High Notes/

The good thing about High Ds and Es is that they almost make High Cs and B flats  and even Belting Es seem easy.  Almost.:)

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWKEN!:)

Today was fun - I went to Weehawken with Avi and Alena - who are both very intelligent talented girls - and we watched a really inspiring outdoors concert - a tribute to Jerome Robbins Weehawken's most famous resident.  Sierra was in it - she is soooo amazing.  Avi and Alena were both blown away and understand my bizarre desire to be her now...

Female Yoda also gave me two COMPLIMENTS in class!  WHOAH! And it was Jeff Shade's birthday - his theatre dance class was small - but it was all really cool people - and we danced a really fun high energy number.  

I then went home and practiced my Ds - and I was very happy with their progress.  (touch wood.)  

On our way to weehawken Avi commented on how hard I've been working and how she is proud because when she met me I was on the bizarre other planet of depression and sadness - I didnt even realize how far gone I was - but now I'm focused and working well.  

I must also say my love of tea has grown not only because of Yogi teas impeccable taste - but also because its helps my throat in its attempts to stay in tip top shape for those high notes!  I never understood jean-pauls and other singers obsessions with teas - but now I do!    And thank goodness Yogi makes such delicious ones, I've never before found this calorie free beverage paletteable.

Onward and Upwards my friends!  Onward and Upwards!

The joy of a leotard and Yogi Tea

I'm proud of myself today.  I took a Fosse class instead of A) taking the day off as I usually do on Sundays or B) Taking Jana's class which was offered at the same time in the room next door.  This unprecedented event caused much confusion throughout Steps!  I ALWAYS take Jana - I NEVER take Fosse - which is not the most intelligent decision since Fosse is the back bone of theatre dance - all other styles seem to be forged upon it - and Jana is unique and relatively useless for Musical theatre - or at least what I have auditioned for thus far.  But Jana's class is my first dance love, and I'm apparently very good at it - or so I am told by almost everyone.  (YAY cocky statement of the evening!)  

So - I went into the Fosse class room - and Cara walked in and thought "Oh I must be in the wrong room - Megan is here" - and left.  Meanwhile - people from Jana's class came into the fosse room asking "Is Jana in here today" - and I had to correct them all - explaining - no - I am actually taking Fosse - for once - I was good!  I ate my leafy greens and left the gooey chocolate cake alone!

I was heinous in the class - but I did manage to have a good time.  We had to pick partners - and Kat magnanimously offered to be my partner and protect me - we did some crazy Yankee Doodle Disco number in honor of the 4th of July.  It was hard - it was fast - I was bad - but I also DID it - which is a step in the right direction - and I smiled throughout - which is great!

Afterwards - Kat and I rented a tap studio and ran through the seagull tap dance.  She helped me with my triple time steps, double pull backs - and rhythms - which I REALLLLLLY needed help with.  It was really great and helpful.  I'm glad she learned it with me - she is a great tapper - and a good patient teacher!

I got home in time to practice voice before Michael got home.  I sang a few high Ds - they are getting stronger - in a short amount of time - which is what needs to happen - so that is good.  

I then drank some special Yogi tea that is supposed to be good for the throat - singers - and public speakers.  I usually HATE tea - but this was AMAZING!  I LOVED it - it may be better than cookies and even - GASP - ice cream!  What is going on!  How strange!  How wonderful!  How fabulous!

Tomorrow Alena - and this very cool intelligent fellow director/performer named Avi and I are going to Weehawken to see a tribute to Jerome Robbins - starring my tap teacher and Sierra - and directed by one of the theatre dance teachers at Steps.  So that should be fun and hopefully educational!

