we're all f***ed together

[Dana S]

Word up all you improvisers. I keep meaning to start a journal and now..I've finally gotten around to it, and now that I've finally gotten around to it, I don't have that much to say. So I'll leave you with a couple quotes from tonight at Linda's:

-"If you married my brother you guys could both be Dana Brown! Dana and Dana Brown, I'd support that. (to CC) She's gonna marry my brother."-Corey Brown

"No, I don't deserve a glass!" -Bill Cochran (after breaking a beer glass and being confined to plastic)

And to all ye who are readin, I just have to give props to all my awesome improv teachers. You guys rock! And all my improv buddies (including my teachers): you guys are so messed up, you make me feel at home.

 

[Dana S]

dmv and Linda's

Okay, so Yesterday was my third day in a row waiting in line at the dmv. Day one, I arrived at 4 only to have them tell me at 4:30 that road tests end at that time even though they're open till 5, meaning I had to come back. Day two, I arrived at 3:30 only to wait in an even longer line and have the person infront of me be the last person of the day to take a road test (again). So yesterday it finbally happened, I became the last person of the day...So I'm driving, stopping at stop signs, maintaining the speedlimit, checking my mirrors like a paranoid freak, executing beautiful 3 point turns and staying on the right side of the road (now I think I should've gone on the left and been like whoops..I learned to drive in England), and being perfectly nice to the evil dmv lady (at one point she started ragging on my mom--no joke) and I fucking failed. Hours of waiting in line, wondering if the 'concealed weapons prohibited' sign means that it's okay as long as the weapons are visible, and having people give me weird looks when I state this aloud, and I failed. If I was any more psychotic than I already am, I would've burned the place to the ground on day 2. Satan runs the dmv!!! ahhhhhhhh.

I had a rockin time last night at my improv class though. We're all like one really fucked up improv family...its great. My favorite two scenes of the day that I was in was on of me getting my period on my boyfriends moms white couch, with Jen and Ben, and her trying to get me to stand up and my boyfriend ( in the scene) trying to keep me seated, which was later heightened by the same thing happerning in a church, and one with me as a patient and CeCe as the creepy therapist hitting on me.
Good lines from that scene:
-"And that's what happened, I just don't know what happened"-me
-"Are you doing that thing where you scare me straight so I can tell the difference between dreams and reality?"-me (after CeCe said something creepy abo)
-"I'm just imagining creating friction in a way Freud never thought possible"-CeCe

And those quotes are probably somewhat altered because my memory sucks and those are the only ones I can remember. Far better quotes were said by other players than the ones by me, but it's easier to remember what you yourself said, because well, you said it. After improv we all headed to Linda's, but couldn't get in because they weren't letting in minors (although Pablo got in without any trouble...) even though we had all been there the night before, so we all headed over to buffalo wings??? or something like that. So if our MIA improv buddies were at Lindas and were wondering why they were all alone, and why no one likes them, and why oh why we had left them alone in some cruel sick joke to show them how much we truly detest them, you guys just showed up late and missed the rescheduling plans. We still love you..sort of.

And I have to say to all my improv buddie: You are all such sluts for improv...and some of you (you know who you are) are sluts in other ways. I love all you sluts. :love:

Dana

 

[Dana S]

Thanks to Joanna who helped me figure out how to post on to the same thread instead of creating a new thread each time. I am an idiot. Joanna rules.

 

[Dana S]

b-days and 303

Our 303 improv class shows were last night. They were fun, and pretty damn funny. I think that I personally didn't perform as well as I think I'm capable, but hey everyones their own worst critic right? It just means I'll try that much harder next time. I just got back from the Palmisano's. Today is JoJo's 17th birthday!! She can now see R rated movies all by her lonesome and in one year she's legal...for so very many things....

I had a blast at the show, the hotspot game is my new favorite warm up game, tying with Show Me How To Get Down. Freshly Squozen and the Randy and Bucky Review rocked the hizouse. It sucks that we couldn't use the back door to go to the bathroom before the show though. Who ever stole that money from the inside scoop is on my hit list. I had to go to the bathroom so very badly!! Zach and I were bathroom buddies, ready to race the bathroom after the show. But alls well that ends well.

Dude I got a message from my pal Nancy today. And I have to say that we are both complete morons. For some reason we have managed throughout the past week to miss each other on the phone collectively about 12 times. Every day there is at least one message on both of our phones going "ummmm...well you're not there again, I guess someday I'll manage to talk to you on the phone...see you later." It's pathetic. So Nancy wherever you are, school starts in a couple weeks and if keep missing each other ( and if it's left up to my powers of coordinaton, we will) I'll see you then. lordy.

happy birthday again to my favorite person named Joanna.

