1. Disneyland was VERY fun. I got to hang out with my buddy who works there YAY and go on a bunch of the rides. Space Mountain is SO FLIPPING AWESOME now that it's been revamped. The Disney folk are really great at making things pitch black. Um....the 50 year anniversary fireworks are incredible. If you get the chance to go before the 50 year celebration ends DO IT. Also, Pirates was closed because they're adding Captain Jack and all that jazz. I reeeeeeally wanna go back and see the ride when it reopens. Deeeeerrick, can you get me in for freee? ::bats lashes::
Kidding! I'll try to save up my own cash to make the trip, even for one day. Hm...maybe 2, so I can spend the day in Frontierland and swoon over the Laughing Stock Co. boys and The Billys.
2. WoW is FINALLY installed. But I think my 10 day trial is almost up. I don't think I'll be forking over the money to play it constantly. While it's a good game, and oddly addictive, it slugs my already chugging along computer to a crawl. Heh.
3. Umm...the Highland Games were recently. That was kinda fun. There was also a party afterwards where this guy touring from Scotland, Gary Ines, was playing at The Dell. He's SO CUTE and has a reeeeally thick accent. I should've introduced myself, but he's going back to Scotland. Bah. :P
Guess that's about all.
Oh, and here are the fireworks I was talking about. Can't really capture the 360 thing that happens a few times, but it's still very VERY cool.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Some more on Gaslighter Closing
Mutlimedia Photo Slide Show: This got to me and made me cry.
Article written about the closing: Very insightful and the most truthful one I've read about it.
Article written about the closing: Very insightful and the most truthful one I've read about it.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
The Big Closeout
So, the Gaslighter show closed last night, and with it the melodramas to be performed on that stage. I'm not exactly going to miss that particular show, but I will definitely miss the Gaslighter being there and being able to go see shows there.
Some highlights from the show:
-Joey showed up! It was really nice to see him again after 5 months. He has a new haircut and looks really good. Heh. He brought me a Red vs. Blue shirt, too. It says "I Like Me" on it.
-The guy who played the "villian" didn't show, so we had another cast member's boyfriend fill in. Thankfully, the 70's costume fit him.
-"Joanie" getting the entire audience to say the word "Bitch!" about 6 times in one scene.
-Using party poppers during Hand Jive.
-Using the party poppers while reinacting the death scene each time one of us did something that could've killed off the prom queen.
-"Corkey" Running out during the death scene reinactment with the biggest damn super soaker water gun I've ever seen and dousing the entire cast with water.
-Picking on random cast members at the end of the show to get a confession out of them...ending with the character "Jimmy" who was the detective of the show, having done it.
-The entire improvised bit about cyanide not really being poisonous, how it was a cover up by "The Man" and that it was really a common ingredient in pancake batter.
-Scrounging through boxes of crap during intermission with my friend from the Kid's Show, "Sterling," and finding some kick ass necklaces.
After the show, the lobby was PACKED with Gaslighter Alumni. Tamborines were passed out to anyone who could get one and we all sang the lobby songs one last time. After all of the audience had left - and the people from the show changed back into our civies - the owners introduced Mrs. Cupp....who was the ORIGINAL owner of the Gaslighter and had come out to see us off. We all sang the Gaslighter Rag then, too, and some of us even did the choreography that we'd learned. I tell you, there's a very cool kind of feeling when you get that many people together (at least 50) most of which might not know some of the others, and singing things that almost ALL of them know.
After that, and some milling around drinking/eating/chatting with people (I mostly hung around with "Sterling" because he was one of the few I knew), some of the Alumni got on stage and performed sketches that they had been in. When "The Doctor Sketch" started, someone I didn't know said "Hey, do you want the music?" and started singing the background music for that skit. I'd been doing that particular sketch for a year, so I started in too until our DJ turned on the CD with that song on it. It was surreal for "Sterling" and I to watch that sketch when we'd performed in it for so long...but very VERY cool.
And, of course, obligatory posting of a link to my MoBlog where I have posted 6 pictures from the evening (including one of the necklaces that "Sterling" and I found....titled "Found Bling"): Take a gander!
