing. Lots of tears in deciding, but what doesn't require tears with me? Still lots of doubts, feelings that I'll probably crash and burn, but I guess everyone's in the same boat, and we'll all make it.) So that's that, and I'm off to Boston.
More about that when I return.
Oh. My. God.
