Date: 2006-08-01 00:34 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Just so you know... I"ve done two of the things for that last meme and I WILL get to doing the rest eventually. I'm sorry it's taking so long >_

Date: 2006-07-19 11:43 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

This is just a quick note to say that all those of you who replied to that thing and I haven't done you yet, I will soon. I just haven't had time. Keep checking.

Date: 2006-07-11 21:34 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: meme

If you comment on this post:

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll challenge you to try something.
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you.
4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours

Date: 2006-05-07 17:14 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: meme

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 10 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING

1. Long road, and it's narrow in the woods of my head
2. (Ok, this one's in Japanese... this is a transliteration) Tatoeba dokomade modorebaii? Oshiete
3. (So is this one...) fukai fukai mori no oku ni ima mo kitto
4. The life of an artist may seem like fun to you
5. Horizon rising up to meet the purple dawn
6. (another japanese one...) tasogare no umi ni dete, futari wa nido to mou meguri aenai no......
7. Drink up, baby down, are you in or are you out?
8. I am not American, though I live in North America
9. Kiss me too fiercely, hold me too tight
10. I have been, since seventeen, a shipwreck balladeer

....I feel like making it fifteen. Just for fun.

11. On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye
12. (French!) Nous sommes des étrangers, des sans-papiers
13. They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
14. (More Japanese!) kono mama zutto yuku no ne uso o tsumikasanete mo
15. Laid to the river Midsummer, I waved

Date: 2006-05-04 20:37 Subject: Bwahaha Security: Public Tags: quiz

Yaaay. (Ok, granted, the answers that were related to theatre were obvious... but I did answer truthfully!)

You Should Be an Actor

You have a flair for the dramatic, and you probably already do a lot of acting in your day to day life, just to entertain yourself. No need to steal the spotlight from your friends... You'll get plenty of attention once you start acting professionally!

Date: 2006-04-30 12:19 Subject: Children's Theatre Security: Public Music: "Let go" and "100 years"

I have decided that I'm going to essentially copy Mandy's entry about Children's Theatre in to my livejournal because I'm too lazy to come up with my own format ^_^ Hope you don't mind, Mandy. I mean, it's spreading the word and all, so... ^_^

Canterbury Presents: Children's Theatre
Saturday, May 6th
All shows play simultaniously at 11:00, 12:30 and 2:00 at 900 Canterbury Ave
The shows are (In the order I think you should see them, and no Mandy it wasn't influenced by yours, I just happen to agree with you with the exception that I think you should come see mine first because it's mine ^_^)

1) The Make Believe (in the Lecture Hall)
2) Danny and the Dreamsnatcher (in the Teacher's Caf)
3) More Munsch (in room 20)
4) Kingdom of Work (in room 24)

There will be directions to each room when you get there.

Brief Plot synopsis (Danny's description was stolen from Mandy, because it's her play so she knows it best. There will also be plot synopsises in the programs)

The Make Believe --> It's recess, and the children decide to play their favourite game, Make Believe. All seems well in the kingdom of the Good King Quintin until he recieves a letter telling him that the evil Twitching Witch is planning a plot. The King and his daughter, the Princess Eve, with the "help" of a foolish Knight, must find a way to stop the Witch before she and her scatterbrained Weasel can find a way to destroy the kingdom!

Danny and the Dreamsnatcher --> a story about how the Land of Nod is invaded by that awful, terrible no good DreamSnatcher! Danny and his little sister Dotty, as well as all their new Dream-Weaving friends are in charge of stopping that awful witch, and saving the poor children of the land of nod!

More Munsch --> Six of Robert Munsch's stories are brought to life as a class does Show and Tell.

The Kingdom of Work --> No play is allowed in the Kingdom of Work, only work. So, the Children Shame set of on a quest to ask the queen to let play be allowed again.

Date: 2006-04-23 21:00 Subject: I'm actually counting this year Security: Public

54 days until school's over (exams not included).

Which means slightly longer than that until Odyssey (assuming I get in).

Date: 2006-04-22 11:30 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: quiz

hmm. According to this quiz, I'm Kaylee ^_^ Yay Kaylee!! Hehe, and I'm definitely NOT Jayne. Wash's real name is Hoban? o_O

You scored as Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee) Frye. The Mechanic. You are a natural mechanic, and you are far too sweet and cheerful to live out here. How you can see the good in everyone around you boggles the mind occasionally. Still you don't seem to be any crazier than that, and it is a nice kinda crazy. </td> Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee) Frye 88% Shepherd Derrial Book 75% River Tam 69% Simon Tam 69% The Operative 63% Inara Serra 63% Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 56% Zoe Alleyne Washburne 56% Capt. Mal Reynolds 56% Jayne Cobb 6% Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

Date: 2006-04-20 00:19 Subject: Question time! Security: Public Tags: quiz

Post this in your Blog and allow anyone to ask you three questions.

You must answer honestly.

Date: 2006-04-18 23:54 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

I have changed the style of my journal because my old style, for some unknown reason, didn't show userpics, and it made me sad. This one's pretty too though ^_^

Date: 2006-04-18 23:43 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Look! Another one! Hehe... yes, I made a userpic of me in the big group scene at tne end of Scapin... what? I talk about Odyssey enough, might as well have an Odyssey-related userpic.

Date: 2006-04-18 23:38 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Mood: happy

Look! I have a userpic!

That is the only purpose of this entry ^_^

Isn't it cute?

Hehe, I'm procrastinating math by writing all my blocking for Children's Theatre into the script... I'm just glad I didn't decide to try and do EVERYONE's blocking from memory. Just mine is taking up a LOT of room and time....

Anyway. Yes. Yay userpic!

Date: 2006-03-16 21:56 Subject: Why do I keep checking the websites? Security: Public

According to the NTS and George Brown websites, George Brown does clowning but NTS does not. This makes me sad.

Heh, and you know how they say NTS is an intensive program? Here's how intensive: Five-day week, 10 1/2 hour days (8:30 - 7) and then on top of that "There are frequently rehearsals, performances and classes on Saturdays, Sundays, and in the evening." So they weren't kidding. Wonder if George Brown is like that too? Not that I mind. That's very near my definition of paridise. Can you imagine how close you'd be to those people by the time you graduated? I mean, there are about FOURTEEN people let into the theatre program per year. There's something like 100 people in the entire school. But I mean, it's theatre. All day. All year. Without even weekends, necessarily. Heck, when they do shows they probably make you do more than you're allowed to by Equity rules, because they're not Equity - and Equity week before show is 6 12-hour days in a row. Sure, I wouldn't have a life outside of it - but I don't really want or need one. My life outside of school too often consists of staying at home and wasting time. I'm slightly better this year - but nothing could beat doing that much theatre.

