Snow

It snowed this morning. I was so excited. I stepped out of class and saw the beautiful, tiny flakes falling from the sky. Megan texted me, "It's snowing!" and I felt like dancing. Snow is one of the most gorgeous natural wonders in this world. The absolute purity of it and how it seems to transform everything into a cake with icing on it astounds me.

That picture is from last winter. I can't wait for everything to look like that again. It's a great season, really, winter. There's Christmas and New Years and my birthday and everyone is so cheerful. It's a time for everyone to take the time to recognize how much everyone means to them as they proceed into another section of their life. It's just as transforming as that snow on the trees.

I hope you jump for joy as the snow falls wherever you are. Just curl up in the warmth of your home with some hot chocolate and good music and watch the snow gather outside. It's a good start to the winter.

Peace out!

Did You Have a Good Thanksgiving?

I'm back in burly world! Back to the land of internet, TV, homelessness (as Megan just pointed out to me), noise, and class. Oh boy. The good news is I drove here so that was fun. I didn't kill anybody either. Joe was pretty scared, but I think after awhile he relaxed. The thing about my driving is I'm not really defensive, I just play it safe. That sort of sounds like a metaphor for my life. Kind of funny when you think about it.

Seriously...how was your Thanksgiving? Mine was pretty low-key. I actually cooked the dinner this Thanksgiving. My mom had to go in for surgery on Tuesday, the same day I came home so she wasn't able to. She fine now, by the way, and she seems to be healing pretty well. I just get nervous.

I was pretty proud of how well I was able to get everything together. My dad and I worked on Wednesday to prepare everything to be cooked on Thanksgiving day. I peeled the potatoes, baked a pumpkin pie, and cooked the stuffing. My dad washed the dishes. I guess he didn't really want to get his hands dirty.

Thanksgiving was a day where I got to pull out my inner Julia Child and rock out the home cooked meal thing. It was good too. Everything came together perfectly. The turkey was juicy, the potatoes creamy, the pumpkin pie spicy yet sweet, the squash yummy, and the gravy full of fat. Yep, the perfect Thanksgiving. Megan and I were also able to pull off our plan of bringing Velvet Thanksgiving. We weren't able to bring her to Lyndonville because Megan's gram didn't want us pulling off two trips to Burlington but we brought her a whole bunch of yummy Turkey Day food.

A good day. A good vacation. Now we're back.

Peace out!

Happy Thanksgiving

I danced the Single Ladies dance in my theater professor's living room Sunday night at our cast party. Our show finished its run this weekend which means the end of the rehearsals, the tech rehearsals, the dress rehearsals, and the last minute rehearsal calls (did I mention rehearsal?). Wow...what am I going to do with my time? Go to rehearsal! After Thanksgiving break (I leave tonight!), Music Makers is rehearsing for its concert, a concert I am to be a part of. Exciting things are in the works for the end of the semester and I can't wait to get involved!

This break is going to absolutely fantastic though. I can't wait to go home, see my kittens, and eat REAL FOOD! Also, sleeping in everyday is going to be amazing!

The only qualms I have with the whole thing are the facts that at my house there is no TV because my dad refuses to put our antenna back up on the newly finished roof and there is no internet because my mom refuses to have it. I can't win. So for five days there will be no status updates, no tweets, and no blog posts....sad....but I hope we can all take this time to spend with our family and friends. It's Thanksgiving, let's be thankful.

Plus...Megan's bringing Velvet back to Lyndonville to have Thanksgiving with us because Velvet doesn't have the means to get home for this break. So we decided (well, mostly Megan decided) that we're going to give Velvet a good (home-country!) Thanksgiving. I think Velvet deserves that.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Peace out!

This Really Happened

One of the funniest experiences happened to me today. My roommate Joe and I were walking down the sidewalk in the central campus of UVM today. We were talking about the name of the main character in Assassin's Creed 2, the awesome new video game Joe just got and has been playing religiously (for lack of a better word). His name is Eccio, and I thought it sounded a lot like the word Accio, the summoning spell from Harry Potter (SEE BLOG ENTRY: I'm A Nerd).

So then Joe and I began naming off random Harry Potter spells. I believe I won with Avada Kedavra, the killing charm. This then reminded me of the end of the seventh and final Harry Potter book. Here is the account of what happened:

SPOILER ALERT!

ME: I don't know, I think the end of the seventh book was kind of anti-climatic when Harry killed Voldemort. I mean, it was just, "Avada Kedavra, Expelliarmus!" Dead.
JOE: Yeah...
RANDOM GUY BEHIND US: What!? Harry kills Voldemort?!?!
ME: Umm...yeah...
RANDOM GUY BEHIND US: Watch where you fucking say shit like that!
ME: Okay...

Yeah, so neither of us could believe that that just happened to us. I mean, read a book. I think the guy was just messing with us, but still...It was hilarious anyway. One of the best moments ever.