I also just felt the need to express my love of leotards.  I LOOOOVE leotards.  I guess all girls have their shopaholic weaknesses.  For MOST it's shoes - but for me - its LEOTARDS!  I remember when I was a kid - I went through a period where all I wanted to wear was leotards.  Perhaps it was a prophecy of things to come.  I still only want to wear leotards!  I love all the different styles - the backs - the linings - the materials - how each creates such a different mood - a different character - evokes a different feeling and a different aspect of your dancing and personality.  The king of leotards in my world is the YUMIKO!  Yumikos somehow manage to make every body look amazing!  Morever, you can choose virtually any color combination or fabric combination you want - custom design them if you will!  They are so comfortable!  I just love them!  They make me super happy.  They are like little pretty confections of happiness.  I know it's super lame to get so much joy out of a leotard - but I do - and I'm ok with that!:)

I have also learned - I am not a huge fan of short stories - I much prefer the full length versions.  It's so disappointing when you get attached to a character - and then they simly disappear a few pages later - and you have to become friends with an entirely new set of characters and acquainted with an entirely new world.  It's exhausting - and relatively unrewarding in my opinion.  (I suppose a collection of ghost stories is another matter entirely...and there are alwas a few short stories gems - such as THE NECKLACE - but as a whole - I better enjoy complete works!)

I believe that is all for now.  Another day of work waits!  Maybe one day the training will turn into work - and that will make me super happy!  It WILL turn into work.

the bikini...

I'm getting ready for my annual trip to Sanibel - which is an occasion which I usually mark only by how fat or skinny I am.  (Running around the beach in front of your mom in your itty bitty teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini is always a daunting event.)

However, this year, I feel there are many more mile markers far beyond my weight.  And I'm happy with them.

This year, I feel I'm back on track.  I have fallen back in love with theatre - after a strange quixotic journey that has taken me through the frozen arctic tundra of figure skating, the bizarre jungle of law school LSATs, the crazy misguided dessert of Batman, and the oasis of disillusionment about my own capabilities.

This year, Alena and I have a showcase in the works - which will give us an opportunity to showcase our talents in front of agents and casting directors.  We actually have put money down for the theatre - so it will really happen!  Just waiting on the date confirmation!

Additionally, I was waiting for a long time for my old composer for Giraffes Cant Dance to get on the ball.  Her schedule on the road, however, proved too full to dedicate time to the project.  Alena, however, just spent two years in Korea where she wrote and performed children's shows for an English Language Amusement Park.  (Yes - Korea is cool like that - they have English Language Amusement Parks!)  Through this, she met many composers who now reside in NYC who specialize in chidlren's musicals.  So - we are all now collaborating, in the same CITY, so hopefully THAT will happen as well!  It would be so excited to create a show from the bottom up!

Thanks to Casey, Amanda, and Yoda, I actually understand how to work CORRECTLY in dance class - not just twirl about absent mindedly like some crazy fairy wannabe.  I can now control my body and use my muscles and skeleton to the best of my ability - and while there is a lot of work to do - I'm at least making huge strides.  Getting my butt to theatre dance, tap class, jazz, and contemporary, in addition to just ballet - and understanding my weaknesses and how to make them strengths - and how to control my long arms so they look graceful and elegant - not crazy, insane, and spastic.  

I still don't know exactly how this part happened, but I can now sing.  And apparently sing really well - and I'm earning how to control my singing as well - and "release" my voice - which is so much fun!  It's hard - but at the same time - I feel so empowered!  Especially when I hit my super high notes.  I know there are probably hundreds of thousands of people who can hit those notes, but they still make me feel special.  I love my voice lessons and I love practicing - even if it tortures my neighbors.  (No matter how good or bad I actually sound - I know they do not care to hear Phantom of the Opera or Tosca - they'd much prefer Beyonce.)

I also have goals!  Even since assisting Rovert, I've been a little lost along the lines of passionate goals.  My two PERFORMING goals are - Mermaid -OBVIOUSLY - but also - Phantom of the Opera.  Which oddly - doesnt actually seem outside of the realm of possibility in terms of my capability - though as with everything - you need a lot of luck.  The right place, the right time, the right day, all the stars to be aligned properly, and the right butterfly to flap its wings across the shore in Africa.  However, I am indeed doing everything in MY power to be ready.  I've been learning the dances for Mermaid, and working on the BELTING with Mary, ordered my Heelys - etc... For Phantom - Mary have me this RIDICULOUSLY difficult opera aria from the Ballad of Baby Doe.  It does up to a high D - and you have to sustain the note and make it sound pretty.  Apparently, the original Christine alternate sang it at her audition - so that is what Ill be singing as well.  It's so daunting, but exciting.  I always thought that Christine was a bit of a pipe dream, but Mary seems to be convinced otherwise - even going so far as to suggest the casting directors see me for the role.  (She used to be IN the show - so she knows them...)  So - work on those high Ds I shall.