Well, long story short, I stuck around for 2 hours before I finally left due to the fact that very few people I knew were still there. I hugged everyone I knew, poked fun at the owner one last time, and left. I've been pretty much a rock through the entire thing, but I think it's finally starting to get to me. I'm never going to get to see a show at The Gaslighter again....or even do a show there. Granted, I was planning on taking a break after this one, but that doesn't mean I don't want it around.
Sigh. I'm being all nostalgic about something that isn't even technically completely gone yet.
Some highlights from the show:
-Joey showed up! It was really nice to see him again after 5 months. He has a new haircut and looks really good. Heh. He brought me a Red vs. Blue shirt, too. It says "I Like Me" on it.
-The guy who played the "villian" didn't show, so we had another cast member's boyfriend fill in. Thankfully, the 70's costume fit him.
-"Joanie" getting the entire audience to say the word "Bitch!" about 6 times in one scene.
-Using party poppers during Hand Jive.
-Using the party poppers while reinacting the death scene each time one of us did something that could've killed off the prom queen.
-"Corkey" Running out during the death scene reinactment with the biggest damn super soaker water gun I've ever seen and dousing the entire cast with water.
-Picking on random cast members at the end of the show to get a confession out of them...ending with the character "Jimmy" who was the detective of the show, having done it.
-The entire improvised bit about cyanide not really being poisonous, how it was a cover up by "The Man" and that it was really a common ingredient in pancake batter.
-Scrounging through boxes of crap during intermission with my friend from the Kid's Show, "Sterling," and finding some kick ass necklaces.
After the show, the lobby was PACKED with Gaslighter Alumni. Tamborines were passed out to anyone who could get one and we all sang the lobby songs one last time. After all of the audience had left - and the people from the show changed back into our civies - the owners introduced Mrs. Cupp....who was the ORIGINAL owner of the Gaslighter and had come out to see us off. We all sang the Gaslighter Rag then, too, and some of us even did the choreography that we'd learned. I tell you, there's a very cool kind of feeling when you get that many people together (at least 50) most of which might not know some of the others, and singing things that almost ALL of them know.
After that, and some milling around drinking/eating/chatting with people (I mostly hung around with "Sterling" because he was one of the few I knew), some of the Alumni got on stage and performed sketches that they had been in. When "The Doctor Sketch" started, someone I didn't know said "Hey, do you want the music?" and started singing the background music for that skit. I'd been doing that particular sketch for a year, so I started in too until our DJ turned on the CD with that song on it. It was surreal for "Sterling" and I to watch that sketch when we'd performed in it for so long...but very VERY cool.
And, of course, obligatory posting of a link to my MoBlog where I have posted 6 pictures from the evening (including one of the necklaces that "Sterling" and I found....titled "Found Bling"): Take a gander!
Well, long story short, I stuck around for 2 hours before I finally left due to the fact that very few people I knew were still there. I hugged everyone I knew, poked fun at the owner one last time, and left. I've been pretty much a rock through the entire thing, but I think it's finally starting to get to me. I'm never going to get to see a show at The Gaslighter again....or even do a show there. Granted, I was planning on taking a break after this one, but that doesn't mean I don't want it around.
Sigh. I'm being all nostalgic about something that isn't even technically completely gone yet.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Best thing EVAR
So, Children's Musical Theater was doing "The Full Monty" for their alumni benefits show. There were lots of folk there that I recognized from when I did COPA. But that's not the great part.
See, there's a specific trick to how to light the very last bit of the show. It's supposed to be virtually blinding from behind the stripper men, so that no one in the audience sees any...ahhh.....danlgy bits. Well, the lighting wasn't as strong as it could be....and I was in the third row. ::Snerks:: I just about fell out of my chair with giggles.
I'm soooo amused.
See, there's a specific trick to how to light the very last bit of the show. It's supposed to be virtually blinding from behind the stripper men, so that no one in the audience sees any...ahhh.....danlgy bits. Well, the lighting wasn't as strong as it could be....and I was in the third row. ::Snerks:: I just about fell out of my chair with giggles.