Heh, NTS.... Fourteen people out of what, 5 or 6 hundred that probably try out for the theatre program? I know it's something like 1100 for the entire school, and they let in something like 58 for the entire school. Although when you actually think about it, the odds aren't really that bad... I mean, round it off, 50 out of 1000 is 1 in 20.

Heh, "not really that bad".

Why am I even thinking about this right now? I keep going to the websites and reading about NTS and George Brown again and again, and I'm not even in grade 12 yet!

Date: 2006-03-16 21:04 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

So I finally got my G1 today! It's true, the test is a joke. "When turning left, where should you be on the road? A) The left side B) The center C) The right side D) Doesn't matter as long as you signal." I still can't drive, though, because I haven't taken any lessons or anything. I knew this would be far more frustrating - being allowed to drive and not being able to. And what with Children's Theatre coming up it's probably going to continue like this for a while. Oh well.

I walked home from there, stopping for lunch on the way. Then I watched the first episode of Firefly. It reminds me strangely of the Fallout one-shot that we did a couple weeks back at AJ's. It too has a "western" feel to it. I dunno. *shrugs* It also feels a bit like "Outlaw Star". Not that it's not good. It's ok. I'm not incredibly taken with it yet, but I've only watched one episode.

Then I went to Aikido. We did a lot off of morotetori (no idea how to spell it, that's what it sounds like to me, it's a two-handed grab). We started with just entrances off of shomen (a strike to the head), and then those testing went off with ukes (get your mind out of the gutter, Becca) and there were four of us left, and I had the interesting experience of teaching someone who I had thought was more advanced than me how to do both an attack and a technique. I realised that there are a bunch of little things which I'm starting to understand. Yesterday in Aikido I discovered that my body will often know how to do a technique and then when I think about it, I can't do it anymore. That, too, was interesting. I got to be uke for the Sensei (Kevin) today as well, and got complimented on my attack (he had had to explain it to both of the previous two ukes a couple of times, whereas I just came up to him and did it ^_^).

On a brighter note, I saw Andrew (the young one) at Aikido today, and he hasn't been there for a while. And Pascal told me about good Aikido dojos in Montreal and Toronto, so if I get into NTS or George Brown I'll hopefully still be able to do Aikido.

Three more days until Children's Theatre rehearsals start! Unfortunately, also three more days until school starts. But the first outweighs the second, as always. I want to see the script!! And I want to know who's in the cast!! (Thank you, Mandy, for making sure that I wasn't also going "And I want to know what part I got!!")

Heh, this is an AWESOME song. Skullcrusher Mountain. http://www.jonathancoulton.com/lyrics/skullcrusher-mountain Go download it. Really. It's legal - that's the author's website, and he lets you download it for free. It's a mad scientist's love song ^_^ (I heard it when Greg sang it at the OYP talent show)

Yeah... that's about it.

Date: 2006-01-31 17:59 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

My friend sent me this link.

All I have to say is that these people like Harry Potter WAAY too much. It is rather amusing though ^_^

http://www.myspace.com/harryandthepotters

Date: 2006-01-23 23:39 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

A note on the vote.

Mr Griffin's rule #1 of life has hereby been proven ("People are stupid"). First off, it's definitely another minority, which I was expecting. Wonder how long this government will last.

Second, currently BQ has 50 seats. What the heck?

Third, our election system is stupid. It doesn't represent the popular vote accurately. First past the post indeed. We should change it.

Fourth, NDP has almost double BQ's votes but 20 less seats. What the heck?

Fifth, "Other" has over half BQ's votes and only ONE seat. Again, what the heck? (Refer to #3)

Sixth, I bet most people were voting strategically, not for what they believed in. This is stupid. If all the people who didn't like either liberals or conservatives had actually voted otherwise, let me tell you, the results would be completely different. I bet, anyway. Just from the number of people I've heard saying they were going to vote conservative or liberal just to stop the other party from getting in. I mean, that's all their platforms were: "Vote us so the other party doesn't get in."

At this rate Quebec is going to split off and there'll be another election next year. *sigh*

Date: 2006-01-07 00:45 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Ooh, I just remembered the other cool thing that happened today.

I was (procrastinating) looking through my "My Documents" folder and reading random old stories of mine, and I came across a story that was apparently me writing randomly that became Dark Fire. It was really cool to see the similarities and differences, and especially to realise that I might actually like that version better and might try to continue it. I also came across this other story that I might want to continue. Yay for my random story beginnings! It might be nice to write something serious again instead of the "Ok, let's go this way - ok, now I'm bored" thing that I've been writing in Chem and English for the past little while.

Date: 2006-01-03 01:34 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

A belated happy new year to all of you! (I just realised I hadn't said this yet)

Date: 2005-12-21 23:01 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

An interesting article:

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2005/12/intelligence_is.html

Date: 2005-12-05 23:26 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

When we moved and I unpacked I found this duotang from when I was really young of writing. I'm talking like this is from when I had just learned printing, so probably kindergarden. The stuff is barely legible, the spelling doesn't even resemble the real spellings for the most part, and I can't decifer most of it. It's got little pictures too in some places, but they don't really help much.

Here's what I've managed to decifer:

One page says (in big scrawly handwriting) what looks like this about:
WATS A PMWN
A FMALE
I AM CYNF(scratched over with a T)HIA
AND MI EMALE
IN MI FMALE
I HAV A DAD
AND I HAV A
MOMMY

I figure this means this:
Once upon
a family
I am Cynthia
And my family
In my family
I have a dad
and I have a
mommy.

(It continues on the next page but all I can understand of it is the first two lines:
AND I HAV
LAS AFV

And I have lots of)

Then comes the section that I decifered compltely, I think.

I think I thought at the time that the titles of all things started with Once Upon a...

Anyway, so here it is: (lines combined to save space, translated by page)
WAS A PAN A TEIM DER WAS A LETOL GERLE AND HER NAM WAS CYNTHIA AND SEY LAVD

Once upon a time there was a little girl and her name was Cynthia and she loved

FLOWERS SPESOLE THE DA(E written over the A)D LIY'(backwards S) SEY AKSOLE LOV(two Ds mixed with Es) DEDLIY'S AND IN THE SPRINGTIM DER "R" LAS OF DEDLIY'(backwards S)

flowers, especially the dandilions. She (also?) loved dandilions and in the springtime there are lots of dandilions.