Giraffes Cant Dance and the Showcase would be great opportunities to use my creative director side.  I feel the inner director stirring again -she just needs an opportunity to come out and say hello.  Every book I read I want to adapt into a play.  I saw Waiting for Godot with Amanda and completely dissected a la RSC days - and those Shakespeare Quotes have been rather abundant.  It makes me happy!:)

There is a Lot of work still to be done.  It is hard to not just say SCREW IT - I'd rather have a picnic or go see a movie or eat a cake.  

I've had some heinous embarassing auditions, some confusing auditions, some frustrating auditions, I'm still learning how to pull everything together.                   I think progress is being made - and that makes me happy.

if not INCREDIBLY tired - which is why there hasnt been much writing here - but I imagine all the entries would more or less have the same content - with some odd ends here and there - like the obligatory mention of Michael Jacksons death, or mentions of the triple date dinner Casey and Davin, Amanda and Shane and me and Francesco where he bought me ice cream - we joke it was a date - but alas - neither Davin or Francesco play for the female team.

But mostly work work work - train train train - and hope, wish, pray, find happy thoughts, faith and trust, and get out the pixie dust!:)

hold your head even higher!:)

This past week was very productive in terms of trying new teachers, adapting to styles, and focusing on rhythm and specificity of movement!  Huzzah!

This coming week is gonna be a crazy test of auditioning.  There is an audition every day except wednesday.  It makes me tired just thinking about it!  But onward and upward men - the heights of great men...

Fortunately- none of these are projects I feel passionately about or am emotionally wrapped up in - so they are relatively (and I me relatively) low key - auditions are never actually low key - just relatively compared to other ones.  

I finished reading WATER FOR ELEPHANTS.  IT IS AMAZING!  READ IT!

Basically my head has been bursting will determination and creative ideas.  I spent so much of the past few months being ridiculously depressed.  Very little held any actual joy or spark for me.  I knew that was not a good thing - so I just kept going - but somewhat robotically.  Yes - most of this had to do with a certain BLAH we shall not mention - but it now feels like springtime in my brain!  Like the depression has thawed out and flowers are blooming and birds are singing - the sun is shining.  Everything holds something exciting I want to leap out and explore - and an excited anxiousness - 

Call up Alena - discuss the showcase and other exciting ideas of creativity (we are just waiting for the theatre to figure out what date they want to give us.)

Get on Giraffes Cant Dance composers rump and figure out why I havent recieved any music yet!  I'm wondering if I should just post an ad on craigslist or playbill.com for a composer - it would be nice to perform it at next years fringe or something...

What else can I do for Mermaid?  Let's get out there and do it!

Call up old friends and discuss books and news stories and go on hikes or play board games or movie hop or go out - out of the apt!!!!  and MEET new people!  AMAZING.

Eat...not just stare catatonically at a plate wishing it would bring me some sort of sensation other than numbness...

But as Ferrip says - healthy mind will lead to a healthy body - so now I can still eat intelligently and well - just - I'll be happy when doing so!

Weird...

Its been a crazy learning adventure - and I feel I've come out the better for it (touch wood.)  I"m glad the sadness is gone (touch wood.)  I'm excited to see what the next few months hold in store!  Hopefully Heelys and a sparkly tail!  But if not - that's ok...because I've learned a lot Mermaid "training."  It gave me a goal - and I like goals!

but now I'm rambling - and I need to go to sleep.  So - good night all!:)

Spring Cleaning!:)

I've been doing a lot of spring cleaning - both literally and metaphorically.  I did give my apt. a huge scrub down - mainly because I had my TONY party and wanted to pretend I was the epitome of domesticity.  I did not fail!:)  It is also nice to just have a clean place - a sparkling shiny home!:)

But I've also been doing spring cleaning in other ways.  It's always been a bit of a struggle for me - figuring out the friends I actually likecare about and who are the ones who are "good for me" vs. the ones who aren't.  Anyhow, I saw my facbeook had 909 friends and I was getting status updates from people I'm not even sure I actually know, or complete wedding play by plays from a girl who I only spoke to maybe twice in college, and do I really want the music director of WIW seeing pictures of my jumping up and down on my sofa in my pajamas?  Do I want to see pictures of her doing the same?  No.  So I made a new facebooke with a respectable 68 friends - all of whom I actually talk to keep in touch with/ care about/ believe enhance my life in a positive and - I hopefully - do the same for them.