I'm soooo amused.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Laptop has RETURNED!
And it's charging wonderfully! Yeah, I had to send it to GeekSquad awhile back because it stopped charging all together. Not only was the DC jack broken, but the adapter wasn't working as well. But now everything is hunky dory!
Monday, April 24, 2006
Let's play "Spot the Source of the Stress Dreams!"
Dream the First:
Stage-Manager and The-Sound-Guy (who is actually a really super nice guy who I have no problems with) accuse me of stealing money from the tip jar. I cry, because it isn't true.
Dream the Second:
Producer-Who-Likes-Changing-The-Show decides to cut everything except the second act (basically....all of the plot that leads up to the murder).
Dream the Third:
Producer-Who-Likes-Changing-The-Show decides to cut the murder mystery all together and go back to the previous melodrama they did. For some reason I have to play the part of someone who...is already in our cast. So, I have to print the script off a computer and only manage to get it finished printing in time to go on stage. Oh, and I'm in my street clothes the entire time, because no one thought to get the costumes from the previous show back.
Stage-Manager and The-Sound-Guy (who is actually a really super nice guy who I have no problems with) accuse me of stealing money from the tip jar. I cry, because it isn't true.
Dream the Second:
Producer-Who-Likes-Changing-The-Show decides to cut everything except the second act (basically....all of the plot that leads up to the murder).
Dream the Third:
Producer-Who-Likes-Changing-The-Show decides to cut the murder mystery all together and go back to the previous melodrama they did. For some reason I have to play the part of someone who...is already in our cast. So, I have to print the script off a computer and only manage to get it finished printing in time to go on stage. Oh, and I'm in my street clothes the entire time, because no one thought to get the costumes from the previous show back.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
A note to the general populace
Y'all should be glad I'm made of stronger stuff than I was in high school, and it takes more than someone accusing me of having issues with them and purposefully pushing them too harshly to send me into hysterics.
But, all things considered, I have this to say: Fuck. The. Gaslighter.
Once this show closes, I'm not going back. I don't care if they do need another cast member or something, this is too much abuse from various members of the so-called "team."
In other news: The man who was MCing our show last night had to leave part way through, due to his 22 year old daughter missing. I hope that she's alright...
But, all things considered, I have this to say: Fuck. The. Gaslighter.
Once this show closes, I'm not going back. I don't care if they do need another cast member or something, this is too much abuse from various members of the so-called "team."
In other news: The man who was MCing our show last night had to leave part way through, due to his 22 year old daughter missing. I hope that she's alright...
A note to the general populace
Y'all should be glad I'm made of stronger stuff than I was in high school, and it takes more than someone accusing me of having issues with them and purposefully pushing them too harshly to send me into hysterics.
But, all things considered, I have this to say: Fuck. The. Gaslighter.
Once this show closes, I'm not going back. I don't care if they do need another cast member or something, this is too much abuse from various members of the so-called "team."
In other news: The man who was MCing our show last night had to leave part way through, due to his 22 year old daughter missing. I hope that she's alright...
But, all things considered, I have this to say: Fuck. The. Gaslighter.
Once this show closes, I'm not going back. I don't care if they do need another cast member or something, this is too much abuse from various members of the so-called "team."
In other news: The man who was MCing our show last night had to leave part way through, due to his 22 year old daughter missing. I hope that she's alright...
Monday, April 17, 2006
Gragh....
I hate presentations.
No, really. I. Hate. Presentations. They stress me out so much that I am currently at the point of wishing for something like food poisoning to strike me down for the day so that I can't attend the class I have to do the presentation in.
Gordamm...::Pulls hair:: Gnargh...mnf.
No, really. I. Hate. Presentations. They stress me out so much that I am currently at the point of wishing for something like food poisoning to strike me down for the day so that I can't attend the class I have to do the presentation in.