BUT SEY DISET PEK DEM SEY ALWES WATE FOR THE WAT PAT TO KAM U(scratched over an A)P DEN SEY WiD PEK DEM THE END

But she didn't pick them she always waited for the white part to come up then she would pick them. The end.

I'm really curious what the rest of them say...

Date: 2005-12-05 19:11 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Hehe. Hehehe. Hehehehe. Yay books.

Bold those you've read. Italicize those you haven't finished. Underline those you own.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (I actually own two copies, so if anyone wants a copy of these...)
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell (Best. Book. Ever.)
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (I'll get around to reading it eventually....)
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger (blargh. Although according to Mandy it's really funny, so I guess it depends on your taste.)
16 The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (Well, I read a shortened kids version anyway)
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling (and that Philospher's stone here in Canada) (I used to own it...)
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist (I think I finished it, anyway... I know I finished Magician: Apprentice, I'm not so sure about Magician: Master)
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker (I tried to read it in about grade 3. It didn't go so well. I got bored with it and went back to my 400-page fantasy books.)
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl (Finally! That long gap of unread books was getting depressing... There are a bunch of those that I've been INTEDNING to read...)
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlottes Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Well, in French, but that was it's original language anyway)
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine (Well, not ALL of it, but enough.)
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri (I'm pretty sure I read the book at one point in elementary school. I know I started reading it at the least.)
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer (Assuming this is referring to the play)
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony (Well, book one. I never read or bought any but book one.)
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster (I am convinced that I read this entire book sitting in Chapters without buying it before they got rid of the couch-thingies in the kids sections.)
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice (Isn't it weird how this book is later in the list than The Vampire Lestat, which comes after it in the series?)
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous (Hehe, I started reading this out of Ellen's book... I only read about five pages but I'm counting it nevertheless!)
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams (I'm almost done the series, anyway, so close enough! I've finished the first three books and they're all about a thousand pages long so I say that's enough for me to bold in. It's very good.)
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (I seem to remember reading this, I'm not sure if I finished it or not so I'm going to say no)
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, URI Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen (Well, a kids' version anyway.)
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton (Does reading some of it in English class count? I'm going to say yes.)
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane (Again, finally! Why must they group the ones I haven't read together like that?)
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (I still haven't actually read ALL of this, just bits and pieces.)
367. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Misery, Stephen King
374. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
375. Hood, Emma Donoghue
376. The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
378. Regeneration, Pat Barker
379. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
380. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
382. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
383. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
384. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
385. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine LEngle
386. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
387. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
388. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
389. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
390. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
391. The Things We Carried, Tim O’Brien
392. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
393. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
394. Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
395. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
396. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
397. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
398. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L’Engle
399. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
400. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
401. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
402. The Bridge, Iain Banks
403. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
404. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
405. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
406. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
407. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket (I did start reading it at one point)
408. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
409. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
410. Buddenbrooks. The Decline Of A Family, Thomas Mann
411. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
412. Deception Point, Dan Brown
413. Momo, Michael Ende
414. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
415. A Walk To Remember, Nicholas Sparks
416. Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen

Wow, long list. They're missing a lot of good books I've read too... why were none of the Shakespeare plays I had read on there? Hmm, according to that list I'm not very widely read, am I? My score is (including italics) 64 out of 416. Then again, some of those were serieses...

Date: 2005-12-03 00:44 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

I know I've taken this before but I don't think I posted the results last time. I got the same results.


You are blessed with FAERY wings. Beauty,
laughter, life, magic...that's what you are all
about. You are refreshingly innocent and happy
with your life of purity and play. Life's a
game and it's a good one. In your eyes there's
no way to lose! You can be very mischeivous and
have been known to cause trouble, but it's all
in the name of fun and not meant to really harm
anyone. You like to play tricks on people who
aren't quite as bright or clever as you - which
is almost everyone. Nature is the setting you
prefer to be in - Always. Barefoot and wild you
can't be tamed. You're probably a restless
spirit who loves to travel, and quite a
dreamer. Your creativity is astounding and your
art (of whatever media - from writing to
painting to drama) is like something from
another world - ethereal and often very
fantasy-oriented. You can either be a social
butterfly or a loner with their head in the
clouds - but rarely inbetween. You stubbornly
refuse to accept responsibility or to give in
to the wishes of others - unless you feel like
it. You have a strong passion for music and
can't imagine life without it. You'll grow up
someday, but you'll always be a child at heart.
You are adventurous and love to take risks, and
feel a deep connection with the weather,
plants, and animals. You prefer sunshine to
thunder or snow, the warmth of summer to
autumn's chill, and quiet forests to suburban
backyards. Magic through and through, you are
far more powerful than you seem, and are
capable of being extremely passionate. Though
you can be childish, naive, stubborn, and
self-absorbed, one thing is certain - life with
you will never be boring!

Image copyright Sheila Wolk (prints available
through treefreegreetings.com), words added by
myself.


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Date: 2005-12-01 21:36 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

AHHHH!!!!

Someone has WAAY too much time on their hands. It's still kind of cool though so you should go look at it.

Date: 2005-11-19 00:34 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Mmph. Need sleep. Must update....

Morning: Uhh there was snow. And school.

Chemistry: I think there was a quiz. Yeah, there was a quiz. And we handed in stuff. And learned stuff. And my story is going nowhere fast.

English: We read more Macbeth, and worked on questions, and I think we did something else too but I can't remember it.

Lunch: Principal's Players' auditions for the "Lovers' scene" (it's a combination of scenes from Midsummer's Night's Dream). That was fun. I was auditioning for both Demetrius and Lysander. I hope I get one of them, I really do. I really want to be in this scene, because it's fun.

Math: We learned stuff. And then we got homework, and a lot of it. A lot of class time to work on it, but more waaay more homework than class time.

Drama: Building masks more. I'm slow. I hate being slow. Stupid perfectionistism.... (I'm aware that that's probably not a word.)

After: I went home, had a snack, then went to Aikido. We did stuff with Bokkens, multiple bokkens hitting each other. That was fun. Very fun. Parrying and stuff. Especially once we got onto sequences, which I seemed to pick up very quickly. The last one made me feel special because Sensei complimented me on it (as I was doing it) and I was actually going pretty fast by the end (for me, anyway). Maybe it has something to do with my having taken fencing that I picked them up fast.

