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| ha. i forget sometimes i even have this thing. until my brother writes some silly comment on his.
so here's the last year in a half in a nutshell: went to grad school (i chose university of illinois in champaign) for a year and decided i didn't like being in school anymore. so i moved to nashville to pursue a songwriting career. we'll see what happens
so i'm here in nashville. i currently work freelance for a lighting company in town, but it doesn't come with much work. i haven't worked in about 3 weeks now. i've started looking for other jobs. hopefully something pops up soon. i'm running out of money.
i've been working on a new song. kinda sad. but... mostly upbeat (name that movie!) i've also recently discovered the musical genius of Kate Voegele. i once thought she was overrated. i was so wrong.
here's a sneak peek at the new song titled One of These Days:
The telephone rang today
Unexpectedly
She couldn't believe
She was about to receive
More bad news
On the other line
This time
He said
The tests came back
The cancer has spread
She looked at her son
There were tears in her eyes
Praying for a miracle
One more time
It's just one of these days
You feel the
World crash around you
And one of these moments
You know
Your heart will break in two
You have to believe
That there's hope on the other side
Of one of these days
i don't understand how my brother only includes like 2 line entries. unless he's reviewing a film. maybe i'm just long-winded? i dunno...
ps: i wish i was a dancer.
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| ha. i forget sometimes i even have this thing. until my brother writes some silly comment on his.
so here's the last year in a half in a nutshell: went to grad school (i chose university of illinois in champaign) for a year and decided i didn't like being in school anymore. so i moved to nashville to pursue a songwriting career. we'll see what happens
so i'm here in nashville. i currently work freelance for a lighting company in town, but it doesn't come with much work. i haven't worked in about 3 weeks now. i've started looking for other jobs. hopefully something pops up soon. i'm running out of money.
i've been working on a new song. kinda sad. but... mostly upbeat (name that movie!) i've also recently discovered the musical genius of Kate Voegele. i once thought she was overrated. i was so wrong.
here's a sneak peek at the new song titled One of These Days:
The telephone rang today
Unexpectedly
She couldn't believe
She was about to receive
More bad news
On the other line
This time
He said
The tests came back
The cancer has spread
She looked at her son
There were tears in her eyes
Praying for a miracle
One more time
It's just one of these days
You feel the
World crash around you
And one of these moments
You know
Your heart will break in two
You have to believe
That there's hope on the other side
Of one of these days
i don't understand how my brother only includes like 2 line entries. unless he's reviewing a film. maybe i'm just long-winded? i dunno...
ps: i wish i was a dancer.
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| i have my first test today. i tried to study for it last night. but i just couldn't sit still and concentrate on it. granted, i love the class, but just having to sift through all of my notes and knowing exactly what i was having to prepare for was frustrating. the test part itself isn't going to be that difficult. mainly just matching cities and features on the map with its descriptions. but the other part is an essay. he gave us 3 questions to choose from. we only have to do 1, but the questions for this test are weird lol ... i don't know what i'm going to write mine on. there's 1 question that could be summed up in one sentence. so i don't know how i'm going to squeeze out at least half a page on it.
i was also looking on the U/RTA website (university resident theatre auditions). basically it's this big conference thing where you go set up a table of your work and then people from a bunch of universities come look at your stuff and if they like it, they'll request an interview time. and then you come back and interview with them. and then they decide if they want you to come to their school or not. well i watched this clip on what goes on through the whole process and it was quite intimidating. i'm not sure if i wanna go to grad school anymore. lol ... the auditions are in NYC at the end of January. which is cool, i've never been to NYC. but 2 of the colleges on my list aren't going to be there, so i have to make separate trips to these universities in order to interview with them. kind of a pain in the butt if you ask me.
yesterday it monsooned here ... and by monsoon i mean a freaking hurricane came down on the city of tallahassee out of nowhere. i was walking down this huge hill from my russian class on my way home and it was raining so badly. and the wind was blowing ... so much so that it was pointless for me to have an umbrella. the rain was just being blown up underneath the umbrella soaking me anyway. and then i had to wade through 6-inch deep puddles to cross the streets. i finally took my flip flops off and just walked barefoot. it was ridiculous. i looked like i jumped in the shower with all my clothes on and decided to walk around campus that way.
well. i should stop procrastinating and go finish studying for my test.
wish me luck!! 