Gordamm...::Pulls hair:: Gnargh...mnf.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Laptop Suckage
Gaw. Three times in the past two days...my laptop has chaged down to 0% and shut down. While still plugged in. I've replaced the battery and power cord already, so I'm thinking there's...probably a short somewhere? When I finally have the time (read: when I don't have papers and stuff to do and can't afford to be laptop-less) I'm going to take it somewhere to get it checked out.
Any suggestions/thoughts/comments? Help would be appreciated.
Any suggestions/thoughts/comments? Help would be appreciated.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Wow LONG time since the last update
Quick notes before I leave for classes...
-My rib is doing better. I apparently had "slipped a rib" or something, and it takes about 6-8 weeks to heal completely.
-The Kid's Show I was in closed finally. Woots!
-The Night Show that I'm in was having some drama issues, but we're doing better now. This last show rocked the HOUSE.
-I have a new art gallery! Lots of black/white right now because I don't have Photoshop...but once I get it back on my laptop, I'll be able to color stuff when I have more time. Anyway, here's the link: http://caitykitola.deviantart.com/
-School is trying to kiiiiiiiiiiiiill meeeeeeee.....
-My rib is doing better. I apparently had "slipped a rib" or something, and it takes about 6-8 weeks to heal completely.
-The Kid's Show I was in closed finally. Woots!
-The Night Show that I'm in was having some drama issues, but we're doing better now. This last show rocked the HOUSE.
-I have a new art gallery! Lots of black/white right now because I don't have Photoshop...but once I get it back on my laptop, I'll be able to color stuff when I have more time. Anyway, here's the link: http://caitykitola.deviantart.com/
-School is trying to kiiiiiiiiiiiiill meeeeeeee.....
Friday, March 24, 2006
X-Ray Vision!!
Got my x-ray results back. Nothing's broken or cracked, so woot! Still painful, though, har. No clue what could be causing it and I'm being threatened with being sent to a sports doctor nooooo.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Sick for 2.5 weeks
- Cough so much my ribs get sore
- Start to feel better, but have one cough triggered randomly
- Feel something in ribs go POP.
- Abrupt pain
- Have to pull into a parking lot on my way home to avoid blacking out while on the street.
......Ow. Very much ow.
I saw the doctor. Got x-rays taken for a wet readings, and get to call back tomorrow to see if there was anything exciting. In the meantime, I have vicodin for when I go to bed.
Actually, I feel better than I did on the way home. I could barely work the turn signal, turn the car, or lift my backpack on my GOOD side. The turn signal and car stuff is actually better than before. I've yet to try the backpack. Heh.
No situps or pushups for me in PE, though.
And now, at this very moment, I am on Vicodin and taking pictures of myself as a panty ninja. There's one in my MoBlog if anyone is curious! Wow. Vicodin is weird. Hokay. Going to bed now.
- Cough so much my ribs get sore
- Start to feel better, but have one cough triggered randomly
- Feel something in ribs go POP.
- Abrupt pain
- Have to pull into a parking lot on my way home to avoid blacking out while on the street.
......Ow. Very much ow.
I saw the doctor. Got x-rays taken for a wet readings, and get to call back tomorrow to see if there was anything exciting. In the meantime, I have vicodin for when I go to bed.
Actually, I feel better than I did on the way home. I could barely work the turn signal, turn the car, or lift my backpack on my GOOD side. The turn signal and car stuff is actually better than before. I've yet to try the backpack. Heh.
No situps or pushups for me in PE, though.
And now, at this very moment, I am on Vicodin and taking pictures of myself as a panty ninja. There's one in my MoBlog if anyone is curious! Wow. Vicodin is weird. Hokay. Going to bed now.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Update to anyone interested
Feeling better now. Had a sinus infection, like I figured, and am on antibiotics to make that go away. Bruised my ribs, I think, from coughing so much while I was sick so now I have paaaaaain. Pain in my left shin, too, for unknown reasons. And while being in sick makes me feel ubercuddlesome....pain makes me bitchy. So I'm sorry to anyone who's been exposed to my bitchiness lately. Don't take it personally.
Midterms next week, but SPRING BREAK is after that.