Then I went over to AJ's (she came to the Friday class and we had arranged this beforehand) to play Axis and Allies. We got through two turns in about as many hours, if not more. Nevertheless, it was fun.

And that was the abbreviated version of my day. Now sleep!

Date: 2005-11-07 03:26 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Having finished three of the four projects due tomorrow, I figure now's a good time to take a break and write my livejouranl. Yes, I count my mini-maquette as being due tomorrow, and yes it's one of the ones that is finished. The one that isn't is also the one I haven't started - the play review. I really, truly hate play reviews.

On the other hand, I wrote a three-page long reflection for the director's scene written work. And no, that's not including the other written work. That's the reflection.

What can I say? I start reflecting and I just keep going and going.... it's like a story, and I want to tell all the parts, and build up to the end. Make Mr Griffin understand why I cheered after the dress rehearsal. And at the same time learn more about myself.

As I wrote that reflection, I realised why walls in mask are good. Because they'll be there whether you see them or not, but if you realise that they're there, then you can get past them. If you don't realise you're stuck behind a wall, then you won't try to get over it, and you'll think oh, I've got this character, there's no more depth to find. The depth will still be there, hidden behind a wall. But you have to realise there's a wall with more beyond it to get past the wall.

Why did I realise this? Because that's what happened. It wasn't that I was worse at playing Winston than any other part I had acted up until that point. It was that my director forced me to see the walls and recognise them for what they were, and helped me push through them.

I didn't end up going to Aikido this morning, opting to sleep instead with the knowledge I'd be up late tonight doing homework. I kind of wish I had gone, but I wouldn't be awake now if I had.

I woke up in time to go to the first panto rehearsal where I'd actually be taking part. It was really interesting. I didn't want to go, I didn't want to go, I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to be there - and then I stepped through the door, and all of a sudden, I wanted to be there.

And I had fun. And the chorus kids were cute as always. And sure, it's not professional. But it's fun, and it brought me into the world of theatre, and that special place in my heart hasn't been overtaken by other things completely quite yet.

At one point, Kevin was talking to Alex (the one playing the prince - there are a lot of Alexes, aren't there?) about his character, and all of a sudden it occured to me that the Panto and Commedia dell'arte were very similar.

Kevin then took out his script and showed me that on the first page, as well as the first page of every other panto script, it says that the panto is derived from Commedia dell'arte. Proving once more that I am unobservant. But I can be forgiven, I hope - until this summer, I didn't really know what it was, so it wouldn't have stuck.

But as soon as I realised that, a lot of things made sense. Like why the idea of Commedia dell'arte and physical theatre is so exciting to me. It's what I started on, or part of what I started on.

And yeah. I really like my mini-maquette. It's all dark and cool-looking. This is what happens when you use something as a way to procrastinate - it gets better, because you put more time and effort into it, because the longer you spend making it perfect, the longer until you have to do whatever it is you're putting off.

Thank you, Mandy, for all the advice with Devon ^_^ Now that I've made up my mind to tell him, it's going to happen (eventually). Which might or might not be good, because both other times I've made up my mind to tell people things and done it, while it didn't turn out badly persay... actually now that I think of it, both of them ended, although leaving me feeling like an idiot, also leaving me feeling the better for knowing. Part of the problem is that I'm bad at phrasing things. Especially when I'm nervous. And if I do take Mandy's first piece of advice and go up to him and ask him if he's going out with anyone and he says no, what then? "GREAT! Want to go out?" doesn't really work. Neither does, "Oh, uh, that's nice. So um.... I like you."

You know, I think I'm going to wait until after the panto is over, and until then continue getting to know him better, and hope he doesn't find himself a different girlfriend in the meantime.

I wonder if he's figured out that I stayed after the rehearsals specifically to talk to him? I mean... considering the fact that I left when he did, and walked home, and wasn't waiting for anyone to pick me up or anything.... And I did this about five times.

And that piece of duct tape he gave me last year in English class is still on my pencilcase....

Ok, enough with the Devon speculation! Stop procrastinating and do your play review. Maybe you'll be able to get a couple hours of sleep yet.

Date: 2005-11-02 20:41 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

The dress rehearsal was absolutely AMAZING!! I mean, AMAZING!!

Ok, so let me start at the beginning of the day.

Morning: So I woke up, and I went to school.

Chemistry: I think it was some time in chemistry that Mandy reminded me that director's scene dress rehearsals were tonight. At some point she did, I'm not sure it was directly. I was freaking out about the dress rehearsal all today. As you could probably tell from last night's entry, I really didn't think I would be able to do it.

So yeah, I made origami in chemistry and tried not to think about it.

Between classes I saw Becca and Fi in the hall and was all like "ahhh!" to them and they were like "it'll be ok" then we were a bit late for English but we weren't marked as late or anything (we being Mandy and I). And I was keeping most of my nervousness inside, but sorry Mandy!

English: We spent a bunch of the class learning about vampires in literature, then spent a bunch more time working on our Macbeth questions. And yeah.

Lunch: I bought a samosa and rice, for a change. Becca was playing video games, on a tv, on a game cube, in school. I spent most of lunch talking to Fi. Fi's shirt was awesome. I sat with Julia for the end bit, too. At some point today I explained to Sarah why I wasn't at Principal's Players yesterday.

Math: Yeah, we learned stuff and got like no homework, so I can actually catch up on some undone homework!!

Drama: We worked more on our mini maquettes. And talked and such. And ten minutes from the end of class I looked at my watch and freaked out.

Rehearsal: So yeah, we set up and got costumes and did a tech run, and then did our first actual full run, and that went fairly well. And then we ate dinner, which we got from Pizza Pizza and I had a salad. And then we did the dress rehearsal. And that went really well. Our scene is exactly 20 minutes long. We're last, by the way. And so we get to see the first two scenes, yay! And you know why our director is un-nervous enough to promise us that?

