Ok..so a quote from annie as the title is cheesy...
( here is a super long entry with pictures about my recent trip to NYC where I saw rent with Adam Pascall and Anthony Rapp, and Spamalot, and did other fun stuff... )

So a week of relative craziness has come and gone. The whole weekend was Easter related activities, including a nice dinner and fun times with little cousins.
Monday night was fun LMT dinner at Mongolian, good times!

Tuesday was my skills performance exam, for which I had to use the paper because it was so damn hard! and I was REALLY freaking out that I had failed the course (and therefore, not earned my degree!) However, I did just get my skills mark back yesterday, and I did pass! (not even a D- a good solid D!!!) Hooorah! this means I get to graduate! yay!

Wednesday was my jury! eeeks! Stressfull! But it went pretty well and I had a massive sleep the night before (I actually got into bed when the clock still said..PM! shocking!) They didn't ask for one song that I actually really wanted to sing...but luckily it was one I was doing in my recital..so I did get to perform it. Even the crazy 20th Century piece that Heidi and I had never done without stopping and Lynda had never heard the accopmaniment for, went well. One small mistake where I had to slide up to the right note quickly, but other than that it was all good!

Thursday was my opera history exam, which I was FREAKING out about. However, I studied as much as I could (with less than 24 hours to study...I tend to take things like this one at a time, so when they're close together, it poses a problem for me...), and I think I did fairly well on the exam, and I got my paper back wiht a good mark, despite the fact that she personally disagreed with almsot everything I said. Ah well..the comments she wrote are hilarious! Some are helpful, some are just funny. (ie: puccini would role over in his grave~!) I spent thursday night making programs for...

MY RECITAL! was on friday. It wasn't just mine, it was Danielle and Angela as well. It was probably the most thrown together, fly by the seat of your pants recital ever in the history of Laurier, but thats ok. We actually managed to make 318 pretty, my mom bought tons and tons of flowers to make it look nice, we had fruit and goodies (some that my grandma made) and cheese and crackers and Punch! (we realized that none of us how to make punch..so I made up a punch recipe and everyone loved it...its very simple: Gingerale, Cranberry juice, frozen lemonade concentrate, frozen fruit...mmmm! mix in bowl...the end) My songs went well, I liked my dress and I wore my hairband with the fun feathery thing for my Weill song...it was very diva-ish..I enjoyed.


Close up of weird headband...weird or cool? You decide!


Me after the recital with flowers from my Grandmas and aunt!


All three of us afterwards...

My parents, sister, two grandmas, aunt and cousin were all there plus music student friends and LMT friends..so that was great! I felt good about my singing, particularly the Amy Cheney Beach songs...they are so fun! and are full of high notes! tee hee... It's funny, but a lot of my friends haven't heard me sing classical...and My family hasn't really either, for a long time, and never like this. So that was really exciting! Im excited to get the recording! yay! Ally and her boyfriend came up from Brockville/Montreal to see the recital...afterwards we watched her 'Little shop of Horrors' production from this year and my 'Bat Boy'. It was rather fun. I forgot how much I loved our show until I watch the DVD again..Im SOO proud of it, for myself and for the club and for everyone who worked on it..its just...amazing. And as many problems as we've had with exec...hearing about how allys theatre club is run makes ours sound like some kind of utopia... so that's always good to hear.

So now Im super exaughsted and should go to bed..though tomorow will be a day of lounging around and going to Lianes grad recital! yay!

So now I only have ONE more exam..EVER in my University career, and it's not for a week! I say party/packing time! yay!

So the opera is done! Finally...It was fun and we put on a good show, but its just so ridiculously tiring. Especially since the second last week where we had tons of extra opera rehearsal on top of the normal 12 hours per week we also had choir intensive..Im still a little drained. So a few pictures from opera must be posted...

#1 CHARLIES ANGEL NUNS...because...well..ya



and also..as I was a bat..I had to do the bat boy dance..in the costume...



tee hee..there are more on facebook...good times.

and now i need to either go to bed..or type up vocal ped stuff...bed seems to be winning in my brain....

Look at the pretty things! I did them all with my own photography, and In Paint...since thats the only photo editing program I have (hangs head in shame) yay....
oh procrastination

Revue on saturday...gah. I hope everything is ready!

( Icons that I made...My first try! )

So I havn't updated in forever!
The rest of my south carolina expereince over reading week was WAY better than the scary hotel room on the way down.
The beach was really nice. Pretty cold, but nice to walk on. We went out to dinner a bunch and watched a ton of Olympics which was fun.
Since Ive been back its just been a lot of everything. Working on organizing the revue, learning lots of music for studio to fill out my rep list, and watching a whole lot of gilmore girls. Im trying to watch season three, but I can't find episodes 2, 3, 4, 6 or 10 on the internet. Its driving me crazy! so if anyone has them on their computer, please share! I must know what happens!! (I am such a TV addict)
And now Im just doing work as usual.
anyway..thats about it.

