we're all f***ed together

[Dana S]

DSI...not a porn site

Ms. G pulled me aside the other day to ask me what the dsi people were thinking when they created dirtysouthimprov.com (by the way if you haven't been there already you should go!). She referred a parent to the website but gave them the address dirtysouth.com instead....which apparently is a porn site. I found that amusing.

 

[Dana S]

Sleep and the absence of sleep

I didn't sleep at all last night. I stayed up doing homework and then when I was done I tried to get the two hours of sleep I would've been able to fit in but...I couldn't sleep. Instead I discovered that I know almost the entire My Best Friend's Wedding soundtrack by heart and preceded to sing it to myself for an hour as I concentrated on sleep related topics.

But with extreme exhaustion comes an odd period of high energy for me which equates to severe ADHD and tons of energy. I'm messed up.

When I have been sleeping though I've been having this recurring nightmare. Which is odd because not only do I rarely remember my dreams, but I can't even remember ever having but one nightmare in my entire life. Basically it's that my legs are gone and I'm devestated because I know it means that I will never be able to be in the movies or on the stage, so I try to find prosthetics and the dream ends. It's really really upsetting to me though. I've never woken up more frightened and sad in my entire life. It scares me.

Life's not so bad, although I could use a little sleep.

 

[Dana S]

These Are Not Stripper Pants

Eek Egad and a word up!

Don't make me translate. Good mood, period. (literally...ha ha).

I'm wearing my glasses today. My pants are black and shiny so they almost (not even really at all) look like leather pants. I had several people make comments about my clothing today including:
-somebody looks skanky today
-those look like stripper pants
-how is it possible to skank up glasses?...I'd like advice
-those are the classic nerdy slut glasses

WHAT IS GOING ON? I am wearing shiny-ish black pants I got at the Gap like 3 years ago and zip up hoody with a shirt underneath it and black plastic frame glasses (i guess they could be considered emo glasses)

Jeez. I honestly don't put that much thought into clothing.

We played boggle in theatre today and it made me happy. I like boggle.

 

[Dana S]

stay in school cause math is cool! (yo I'm serious)

I don't care if I posted just 5 minutes ago. Screw it I'm posting again...about math.

I love math. I think it's fun (I'm so nerdy it kills me). When I was little I did math in my spare time for fun. Anyway...I thought I'd tell you about how I've always had the best math teachers ever.

8th grade: My math teacher threw stuff at people. Plus it was algebra which I found to be the easiest math ever. i never payed attention or took notes and I still got an A

freshman year: my math teacher made this one kid do an interpretive dance of the quadratic theorum because he wouldn't shut up. We're talking some guy dancing to Blondie and writing the words quadratic theorum on the board because he had no idea what it was.

sophomore year: He always pretended to be mean but it never worked. Our first week of school he came in laughing and said "I made my calc students cry today...ha ha ha" and then when the 8th graders were taking a tour of the school, when one of the groups came to visit his class, he noticed a girl doing english homework, grabbed the binder and flung it out the window

this year:lots of stories for this one
-every year he makes one student do sprints up and down the hill outside his classroom
-i never do my homework so last time i did he gave me a high five
-when the rising freshman came to visit his class he threw a student against the wall and screamed "that's for getting a 96!"

I love math, and all my math teachers have been so wonderful and hilarious. Math is awesome...I am officially a nerdy nerdy girl. NERD!

 

[Dana S]

Thanksgiving '03

Thanksgiving turned out okay.
It was myself, my parents, my grandma, my sister Selene, my sister's boyfriend Josh, her boyfriend's son Calyb, and a surgeon friend of my parents who couldn't be with her family because she had surgery to do.

My sister and grandma did most of the cooking. I was in charge of aesthetics. I made nametags, set the table, and even folded the napkins into fans.

Most of the day was me hanging out with Josh and Calyb. Who are both vey nice. We watched Finding Nemo and then Josh carved a put put course out of the leaves in the back yard and we used our (...the game Alice plays with the queen of hearts in Alice and Wonderland..) non-golf Alice in Wonderland game equipment to play.

And today my sister's best friend Erin, who is like a sister to me came to visit with her husband and daughter Ashton. It was cool. I really miss her.

All in all it was an okay day. I really wish we had had a big one instead. A couple years ago we had 14 people. Which was so much fun. Chaos, but fun chaos.