Ms Ripley and Mr Griffin were both like "That was really good" and they were both all impressed and Ms Ripley had NO NOTES. Mr Griffin had HARLDY ANY notes. Ms Ripley was just like "I didn't write anything down, I was just watching it." And they both SAID that they really liked it. MR GRIFFIN. And the notes from Mr Griffin were like "There were a couple things, like he stumbled once, but that's just something you need a couple more runs and it'll be fine. And you might want refer to Winston as a girl, just because they're mirror images so it's just one of those little things, because she's playing a guy in one scene and a girl in the other." ANd then we decided they'd just refer to me as "it" as Winston. And that was honestly the extent of the notes. Or the "you need to improve this" notes, anyway. They spent a bunch of time saying stuff that they liked. And they liked my characters, and thought we were all really connected and stuff. And Ms Ripley had NO NOTES. She said that's the first time that's ever happened. And they were both just like "Yeah, there's not really much to improve, it's really good." And I know I'm repeating myself but I mean MR GRIFFIN AND MS RIPLEY REALLY LIKED OUR SCENE AND HAD LIKE NO NOTES!

So yeah, it was really funny, they started with being like "that was really really good" and they went on for quite a while about how it was really good and Mr Griffin said that hey were just little things, his notes, and they were really impressed, and when they started we all had a moment of like "woah!" and then we were all just like standing there silently smiling, and they left, and we all just like start doing like happy dances and then we had a huge cast group hug and we were all SOOO happy, and it was 7:15 and we just ended our rehearsal, and we put stuff away and Adam and Sam left because they were bussing and I hung around the school until like 8:30 with various people, because I was too happy to head home, and I saw Laura from Mask Club and we talked for a while and then I came back inside and Alex and Pat and talked with them and at like ten to 8 we went into the scene in the lecture hall who were cleaning up and we just like talked to them and MC was in there and she was like "That's awesome" because both me and Pat had been like freaking out to her yesterday apparently (I know I had been, I didn't know Pat had been). And then Pat left and I spent a bunch of time hanging around with Alex until his ride came. And at one point we randomly had this like competition to stop the other from holding open doors (I won by a lot. I have lots of practice, though, because I do this a lot).

I didn't see Mandy so I don't know how hers went, but hopefully it went well. I'm happy because I"ll be able to see her scene because it's second and ours is last.

And yeah. Alex told me that I had really gotten the character too. And I felt like I had. Both of them. And I am just soooo happy!!!!

Date: 2005-10-30 01:02 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

I did wake up this morning and go to the Aikido thing, and I am SOOO happy that I did. Remind me to go to Aikido whenever I can. I felt SOO much better after doing Aikido. It's exactly what I needed.

Plus there's the fact that it was really cool getting her perspective on stuff (it was a seminar) and learning new things, and doing Aikido for four hours in one day. There were SOO many people there! There were fourty four people there. Twenty is considered a large class, to give you some perspective.
The morning classes have about six people in them and that was a nice number.

I went down to the bagel place with Pascal during the lunch break. So that was fun.

At one point they integrated the children's class, because they never cancel it apparently, so the kids were there with us. They were young kids too. At one point I was in a group with two of them and one of the more experienced people (presumably she often does the kids classes, though I'm not sure), and I was just overwhelmed with cuteness.

Afterwards, I stopped by at home then went to AJ's for my first actual role-playing session. I also actually met her rat today. In that it actually crawled around on me several times today. I trust it a lot more than I trusted my gerbil or my mouse, ever. Then again, I've had lots of good experiences with rats (pet rats), and it was really cute and kept licking my hand. And I played with her long strips of chains that she had made and was making (she being AJ) for the chainmail.

The actual roleplaying was fun, too. It's hard, though, in its way. But mostly fun. You can't really do something "wrong", as long as you're following the rules of the game and the basic idea of your character and such. Yeah, I had fun.

I love her rat.

I don't really have all that much else to say.

Oh, from now on, I'm probably going to be having a great deal of "friends only" entries, because (and yes, Mandy, I stole this from you) it makes me feel more comfortable to know exactly who's reading my livejournal entries. Or at least, know exactly who has the potential of reading them.

Date: 2005-10-28 23:51 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

I forgot something really inspirational that happened today, near the beginning of rehearsal.

Sam and I went into the lecture hall, it was just the two of us, and there was music playing over the announcements system because they do that afterschool every Friday. Sam was dancing around the room, and she said something, I forget what, and I replied that I didn't really know how to dance. And then she said, "'Dance like no one can see you. Sing like no one can hear you. Love like you've never been hurt before. Live like heaven is on earth.' I love that poem. It's like my philosophy." And I said something along the lines of "wow, I really like that too." And then I tried to dance, just like I do when no one's watching me. It was strangely freeing. And Sam smiled at me and said "There you go!" And we both danced until the end of the song.

I think I'm going to try and live by that philosophy too.

Date: 2005-10-24 20:35 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Mood: happy Music: Butterfly Dance

Blaaah I want sleep. I still have homework to do though. I just finished dinner - rehearsal finished at 7:15. But I'll get to that.

Morning: Woke up. Was sick from eating too many cookies last night. Went to school.

Chemistry:Alternated between taking down notes and sleeping so that it looked like I was looking at my notes but my eyes were shielded from the teacher. I actually stole the technique from a newspaper article. It works. I mean, I didn't get much sleep, but it meant I could close my eyes without the teacher noticing. I couldn't keep my eyes open. We were learning about different types of reactions.

English: A bunch of notes on the witches and reading more of the Scottish play and we got back our tests. Yeah.

Lunch: By this point I was mostly awake. Mandy and I ran lines, mostly emotionlessly. I know all my lines. I realised today that my lines are actually mostly rather short - I've only got two things that are long enough for me to call them "paragraphs" and they're not even long enough that I'm sure I'd call them a monologue. This is rather nice. It makes memorizing lines easier. I have no objections. I mean, it's not like there's more than five seconds when I'm offstage in the entire play (I say play because it's got multiple scenes, a beginning, a middle, and an end), so I'm not all jealous and "You have more lines than me!!"-ish. Not that I ever am. After being in the chorus for however many years I was in the chorus for, lines don't seem to matter as much as soon as you've got three or more. Because more than three lines that you alone say means you're probably something resembling a lead, because chorus members only get one or two lines. It stops being about how many lines you've got and starts being about how much you like your character. Like when I was a pixie: I had fewer lines than the fairies, at least I'm pretty sure I did - I don't think I ever actually counted - but I still was very happy to be a pixie and not a fairy, and I loved that scene. I mean, heck, I didn't even have lines until my third show, and then it was just one line. I still remember it: "Treasure maps! Tresure maps! Genuine pirate treasure maps! ALL FRESHLY FORGED! Treasure maps!"