I'm also cleaning out my insides.  I was in a bit of a rut where I was eating one peppermint pattie too many - high fructose corn syrup and artificial ingredient galore.  I mean - they are indeed quite tastey - but - the fact I've had two different throwing up sessions this month makes me think maybe there is something in my body it is not liking.  So I'm trying to eat lots of probiotics and all natural and/or organic foods - none of the processed crap with ingredients I can't pronounce - for a while.  

There are also a few auditions coming up in the next six weeks that I am zero-ing in and super focused on - RAGTIME, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, DISNEY WORLD HOLIDAY DANCERS, and of course, my beloved - LITTLE MERMAID.  Good news - I played my belting for German dude - he actually LOVED it - he still doesn't like the opera but I think he just doesnt like opera - but I'm THRILLED he liked the belting!:)  Anyhow, I think I've been working in an intelligent and effective way and have been making progress!  I do find it funny that the two people offering the most helpful advice are YODA - the ballet master who is infamous for only talking to ABT dancers and being completely impenetrable to all others - and actually - a theatre dance teacher who I had a HUGE cataclysmic falling out with a little over a year ago...We've been talking recently and I've had some FABULOUS conversations with him about theatre and how to make theatre and how to perform theatre, and I was invited back into his class and it was really helpful and fun.  The world is a funny place - an unexpected place, and can be a wonderful place.

So yes - I've been cleaning up my dancing, singing, and audition approach as well.

I've also had a few fabulous and inspiring conversations with Dave - a guy I met at my last trip to Edinburgh - he's a playwright - he ran into Rovert and said Rovert had nothing but good words to say about me - so that made me feel nice.  Dave was also talking about a play he is working on getting produced, and we bounced some ideas off of one another which was a nice change.  There arent a lot of people around me at the moment I feel I can effectively bounce ideas off of - so its nice to have a compadre.    I also talked to Nathan which was nice - though a little awkward since I guess I've changed a lot since college - and seeing as Nathan is in Canada we dont get a whole lot of time to catch up.  But he is doing well which is great and he is always a joy to talk to.  I also talked to Mark, who is working in Disney currently.  It's always fabulous to get the inside Disney scoop!:)  

German dude and I have been bonding - we've watched a few movies together - including Aladdin and Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly - Both randomly on tv.  

CASEY AND DAVIN are back in NYC - which is great!:)

And - I bought my little mermaid audition leotard today!  I was gonna special order the colors, but a girl gave me 15% off coupon to Yumiko this morning - and I went to the store with Amanda - and THEY HAD IT!  AMAZING!  I was very happy!  I think I'm addicted to leotards. It's a serious problem.  I wish I could just wear leotards EVERYWHERE instead of real cloths!  lol!

I also discovered - by reading an ad on the side of a bus - that Shakespeare in the Park is doing the BACCHAE (so good) with music by Philip Glass (my love) in August!  HOOOORAH for amazingness in advance.

So those are my random late night thought for today!  Hope you are all well!

Sunday Sunday

What a week - pizza parties to tap dancing - haha.

I recorded myself singing today - and my "belting" is actually beginning to sound like a real belt - YAY!

My friend Danielle is gonna give me an old pair of her FLAT tap shoes - which should help me a lot - its hard to tap in heels! lol!  I suppose I should also get some "heelys" so I can put "heely" on my "special skills."  The work waits!