And for gods sake to all the people who keep treating me like I'm 12 ( I don't mind it so much if you're kidding) you guys need to all get a grip on the fact that I'm in high school, I can drive, and YOU AREN"T GOING TO CORRUPT ME! Fuck.

Having said that, I would once again like to say that you guys rock (except for the aforementioned personality adjustments some of you need) and I love you all. (talk about a mood change) :loopy:

 

[Dana S]

no bonfire for me

Today blows. I should be at bonfire right now, or at least coming back from it or having just gotten back from it. but no. I spent 4 hours trying to find the goddamn address. I would've asked somebody for a ride, but everyone whose number I knew wasn't answering, and everybody else I would've otherwise e-mailed, but apparently all of msn has a worm, which makes my computer shut down after being on the internet for more than 40 seconds ( I would use msn with my luck, I just switched to it too). So my mom takes me, and she of course is the most spastic driver, she goes 20 under the speed limit, and always gets us lost (we once spent 6 hours in some place near Fearrington village). So we drive and drive and drive. We would use a cell phone, but my mom could't find either one before we left so we can't do that. We stop at a couple convenience stores and nobody I ask, knows where I'm talking about and the directions I got were apparently either given wrong or copied wrong because they don't work. So we stop at a pay phone, which promtly eats up the last of my quarters and doesn't work, so we stop at pizza hut and I call the house, and various cell phones, until finally I call JoJo's mom, who isn't even there and asked her. She was very helpful, but we still didnn't find it, and I would have called her back, but we couldn't get to a phone again. So my mom and I try one last time ( we keep circling the same areas over and over somehow) and somehow my mom mistakes a one way highway for a two way and starts going the wrong way into oncoming traffic. I mean seriously, what the fuck?

So anyway, to the O'Bryans: I really tried hard to get there but I didn't make it, and since I wasn't driving, we ended up going back home.

Oh yeah, one added detail: my mom had the bright idea of taking this puppy that we're petsitting in the car with us. I told her that it was a bad idea, but no, she wants the dog to come. The dog apparently gets carsick ( as his owner forgot to tell us) and throws up all over the back seat.

Gross, but I still say the high point was when we turned on the highway into oncoming traffic, how many people can say they did that? Or how many people would want to say they did that? Or even admit to it.

Oh well, today sucks, guess theres always tomorrow. Goddamn slut of a whore I'm mad. ( not at any one in particular, just at the circumstance of events)

 

[Dana S]

To anybody who is wondering, not that anyone is or was or even cares, but the reason I can't e-mail but can still write in this is because we have earthlink on our other computer.Right....anyway,

Inside Improv at the improv scoop was awesome, as always. My favorite two parts of the show were when Joanna's mom was playing Joanna onstage and when Dave told us he was going to "pleasure himself" onstage. Even if it was just with ice cream. The more graphic version in the 4 rooms game was a little frightening, although very very funny.

I am an absolute moron. I am so dumb it scares me. And then I forget how dumb I am and then I get scared by how dumb I am later on all over again. Did you guys know that in minesweeper the numbers mean how many mines are in the squares surrounding the number? I always thought that you had to be like psychic to win at it, and that the numbers were how many points you got for clicking that square and not getting a mine. I always wondered how people actually won that game. I just got bored and was playing it and I looked under help and ummm....I was very wrong and I am very dumb.

Not much happened today. And for anyone who is wondering about the cd with John Wayne drunk on it, that Joanna was saying I gave her for her birthday: It's hilarious. It's John Wayne giving some speech at some college after the student take over thing at Columbia, and it's awesome. He goes off and talks about excrement in a wastepaperbasket and says things like "Southern Californ-ee-a" and "re-goddamn-diculous", which I have to say is a really cool word that I'm going to have to start using.

Well I'll leave you all at that. Inside Improv was so funny it's ridiculous (how ridiculous?) RE-GODDAMN-DICULOUS!

 

[Dana S]

improv for me

I gotta say that I love improv. I love watching it and I love being a part of it. I did some shortform improv in my drama class at school last year, and it was awesome but it never really clicked. And now I've done 3 DSI improv classes (101, 202, and the 303 one week intensive), and I'm actually signed up for the 404 and 303-s too. And I have to say that I love it all. I've had awesome teachers and i think I picked up on their passion for improv which made me passionate about it. Ross, Bill, Corey, Heather, and Zach (even though he wasn't really my teacher, I've still picked it up from him also)all really seem to love improv and that comes out through their teaching and it helped me learn a lot more than if they'd just been like, eh whatever. I still have a lot more to learn though, so much to the point that i think I might end up retaking classes, but I probably would've thought about it anyway, because frankly nobody ever stops learning and the classes are a blast. Seriously if you're reading this and you haven't taken one of their classes, they are so much fun it's well worth the money.