Anyway, random nostalgic tangent. The point is, I'm happy becasue I managed to memorize all my lines. Mandy's got all her lines memorized too, which is rather more impressive because she's got a bunch of huge monologues. I really hope I get to see her scene, because it sounds like it's going to be awesome.

Math: We learned new stuff. And I actually started my homework in class. As in got a good amount done. We had about half an hour to do homework, see. It was very nice.

Drama: I timed the amount of time we spent talking at the beginning of class about non-design related things. Half an hour. So no wonder we're moving slowly, or so it seems, though perhaps he always does this and so it's not actually slow. I mean, it's not like it's non-drama-related things we're talking about. A good portion of that was discussing director's scenes (the ones that were on Friday). Plus discussing movies and plays and other such acting things that people have seen. I like it. It's just interesting, and I just hope that we don't spend this long talking when we get to Commedia del'Arte.

We presented our sets design things, and Mr Griffin pointed out things that could be improved with all of them. For ours, we took out the flower painting (I held a piece of paper over it) and he said maybe the staircase should have been more jagged. There was also a lot of him telling us we were being too director-ish as opposed to designer-ish. This was to see what he was looking for in our maquettes. Apparently we're going to start mini-maquettes tomorrow.

Afterschool (aka Rehearsal): Between afternoon classes, Alex had told me that he was going to be doing this monologue workshop thing for drama class, and Adam too, so I talked to Ghislaine a bit, then the rest of the cast came, I went over to with them, and they went somewhere and I started going over lines and doing a goat sheet for Nada (who I found out later tonight is actually male) and then they came back and yeah we just did stuff until then. About twenty minutes or so before Alex came back, Patrick and I started running lines, about ten minutes before, Sam came and was on book for us, and then Alex came back. We each told about our weekend, and then we did character walks, at one point during which Alex had to go talk to someone, and we worked on Sam's old woman walk and used Alex's jacket as a shawl. I know, this is full of run-on sentances. Meh. Then Alex came back and did character walks with the rest of us, though we kind of forgot Nada. Then we went to blocking. We didn't actually block any more of the scene, persay. But we reblocked stuff. A bit before the end, we actually got our space and did a couple things in there, but mostly we rehearsed in the caf lobby. I am now screaming at one point. At said point, I am being dragged off literally kicking and screaming. See, we were trying to figure out how I could push open this door to avoid being slammed into it. That was at the end of the rehearsal. So we found this way of holding my arms so that I could actually use his arms as leverage and kick both my feet up off the ground and kick open the door with them (trying to stop him by kicking at walls and such). Heh, coming up with character walk for Winston essentailly consisted of my director describing how he was feeling and what had been done to him and me letting it affect my body, and then at one point Adam randomly came up and grabbed me and started just like swinging me around and stuff and then "pushed" (yeah, that was the lightest push I have ever felt, even for a stage push) me and I fell onto the floor and then Alex went back to describing how I felt and how they wanted me to crawl acorss the floor but I was really weak and stuff. Yeah. Character walks really do help you understand the character and get into character, though, because then you can get into the character's physicality. Yeah, I know, as a professional actor you're supposed to do that sort of stuff on your own. Well, I'm not a professional actor yet.

So yeah. We spent a bunch of time working on the "I have bread" (replaced temporarily with "wait!") moment. Heh. "It might be interesting if he took her cane and beat her with it." There were many funny moments tonight, most of which you'd have to have been there for. We really should stop making jokes about the bread thing but it's just practically an inside joke now. Plus there's "O'Biren". Plus there was "How many fingers, Winston?" while leaning on the table (LONG story). Plus there was "throw her down the stairs," which led into "method acting" "Bounce, bounce, bounce" "Here, let's practice on Staircase A!" "You're in pain? That's ok, so was Winston. You've got a couple broken bones? That's ok, Winston did too." "'Alex I think I need to go home.' 'No, that's alright, it's good for your character development.'" "Uhoh. Uh, Alex, I think you need a new actor..." (Note: No, I was not actually thrown down any stairs. The stair I'm going to be thrown down consists of approximately one step. That was all us joking about it. Alex is awesome and a very kind person and wouldn't ever throw me down a flight of stairs, nor make one of his actors throw me down a flight of stairs.)

Heh, we definitely practiced from "Show me to papers" to "Language forbidden" a LOT tonight.

I seriously need to do action units and tactics and such. And GOTE sheets. OH! We got back our written work from our in-class scenes today in drama. I did really well. I love written work, it has a tendancy to bring my mark up. Well, except play reviews and script reports. I hate those, even though I know they'll be useful in the future (Sarah Joy said they really were).

Anyway, back to rehearsal. Well, I'm not sure there's much more to say. Plus I have to do homework. So bye!

Oh, I don't feel depressed today after rehearsal ^_^ I think it's because the depressing in-character stuff was interspersed with lots of laughter. Or maybe it's just that little bit of depression I go through at the beginning of each play I do (where I have a major part anyway) where I'm unsure of my character or whatever. Meh, I dunno. Point is, I don't feel depressed, and that's good.

Date: 2005-10-23 15:21 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

I finally got around to putting up all of those livejournals from when I was without internet. If you go back, the first one is I believe on August 23rd, from there until I think September 25th or so. The first journal when I'm back probably says "I got internet back!" so it should be fairly distinguishable ^_^

Yes, I was procrastinating. No, I haven't started my homework yet. Yes, I realise this isn't good. No, I don't particularly care, as long as it does get done, which I'm sure it will, stuff for my director's scene included. I found the GOTE sheet on the internet, which is good because I lost my copy. I think I handed it in by accident.

Yep. Now I'm going to go eat dinner, then do my homework. Bye!

Date: 2005-10-23 14:18 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Ok, so I'm over the whole really weird depressed-because-I-like-my-director's-scene thing, which I think was probably just me feeling down for some other reason (such as my characters' emotions getting to me) and blaming it on the fact that I liked my scene. I still love my director's scene, and I think it's going to be awesomely fun and I think that my director is awesome and really creative, and I think it's going to be great, but when I grow old I doubt I'll look back at this as the highlight of my acting career, and if I do that'll be rather sad, because I'm still in high school and if I continue down this path that I intend, I'll be acting for years more. And even if I don't, I'll never give up doing community theatre at the very least, so I'll still be acting for years more.

It's weird, but when I get depressed, I have a tendancy to either claim that it's an isolated instance and really weird therefore and think of a bunch of things to blame it on and get worried that those things are depressing me that much, or else I claim that the depression is always there, buried deep inside me. Neither of which are true. I'm not sure what is true, but I'm neither constantly depressed nor never depressed.

