Goodnight!

My brain is essentially fried right now. Yay, scholarships!

I've been spending the night applying for scholarships all over the internet. If I work hard at it, I'm bound to get SOMETHING!

1/26/15

Today was an interesting day, sort of. Our local school district had a two-hour delay because of snow, and contrary to her typical character, my mom actually let my sister and I go in to school later. We were able to get there with more than enough time to spare, so we got donuts. The only reason we even bothered to go in at all was because I had an in-class essay for AP English. After that, I basically did nothing in school all day. I even managed to finish all of my homework in my study hall!

After school, we had strike for the one-acts show. For those of you who are unfamiliar with theater things, strike is the event where the set is deconstructed, costumes and props are put away, the space is cleaned up and returned to its original condition, and so forth. It's usually not that difficult at all, and sometimes even fun! However, today's was especially rough.

The fall play is going to be performed at the Ohio State Theater Conference, and because of that all of the set pieces needed to be moved to this garage about a mile and a half away from the theater to be stored until the conference. This wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't 21 degrees Fahrenheit and snowing outside and if over half the cast and crew didn't show up/ditched halfway through. It was rough, and the only people that stuck it out were me (and I am not supposed to be lifting heavy objects so I was pretty useless), our director, a gaggle of small freshmen who did the best they could to help, one strong-ish boy, and a few girls who, like the freshmen, did the best they could. It was rough. Once I got home, I went straight to bed.

Goodnight!!!!!!

For real though, I have been collecting a ton of things for my future dorm. I got this great magnetic chain that you attach photos to and a Clueless calendar for Christmas, I just got a fantastic collapsible jewelry organizer/coat hanging hook/you can hang stuff on it and it's pretty sick thing from World Market the other day, and yesterday I bought a small, blue, fair-trade Buddha statue that was made in Nepal. I already have a nice box of things that I have collected with magnets and then the aforementioned items, and I'm still going to sort out things that I plan to bring with me. Like I'll be bringing all of my pictures that are framed (and the ones that aren't are going on that sick chain), my jewelry stands and their contents, and so on. I'm really looking forward to that aspect of college!

I'm about to Pinterest dorm decorations so hard right now!!!!!!

OH MY GOODNESS

I did a Neti Pot and now I feel infinitely better! I'm going to do them again every morning and then before bed until I feel better, and after that I'm going to do them once a week for some preventative care. I definitely need to be back to normal by Saturday morning, that's what matters most at this point!

Hopefully I'll feel better soon. I hate sinusitis with a passion that consumes my soul! It closely follows Bob Evans Restaurants.

After looking up sinus infection surgery stuff, I don't really know if it's right for me. The surgery part I can handle, but the post-surgery business may not work out very well. One of the major recovery procedures is avoiding allergens, and having a cat and dog (both of which, I'm allergic to) and aspiring to get a cat in the future would make that impossible! I can easily handle some of the other things, like using a humidifier and regularly using a saline rinse like the Neti-Pot and avoiding dust and using an air conditioner when the pollen count is high, but I don't think I could ever give up pets!

I've finished my homework early, so I'm going to either nap now and exercise (well, attempt to exercise) after dinner or do what I can now to exercise and get to bed earlier. I just feel so so gross; I can hardly breath out of my nose, and I am beyond sick of being sick! Before I do anything else though, I'm going to look into sinus removal surgeries. Since they're essentially always infected, what's the point of having them?!

So I'll barely have enough service hours by the due date in order to graduate, but I'll make it!!!!!!! I was incredibly nervous about that earlier this week, because I talked to our campus ministry director and he says that he absolutely, under no circumstance, gives extensions for service hours. It'd be the stupidest thing in the world to be prevented from graduating high school over that!

I HATE MY SINUSES, OKAY?!

Ugggggggggggh I feel disgusting like I was having a nice three week streak with no sicknesses (well, there is my ankle still) and now THIS!!!!! I'm half tempted to just get my sinuses removed.

If I hold my charger adapter a certain way, it will work, so I'm gonna try to get this laptop fully charged!

The Past Two Days

The past two days have been incredibly busy, but incredibly wonderful nonetheless! The shows went perfectly and we had a full house both nights! I feel under the weather, though.

Goodnight!!!!!!!!!!

Wish me luck....

The show starts now....

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Goodnight!!!!!!

I'm done.

I give up. I've done as much as I possibly could on my paper, so now I'm just going to go other my other homework and call it a night.

My Birthday, Continued

I'm sore, I'm tired, and I just want to go to bed. Only a handful of people actually knew it was my birthday today. I know I shouldn't feel sad about that, but I can't really help it. Plus, my mom is mad at me for a bunch of little things and stupid mistakes I've made throughout the day, and then my sister hasn't exactly been very nice to me. Plus, I still have that stupid research paper to finish! On the bright side, Andy sent me a box of chocolate covered strawberries and a super-sweet note, and it was wonderful to come home to that surprise!

Ugggggggggh school....

My Birthday so Far

It's been a pretty good day for me so far, but I'm working on one of the stupidest research papers ever and it's giving me a migraine.

My final show...

I can't believe that tomorrow night marks the end of my theater career. I wish it could have lasted forever. Theater gives me the most sensational rush, but I just don't think I'm good enough to ever make a career out of acting and the like. Even if I diversified my skill-set, it'd sill be a struggle for me. That's kinda a reason why I'm pursuing film. Nonetheless, I will relish every last second I have onstage: no matter how small the audience, how many people are there to support me, how I do with my lines, no matter what I will be taking it all in.

One thing that has been bothering me has been the amount of people in the theater program who say things like "Ugh, I'm just so done with this" or "I can't wait for this to be over." That's not the spirit to have!!!!!! You never know which show will truly be your last. I know this is going to be my final scripted role, and that makes me deeply sad. When I think back on quitting Fools this year, I really regret it. If I had known last fall that that would have been my final Fall Play, I would have been so much more appreciative of every second on that crappy, gymatorium stage.

I know some of these people have a few years before they take their last bows, and other seniors have the school musical as their last show, but that pisspoor attitude needs to stop, because what we have is something wonderful and they are completely taking it for granted. And what's more- those underclassmen who are "so done" with a show can leave. Nobody is forcing them to be a part of the theater program. It's not a civic duty. It's a choice, and if you make the choice but regret it, please don't ruin the fun for the people that do.