To tell you the truth though, I started the DSI classes because i tried out for my school improv team (Randomax) and didn't get in. i totally lost whatever ability I thought I had at the audition and pretty much faded onstage. I have a tendency towards bad auditions, but this one just sucked. So I took the DSI classes with the hopes that maybe next year I could make it or (and this was my real wish) maybe i could make a house team and be like "Ha! I'm on a REAL improv team", but now that I think about it that's a really dumb reason. I still want to make Randomax and a house team ( i tried out for the house team and also didn't make it) but now I'm doing it becausee I really want to, not because I want to show a bunch of kids that they should've put me in their group, because honestly they shouldn't have, I wasn't good enough. And so even though I plan on auditioning for both Randomax and for a DSI house team again, it's not because I'm being a brat anymore, although I'm sure I still am in a lot of ways. It's just all so silly. I love acting and performing. I want to be an actress because I love to act, and I don't want to impove to show people up anymore, I want to improve so I can do what I love to do the very best I can.

I really can be so immature sometimes. I need to work on that, that and on auditioning. I'm lucky in that I rarely get nervous onstage (not counting improv, but when I have lines I've learned I'm fine because I know i know them, and I know that even if I or another actor mess up, I'll be able to cover) but for some reason, auditions of every kind just kill me. I'd rather be belting out a song as the lead in a musical in front of thousands of people, than audition for 10. Part of it is that when you're in front of a crowd, they're all faceless, whether you can see them through the lights or not. But in an audition they are all individuals with individual opinions and for some reason that's harder to take. the other part of it is that an audition decides your future, onstage it isn't so bad because you've already gotten the part so you know you deserve it, but when you audition, one wrongly accented word or syllable can cost you the part to someone who delivers a flawless audition. i actually got some really good audition advice recently when I was auditioning for the house team. i usually just get the "it's just a part in a play" which is bullshit, because if I'm auditioning, obviously that part is important to me. Anyway the advice really just made me feel better.

This is getting a little long and my attention span is wandering (partly because I think I should probably go to sleep- I mean it's 5:35 AM!).

Anyway love to all my friends, enemies, acquaintances, stalkers, stalkees (just kidding...or am I?), schoolmates, improv buddies, and any other weirdo who doesn't fit a category.

"I special friend heart you!"-Ben and Lyda at one of our 303 intensive classes :love:

 

[Dana S]

school soon

First off, happy birthday to Lisa P!!! Here's to having another weird year (because normal would be no fun).

I can't sleep again. Suprise, suprise. I've been playing solitaire on my computer for the last hour, because well...I can't get to my e-mail, I finished reading my book, nothings on tv, and playing solitaire with actual cards would be way too much effort. I like being able to click 'deal' instead of actually having to do it myself. Plus I can't find any real cards.

I seriously need to start sleeping because school is going to start soon. I am excited about all the extra stuff I do, but sometimes between zero period chorus (that means I come to school an extra hour early so I can take an extra class) and our school plays and musicals (whether I'm an actor or a techie), I end up being at school for something like eleven hours. Lots of times longer. Plus this year, I still have my two correspondence courses to finish. i didn't get them until like 6 weeks ago because my guidance counselor sent in the form and forgot to sign it, halting everything for a month or so. And our computer and e-mail keep going on the fritz, halting it even more. So I still have those to finish, plus I'm taking 2 more improv classes. Plus I'm taking two AP classes, 3 honors, 1 zero period class like I said, and then theatre 2 because I couldn't bear to cut it out of my schedule. And then I'm going to be taking the princeton review SAT prep class because I have the SAT this year. And that means I'll probably end up doing like my friend AJ did last year for the 6 or so weeks the SAT prep class is.:
7:40-8:40-zero period
8:45-3:35-normal school day
3:45-6:30-school play or musical
6:30-9:30-SAT prep
and then homework
but the SAT prep class I think is only 2 days a week i think. But two days a week this year (that is unless I can time it inbetween plays so I can go home for a couple hours)for 6 weeks, life is going to suck.
And I mean I wouldn't give any of it up, it's just that sometimes I wish I could set my expectations a little bit lower, maybe have some time to play solitaire for an hour sometime, but whatever. What I really wish is that I had time for a sport (ie: soccer), but since I'm usually involved in all of our productions in some way, I don't have time to do any. School starts in two days. tomorrow I get to go have my school id taken and get my open campus agreement this signed ( so I can leave during lunch)..fun fun. Re-reading that last paragraph really stressed me out just now.