 

[Dana S]

Thanksgiving break tv time '03

It's been a very television oriented couple of days. On Thanksgiving I watched the last ten minites of Edward Scissorhands. Possibly the weirdest thing I have ever seen. Johnny Depp is this guy with scissors for hands and Winona Rider is the girl. It was a sad sad ending. Then I watched the cosby show only to notice a very young Adam Sandler!!! He was one of the brothers friends. Did everybody else know Adam Sandler was on the cosby show? I've probably only ever watched it twice so I can't talk. It was very odd. He looks exactly the same too.

Then yesterday I watched Heathers and Legends of the Fall. Heathers was very cool. Although I think I would've liked the ending better if Christian Slater and Winona Rider had kept on killing people and stayed together. Then ending was a little sad, although the whole movie was a little unsettling to begin with, but therein lies it's beauty I suppose. And then the Legends of the fall ending made me unhappy as well. Screw Suzanna. Aidan Quinn was obviously much cooler than Brad Pitt anyway you idiot!! But no, Suzanna had to make everybody sad. Then ending made me angry.

Today I watched Santa Claus with Tim Allen and Shrek. Happy endings all around.

 

[Dana S]

Interviews and Auditions

Sorry to post again so soon, my thoughts are a bit scattered.

I had my interview for the Youth Arts Council a couple days ago. I don't think I make a very good first impression. I can be a bit shy around new people. It was so much fun though. One of the questions of the form was what you would bring to a desert island and they made me think up a new answer on th spot because they claimed a magic wand was cheating. It really was a fun interview. I really really want to be on the council.

I auditioned for some commercial for an onling tavel company that Zach e-mailed everybody about. But the lady said that since I'm not an adult I would just be in the background making expressions. So they filmed me making expressions (look suprised, look happy, look concerned, etc.) I was so weirded out by only having to do expressions that I probably looked stunned for every expression. I'm assuming I didn't make the cut though since it starts tomorrow and I haven't heard anything. Good audition experience if nothing else. And I REALLY need to work on my audtioning skills.

I also found out that I've made it to the audition step in the Governor's school audition process. Not a big deal though because I made it this far last year only to not get in. I'm going to ask my drama teacher first thing Monday to help me come up with a monologue. I really want to make it. I was crushed when I didn't make it last year. Plus this year, I have friends who will be auditioning as well, and hopefully I'll have my license by then so I can drive us down there. It'll be fun. What sucks about the whole process though is that they let you know so late in the year so by the time you know whether or not you're going it's too late to sign up for any other summer program. I'm gonna work my but off practicing my monologue this year. I'll make it if it kills me. If I had to choose one thing that I hate more than anything else in the entire world it would be auditions. Being onstage doesn't really bother me. Auditioning bothers me.

 

[Dana S]

Junkmail's performance 11/30/03

I love e-mail. It makes me happy. Especially when I get e-mail from people I adore but never see, like my friend Arne in Norway. It's fun.

My 303-s class (Junkmail) had our show yesterday. It was fun but I think we are all capable of doing much much better. I would also like to apologize to Tom and Tim for the double blind dubbing scene. I pimped the hell out of you guys and destroyed any chance for a scene.

A lot of East kids showed up, including a couple members of the Youth Arts Council. Which made me super nervous. I'm not making excuses I'm just adding on info.

I'm not happy with the show but it was fun anyway.

 

[Dana S]

Is anybody else still awake?

I am. Bad insomnia night.

 

[Dana S]

Chorus Concert n' stuff

I'm not having a good day. I feel like it's one out of many bad days. Yesterday was our chorus concert. I walked into the wildcat with my no traction heels and hit a puddle as a friend called my name. The result was me falling very hard on the tile floor in front of a mob of people. It wasn't that bad though because I thought it was funny. I just curtsied and bowed and quickly walked to the chorus room. The concert was lovely. Chiefs of Staff (the male a cappella group) is wonderful. The sang "let's get it on" and "oh what a night." During "oh what a night" they had a beatboxing interlude and then suddenly one of the members goes "Ok STOP!" and then starts doing it himself. It was cool. Then the barbershop quartet plus one guest member sang 'have yourself a merry little christmas' which made my entire night. Which was promptly ruined by my dad yelling at me in front of a crowd of people as I was trying to find a ride to dinner with the chorus kids. There was no reason for yelling at me. Not even my mom agrees with him. But then again they aren't getting along either. They've started cursing at each other. Something they've never done before.