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| school started last week. it was a long week too. my last semester. kind of weird, not gonna lie. it's official ... in just over 3 months, i will be an alumna of Florida State. creeeeeepy.
this semester is already killing me. last monday i was called into my Lighting Supervisor's office to find out that i was the Assistant Master Electrician for our all-out musical Into the Woods this semester. i expressed my desire to be an Assistant Lighting Designer (ALD) before i graduate. i was told there weren't any opportunities now, but perhaps next semester. i told my supervisor i was graduating in December, and he told me he would look around for me.
Then on Thursday he called me back into his office after the all-school meeting to inform me that a position as ALD for Into the Woods opened up if i wanted it. So i said yes, duh! hahaha. it's gonna be a long 2 months. seriously, the pre-plot is due Sept. 9. and the last day of Strike is November 2 or something like that. oyyy.
my schedule allows for just one class a day M-R. .. and then 3 classes on Fridays. this changed dramatically from my no class on mondays or wednesdays, 2 classes on TR and 2 classes on Fridays. my Russian class is kicking my butt. a summer away from all things Russian (and speaking only Theatre lingo) has really taken it's toll on my "skills" ... lol. my favorite class, though, is my Britain & Ireland geography class. soooo much fun. my Rendering class costs a lot of money (a $25 lab fee, plus buying all the supplies in order to do the designs) and is at 9am on friday. after that i have Lighting Software, which is going to be a great class, however, quite difficult. and then i have a DIS (directed individual study) for lighting. aptly titled "Advanced Lighting" ... since Lighting Design I is the highest lighting class an undergrad can take (laaame). it'll be interesting nonetheless. i definitely have a full plate, especially when Into the Woods starts up.
in other news, steven is coming to visit me in a few weeks. i'm really excited
aaaaand... i started writing a new song. since my newest of injuries, i can't play my guitar for a while. my knuckles are bruised on my right hand, and i can't move my fingers. suuuuck. but anyway, here are the lyrics i started:
paint me a picture
of the day before time began
was it just space there
sitting in a great expanse
what did it feel like
to speak out the words
as the light formed
from your very voice
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| Today was a somber day at Ozark Actor's Theatre. And in the city of
Rolla itself. The beloved Executive Producer of the theatre I work for
passed away this morning while undergoing surgery to remove a tumor
from her pancreas. Kittie had been fighting this wretched disease for
some time before I even got here at the beginning of the summer. But
immediately you could tell the effects of the chemotherapy and
radiation were taking a major toll on her small, frail body.
Though
the treatments must have seemed painful and excruciatingly
uncomfortable, Kittie never complained about any of it. When she was
working in the office, she was always cheerful and had a smile on her
face, ready to greet you. It always made me smile to hear her say
"Hello Kimberly". I was never Kim. Always Kimberly. And it was okay
with me. It was always reassuring when Thursday came around. One
because it was payday ... but more importantly, because Kittie would
hand-deliver our checks with a smile on her face (and ours) as she
handed each of us our "presents" as she would say.
It was quite
surreal to get the news that Kittie was now gone from us. Just two days
ago we were told that she was responding well to the chemo and
radiation treatments, and now the tumor was small enough to be operated
on. So for her death to plunge us into the icy waters of unexpected
shock on a day of two performances, it was also a relief to know that
she was no longer having to deal with all of this disease and nonsense
that comes with the standard package of Life. From what I was told,
Kittie was taken out of surgery because she was bleeding way too much,
so she was moved to ICU, where she reportedly told her husband, "that
operating table was just too damn hard to die on". And in her
Kittie-Way, she went on her own terms.
Away from the chemo, away
from the radiation, away from the pain . . . into something much more
peaceful. May you rest in peace, Kittie. We will all miss you, and OAT
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