You know this was a scene I did with Lisa P for the house team audition, but don't you think it's seriously time to come up with a new pimp walk? The standard strut is a little overdone. I think it's time we usher in a whole new era of pimp walks...that would be fun, if we had a pimp walk inventing contest! How deck would that be? Word.

I really wish I had been sent my schedule already. I want to know if I got the teacher I want for AP world, plus I want to know who my precal teacher is. I actually want to know who all my teachers are. I had a lot of difficult teachers last year. I had the really easy math teacher the very first day of school ( you know the nice, softspoken, adorable teacher that everyone loves?) and the second day of school I got switched to the teacher who would come to class laughing about how he made one of his AP calc students cry. This is the kind of luck I have. i just hope I get more teachers like my hon. english teacher last year. He sat and sung us songs he'd written about the books we'd read. It was very entertaining. My favorite was the song about Silas Marner..it was just so completely out there it rocked.

You know i was just reading my journal, and I have to say that i am excrutiatingly boring. I don't know how you can stand to read it. Oh well.

I'm gonna go try and catch some shut-eye. It was depressing to go to sleep when you could see the sun come up, I mean if you're at a party or actually doing something it's one thing but when you're not it's pathetic. I just really hate having to take sleeping pills.

 

[Dana S]

silly movie time

I typed a really cool journal yesterday but it didn't post for some reason and I'm way too lazy to retype it, so you can just ponder on what I could've been talking about that my computer made you miss.

I went for my 202 make-ups today and it was an awesome clas, I'm actually thinking about signing up for it and finishing out the class.

303-s is cancelled which totally sucks, Ross said that Dave and I were the only ones signed up, but at least I'm still in 404.

I was just thinking about the movie labrynth. That movie fuckin rocks. I totally had a crush on David Bowie in that movie (tell no one). I always wanted the girl and him to end up together but plotwise it wouldn't have made any sense. It would've been like 'hey you stole my brother with your goblins. i love you, what?' My sister Selene ( who is 7 years older than me) used to tell me that she was going to send me to the goblins too like the girl in the movie did, except she'd have done it on purpose. And that scared me for a while until I realized that along with the goblins would come David Bowie, and then I'd actually ask her to send me to the goblins. But when she realized that this wasn't working out as she planned, she told me that when I went to the goblins, David Bowie would go to her. which is bullshit because as we all know I deserve David Bowie much more than she does. ( Theoretically that is, I'm starting to sound like some sicko, when in all actuality the age difference would be a bit creepy). But anyway that is one of the coolest movies ever and everybody should go rushout to Visart right now and rent it if they haven't already done so.

It was a little childhood deja vu when Bowie was in Zoolander, which is another movie I love. ( and even though both these movies are kind of stupid, i love them anyway so you can just shut up) I have seen Zoolander so many times (i own it, i wish I owned labryinth) i quote it fairly often. Whenever my friend Jarrett (she's my weird movie buddy) lack for something to do we're both like 'hey, wanna watch zoolander,' 'you know it!'. J lives down the street so she's over a lot and we always find the most fucked up movies. 'Whats up, tiger lily?' and 'Big trouble' being classic examples.

Whats up tiger lily is an old japanese spy movie that woody allen bought the rights to and then voiced over the whole thing. It's about the missing egg salad recipe that allows the owner to rule the world. Its awesome.

classic lines:
-"i'm the best henchman ever!"
-"you'd never know i didn't have any pants!"

Big trouble is a tim allen movie. And without telling you anything about it I have to tell you about the one scene that you should see it for even if the rest of it had sucked (which it doesn't). This guy gets squirted in the eye by a cane toad which squirts powerful hallucinogens, and he's screaming about "don't let her get me," and "she wants my soul!," and then he looks up and he's looking at the dog who's face has been replaced by Martha Stewarts. :nervous: watch it and enjoy.

My silly movie list for all of you is : labrynth, whats up tiger lily, zoolander and big trouble.

And if you don't like them I have to say that well, I'm easily entertained and therefor it doesn't take much to make me love a movie, I love most movies, and I haven't seen labryinth since I was like nine, but hey I loved it then.

Have fun and watch good movies.

 

[Dana S]

rainbow chasing

I had a warm fuzzy day today. i actually ended up going to sleep relatively early last night ( which was actually 1 am, but earlyish) with the help of something to make me sleep unfortunately. I really really hate sleeping pills.

I went with my friend Jarrett to go get our ids and off campus agreement stuff all set. And I even persuaded my guidance counselor secretary lady to print me out a schedule even thought they were 'officially' not ready, so she slipped me mine while she told the kids before and after me that they weren't ready. I was the only one who asked nicely apparently, so i got mine a day early...and i have a trailer class, but oh well.

