Finals Week Breakdown

I have done fairly well so far. I aced, and I mean ACED my Logic exam which I was so excited about but as I finish writing my 5th page of study guide for an exam at 9 AM tomorrow, I realize that I may or may not be able to handle the rest of this evening. My nutrition of the day has been an extremely strange combination of sugar and protein in order to stay awake and invested in my studying. I mean my food has gone as follows: Atkins shake, sunflower seeds, Special K Protein Bar, Fruit Loops, turkey sandwich, and a liter of Dr Pepper, with a bag of beef jerky still to be consumed. To say my digestive system has been a tad confused today would be an understatement.

Also, impulse buy of headphones so that this guy who is chewing so loudly will be zoned out. I have never, and I mean never, heard something this badly... we are sitting literally 30 feet from each other and I can hear him over my own crunching of Fruit Loops. It is working for now. Nothing like Regina Spektor to let you know that life is okay.

I work my grandfather's sweater today and of course by today I mean the past 50 hours... but it has given me some pretty good mojo. He was an extremely brilliant man and it feels as though I have a little bit of that rubbing off on me today. I need that. It has been one of those days where I think I'm funny but really I am just stupid and slap happy.

Time to get back to the last of my study guides!!!

Dark

I have been pretty absent lately. I apologize. I have been in tech week for my show which closed earlier today. Honestly it was one of the most stressful and time-consuming processes I have ever been a part of but one of the most rewarding. I have learned so much about myself as an actor through it. I might be able to do this as a living kids. I know I went to college for it, and I know I might have pretended that I knew what I was going to do with my life, but honestly who really knows that? This show showed me that I can do it. I had people telling me that it was the strongest ensemble and the best show they had ever seen on this campus. Guys... I cried on stage. This is not an easy thing for me. If you know anything about my mourning patterns, then you know my face usually ends up like this:

I am quite an angry person when I feel like the world has screwed me over... But I cried for this show. It was beautiful and I couldn't have done it without these wonderful buddies!

 So my roomie the wonderful Louise Hunter has been abroad all quarter and I cannot begin to explain to y'all how excited I am to have her back in my life! so I made sure our door was all decorated and pretty for when she comes back! I might be annoying and fill our room with balloons or something too! She is beautiful! Silly girl went to London... she is FROM London. Well I guess we all know that if she weren't weird then we wouldn't be roomies. She is a beautiful creature who only uses her accent when she is drunk and frequently reminds me that I am never home. She is the reason I have seen Jurassic Park and that I survive sorority social events. (Guess how many I have been to without her? ZERO!) So she is also a positive boost for my social life and girlyness! Oh I am SOOOOOO pumped!

GUYS! I experienced my first black friday. The picture below tells you all my feelings about it. 

I will be sure to be a more constant source of amusement in your lives now that I have mine back!

Apparently I'm a Morning Person

I have been awake since 5 am. Why? Because my body said so. I have been sleep talking all night. (One of those times where the words you say in your dream seem extra loud and you know it is because you have said it out loud) and somewhere around 7:30 I decided to give up and get some work done.

It is at times like these, the very far and very few in between, that I have time to think about everything. I've had a really spectacular quarter. There have been ups and downs but all in all I cannot complain. 

I have incredible friends

GO U! NU!

This is my theatre board after we kidnapped our new members!

Not to mention a boyfriend who showed up with pizza and a carnation yesterday...

It meant we were watching the Eagles game but still pretty good...

I am in a show that is coming up. I am emceeing. Producing is going well. School itself seems to be settling into place. 

This is the director I'm producing for...

The only down I can think of is that I am not able to go home for Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving. I love food. I love family. I love football. I love pilgrims and indians (native americans). I love pumpkins. I love leaves. I love canned, jellied cranberry sauce over fresh. I love the endless selection of pies. I love, LOVE, stuffing. Stuffing is pretty much a bartering chip that will get anyone anything they want from me. So it is sad that I won't be home to experience it. But I am doing what I can. Boyfriend will be here and so will several other friends and we are having a quaint little Thanksgiving to ourselves. Guess it is kind of like my first grown up Thanksgiving. Weird. I'm not grown up yet. I'm twenty. I'm still in college. I still have no clue what I am actually doing with my life, how can anyone expect me to baste a turkey?

Lazy Saturday

It is 2.55 PM. I am still in bed. I will be getting out momentarily to get ready to go over to Evanston-Township High School (the star of Mean Girls) and cheer on their mini-Dance Marathon! I am feeling a bit sick which is never good when going in to a tech week so I am using that as my excuse to be lazy.

This is what I need right now....

 I could very easily grab some caffeine and make myself get up and be about but...

but this is more likely to be true

I think I would much rather have a lazy day and cheer on some high schoolers and then watch some good theatre. Yep. I also have decided posts don't have to be long. I like this new found theory.

Today in a Picture

How I feel towards the world today...

Nostalgia

So it has come to my attention that the world is full of people who do not make sense. I do not make sense, my parents do not make sense, my friends don't make sense. But then there are people who make even less sense than normal. Those people are the friends of convenience. The people who are only there for you when it is good for them, so actually they are just there for themselves. What about that is rewarding? What about a friendship like that would anybody envy?

