I go to Hogwarts- August 28, 2013

Oh what a to do to die today at a minute or two to two.

A thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do.

For they'll beat a tattoo at twenty to two:

A rat-tat-tat tat-tat-tat tat-tat-tat-too!

And the dragon will come when he hears the drum

At a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two.

^ Ladies and gentlemen, my acting homework.

I seriously love that class. I could spend all day in that one class every day of the week and never get tired of it, even though there's a lot I'm learning in my other classes too. It's not just because the homework is memorizing silly little phrases that will help us with breath-control and diction either!!! It's just a different type and form of class that's so much more fun and engaging and exciting than any other class I'm taking right now.

I got to start out my day not only with that class, but with having breakfast with my fantastic classmates Matt and Sandy at Cafe 84. I'm glad I ran into them there and on the way there! It would have been a much more lonely morning otherwise.

Even after that class, I got company walking to my Philosophy discussion. I share my philosophy and acting classes with two girls named April and Leia. They're both really neat!

Hmm.. what else what else what else.... What did I do after that?

Oh that's right! The involvement faire was today!!! Almost every single club that exists on this campus had a booth out on the main street. I walked through all of it, but (and this is a surprise to me), didn't sign up for anything new.... I know right? I'm getting somewhere finally!!! What I did do is get more clarification and information on what I'd already signed up for, as well as get the awareness that there may be a place for swing dancing on campus... fingers crossed...

Speaking of swing: What USC students reading this know how to swing dance? Talk to me. I know how and I miss it :(

Lunch was with my good friend Thomas! I always enjoy our conversations, so our time was quite pleasant indeed before I left him to run some errands at the Drama center (DRC).

And thanks to those errands, I now have an audition tomorrow. Woot woot. 

....and.... and audition next week.... yay?

Not for the musical though! Tomorrow I'm having a film audition to be kept on file for the film students who are making films for school sometime in the year. They need actors too, after all! I don't have to prepare anything, which is super nice, but it's likely to go until late at night...

Next week is for a show though, and I need to pull together two monologues. I've got a dramatic one picked out already that will be super easy to memorize: I've done it before in a show. Jam Jar Sonnets, actually! A comedic monologue is still in the running, however... 

The show is a collection of student's stories in monologue form, which is kinda cool! So yeah... we'll see how that goes!

After my adventure to the DRC was my adventure to the Philosophy Library. While I was there, I had the biggest realization I think I'll ever have in my time at USC.

I go to Hogwarts.

There is a Quidditch team, our colors are the same as the Gryffindor colors (coincidence? I think not), and that Philosophy Library is every single common room and library of Hogwarts combined into as small and grand of a room as physically humanly possible. With some of the Beast's library from Beauty and the Beast mixed in there.

It's the smallest little room, but Holy cow is it beautiful!!!

So I did some homework in there before going to my actual Philosophy class. We discussed the existence of God: arguments both for and against his existence. It was surprisingly unbiased on the side of my professor, which was a relief for me. Students had much more bias on the subject.

We talked about God in our acting class today too... it's funny how many people are raised in one religion and raised to believe one thing, but still turn and realize it's not what they actually believe. It's even more funny how when you believe something, how little you know about what other people believe. Which has got me thinking: are we as Christians so defensive of our faith because we're ignorant of the faiths of others? I can't be general, of course, and it's very very possible that's not true, as I know so many well-educated and open-minded Christian people.... but those without a religion seem to be much more at peace with the beliefs of others... maybe I'm making assumptions. Who knows? It's a deep topic.

I finished up my homework due tomorrow, then met up with Jinny for dinner. After dinner though, I felt completely exhausted and pretty crummy too, so I've been hanging in the dorm room ever since.

I think I hit a second wind of some sort, as I'm feeling more energetic now, but I really really need to sleep. On the bright side, I get to sleep in tomorrow!!! No 8am class!!!

By the way, thank you to all of you who left encouraging messages on or about my last post (whether on Facebook or here). They were really sweet and helpful! I'm feeling... semi-better about being overwhelmed, I think. By now, I think I've solidified exactly what I want to be involved in this semester. I'm leaving next semester to itself, which makes me feel better, and especially now that the involvement faire is over, I feel like I've got more of a grasp of what might be getting crammed in my schedule. I just need to organize it and decide which events I'm going to... and tomorrow is going to be a loooong day. Oy vey.

I'll fight on if you'll Fight on!!