Then my pal Jarrett and I hung out and then ran and played in the rain. We went out because it was raining and still sunny, and there was a rainbow about two feet above the street. So we ran through the rainbow and watched it disappear as we got close to it.

It was a happy day. :up:

another good line from whats up tiger lily:
-"somewhere there's a chicken crying her eyes out!"

 

[Dana S]

animal cruelty

I hate people who abuse animals. They are scum of the earth.

I remember when we lived in Durham, our neighbors had this dog. It was the sweetest thing imaginable. It was a chow mix and it was affectionate and only wanted to play. And since they kept it chained up outside a lot, i went over to play with it when I wasn't busy with my own two dogs.

North Carolina summers get pretty damn hot. And the dog was kept chained outside-no food, no water and rarely anyone to play with. So i went and fed it and gave it water and played with it every day. We called animal control numerous times, but all we could get them to do was give the poor thing a doghouse so it would have a little shade in the summerheat.

I loved that dog. I checked its water and food, and was always greeted by a happy face and a wagging tail. But it gets hot in the summer in north carolina, water or not.

All i know is that my last memory of the dog is asking my mom "why the doggy won't wake up."

Then, after the dog died, the people got themselves another dog which we made sure was taken away, because even if we couldn't get the other dog taken away this one sure as hell would be.

And the kciker is that when asked why they didn't have another dog, the family's son ( who was black) said that it was "because the white people wouldn't let them"

it just sickens me that they thought race had anything to do with it

race had nothing to do with anything,it was how they treated their dog, i will never respect anyone who abuses their animals

This is a downer i know, i just wanted to write it out somewhere and if anybody is reading it, just make sure you don't let animals be hurt, we should've stolen the dog and found it a better home. I hate the thought of euthenization, but i would rather have had that dog die happy and with someone than have it die alone and miserable of heat stroke. I'm petting my own dog as i read this. I love animals.

Sorry for the depressing story, ill try and tell a funny one tomorrow, but school starts for me tomorrow, so who knows what kind of mood that might put me in...just kidding, im looking forward to seeing my friends.

 

[Dana S]

so much for the funny story, this is going to be short. I am exhausted! My first day back was pretty fun, lots of hugs and "how's you summer been?"'s. I just realized how slack sophomore year was. My first day back, and I literally just finished my homework five minutes ago. Plus I couldn't sleep last night. My mom gave me two sleeping pills (she's a nurse by the way she's not just handing me random drugs), and I still only slept for 4 hours. i woke up at 3 am and could not for the life of me manage to get back to sleep. My classes are pretty rockin though, however hard they may be.

My favorite thing is that for my AP environmental clas tomorrow we're going to either read or watch ( i cant remember which) The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. Which makes sense if you think about it. Every class should always start out with a dr. Seuss book.

A couple of my senior buddies came back for a first day visit today, and it was cool to see them. Im really going to miss them when they go to college.

fun day, but I need some sleep.if i end up swamped all week ill make sure to take time to write on the weekend. I gotta go and be at school bright and early.

G'night (yawn)

 

[Dana S]

plays and day 2

I had a good day today. It was chock full of entertaining tidbits. But first I have to share this little first day story that my pal Steve told me.

So Steven is waiting for the bus and he notices all these parents waiting with their children. So he figures 'okay, it's a bunch of kids first day of high school...and some parents are really paranoid...but still he's kinda sitting there like jeez it's only high school afterall.' So the bus comes and its a different bus number, but he figures well bus numbers often change with each new year oh well. So he's sitting on the bus wondering why the freshman keep getting so tiny each year when it hits him...he took the wrong bus and accidently got on the middle school bus. Luckily he realized it a few stops down, but still.. how many people accidently get on the middles school bus on the first day of their junior year...

Speaking of freshman...they are everywhere! They travel in packs. Last year there were 400 freshman, this year there are 700!!! And out of about 1500 students too. There are just about as many freshman as there are sophomores, juniors and seniors combined..it's re-goddamn-diculous.

I personally don't care to go off on how much i hate the freshman as most upperclasmen tend to do, but they are just everywhere. I missed my lunch because i was waiting in line for a locker...and then when i finally got to the front i asked for the wrong quad, so i have to go and wait in line all over again.