( Some Pictures of South Carolina... )

So Here I am in South Carolina.
We started driving on Saturday, went and picked Craig up in Kingston. We drove something like 7 hours on saturday and then stopped at some hotel that Dad had reserved for us. It was only suppposed to be one level lower than the hotels we normally stay in (which were all full) (and yes I realize I sound spoiled..lol) and this was honestly the scariest hotel room Ive ever been in. My brother, sister and I were sharing a room and we didn't go to sleep 'cause we were way too grosed out. Think thats extreme? here are some pictures...The sketchy chair with a scary white substance on it, the sketchier toilet seat with a scary white substance on it, the weird writing on the bedsheets..and me looking scared. we used our coats as blankets, because the blankets looked sketchy.




Did I mention the scary red light in the bathroom on a timer? Apparently its a heat lamp, but im pretty sure it was to create a nasty nasty mood. Oh...also, pubic hair in the soapdish...awesome. ill definitely stay there again (that was severe sarcasm...if you missed it) There was also hilarious 'bed jumping olympics' where we discovered after watching ski jumping till 3am, that the beds were ridiculously bouncy. This lead to craig and tarah jumping between beds and doing trampoline like moves on the beds. I have video...maybe ill get it uploaded and link to it..its funny. theres also a demonstration by craig of the red light....hilarous.
Anyway...we drove another 10 or 11 hours on sunday, ate at cracker barrel twice (haha) and finaly got to our place in south Carolina. Its really really nice. So far We've just been hanging out, watching the olympics (hockey and skating mostly), walking on the beach etc. Nothing super exciting, but its nice to just hang out here.
I dyed my hair red again!
but don't panick, it looks good this time, its really subtle and its that stuff that comes out after 10 shampoos, so it wasn't a big disater. its really red out in the sun though. I might buy some more of it, I wish I could find a permanet colour that would do the same thing.
We bought and watched Rent last night....I was happy to see it again, its SO good. The long documentary on jonathon larson was really really interesting and also really inspiring. He was happy living in squalar because he was doing what he wanted to do, and had the support of all of his family and friends.
anyway....I think Im going to head back out and go to the beach or something.
more later...

Three things that I miss....in the order they left.

1. Spring: or at least the spring like weather we had for a week or so. Until the skies decided to dump four billion pounds of slush on waterloo. Stupid slush...its all cold, and almost gave me trenchfoot walking back from the spur. However...slushy streets to provide ample opportunities for corny reunions in slushy streets... tee hee.

2. Urinetown : not the place of course, the musical. It was honestly a fabulous time. I really enjoyed myself this year, more than hair because there were no major disasters more than fame for a number of reasons. Im definitely going to run for director again next year. I really think I learned a lot and also, I think we put on a great show. The shows were oversold everynight, with people begging us to cram in extra chairs or let them sit in the back. My parents really liked it, Tarah and Joey liked it and Jess called it the best piece of student theatre she had ever seen, which is a real compliment from her. The show itself went really smoothly everynight, the audiences ate it up. Im worried we won't be able to find as perfect a show next year, Urinetown really was perfect for our group...good on me for thinking of it...and good on Laura for helping me convince everyone else! The cast and crew I think bonded more than we had in the past as well, and I got to know some people from last year, that I really didn't know. I didn't interact with anyone really since almost all of my scenes were just me, or me and the nick character. I did miss being on the stage...but not in a direct, i want to take over her role kind of way..which is a real tribute to how fantastic our cast was... 'cause Im a huge Diva, and would totaly want to steal someones role if I thought they were doing it wrong. I was so proud of the whole cast...*tear*






The Cast party was such a good time! Firstly, we (the directors &producer) were given toilet seats with a cast photo and everyones signature on them...fantastic present. I finaly figured out how to hang it up on my wall today...I love it. Wilfs was fun, the cast awards were fun, and the slideshow I put together was fun to watch, especially when we were all belting our brains out singing along with the urinetown music I had put on as background music. Then it was off through the nasty weather to the spur. We took the bus, but I didn't have my one card...I flashed my drivers licsense, which totaly worked! yay...note to self: carry one card. The spur was fun. I actually sang karaoke not with everyone else, (did a bit of holding out for a hero before i had to get off the stage because there were too many of us and sang Footloose with Janice and Tammy...good times) also there was a whole kissing thing going on....apparently our group is pretty comfortable with each other, or pretty drunk, or both. Anyhow...Clubcest is best apparently and I hope no one had/has mono! yeesh!

But I miss everyone already..so its good that people are heading to Lauras tomorow to hang out.







3. Meagan: Meagan left for spain. And even though its only been two days, its weird to know that she's in a different country. She was online for a bit today, so she got there safely which is good to know. I know she'll have a fantastic time and learn a lot but Im selfish and miss her, and I know I'm not the only one, based on the tearful goodbye in the middle of Booster Juice (which clearly is the most appropriate place to say goodbye to one of your best friends for six months).



Anyway...those are three things I miss.
Now to sleep...masterclass tomorow.