Things I did on my vacation (last week):

Played frisbee in Ojai on Easter Sunday with various excellent friends (one of whom did not show up like a complete douchebag even though we never see him and he had 2 weeks notice). Then went and got homemade ice cream before going back home for Easter dinner.

Cleaned out my gradparents storage shed. Ended up with some of my grandma's china and silver, an awesome pendulum clock, and a pencil drawing of my mom when she was 10.

Hung out with various members of the extended family, some of whom I hadn't seen for six or so years.

Hung out a lot with Cj's family, lovely as always.

Went to Disneyland and got silhouette portraits done, pictures will come when I am not insane, whenever that might be. Forgot how "without resolution" end of the Snow White's Adventure ride is.

Went out with both current and future sisters and got bridesmaid dresses. Also bought possibly the shortest skirt I have ever owned. (picstocome)

Worked on the quilt a bit before I remembered everything I had to do.

Hung out on a boat with the parents of the Lovely Miss Allison Whom I Hung Out With Much In High School, and ate a ton of her Mom's scrumptious apple crisp.

Finished my grant application. Oh yeah, I'm doing one of those. Won't know whether or not I get it until July 21st. I'm applying for it in the event that I don't get in to CalArts (see below), as it will allow me to work at a company without them having to pay me out of their own pocket.

Drove back to Ojai to visit with Cj's grandpa.

Drove home, then checked the mail.

Got waitlisted at CalArts.

They'll let me know somewhere around June 1st if a spot opens up. Yyyeeearrrrgh.

SO,

Drove over the hill to drop off my portion of the grant application, then drove back and got a sad, sick little Cj some dinner, nyquil, and orange juice.

By the way, Cj got a tattoo. And it's really cool.



p.s. I've retired my old icon of cate for one much more suitable.

1) I lectured to a class of about 60-70 students on Thursday about the Chinese origins of "Caucasian Chalk Circle" and Brecht's Epic Theater. It seems to have gone well.

2) In three rehearsals the dancers and I managed to finish that ballet piece I've been so worried about, and it turned out to be an awesome collaboration. Emphasis on collaboration. :) So now we just need to run it consistently until it's clean. The performance isn't even until the 31st.

3) Sections today went really well. The professor visited and gave the okay, so I know I haven't been doing anything wrong so far.

So even though this quarter has been really rough (in more ways than one), Things are still going okay. And maybe I'll even get to have some down time. I hope.

My hair is now pink and glows under black light.

Directing Studio is my new safe place.

Delizie rehearsals are great. It's so playful and low key, and it has satyrs chasing nymphs. Yes!

I'm so excited about the dance piece I'm doing later in the quarter. Title: "After the Fall: Adam and the New Madonna."

A script I wrote ("The Hammer Man") is being produced in a Grand Guignol-type dark circus cabaret festival thing in Berkeley later in the summer.

I got my welcome packet for my Directing internship today.


Later!

Things I did on the Las Vegas Strip:

Hung out in the arcade at the Luxor
Had a bananna split at Cafe Gelato in the Bellagio
Saw the dancing waters show 3 1/2 times (didn't know Rebecca Romijn choreographed it)
Walked through the forum shops at Caesar's Palace (Chanel! Fendi! Fred Leighton!)
Played $5 at the slots (& lost it all)
Had the best drink I've ever had in my life (frozen lemonade, rasberry pucker, vodka)
Almost threw up due to alcohol + ice cream combination

Fun fun fun - relaxing in SoCal for a few days, then Ojai, then home.

Allright - some of you may have noticed that I have not sent out any Christmas Presents. This is because I wanted to make all of them, take pictures, and then give them out. Turns out, however, that I spent way too much time on each one and in fact am still working on a few. You'll get them eventually, I promise.

Anyway, here they are: From Left - Rupert, for Cj, Pirate, for Kacey, Raver, for Allison, Parisian, for Courtney, Kamijo Jr., for Ryan.

Not shown: Zom-B, for Tony, Ninja, for Joe, Dr. House Lamb, for Molly R., and a few other unfinished sheep. Joe and Tony, if you could take a few pictures of your sheep and send them to me that'd be awesome - the ones I took didn't turn out.

New facebook album of cool pictures from various places here.

Also, New Year's Resolutions:

~ Start doing Yoga again.
~ Start ACTUALLY cooking/eating healthy.
~ Take it slower - no more than two shows at a time.
~ Apply for summer theater jobs and/or internships.
~ Have that meeting with high school drama teacher/director.
~ Be more active in the Theater Department Community.
~ Keep sewing.
~ Save at least $100 a month.

I think that's it, for now.

These Lists Are Fun

To Finish:

Prometheus - Grad Seminar Project (12/6)

Section I - Intro
Section II - Power and Force
Section III - Io
Section IV - Io and Prometheus
Section V - n/a
Section VI - Hermes
Section VII - Abyss

Prometheus - Random (02/?)

Section I - Heartbeat
Section II - Sunset
Section III - Moonlight
Section IV - Io and Prometheus
Section V - Oceanides Dance
Section VI - Hermes
Section VII - Abyss

Choose a band/or artist: Ani Difranco
and answer only in song TITLES by that band

1. Are you female or male: she says
2. Describe yourself: i'm no heroine
3. How do some people feel about you: shameless
4. How do you feel about yourself: sorry i am
5. Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: out of range
6. Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: adam and eve
7. Describe where you want to be: wherever
8. Describe what you want to be: freakshow
9. Describe how you live: willing to fight
10. Describe how you love: both hands
11. Share a few words of wisdom: what if no one's watching

School starts today.

Long, long long long long long long day.

9:00 am - woke up
10:09 am - work (late for)
3:30 pm - left the house again w/nicole
3:40 pm - bank
3:45 pm - gas
4:00 pm - pick up dragonson13
4:30 pm - food
4:45 pm - get to rehearsal
5:00 pm - call late people
5:30 pm - start rehearsal
11:45 pm - rehearsal over
12:15 am - take dragonson13 home
12:30 am - get home
12:45 am - food
1:00 am - write lj entry

Apart from a slightly twisted ankle, pretty good rehearsal. And I have some successors to take over for me next year. (yatta!)

NOW. I am going to bed.

Ground Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yourself" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged.


1. I would rather have the ground clean and stuff piled all over the place than have stuff on the floor but have countertops and such clean.

2. I get amused when people seem like they really hate their job. Like the Blockbuster dude... or the guy at the Mcdonald's drive through.

3. I just ate a whole bag of white fudge-covered pretzels. Then I looked at myself and said, "Why in the hell did you just eat all of these?"

4. I like Kelly Clarkson. Kick me in the head, I just do. I also like Jewel. Wanna fight about it?

5. Sometimes I get lonely but I don't want to talk to anybody. Is that weird?

I tag... who the hell hasn't done this one already? You do it.