Also what happened today...I registered for classes! That was very stressful and I have been basically forced to take 17 credits this semester because the only class I could only take was the spanish class which is a four credit class on top of the 4 credit theater lab I got (YAY!). But I guess I can handle it all. I am going to keep checking in and see if anything else opens, because it's kind of ridiculous. I have to replace it with something because otherwise I'm not going to have enough credits, but as of now, nothing is open. Awesome.

Peace out!

Dobra Tea

Okay, I'm going to put it im simple terms: if you are physically able to, go to Dobra Tea. This place rocks! Tonight, Megan and I decided we wanted to go on a sibling date, and I was paying because I owe Megan a lot for all the times I mooched off her in high school. Now that I'm rolling in bank, it's my turn to treat her. So I decided to take her to Dobra Tea. I had heard a lot about this place from tons of people, and I had seen the outside and heard lingering Buddhist awesome soothing music coming from the front door, but now I wanted us to experience the awesome ourselves.

We entered the Dobra Tea with high hopes. I mean, how can you go wrong with awesome loose-leaf tea and Buddhist asian atmosphere? You can't. So, we were seated in the back on this platform with pillows and a small low-sitting table in the middle with a solitary candle providing a beautiful aura (yeah, I'm getting fancy now). We ordered a Chinese green tea (I can't pronounce/remember the name), a Jerusalem pita (basically middle eastern fried dough but with a pita), and Czech honeybread (really good!). It was a delicious and enlightening experience.

And now onto something BIG...registration is tomorrow. I'm scared and nervous. It's so hard for a freshman to get into ANYTHING so this should be interesting especially because all of the classes I want are filling up. I have already had to come up with like four backups because all of these classes are being filled. It's ridiculous. I have learned a couple of things from some helpful theater kids though:

1) The system may crash halfway through registration (why are
there no freshmen?)

2) I need a backup for my backups for my backups (great...)

So it's pretty scary. Wish me luck!

Peace out!

Nightmare

I had a nightmare last night. It was about the end of the semester and I was going home for Christmas break. I had to go back there. Back to the sweaty, greasy, shitfilled hell of despair and torment that was my workplace. McDonald's. Yes, I work at McDonald's. It's a job, OK? Don't judge me!

Anyway, in my nightmare I went to the back and told my boss that I was available for all of Christmas break (Which is what I'm planning on doing at this time in the real world, not the dream world), and that was when my boss nodded his head and wrote on a piece of paper my hours for the next day (Mind you, he didn't speak this whole time, it was very weird. The only time he did say something was when he said hi to me. Weird.) and I saw them: 6:30 am-9:30 pm. I woke up in a cold sweat. I'm not kidding, this really happened last night.

Needless to say, it was one of the scariest moments of my life. I like the fact that working gives me my own money to spend and save, and it has helped me to build a pretty solid account, one that I'm proud of. I like my newfound financial freedom, even though I've found that I'm pretty stingy. I don't like where I work. At all. Not only is it usually 105 degrees in the grill where I work, but I also have to watch out because one of the drug dealers that works there might just shank me to steal my cell phone and sell it for cocaine. It's a scary workplace and I don't think I was built for it. But alas, here I am.

Christmas break is going to be pretty crappy with all of this, but it's nothing I can't handle. And I'll have the next semester to look forward to. Summer is going to be awesome, however because not only am I going to be working and making money, but I'm also going to be a leading role in a musical over the summer. This theater company that I have worked with before in Derby, VT wants to cast me as the lead. SCORE! I'm pretty excited to actually give my boss availabilities for once. I have a life! I won't be a slave to the man!

Hells yeah!

Peace out!

Jake's Weekend

This was an interesting weekend. So many things happened that I think I may have to delve into my planner to remember all the exact details so I can relay them to you, the blogsphere. For starters, Jake came over Friday afternoon. As I said before, Jake and I have been friends for a long time. It all started when Jake saved me from a bully (at least that's how we think the story goes). Jake and I live about two houses away from each other in the wonderful world of Lyndonville, and we have basically stayed together our whole lives. We rock. Basically. In high school, we made these movies called The Woods Conspiracy. They rock too.So anyway, between my three performances this weekend my roommate Joe and I hung out with Jake. A lot of that hanging out was centered around food. We went to Al's French Fries, went to Ben and Jerry's, ordered pizza, ate at the dining hall, etc. We had a really good time. It was awesome to have Jake here seeing how it's been FOREVER since we had seen each other. Also, a highlight of this weekend was POOL. The game, not the water fun place. We all basically kicked ass at pool at weekend. It was epic.

Now I come to today and my Godspell audition. I didn't get in. I didn't even get a callback. I thought I'd at least get a callback. Oh well. In an effort to try and make myself feel better about the matter, here are the reasons why this could be a good thing:

1. I can take the musical theater class! This is a very good thing. I am happy about this.

2. I can still be involved with tech crew by taking the scenery design class and building the set.

3. I can go to music makers!!!

4. I can make plans and not have to worry about rehearsals

5. There's always GLEE and next semester...LOST!

So all's well that ends well!

Peace out!