I'm reading TWO books at the moment - WATER FOR ELEPHANTS which is a really great work of fiction (though apparently loosely based on a true story...) and a book about how to learn about world politics through travel - which is really cool.  It's a travel guide authors account about what he learned about international politics through his "vacations."  Both are proving to be very good reads!:)

hookie

Today I played hookie from Patti's and went on a movie crawl with some new friends - and it was awesome!:)  We saw UP and ANGELS AND DEMONS.  Up was surprisingly depressing - but Angels and Demons was a pleasant surprise - it was disturbing yet well done - I love Ron Howard!:)

Sometimes its good to kick back and have a little fun!:)

farm journal apple cake

Today I had one of those great days where you think "wow I'm really making progress!"  Unfortunately - that probably means tomorrow I'll realize how much further I need to go, and other things I didnt even know I had to work on - but for today - I can revel a tiny bit.

Last night was my Tony party.  It was fun.  A whole bunch of people I don't normally get to hang out with came over - and we ate a lot of gluttonous food and watched Reinking be a hippie.  Good times.  And I made a delicious apple cake recommended to me by my aunt debbie. 

Under Da Sea!:)

So first off - I did indeed find the Satyagraha dude - and he friended me on facebook - but alas - he is married - no soul mates there...

I very strangely took two ballet classes with teachers who are not Yoda - (due to scheduling problems.)  It is funny - when in a class not comprised of all ABT dancers - I'm apparently pretty darn good - I got a lot of really positive feedback from the teachers!!!!!!  And they are actually really well respected teachers - one told me my balances were beautiful and very organic - and that I had a strong standing leg!  And then a bunch of my theatre dancey friends who I never take ballet with, because I take that ridiculous ABT ballet class with Amanda - told me I had improved leaps and bounds and was beautiful - and they wished they could dance ballet like me - I told them I wished I could tap like them!  LOL!

I was on the music for Patti - again - so yay progress!!!!!!!!!  Hard work is yielding results!!!!!!!!!!!!  Now - methinks I need a contract!:)

Anyhoo - I started "mermaid dance training" today.  A lovely guy I did a showcase with last year is in Mermaid, and he is teaching me/coaching me on the dances so I can be super fierce and have a chance of getting called back/put on file.  He told me they will indeed be looking for a girl I could actually replace - (last time they were replacing a five foot tall belter - this time - a 5'6 legit singer who doesnt tap and  kinda looks like me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)  MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Most excellent!   Now - I just need to get it!    It's gonna take a lot of work, focus, and determination - but I got all those things!:)  All I need now is a little pixie dust!  lol.  Oh - I also spoke with my tap teacher, he is gonna come to the seagull tapping sessions I have, learn the dance, and help me with it - because THAT is gonna require a LOT of help ---  hahaha!  But I'll get it darnit!  I'll get it yet!

Red Wings WON!  ONE MORE UNTIL HOPEFULLY WE WIN THE STANLEY CUP!  Knock on Wood!

Tomorrow is my Tony viewing party - Kat and I spent the evening baking and cleaning - the apt. looks beautiful!:)  We baked cookies and apple cake!  I hope they taste most derricious!  we also plotted our evil plans to woo our respective tap boys - (we both have our eyes on tap dancer - oddly --- its pure silliness - but it would be funny - and in my case - ironic...)

Alena and I put in our request for our showcase!  That will be super fun!  And my voice teacher comes back this week!  YAY!  Kat and I found some old recordings of me singing - they are scary!  Mary has helped sooooo much!

Also - Angel - the tv series - is kinda lame - if Im going to analyze it - it is really interesting watching a diminuitive young beautiful girl beat up vampires in a super fierce way - it isnt so interesting watching a vampire beat up another vampire.  It also was interesting watching how Buffy brought out a more sympathetic side of the vampires, it isnt really interesting watching vampires be mad at other vampires.  And Spike was given an amazing valiant nobel death in Buffy, why ruin it with a return in a mediocre/bad spin off series.

Anyhoo - I have a lot of energy - and it is late - so I don't really know what to do - I suppose I should try to go to bed...

Truth Force

Today I took a break from Steps and took Yoda's class at MMAC - its much smaller - and nicer - and has fewer crazy people.  It was very refreshing - and - the guy who works the front desk told me I was great at ballet - huh - interesting...