But as many freshman as there are even though the overcrowdedness sucks ( i personally think they should make the freshman have the trailer classes, but i dont think any of them do..) it is still entertaining watching them trying to figure out the water fountains (they are triggered by motion detectors) and sometimes back up to them and get wet bc they are motion triggered...hey i still do it, its just comforting to watch others do it once in a while too

Also, as an added note i have to say that you can't hear the bell ring in the trailers, so the teachers ( or at least mine) just wait until they see people walking past the windows...im going to be late so often.

im really excited about my theatre class though, which is always my favorite...i think i may have actually already decided what one act im going to use for my directors notebook, i was going to do death knocks ( a woody allen play) but the school did it three years ago, but my play is funny, the first line is something like 'so, who all here is a virgin?' it's pretty funny. But if anybody knows any really funny (i want to direct a comedy) one acts by like woody allen or someone else awesome email me bc it would really be helpful. All the theatre 2 students work on a directors notebook for the first couple months of school and they then submit them for evaluation, and the three highest scoring notebook owners get to direct a one act, which would be beyond awesome...so seriously if anybody knows some wickedly cool one acts ( preferably comedies or something really twisted, but plain good ones are also acceptable) i would realloy appreciate that person emailing of pm-ing me the title.

Rock on....love to all.

Dana

 

[Dana S]

nerdy me

I am such a nerd. I was just realizing how incredible nerdy I am. Okay,
-I'm joining the debate team (hey James Dean was on a debate team) this year hopefully for starters. I've wanted to be in it the last two years but freshman year i hated the teacher who ran it and last year they met during times i had conflicts with plays and such.
-also, I was in cotillion for 4 years, white gloves and all ( and we actually had a food fight once..white gloves and all)
-I was in a chess tournament once..i only stayed for part of it because i had something to do ( i don't remember what)
-im in the national honor society
-i have a statewide gold and silver medal in math
I know that there's more too, and im not bragging although listing that stuff kind of seems like it...im actually embarassed by all this and well, you should all appreciate me sharing this with you..the list goes on but im gonna leave it at that. I am so very nerdy it shames me sometimes.

i had fun playing cards at Gregs new apartment tonight..i love poker so much...didn't win though, i got pretty far in the second game, but i called Jennings' bluff when my cards sucked he beat my 5,3 with a 5, 4...it was dumb on my part..but oh well i had fun.

And thanks to Mr. Ross for teaching me how to play spades...i actually didn't do as badly as i thought, it was fun. I love card games I could play cards for hours ( remember i play computer solitaire sometimes for hours on end when im up late wishing i were asleep or had a good book to read). Gimme poker, egyptian ratscrew, crazy 8s, rummy, gin rummy, speed, spit, and now spades , or anything and im entertained for a solid while.

Speaking of easily entertained...which i am incredibly. A girl in my theatre class has these flip flops and when you take a step the straps flash like holographicness...its wicked awesome..if i owned those shoes i would never be bored in precal again. Id just be sitting there stomping my feet with my head under the desk staring at my sandals...entertainment at its finest.

I really did have fun tonight and getting a ride with CeCe let me get to know her a little better, bc i dont think we ever got to really talk much, and anyway she's a really cool person.

I love this little improv community we have in Chapel Hill. I love you all so very much. yes I mean all of you...well maybe not YOU specifically...but no i love pretty much all of you. You guys are entertaining, funny, intensely frightening in your twistedness, and you're purty too. We're all gonna move to Utah and get married...it'll be like the brady bunch gone horribly wrong...id certainly watch our tv show!
Anyway, its not often that a bunch of people who work together can be so closeknit and it rocks and i know i mention this in most of my journals, but maybe my lack of sleep is making me feel the warm fuzzies...i love you sooooo much. I special friend heart you.

 

[Dana S]

Mr. Rogers

Hello there friend, will you be my neighbor? That doesn't make sense either you're somebody's neighbor or not. How can you ask someone to be your neighbor? I mean what would happen if you seriously just went up to someone and asked them to be your neighbor? You would be committed.

I don't know, Mr. Rogers always kind of scared me a little (I'm sorry all you Mr. Rogers fans). It was kind of bad one time because we were talking about it in the car on the way to school in the morning once and i was going on about how he really scared me when i was little, not so much scared but really creped out, ya know especially with the puppets that the train went to. Anyway I was kind of being a jerk about it considering the poor man had just died and all and this guy I ride to school with was defending him. So finally he's like. He's a family friend of mine...we went to his church in Philadelphia ( or wherever it was but i think it was there). I have never felt so much like an awful person.

Inside Improv at the Inside Scoop was awesome as it always is. Everybody who doesn't go should very well hang their head in shame right now. I'm serious. Stare at you holographic shoes or something. You should be ashamed for missing such amazing hilarity. But i'm going to assume that you all go there often and were there to witness the awesome awesomeness.