I'm whiny and unhappy. Which all out sucks.

Plus in french today we had a group project to write and illustrate a story. But I have a slacker group so I'm doing all the work. And then one of my group members had the nerve to call me uptight.

Maybe I am uptight. I know I am about certain things. I don't know. I'm just being overly dramatic and annoying right know I guess. I'm going to go see Chips tonight though. That will be fun. I went to go see my school improv group at lunch. David Greenslade is one of the best improvisers I've ever seen. He has never fails to be awesome. He and Anoop also do one mean round of Compilation CD.

I love everyone at DSI. You guys are oh so cool and talented.

 

[Dana S]

The Joy of Good Friends

Wow am I moody. My friends made me happy. I went to go see ChiPs and it was an all out awesome show. Extraordinarily funny. The best show I've ever seen them do.

After the show, I went and hung out with my friends Chris and Jorge and it was very much needed friend therapy time. We had so much fun just chillin' at Jorge's house. His house is so open and friendly. It is brightly colored and his parents are as sweet as can be. The house has a very good vibe. It was fun. And when Chris gave me a ride home he showed me a house with a moat which is very cool.

My favorite thing of the week is from my friend Nika (she's from Russia). This very annoying person in our AP World Class was talking. So right in the middle of some monologue she goes "SHHHHH!!!! You're a bad American, go away!" We almost cried it was so funny. She also read my palms-apparently I don't have a life line.

Gotta go my dears.

 

[Dana S]

scary stuff and conflicts

Today is a fucked up day. There is a mysterious student death in the parking lot across the street from my school. Not a student from this school system but a student and that's all they'll tell us. I'll look on the news as well. But it isn't just that, weird horribke things are happening. My neighbor is in a coma. This girl in french class told me about her aunt who killed her son. And another friend is frightened of telling her father about something 'scary' which she won't tell us. The world can be a horrible place.

But then there are those rare people who can make you happy so easily. Like my friend Mark who sent me this cool picture he made on the computer or my friends Bevin and Max with whom I wrote a letter to the editor about curriculum alignment today for the school paper. There are just some people who have the gift of making other people insanely happy with something so small. And I adore those people and I want to thank all those people for being lovely. Most every improviser I know fits in this category.

I just found out that the DSIF is the same weekend as my school musical. Which really bums me out. It's the last musical I'll be able to do with a bunch of my senior friends so I'm kinda sad about it. DSIF will be wonderful but I love the musicals. I'm hoping I can find something to do so I can still hang around practice, because play practice gives me sanity. I'm hoping I can be an asst. director or something, anything! No matter how wonderful DSIF will be and how excited I am for it (very excited) it still sucks. I also really want to practice with my team soon, because I've missed both our practices. I just found out that I may have to miss the 3rd as well. I swear it's not on purpose!

Conflicts suck. I really wanted to come to Inside Improv on Saturday but I was definitely asleep by 8. I spent both Saturday and Sunday as one sick girl.

Well I got me some studyin' to do. Later y'all.

 

[Dana S]

Duckface

If only I had a camera right now, I could make a fortune in backmail pictures off my sister...provided she went and got rich first.

I don't have a real camera yet, but I rarely go anywhere without a disposable camera. Unfortunately funds are short...and as a result my disposable cameras are in short supply.

But back to the blackmailing. My sister (poor kid...actually she's 24, anyway) she had an allergic reaction to something again. But this time it's just her lips. It looks like she went way overboard with the collagen injections. I've seriously never seen lips this big. Imagine the pouffiest lips ever and then multiply by 4. In short, she looks like a duck. It really sucks, she had to get injections and medication and she's gonna be duckfaced for a while yet. But it is still quite amusing (I'm not really that terrible of a person I promise! She laughs too...kinda). Anyway, I found it amusing and i thought you might too. If I'm lucky I'll manage a picture anyway.

QUACK!

 

[Dana S]

German life lessons and catch-phrases

No picture of duckface, but i think a new nickname may have been born. (Note to self: try out nickname on sister).