Physical therapy was weird - apparently I look like I've gained 3-4 pounds?  WHAT?  HOW ON EARTH!?  Oh yes - not eating and puking up what you do eat is definitely a recipe for weight gain.  Gah!

Work sucked.  I am floor buffer - I actually enjoy buffing floors -  but this guy at work broke one of the machines - this boy also owes me many shifts - and somehow magically can NEVER cover for me!  EVER!  He was working today - and because he supposedly stinks at actually cleaning - he got assigned to floor buffing and I had to clean - I HATE CLEANING WITH A VEHEMENT BURNING PASSION!  And I dont understand why because other guy is incompetent - I have to get punished.  What is really frustrating is - whenever there is only one machine - I ALWAYS get assigned cleaning - because they think I won't bitch - but - this is the FOURTH DAY IN A ROW THIS HAS HAPPENED - and OH BELIEVE ME - the was BITCHING, Moaning, crying, the whole works.  It makes me really sad that the ONLY way to get your way here is to be a bitch - but apparently it works - other floor buffers make a scene - they get to buff - and nice me has to clean - but oh - I can out-hissy anyone - so hissy there was - I'm not proud of it - but I dont think I'll be cleaning on Saturday - no toilets for me.

Red Wings lost - AGAIN - BLAH!

On the train home - I got out my trusty iphone and started listening to my recording of Satyagraha.  I was thinking to myself "you are such an odd girl.  You have this bizarre bootlegged recording of this bizarre opera - and you listen to it all the time.  How are you ever gonna find people with the same bizarre taste as you.  It is pretty cool you have the only known recording though..." Then for some reason, I got curious to see what the dude next to me was listening to.  He was scrolling through his ipod, and I thought what bizarre playlists: animals, puppets, Philip Glass...huh - Philip glass, bet that gets a lot of play - not - wait - wait ---- he's clicking on it - he's ---- he's scrolling down through - AKHNATEN?  wait - he actually owns akhnaten - I dont even know anyone other than me who has ever heard of Akhnaten - shame - good stuff - great dance music --- still scrolling - Satyagraha --- WHAT!  WHAT!!!! WHAT!  SATYAGRAHA!  HOW DOES HE HAVE SATYAGRAHA!?  WHAT!  HE IS CLICKING ON SATYAGRAHA!  HE IS LISTENING TO SATYAGRAHA!  WTF WTF WTF!  How is this even POSSIBLE!  I must talk to him - this is CRAZY!  So I said - am I correct that you are listening ot Satyagraha?  So am I?  And we talked - and apparently he saw Doctor Atomic and LOVED it -he grew up in New Mexico though and thought they really captured Los Alamos, and adores the Kitty Oppenheimer aria, and is gutted he didnt get to see Satyagraha - but listened to it on the Met radio - and his sister's father in law directed one of the only 8 productions of Akhnaten to ever be produced - at the Atlanta Opera - and then we got to 116th and he got off!  I didnt get his name - or anything!  GAH GAH GAH GAH GAH GAH!!!!!

But never fear - I am a stalker of the first class!  And ---- I found the director of the production of Akhnaten, and I found his son, and I found his son's wife, and her maiden name, then her brother - who grew up in New Mexico and is now living in new york - and I friended him on facebook - probably supremely weirding him out - but oh well.  If it's meant to be - he'll just think I'm super cool for finding him.  How fabulous would it be to have someone to discuss my weird weird weird taste in operas with!  Most excellent!

So today was a mixed bag...

Lions, and Tigers, and Polar Bears - Oh My!

I watched the Disney Documentary EARTH today.  Sadly - it was relatively boring - and i was sleepy - not a good combination - so I fell asleep and completely missed the shark section.  I also watched a lot of animals die - which was sad.  And - whilst I know it is a documentary - it had an inherent plot failure.  Throughout the entire documentary - we watched cute deer and caribou and baby elephants being eaten by lions, and tigers - but the BEARS - oh the bears - they followed a polar bear family closer than any other animal in the documentary.  Father polar bear got stuck out at sea and couldnt find land (stop global warming plug) - he thrashed and was exhausted and starved and lost half of his body weight before FINALLY arriving at a shore full of walrus.  And he tried to eat a walrus - but was too weak - and the walrus tusks were too strong and pointy - and the polar bear ended up curling up in a hole and starving to death.  The on time you actually WANTED a predator to win - it died - DAMMIT!  I wanted a happy ending!  (I know for the walrus is wouldn't NOT be happy - but - they weren't following the walrus so there was no audience attachment.  Well - I dunno -maybe the predator won during the shark segment - I was asleep.