 

[Dana S]

Matt West

I've been thinking about my friend Matt a lot today and it depresses me. If you sadden easily switch to reading another thread. He died about a month ago. He was 17. If you live in the RDU area you probably saw on the news about how some officer ran a red light and hit a car with a bunch of teenagers. The other two guys in the car weren't hurt but Matt went straight through the windshield bc he wasn't wearing a seatbelt. And then he died a couple days later. He was so awesome too. One of those people that you really noticed in a crowd or at least if you didn't notice him being there, you really noticed him not being there...he made life fun. I felt like I'd known him forever the first time I met him, which was actually at cotillion, but we were also at camp K together. They said in his eulogy that he never met a stranger and it's true, he made everybody feel like a lifelong friend. I also didn't find out about his death until the day before the funeral. I don't watch the news or read the paper sometimes because it makes me feel all existentialistic and upset with the world, there's too much shit going on and sometimes I just need to deal with my own and not have to deal with the problems of the rest of the world. Interesting news is usually upsetting news, nobody wants to hear about some kid who is perfectly normal and happy, and i don't want to mess with it sometimes. So i'd heard the story and changed the channel when they said "a young boy thrown from his car when..." because i didn't want to hear it. So I was talking to my grandmother ( who lives with us) and she was saying "isn't it awful about that young man" and she showed me the article...and there I am, looking at a picture of my friend Matt ( or Dukie) a picture of my friend who is dead, my seventeen year old friend who is dead, my friend that i will never see again. I actually had improv that night and when I mentioned it they kind of brushed it off, which was fine because I got to forget about it for most of the three hours that my 202 class with DSI was. And that helped, a little. The funeral the next day about killed me. He was in a box a box that they buried in the ground. I kept telling that to my mom, he's in a box, they're going to put him in the ground, he's in a box, he's in a wooden box. And when they wheeled his coffin past I about lost it, but luckily for me I'm a pretty silent cryer. I was really in that place where nothing makes sense and nothing seems real because it just couldn't be. People my age are not supposed to die..not ever. I have never cried so hard in my entire life. My greatgrandmother and greatuncle and greatgrandfather and grandfather have all died in my lifetime, and although I loved them all dearly, the blunt fact is that however much it hurts, you expect old people to die. seventeen year olds are not supposed to die. I actually laughed at the funeral though. they told funny stories about how Dukie (his nickname) did all sorts of sweet things. Like when a girl at a camp dance was all alone and miserable when he was a counselor, and he ran up to her and got down on one knee and begged her to dance with him telling her that he just couldnt imagine what he would do if she refused him. Stories like that. I laughed and he would've wanted his funeral to be like that. Another thing I thought was wonderful was the armbands the camp K staff had on. They were in their camp K uniform and instead of black, they had on Duke blue armbands...something that the diehard fan inside Matt (aka Dukie) would've loved. And I really wish that we hadn't lost touch during the summer because I'll never get to see him again now and he is someone that you always wanted around. Funny, sweet, outgoing. He would have made his mark on the acting world in a serious way if he had lived. He and I were a lot alike in someways. Both of us loved Duke and Acting, and always will.

Sorry about this second depressing journal, I promise not to put so many sad stories in the future. Two sad stories per like hundred is a lot easier to read. Than the two stories per like 15 journals I've done. I just found my white gloves from cotillion and was thinking about thr fun ( or relatively fun) times we had there.

I love you all very much and thanks for listening, or i guess reading. Please try to remember to wear your seatbelts bc I love you lots.

 

[Dana S]

down with homework/I love cute boy

I'm supposed to be doing my homework right now which I haven't started on but I'm going to write to you instead.

I am such a loser. There is this guy I like right? And I think most everybody but him knows I like him. Which I am pissed at myself about because then if I ask him out and he says no, there will be people there to witness or hear about my humiliation. Not that I don't trust all of you who know, I do and if you don't know you probably can figure it out if you know who he is. I'm just pissed off at my cowardice and I wish I could just have him ask me out instead, but somehow I don't see that happening.

OK Dana stop whining and just ask him out already!...maybe next week or the week after. I am so fed up with myself, it sucks when you're arguing with yourself on something. Do it! I don't want to. arggg

I loved Diego Greene's red hot monkey love song on Saturday. I really wish my pal Bevin had been there because that is sort of one of our jokes, and she actually gave that suggestion to one of the improv groups when she came to Inside Improv a couple weeks ago. It amused me to great extent.

Alrighty then it is totally time for some homework...in like ten minutes.

I think I'm starting to see a pattern here, I am such a bad procrastinator. Okay really I'm going to do some homework...if I am back on the irc in half an hour its not my fault. I seriously think I have ADD. I totally just cant focus sometimes. Lots of times people will tell me something and half way through I have to be like what? Sorry I wasnt listening. And I dont do it on purpose of because they are boring me its just that my mind wanders. I am really a good listener mostly though.

Haha my dad just passed me typing this post and said "hard at work I see" he thinks I'm doing homework. I'm going to go start now, that is just too damn funny. So damn funny its ridiculous. Re-goddamn-diculous in fact.