So I am sitting in my logic class, texting my two best friends in the entire world, getting way too excited for Christmas break and getting to see them both and this guy in the back row raises his arms to stretch. You know this commercial with the canaries? His pits were pretty much that awful. I may not be the most hygienic person out there, let's be honest how often I actually wash my hair is disgraceful, but I at least try and maintain the illusion of cleanliness. I don't understand what goes through a person's head when they pull up a shirt like that to put it on... "No one will notice this softball sized pit pee-stains if I keep my arms down all day right? This striped oxford won't call any attention to that." There are many a problems with this. First of all, oxfords are designed to make you sweat more. By the look of his shirt though, he is also a natural sweater, why combine the two? Secondly, there is no possible way anyone is capable of keeping their arms down all day. Thirdly, if the above two problems didn't bother him, then he is okay with people seeing these marks and that is a whole nother level of weird.

Jessica Kane is in France. That awesome transition you just saw was to let you all know that the person I idolize fashion-wise (and pretty much life-wise) when it comes to Northwestern students is not currently in the country for me to idolize. I have taken on the role of being my own model this quarter while she is gone. Something she does that I am trying is she religiously changes her nail polish every three days. And she doesn't just change to a different color, she changes designs and sparkles and they are always beautiful. I first started this with my World Series spirited nails...

Then I moved on to paint them for recruitment preview. I haven't been the best of Thetas this quarter due to theatre and life and I tried extremely hard to make up for this. Apparently the picture I thought I had of these no longer exists. *Edit* It was on my phone!!!

Then I tried that half moon thing that people are doing... It pretty much failed but It might have been my harsh choice of color combo. This is something I will work on in the future. I would show you but the guy sitting directly behind me is already creeping on my typing of this and he probably doesn't want to star in the picture of my black and robin's egg blue nails...

Yes I did place my fingers to cover a zit

see? bright and bold color combo that might have worked but didn't.

I lost my favorite ponytail holder today. It just fell out of my braid. I was reaching around to play with my braid when I realized that I no longer had a braid which meant my favorite ponytail holder is gone. Everyone has their go to scrunchie. They wear it on their arm at all times it is not in the hair. It has just the right amount of zing and doesn’t hurt your hair. Mine happened to be one of the fabric ponytailer holders from Francesca’s or little boutiques that don’t crease or damage your hair but hold it tightly. It came in a pack of three. There was a grey, a black and a zebra. The grey has long since lost its worth being my summer pony and sun faded and worn had to go. I had moved on to the black and it has been a faithful friend for three months now. It has seen me through exams and rehearsals and auditions and homework. It always kept my hair out of my face without pulling it so tightly that it looks like I have a chinchilla gripped to the back of my skull for dear life. It was always classy in its black color with a slight sheen. I will be forced to move on to the zebra print when I return home today., a print that is much more bold and eye-catching. I will miss you scrunchie. You were worthy of a much greater owner.

EW! There is a couple in my logic class who just kissed because this girl got a problem right or something. GROSS!!!! Note to couples everywhere: Kissing is cute at the right time in the right place. No one wants to see someone making out as they take an exam. They want a peck at a wedding or a goodbye peck is fine. Basically not in class, not at work, be courteous! Please people. I SAW THIS EVERYWHERE TODAY! As I was walking in to my renaissance drama class a couple was just making out to say goodbye before class… like really you will see her in an hour and a half… CTFO! I’m all for more love in the world… but population growth is unnecessary before class. 

DANCE MARATHON!

For those of you who have heard, you know that Dance Marathon is a 30-hour dancing phenomenon in which Northwestern students dance for a different beneficiary each year. This year we had a record number of sign-ups with over 1,300 dancers signing up to lose sleep and play with kids in early March! NUDM has selected the Be Positive foundation to dance for this year and I could not be more excited to be working with these kids. These B+ Heroes are the siblings of and children with childhood cancer. Please check this foundation out!

Well, I decided a while back with a close friend of mine, Ned Baker, that I wanted to Emcee all of DM this year. So we filled out the application, made the video, and went through the live audition. We got called back. So we went through that process which is severely secret and then tonight they called us in and told us WE GOT IT!!!!! This is probably the greatest honor I will achieve at Northwestern closely ranked with my diploma. I will be working closely with all these heroes and their families and the dance marathon exec and probably meet our university president, Morton O. Shapiro, which is also the COOLEST person I could meet on this campus. I am pretty much overflowing with facebook notifications and emails about what I am going to do. I was interviewed thrice already and quoted in our school newspaper... no not just quoted... there is an article on Ned and I. I apologize for bragging. I doubt many people read this anyway. Quick post to explain my excitement!!!!

Here we are!

Ned and I were so surprised! We hugged and could barely speak but they gave us some cool visors and took our pictures and here we are! Moving forward as somewhat campus celebrities. Something I learned from this is that if you don't try for something, you can't get it. Try guys, the world is a happier place if you do!