Alena and I found our theatre for our showcase.  She is booking the space - hopefully we'll be booked for a Monday in September.  Crazy.

I was on the music again in Patti's!  WOOHOO!

And now - I'm tired - so I'm going to go to sleep.

New Things

Today I tried two new things.  The first was Latin Jazz - that was a complete waste of time.  I went into it totally prepared to hate it - because its everything I'm bad at - but as it turned out - It involved a five minute warm up - then - standing around for 45 minutes while the teacher talked about her rather uninteresting career - then  - a lot of various hip wiggling - where we recieved no instruction - so - yeah - I dont think I learned very much - if anything - awesome. 

The second was to go to a Sports Bar to watch the Red Wings game - also a relatively failed experience - but at least I'm glad I tried it.  I was hoping to go and meet cool new people -but it turned out to be a bunch of guys there with their girlfriends or wives - sitting at their own isolated tables - as we all ate crappy fattening food- but its part of the experience.  It was kinda cool to have other people around cheering and boo-ing - and to be off of my sofa for once.  We lost which sucked - but Kat and I had a lot of fun cheering - and looking for our favorite players.  Mine of course is Abdelkader - Kat's is Helm - (she calls him Spike because he kept getting beat up - like the character on Buffy) - and we both liked Ericcson - though is would have bee nice is ANY of them had scored - especialy in the last five minutes!  lol!

On the walk to the subway - Kat Spotted the Corgi I always see walking outside of steps.  I mauled it - I tend to do to roos -and the owner was griping about how he couldnt find anyone to walk it between the hours of 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. and I was like  ---- YOU WANT A ROOOOOO WALKER?  (well - I was actually eloquent - I refrained from my usual rooooo reactions.)  So - this roo lives across the street from Steps - and needs to be walked sometime between 11 am and 5 pm - which is the awkward time I have to kill between classes/auditions - the guy owner said he had to talk to his girlfriend - but she would call me soon.  That would be AMAZING!  I could make money walking a reallllly sweet roo who lives RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO STEPS!  ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  (my roo was cuter!:))

Morning was pretty usual - took female Yoda - lunch with Amanda - you know the drill.  I ate two full meals today for the first time in a week- now I feel ---- ridiculously full!  

TTFN!:)

SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!

Today was better - 

Very intimidating Yoda class - lots of ABT principles and soloist and a panel of old ladies "observing" - i was a little freaked - but Yoda has remembered he likes me - so - it was all ok.

Went home made myself a surprisingly delicious grilled cheese and tomato soup - since meat was still scaring me.  Watched Buffy - practiced my voice some - I didnt forget how to sing - phew.

Went to Patti - and I was - ON THE MUSIC!  I WAS ON THE MUSIC!  HORRAH HIGH HO AT LONG LAST!  I WAS ON THE MUSIC!  Maybe I'm finally doing SOMETHING right!

Went home - ate meat - discussed Shakespeare with my friend Neville - which was - BEYOND amazing - I forgot how much I missed it - and finished Buffy - I was a sobbing mess.  It was so sad!  I know it was supposed to be all uplifting - hoorah the scoobies did it again - BUT SPIKE!  SPIKE AND ANYA!  But mostly - SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!

I'm trying to figure out if I should be social tomorrow and go to this Bar called Blondie's and meet some fellow Red Wings fans.  I mean - I love my collection of gay boys and ballerina girls - but - it may be nice to get - some testosterone in the mix ???  German dude has about as much testosterone as a piece of toast.  I'm sorry - that was mean.

Anyhow - suggestions for my next marathon?  LOST?  Star Trek?  The Sopranos?  haha.