Here we go again... I'll clump together Friday and Saturday this time.
Friday I was exhausted, but I'd say feeling better nonethless. Voice lessons never fail to make me feel like I'm not practicing nearly enough and hence, not doing nearly as much as I should be doing in order to reach my personal goals of being the best I can possibly be at this whole acting/singing/dancing/auditioning thing. It's a work in progress, I suppose...
I had some pretty nice alone time between that and my class. Took myself to lunch and all, and then class itself was really fun!!! Theater kids are the coolest. Really though, they are.
After my class, I ran into my friend Tyler after he was done performing with his improv troop! We talked for a bit, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It's nice being able to talk to someone older than you, but not too much older than you, who's gone through similar experiences (even if they're not exactly the same experiences) as you have. Or, just to talk to friends. Friends are wonderful.
Oh! I forgot to mention! The campus is completely done up for Parents Weekend. There's been events and parents and relatives and decorations and booths and the works up all over the place. That being said, while I was talking to Tyler, we got to see a cool A Capella group perform! I don't know if they perform there all the time, or if it was another way USC wanted to say, "Hey look, Parents! This is why you should keep your kids at our school!" and trying to be all impressive and such, but it was neat, nonetheless. USC likes to prove it's impressiveness to its visitors. The more visitors, the bigger the impressiveness needs to get. Hence, the campus is done up like a box on Christmas.
Anywho, I chilled out in my dorm, nothing special, but by the time it was getting to be time to decide what to do with my evening, I realized I had a lot of energy, and there was way too much that I could choose to do!!! I eventually decided on meeting up with my good friend Thomas for dinner and a play on campus!
The play was called Dancing at Lughnasa, and it was the best one I've seen on campus so far this year. Here are the reasons why:
1) The story was clear and intriguing
2) There was dancing. Onstage. Of the Irish type.
3) Irish accents the entire show!!!
4) A beautiful set
5) Fascinating characters
6) Symbolism that you don't get until you finish watching the play.
7) Did I mention the Irish accents?
There was only one plot point I didn't really understand, so when the play was over, Thomas suggested we go to the library, try to find the script, and see what it said! Great plan!!!
Turns out the library didn't have the script, but we spent a good hour or so in the Drama section looking at a bunch of different plays and playwrights! It was really fun and really cool!!! I wish I could read every play that's there...
The fact that we did this surprises me a bit. First of all, there were parties going on everywhere that we could've gone to, like normal college kids do for fun. Or, there was another show happening at 11 if we wanted to be complete theater goers. But no. We looked at scripts in the library and had a blast!!! Who'd've thunk?
After that, we hung out outside the library for a while just talking. Which was also really pleasant!!!! Though I was out pretty late and Jinny and Kieryn started to worry about me... whoops... It all paid off in the end though. I got Thomas to show off his piano skills. He's really really good at piano!!!
So, overall, it was a really fun night. As odd as it is that that's what I consider fun, I had a great time :)
Today was a little more "normal." I got up pretty late, but what woke me up was the sound of the tailgaters outside, singing and listening to the band and having a blast. It made me really happy. How many times am I ever going to get to wake up to this?? People outside, having a blast, getting ready for the big day of the week where the whole Trojan Family gets to root for our football team. Maybe it's not that dramatic, but it is as pleasant as drunk, loyal fans get. I enjoy it.
I got ready for the game, then went to brunch with Kieryn, Sneha, and Jinny. I say brunch because I got up at 10, and we didn't end up eating until noon.... :(
My favorite part of arriving at the Colisseum is when you're actually entering the stadium. If you go in through the lower entrance, you have to walk through a tunnel. It's so surreal, because you're walking through this concrete, really ugly tunnel, but at the end, through the little round opening, you can see the stands of people on the other side. It's hard to describe... but it looks so cool!!!
The game itself was pretty exciting up until the 3rd quarter. After that... not much happened. But we won!!! 19-3!!! Still, we probably could've left early. We wouldn't have missed anything. Oh well!
My day took a bit of a downslide starting at the game. There were people in the stands nearby us who got sick from being too drunk. If you know me well, you know that this freaks me out a little bit... so that wasn't nice. Plus the game was getting boring on top of that.
When I got back to the dorm, I was hoping to be super productive and get a lot done. Starting with laundry.
Well... our washing machine is broken, so I brought my bag of clothes up to the next girls' floor. Their machine was being used. So I went to the 6th floor. Their machine was broken too. So, I went all the way up to the 8th floor to use their machine. Right when I walked in the room, I noticed a really bad smell in the air... It smelled like rat droppings or something. I decided not to think much about it and just continue with washing my clothes, since it was probably not a big deal. As I was putting my clothes in the washing machine though... I noticed they were getting wet.
There was a big puddle of murky, disgusting, smelly water sitting in the washing machine. And it got the smell all over my clothes. Gross, right???
I took the clothes down to our washing room because a) I wasn't going to leave them to get worse smelling in the 8th floor washing room and b) I wasn't going to bring them back to my room. But in doing this, the elevator, hallway, and washing machine on my floor got the smell.... :( People were complaining... I felt bad... I still kinda do... I was able to solve the problem later by just using the 4th floor washing machine... but still. I would've preferred to not have that adventure.
Dishes, attempt at homework, getting dinner, and here I am now. There's going to be a lot to do tomorrow... but I've already cheated. I played before I worked hard to deserve it. Therefore, I'm making the decision here and now to do whatever it takes to be as productive as physically possible tomorrow morning.
Which means... I should probably get some sleep. But even if I'm super tired... I'd have to say that, except for all the gross things happening, how this weekend has been so far has made being tired pretty worth it.
Fight on, friends.
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