The new way to ask someone who they are sleeping with is "Who are you tutoring?" in your sleeziest voice. You see my German friend Christine brought in a German equivalent of like TeenPeople or something. And lets just say it's a tad risque. I mean her parents sent her this. The Germans are just more open with their sexuality. Anyway, one of the articles are about this tutor and his tutee and their love life. I found this amusing. Thus the phrase was born.

And I also learned some German today:

Zicke (ts-ih-cka) =bitch
bleib cool (blibe cool) =stay cool
das tut dir gut (dahs toot der goot) =good for you
nest=nest

How these relate to each other I'm not sure

And in a self-deprecating moment the phrase "I'm just not the brightest lightbulb in the pack" was also born and will also continue to be used.

As the Beatles would say "OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA!"

Woo hoo and Yippee Kie Yay

 

[Dana S]

Two more things. I got cool cool stuff today. The library was giving out Lord of the Ring bookmarks, and I got there in time to get one of each of the five types. They were all gone by lunch. Plus my friend Christie gave me the coolest car air freshener EVER. It is purple with Betty Boop on it. When I get a car, I have the most pimp air freshener that ever walked the earth or freshened the air!

And in theatre we got to play with a box of noise makers.

 

[Dana S]

JumpLC during exam week? why oh why?

Jump Little Children is coming to town this Wednesday. This week is exam week. Jump why do you tease me? You came to the cradle this summer...only for me to hear about it a day late. Your brother band Biv came to town as well...only for me to hear about it two weeks late. And now...now of all the times...you have to come during exam week! Why do you torture me so!

I love Jump Little Children. I adore them. And I am sad that I will not be seeing them on Wednesday. Even Tuesday would be better because I have a theatre exam and that's not stressful so it would be alright for me to have an hour or so less sleep. Of all the days of all the weeks, they had to play on this one. -big sigh-

I hate exam week. I'm actually kinda freaing out about it. If I don't do well I may get my first C. And in more than one class. I do have hope though because I aced my french oral exam. 10 out of 10 for my accent, and then 37 out of 40 for the questions. That's a 96! Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

I just finished babysitting the 3 New Zealand boys + 1 friend. Those kids are fun. They told their mom that it wasn't like they had a babysitter it was more like having a friend over. Awwww. The youngest one and I were practicing our English accents and played kareoke after we watched the Lion King. So much fun!! I really wished I could have gone to improv because I haven't seen them lately and I miss my improv family. But I needed the Christmas money. After exams too, things should clear up and I'll be able to focus more of my time on improv. Which will be good. I'm hoping I'll get some Christmas money to take another class, but I'm still saving money for New York as well. We'll see.

Remember my rantings about how cool the Youth Arts Council was and I how I wanted to be in it really really badly? Didn't make it.

 

[Dana S]

Princess Pinky and the Funktones

Exams are over. OVER! People started crying during a couple of them. And when my English teacher asked if we needed anything one kid said "a miracle!" Truth in Comedy. Screw it all exams are over!!!!

Battle of the Bands was on Thursday and Princess Pinky and the Funktones kicked ass. As well as having the coolest band name ever. they rocked my socks off! I still dunno if they won though because my ride got pissed and we left early because her fave band got kicked off the stage. Heres why:

So Thaden (East's principal) comes on the loudspeaker and is like " I'm the principal of this event and I'll shut it down if i need to." Why I'm not so sure. I think the mosh pit was a tad to rowdy for his liking. Anyway. the unholy crusade's singer goes "Fuck that shit!" and starts to play....for all of ten seconds when the people at the Cat's Cradle started unplugging their instruments. The whole mosh pit, the punks and my friend Kat were pissed so we all left the Cradle before a winner was announced. But I think Princess Pinky had to have won. Jorge, Steve C, Steve A, and Simon were awesome singers. Them 4 and Malcolm were the best band of the night.

Battle of the Band Quotes:
"There are so many Jews here...let's persecute them!"-some guy behind me
"There are so many jews...ack, noooo but I'm Jewish! I'm cool I promise"-Anna Grant
"I've lost my little Indian girl!" -Kat Erle (when she was looking for her friend Sarah)
"Ahhh, Oh Dana, I thought you were a cop."- identity withheld
"I'd like to give a shout out to all my homie jews, including Will and Jonah. Jonah's not looking....or listening...or paying attention....JONAH TURN AROUND!"-Jorge
" (in falsetto) Oh Jorge you can play my guitar anyday! Malcolm malcolm you can play my keys. Colletti I'll let you play my drums. Steven oh Steven you can play my upright base!.... Oh Jorge (starting again)"-Anoop
"You're the best groupie ever!"-Margot
"Get off my bandmember"-Anoop
"We have groupies! Oh my god...we have groupies with t-shirts!"-Jorge

Princess Pinky was frickin awesome. You just can't lose when you sing "play that funky music white boy."