Anyway. So yesterday I got home at like 1:30 AM and then had to take a shower and so it was 3 by the time I was done everything and I just decided no, I'll write my livejournal tomorrow.

So I'm going to write this really fast, and then go do my homework, which I have a lot of.

Yesterday, Uncle Hershal, Auntie Anne, and Auntie Anne's parents came down from Montreal to see us. That was nice. Then I went over to AJ's at around 3-3:30. I stayed there until about 1:30 AM. I met some new people - there are apparently more D&D people than Rolemaster people - and spent a LONG time creating my D&D character, until about 8, and so we didn't end up playing D&D. Instead, they all talked, I finished my Rolemaster character, they gave me some sparkly dice to keep (they make me very, very happy, and many thank yous!!) and then somehow, I forget how, they started talking about religion and the middle ages and all sorts of things and so now I know a lot about history and their views on organized religion vs faith that I probably couldn't repeat, but it was really interesting. And at the end Mark told me that I had amusing facial expressions. (Mark, by the way, was helping me create my characters again.) My D&D character is a spellcaster - a sorcerer to be specific.

And that, in short, was my day yesterday. I'm probably not going to bother updating later today, because I'm essentially going to be doing homework and more homework today. So yeah. Bye!

Date: 2005-10-21 22:02 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Mood: sleepy

It's interesting, but in typing where you're not setting a mood through a story, it's surprisingly difficult to get across any sort of negative emotion without swearing or the actual content. But unlike in real life, you can't tell what they're feeling just from how they say something. And it seems to me that the words themselves are oddly cheerful. (Mandy and I were just talking about this.)

Rereading my livejournal from last night, it's scarily cheerful considering how I was feeling. And still was feeling for most of today. I guess there's a price to pay for being in an awesome director's scene.

It's interesting, because with everything we do I'm trying to be comfortable with it as an actor and yet completely uncomfortable with it as a character. It's hard.

See? That was an incredibly cheerful way of putting that.

It's weird. My director scene makes me simultaniously incredibly excited and depressed.

We had no rehearsal today. It made me sad - I had been rather hoping for a rehearsal after watching the director's scene (Alex promised us we could watch them), because I love rehearsing for it. At the same time, it was probably really good for me.

A combination of Principal's Players, Drama class, and watching director's scenes has given me back my motivation, for now at least. I'm not sure if that'll last through the next rehearsal, but at least it'll last through the weekend. See, the problem is that seemingly fear is the emotion that comes to me most naturally when I'm acting. But it's also seemingly the one that stays the most after. I mean, going back to George, if you think about it, the day I started being scared of my mask character was right after the day Mr Griffin scared the wits out of George.

Anyway, I'll go into more detail as I go along.

Morning: I was still feeling kinda depressed this morning. I just realised that this isn't actually anything particularly new with this director's scene. Just because I hadn't been feeling like this much recently doesn't mean that it's an unfamiliar feeling. The lack of motivation was the weird feeling. It was weird not to have any motivation to do theatre. Thank goodness it went away. See, while I feel things, I know they're weird. That doesn't mean I can make them go away, but I know they're weird.

I once again only just got there on time - though I meant to get there earlier.

Chemistry: We had a "supervised prep period". I love amazing timing like that. I don't think I could have concentrated on a class. I could barely concentrate on the work we were given.

It was nice, though, because I could talk to people. Recently I seem more and more to need to talk to people, and less and less to want "alone time". Does that mean I'm becoming extroverted, or just scared of my thoughts?

English: I'm really not liking English class. There's too much time to think. I drew something today. It resembled the sort of stuff I drew in grade 9. I want to erase it.

Lunch: Principal's Players. After that English class I really wasn't in the mood for it, but I went anyway. Jen gave me fries. Then we started actually doing a scene. I was paired with Katie (Nurovian Katie) (it was a scene in pairs). I had tons of fun, and that started my being reminded of why I loved theatre, and chased away my depression for a while.

Drama: We worked in our groups the entire class. Our came up with this black and white set, expressionism from Max's point of view, with a single picture of a poppy in colour. I really like it. It's all symbolic and stuff. I think we all like it. I really liked working in the group, too. My depression was chased further away, and my love of theatre returned more.

Math: My depression stayed away all of math class. I realised this at the end of class when I was actually able to start my homework, instead of sitting there brooding.

I found out my math mark, too. I'm still not happy with it, but it's gone up 2%. Hopefully it'll keep rising.

Afterschool: Alex had said we'd have a short meeting to do some character stuff before the director's scenes, but we ended up not doing that, because by the time we were all gathered we'd only have had about 15 minutes or so, and you can't really do much in 15 minutes.

I saw lots of people at the director's scenes, including Charlotte, who I haven't seen much this year. Ghislaine was there too - her first batch of director's scenes - and so were Emily and Julia. Mandy was there for two of them. There were lots of other people too, and I don't really know why I'm giving a list anyway. Anyway, the first scene, there were these tables stacked (it was the teacher's caf) near the front (you know that divider thing? in front of that) and so Julia and I lay down on one of the lower ones and watched the scene from there. It was good. They were all really good. The one with James and Trisha was amazing (their characters had the same father, had been in love, and it was really, really good). The one just before was really good too, and freaky, I forget what it was called, but it was about telephone companies. They were all really good.

The other thing that they all did, all of them, was remind me that there was tons of really great theatre out there, tons of plays that I would love to be in, tons of parts I would love to play, and tons of great actors and directors and other people involved with it that I would love to meet. I realized a lot of things, all of which combined with things from earlier today and resulted in one thing: I've regained my motivation to do theatre after this scene and other than this scene. The summation of my acting career is not at age 16.

I talked to Devon and Charlotte for a while after the shows. I followed Charlotte around for most of the time after the director's scenes because I really haven't had much of a chance to talk to her since last year. It was funny, Devon and her started this thing where he was like... I don't remember the exact words, but it's where you pretend there's something really big and secret going on and there really isn't. Devon explained it to me after.

Random sidepoint: I had actually, in my frenzy of Director's scene love, completely forgotten about Children's Theatre. I can't believe I forgot about that. It kept me going through a lot of grade 9. It's interesting, but that director's scene really blocked everything else out of my mind.

I got a ride home with Ghislaine, because I lost my final sweater, and it was cold outside.

Now, I'm going to go to sleep, and see if I can make up for the sleep I lost to 1984.