Gotta go for lunch and the Kid's Show at the Gaslighter.....then a break for dinner....then another show. I'll be SO glad when the Kid Show is done. I'm sick of it. I mean....I love the cast people. It's just....the show itself is getting to me. And I'll be glad to have at least SOME of my Saturdays back.
Fleh.
Midterms next week, but SPRING BREAK is after that.
Gotta go for lunch and the Kid's Show at the Gaslighter.....then a break for dinner....then another show. I'll be SO glad when the Kid Show is done. I'm sick of it. I mean....I love the cast people. It's just....the show itself is getting to me. And I'll be glad to have at least SOME of my Saturdays back.
Fleh.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Well then....
Four days of sinus headaches + Friend nagging me to get it checked out all night yesterday = Guess Who is going to the student health center again?
Monday, March 13, 2006
Gor.
On the road to recovery, but I've been having uber headaches the past few days. The kind that make me want to stay in bed instead of getting up and doing what I have to do. Also, been having random fits of depression for....about a week.
Har. I'm a little ray of sunshine lately.
....owmyhead.
Har. I'm a little ray of sunshine lately.
....owmyhead.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Wow. I feel like walking death.
Heeeey. Haven't posted for awhile. Thought I'd get my groove on over here before I have to haul my pathedic ass to school. Gonna do this in an outline format, though, for rapid fire updating.
-Been sick for a week, think it may have evolved into some sort of sinus infection.
-Had opening night last Saturday. Was sick for it and felt like death heh. Went pretty well, though! Aside from a few personal flubs. (Scarf fell from my ponytail and I slipped on it while dancing, in the same number my skirt tried to fall off when my heel caught on it, almost got hit in the face by my class-ring-necklace flailing about....)
-Got to hang out with B-Bear after the show and watch movies. We've both been sick and in ubercuddle moods, so we got to puppy-pile woot. ::dies:: Umm...we watched Boondocks Saints (AWESOME movie) and Zorro (AWESOME movie that I'd never seen before).
-Feel like a reject from "Night of the Living Dead" today. Got maybe two hours of sleep...my sinuses were hurting so bad that they woke me up constantly. Only reason I'm going to school today is because I have a group presentation on Wednesday, and I think we're meeting up today or something. I'll get some sort of caffeine injection from the drive through coffee place on the way. Plus, I had some day time cold meds.
Guess that's all for now. Hope everyone else is doing better than I am today. Heh.
UPDATE:
Found out that a paper I thought was due on the 15th was actually due last Wednesday....which was a day I didn't attend due to feeling like such shit. The teacher takes off 3 points per day a paper is late (including weekends and holidays)....so even if I had known and turned it in today, I'd have gotten 0 credit. I fail at college this semester. Heh...
-Been sick for a week, think it may have evolved into some sort of sinus infection.
-Had opening night last Saturday. Was sick for it and felt like death heh. Went pretty well, though! Aside from a few personal flubs. (Scarf fell from my ponytail and I slipped on it while dancing, in the same number my skirt tried to fall off when my heel caught on it, almost got hit in the face by my class-ring-necklace flailing about....)
-Got to hang out with B-Bear after the show and watch movies. We've both been sick and in ubercuddle moods, so we got to puppy-pile woot. ::dies:: Umm...we watched Boondocks Saints (AWESOME movie) and Zorro (AWESOME movie that I'd never seen before).
-Feel like a reject from "Night of the Living Dead" today. Got maybe two hours of sleep...my sinuses were hurting so bad that they woke me up constantly. Only reason I'm going to school today is because I have a group presentation on Wednesday, and I think we're meeting up today or something. I'll get some sort of caffeine injection from the drive through coffee place on the way. Plus, I had some day time cold meds.
Guess that's all for now. Hope everyone else is doing better than I am today. Heh.
UPDATE:
Found out that a paper I thought was due on the 15th was actually due last Wednesday....which was a day I didn't attend due to feeling like such shit. The teacher takes off 3 points per day a paper is late (including weekends and holidays)....so even if I had known and turned it in today, I'd have gotten 0 credit. I fail at college this semester. Heh...
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