Well goodbye future family members (remember we're going to move to Utah and all get married...). I love you bunches. Biiiiiiig hug, and a kiss (especially for cute boy).

 

[Dana S]

202 apologies

First off, my parents really just piss me off sometimes.

That said, I had a pretty okay day.

I had my 202 class with Ross, and that was fun as always. I love you Ross White! He totally rocks as an improv teacher, actually pretty much all my improv teachers have. And I just want to clarify that Mr. Gillespie is awesome. He was one of my favorite teachers last year. I mean who isn't going to love a teacher who writes a song about Silas Marner during a blackout because he couldn't see to make a lesson plan. And also puts Shakespeares sonnets to music. It was a really cool fun class. And I am sorry to say that I really just did not like Cry, The Beloved Country. It was okay, but is not something I would read again, it just seemed to repeat itself a lot. Granted my memory sucks and I may be remembering wrong, but if memory serves I din't like it. It did like Things Fall Apart though, with Okonkwo, it's the Good Earth, which I read about the same time a while ago that I didn't like. Most of the books in Mr. Gillespie's class I did really like though, like House of the Spirits, which was a bit sketchy in parts but totally awesome. And I hope you will not take offense to the fact that I think Cry, the Beloved Country is just not exactly for me. But I'll kick your ass if you really do want to fight about it....or so goes my theory.

I am so sorry Eric. Thanks for waiting with me for my dad to come..late, as usual. I felt awful you had to wait, especially when that druggie guy came up and was talking to us about "what town am I in," and "how do I get to the beach?" I am so very sorry. But thanks for waiting with me, I told my dad to please not come late so as not to have a repeat experience with another creepy guy while waiting. Thank you and I apologize.

202 was awesome because we sang. Granted I am not exactly what you would probably call a gifted singer as one would definitely call someone like Pablo, but I love singing and I had fun anyway.

I also have the distinct feeling that someone ( no names, and they could be in improv or not), really doesn't like me. I feel like they try to be nice but that they really just don't like me underneath. And that sucks because I think they are an awesome person, but I could be being paranoid. It's just that when you really like someone you consider your friend and you feel like they don't feel the same towards you, it bites. But oh well maybe my imagination in just getting away with me, and if not, well there isn't much I can do.

Meanwhile I am so psyched about performing at 24 Live and for my 404 class. I am very excited.

I also decided that I was lying. First off, I am thrilled for everyone who made the house team, I think every single one of the people who made it deserved it. And I do not at all think that I s hould have made it over any of them, I think they have an awesome cast. No bitter feelings whatsoever and that is the honest truth I didn't go into that audition with high expectations because I knew the talent I was competing with. But You have to admit that it would've been cool on the first day or school when asked what you did this summer I could've said "oh, I made a local longform improv team" etc. in the classes I have with Randomax members. But I mentioned my fun classes instead, which was cool. Small point, but a little revenge would have been sweet. I will just have to content myself with knowing that I have learned so much from DSi that if I auditioned again I would most likely make my school improv team, and besides I like longform better than shortform anyway and they (my school team) stick exclusively to shortform. I just wanted the perfect ha ha to their rejection is all. But that just shows I need to really work on my immaturity some more.

"you are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely." -Ogden Nash

In short, my 202 class, classmembers and teacher all deserve my love and praise-you guys rock my socks. I have to go get started on my homework now--yes I said started...I'm going to be up for a very long while.

Goodnight all.

 

[Dana S]

The clock on this thread is an hour early, I'm working on how to change it. It is 11 not 10, it would be impossible for it to be ten because my 202 class ends at ten. Anyway I'm working on it and am seriously going to hit the books now. Fun times for Dana.

 

[Dana S]

One more happy part of today. My zero period class has like 60 people in it so we elect officers. 2 co-presidents, 3 secretaries, 1 treasurer, 3 librarians amd 4 historians. Anyway, I got elected as one of the secretaries, which is cool because not only do I love chorus, but it will look good on my college resume. Next year since I will only be 1 of a couple returning seniors who have been in zero period all four years, I think I could probably make president which would be nifty spiffy.

Also once again. My two great loves in life are acting, and now improv. And they go hand in hand too. It just rocks to be able to go to a theatre class every day and then an improv class one night or so a week. It makes me very happy. And auditions for the school play start soon. We're going to do Ten Little Indians, which is an awesome book by Agatha Christie. I really really hope I make it and land a good role. It would temporarily make my acting happiness complete.

Acting and Improv, like air and water. A part of each other yet dictinctly different, and necessary to survive.

I just made that up, but it is true.

Okay for real this time--on with homework