On another random sidepoint: It seems to me that there are a lot of director's scenes that are weird in format this year (in a good way). I mean, we've had two full plays, one theatre in the round style thing, the one I'm in with its three-plays-and-two-stage-areas-with-an-aisle-between-them thing. I don't actually think I've ever seen a director's scene before this with any other form of staging than proscenium in a director's scene before, whereas this year there are at least two. And I've definitely never seen one before that wasn't from a single play. I don't think I've even seen any full plays in director's scenes before. It's a really creative grade 12 class this year, I guess. I wonder if we'll be able to compete? Somehow I doubt it. I mean, look at all they've done. Right down to the three student production festival. But then, it's not really a competition, is it? More like an inspiration.

Date: 2005-10-19 22:31 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Ok, wow. So there was an awesome rehearsal today, right, and we started blocking, right, and we did blocking for the prologue and the first two scenes and the second scene is from 1984 and I'm Winston and if any of you have read 1984 it's near the end, all the scenes from 1984 are from near the end from what our director has told us and from what I can tell. So I come home, just too late for Aikido but I really didn't care bucause MAN it's freaking emotionally draining because he's really terrified and it's hard to explain. So then I come home, and my mom hadn't gotten the book which I wanted to read (1984), well my director and one of the cast suggested it, from the library so we went down to the library and I got it and we got dinner on the way home and I ate it and on the way there and back I read the play mountain language, and it's really different the way he's done it, he's put it in a different context, so I'll probably be doing the "play review" thing on the 1984 script, which I haven't read yet because I'm going to read it after the book. And so I get home, and I just start reading 1984, and it must have been maybe 6:30 or 7 then but I kept reading until just now, got a couple glasses of water but didn't stop reading for that even, only stopped for a moment when my mom came home, and stopped now, on page 142, because I was talking to my mom and I wanted to write a livejournal. So here I am, writing a livejournal. And that is a freaking amazing book and it's really creepy but although I don't know what effect it would have on someone regularly by this point in the book it's infinitely creepy when you've just been playing that character, and slowly I'm understanding more and more and more about what everything meant to him in that place, about the picture and about the party and about everything and what doublethink is because it's in one of my lines and I didn't know what it was, and it all makes more sense and is slowly making more and more horrifying sense, and even as I'm reading the book I'm thinking about that character and being that character, and I'm going to be playing that character and the writing is so good anyway that I'm totally drawn in and I see things and I make connections to the end because I know the end before the beginning, like when he says about the next thing you know they'll want you to think two and two is four and it's just crazy. And I was reading it straight and I'm going to go right back to doing that after I'm done talking about my day because I want to have that feeling and I want to get the full impact because the better I get the impact the better I can give the impact and be the character and understand the character and reading the book is infinitely better than reading the play because there is of course so much more backstory and it's so DISTURBING, everything is - Big Brother, Two Minute Hate, Hate week, and meanwhile so much of it brings up things at the end and it's just crazy reading a book like that for three or four hours straight after just being the main character at the end. I know I'm ranting but this is my thought process right now and I've maintained it. And they've got Victory Coffee and Victory Gin and the US had Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast when they didn't like France. And it's scary. And it's the best book I've ever read and I'm going to buy it. And it's the Spanish Inquisition, too - everyone a spy, turning kids against your parents, the slightest thing and you could be accused. It's the Spanish Inquisition and it's happened and it could happen again. And it's scary. And it's Nazi Germany too. And it's all sorts of things, and it's all together, and yet it's none of them, and it's all with this character I'm going to play and I'm getting into the mind of the character, even half unconsciously just because the book is so good.

If you've never read it, you should read it. Definitely. A couple times - because I have the creepiness right now of knowing the ending at the beginning, and if you have that it'll be different, I think, though I don't know because I'll never have the experience of not having it, and I don't know how he gets there only that he does and it's scary and it's the best part in the world that I have in the perfect director's scene and I love the rehearsals. It's weird and I'm not sure why, but that sort of character - I've always wanted to play it. Part of what I love about theatre is that you can experience anything without actually going through it.

My mind went blank. Completely blank. Done with the rant, then: A quick description of my day. I don't want to break my mood, though.

Morning: Got up really late. Barely got to school on time.

Chemistry: Got back a bunch of stuff. Went over the test.

English: Chose books. I'm doing Queen of the Damned, because someone else really wanted to do Interview with a Vampire even though they were after me and I already chose it but it didn't really matter to me which one I did.

Lunch: Hung out and ate lunch. Started filling out club stuff.

Drama: Watched more movies and analyzed them, including Brazil, well we watched little snippets anyway. I want to see Brazil. We also watched Topsy Turvey, which Mr Griffin also highly reccomends and I'm interested in it. Asked Mr Griffin about making masks and got permission (my idea was that we'd do it while his class was, except after them at lunch, and then clean up after them and ourselves.)

Math: Test. I'm never going to not do three days of math homework before a test ever again. I knew general ideas but I had to figure out a LOT on the test itself. I almost ran out of time. I haven't had that feeling in math class since elementary school and I don't like it, not in math, because math is supposed to be my best subject.

Afterschool: I remembered I had rehearsal and everything seemed happy again when I remembered that, and all the bad feelings from math class went away. Rehearsal was amazing. I met one more cast member and we read through the script again and Alex kept saying "Intellect" and then there was the "I have bread!" line which for some reason we all found funny and which involved a bunch of images, such as her opening her coat and it being full of bread. Plus of course, there was the section where there were a bunch of typos, which were there in other places sometimes too, mostly consisting of "O'BIREN" instead of "O'BRIEN" and "SREGANT" instead of "SERGANT", and there was an "O'BIREN" instead of "WINSTON" once, too. But yeah, it was fun. And then he showed us his idea for the set and we blocked the prologue and the first two scenes. The way we're doing it is we're going to block everything first preliminarily and then we'll go back and - what was the word, I forget it, "toothcomb" it I think it was. So that'll be fun. And I'm really, really excited. Plus we get to see director's scenes on Friday, hopefully we'll have a rehearsal afterwards, which is what we're thinking of doing, and that would be awesome. I really love this play.

Then I came home, and see rant above if you can make any sense of it ^_^ That was me just writing my thoughts, stream-of-consciousness or whatever it's called. And now back to 1984! (Did I mention, I've wanted to read that book since sometime in elementary school, grade 6 or 7 I think, when my math teacher, Mrs Braiter, reccomended it to me. I'm so happy something finally forced me to.)