I am extremely tired today. It could be for the fact that I stayed up late last night, dancing, and singing, and being an elephant who couldn't see where they were going (no, really, I'm the back of the elephant and I can't see where I'm going, so last night's Return of the Animals scene? Disaster. Major. I expect major reworking on that today, plus maybe Ain't It Good, The Naming (possibility), and some other scenes...Generations was good, I think...
(Talking about Children of Eden, BTW, the musical my church is doing this year, that's going to open this weekend...)
But both Lauren and I couldn't see where to step. There are so many steps on the stage, more so than Joseph, I think, and there's two really high platforms. Yeah, me? I'm on one of them. High up. And I have to spin. I don't like heights in general; I'm fine in a plane or roller coaster, because I'm sort of strapped in and everything but being up high on a ladder or a platform way up high gets me sort of, 'Whoa, that's scary'. Add spinning to that, you've got the classic case of vertigo, is about the right word to describe it. And plus when I spin the girl in front of me spins my way, and Nick's to my left, and I don't want to fall, but I don't want to collide into the girl, and I'm just sort of not spinning as fast as I would on the ground. Plus, there's a light thingy near my feet, and I do not want to smack the light and break it with my foot.
Okay, now I have a headache...
On the plus side of tech week, I rarely eat dinner every night, and I hardly have any lunch...so yay me going hungry the next day! No, really, dinner is more of a random chips and crackers and soup and cheese and cookies and other stuff; it's not as full out as, say, the other night when there was dinner and there were sandwiches (ask me why I'm telling you this stuff when you don't know what I'm talking about...I have no idea, I just want something to type).(Until class starts.)
And then for the first act of the musical, I'm, like, hiding in one of the alcoves(?)(the rooms on the side of the church, I think they're called alcoves...not sure how they spell, but it sounds something like that) with Mallory and Khrystina and Nick and other people and this one girl whose name I don't know but she's part of the Noah family, and we're all just whispering because there are backstage mics, which can pick us up, so...hmm, what else?
My costume! I so did not love my costume when I first got it. It's the closest I've ever seen to a hippieish costume, including the pants. The pants open at the sides, and you have to tie the strings from the front around your waist in the back and vice versa for the back (excpet tied in the front), and the first time I so did not tie it correctly. (Lauren actually tied it for me; we basically have the same outfits, but they're different colors, so we had the same style of pants). But last night I grew to love my costume. (After they added the snaps to the sides of the pants to make it more covered...Lauren kept on saying how she felt so exposed, the first time she tried on her costume, and I felt that way as well...what's more embarassing was that Nick was there, and so I was just overall embarassed...yeah...) But my costume I am growing to love...I need someone to take a picture of me in it.
The elephant costume, however, poses some problem, in that I cannot see my way up the stairs or when I step, and what I was doing last night, I was just stumbling up the stairs, afraid of tripping.
Which brings me to the animal costumes, overall. Deanna said they were made in Memphis. They look shappy. An elk head is breaking (it's horns are) and the elephant ear that Mallory wears is also slightly torn (due to Deanna, or Heather's, fault, thinking that it can be brought forward, but it was made so that one ear was back). Um...yeah, just basically...I thought they were going to be awesome animals. They're more like second-hand. And then Mallory and her mom on Sunday (or Saturday, forgot which, this whole weekend plus week? =big mighty blur. Everything is sort of bleeding together, and it was one of those days that Mallory and her mom took the elk head home to fix. Paint was flaking off and it looked so bad...)
So I have a geology lab this afternoon (hoping to get out of there fast) and I have to be at church by 5 for make-up to be put on (and Khrystina's on the make-up crew, so she can put on my make-up for me!) and to get into costume for a 6 o'clock start time...oh yeah. I really want to take a picture of Khrystina in her outfit, but she's forbidding me...and I'll have to get a picture of Nick and his beard some day (Deanna was against the lead actors cutting their hair because...well, the first time, young Abel, was it? cut his hair; Deanna found out, sort of scolded him, or not, or something like that, said she chose him for young Abel because he looked more like Patrick, because Patrick is old Abel, teenage Abel, and then she said that directors mainly choose people who they think look right for the role. So Nick, he's Noah, has a beard, which he says he hates, and which he didn't want Mallory to take a picture of the one day she brought her camera. And he was being all evasive too, that one time...so I have to bring my camera tonight...
My geology teacher said he wasn't going to be here this Thursday. I don't know whether to take that seriously or not, but if that's true, that means I have about 3 or so hours free on Thursday to get caught up on all my reading, schoolwork, and other stuff. Yay!
I miss high school. There was a time when I would be walking the school hallways at Foothill, wearing my Joseph shirt, and I'd see another person wearing the same one, and they would notice and...I remember Chelsea sort of gave me a thumbs up last year when I was wearing my Joseph shirt...but this year, I'm wearing my Children of Eden shirt, and I get no thumbs up, no acknowledges...except for yesterday in my Intro to Theatre class. This one person saw the flyer I had in my folder and I discovered that she had gone to Trinity and was in the first Children of Eden musical at the church...she asked if Deanna still directed, and I said yes. It made me happy, for a brief period of time, but I still miss that close, tight-knit community in high school that's not found at college really...
Okay, I'm done...posting...and I'm tired...and I have a headache...and I am so tired...
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