I'll see you later my lovelies.

 

[Dana S]

Ahhh the English are laughing at me

One more thing. Remember how I was talking about practicing my English accent for theatre?....well anyway I said something about it. So Cassy and I are doing an English accent for the narrator of the story we're so-telling. And we got my English pal Cory to help who also recruited his fellow Brit, Simon. Basically it was a lunch period of them two laughing at us and telling us that our accents sound like we're stuckup and posh. Oh well. They also said our accents weren't the worst they've ever heard....it's a start.

And also HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CECE WHO IS VERY VERY COOL.

 

[Dana S]

Christmas...awkward anyone?

Christmas is over. It was fun though.

The day before I took my grandma shopping.
And then I went to my first ever Catholic mass. And there weren't enough seats where all my neighbors were sitting so myself and all the kids sat across the room. Me and 6 kids in church. They kept laughing at me bc I had no idea when to say the things everyone else knows to say. But it was fine. The priest ended the service with telling us to "just chill" It was odd.

Christmas was fun. I was woken up at 7 in the morning by my sister who was just too excited to sleep any longer. My 24 year old sister. Then we all headed to the living room as she put some elvis on the cd player. Christmas was awkward.
1. First off my dad forgot to do my moms stocking and wasnt doing shit about it. So my sister and I scrambled around and found stuff for her, presents we were giving later or had gotten extra of just in case. Because there is no reason for her to not have had a stocking and we werent about to let her not have one when everyone else did.

2. Then there was a present for Selene that had accidentally been given to me. I had shown it to my grandma when we went shopping as a gift idea for my sister. So since my sister was luckily out of the room I stuffed it back in and gave it to her. Unfortunately my grandma put two nametags on. But it was meant for Selene anyway so it doesnt matter.

3. Then I noticed a present from my great aunt and uncle. And none for my sister. This happens every fucking year because shes not blood related to them and I am (shes my half-sister technically...but full sister to me). But usually its a check in the mail so I can hide it. So I tried to open it quickly when she was out of the room but she walked in just as I opened the box to find a pearl necklace that had been my great-grandmothers. I wanted to cry. How did that make Selene feel? Not only does it make me sad and put me in an awkward position but it gives Selene even more reason to resent me which she already does. And who can blame her when my dads family treats her like a second class citizen? It makes me feel like trash.

4. And then my mom was doped up during the entire thing because she had taken sleeping pills 2 hours before she woke up plus pain killers for her possible ms. So she was loopy and nonsensical and wrote my sister and I cards in marker about what else she was giving us. She wrote shoes in Selenes and New York in mine. A trip to New York is also my birthday present and my sister has had car and rent money which is the trips equivalent. But when put side by side 'shoes' and 'New York' are not equals. Plus my mom hadnt told Selene yet and as she was too tired to make sense so explanation fell to me. I have a hard enough time trying to be friends with my sister with my own shit!

Well thats enough of me whining. I guess it could worse.

Ross and the guy he was playing with were hilarious on Saturday. They did sketch and improv and it was very funny. Improv makes me very happy. And so do the people involved. Love to all of them and all of you. Although I guess those two groups are most likely the same

 

[Dana S]

blond haircut dream

I had an odd dream Friday night. So I was sitting on a barstool in Central Perk (the coffee house on Friends), and CeCe was sitting next to me. And Zack Bly walked by with blond hair. And CeCe, who was wearing glasses and a suit, and was apparently a famous hairdresser, says to me "he looks famous. His new hair just screams 'I'm famous.' You can almost hear it saying that. A blond halo of fame. I did that!" And then she pranced (oh yes, I said pranced) away to find new ppl whose hair she could cut and dye. It was odd.

My interpretation: CeCe should be a hairdresser, Zack should dye his hair blond and uhhh, no. scratch that I dont think either of those sound logical. I dont think this dream has any really relevant explanation