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New turn...

okay...so it's been recommended by others that i keep a record of all my goings-on this summer, so i figured i'd use this since it's already so pretty...

expect an actual update tomorrow??

yeah probably...

so it's been a while...

Yeah, I know all two of you who read this thing have been really disappointed that I haven't been updating it!  Sorry about that!  A lot of stuff has happened in the past week and a half...here's a brief recap:

-Macbeth = awesome!

-Saki-bombing with the PQ's, Maggie, Andres and Gustavo

-Hook N' Ladder with the entire 10th floor? lol!

-Medea rehearsal with Grant (love him!)

-Missing "Man Who Came To Dinner" back home (but heard it was hilarious!)

-Missing my Avenue Q audition because I had no voice! :(

-Getting better, but then getting sick again because I don't take care of myself properly

-Missing more classes because I was sick/tired

-Pace Preview Day where I worked for 8.5 hours (oy!)

-My laptop's hard drive crashing for no apparent reason

-Being left without a laptop for over a week!!

-Having to actually use the computer labs at school to do work (lol!)

-Clarissa calling me randomly on Thursday telling me she was in NY

-Saki-bombing with Clarissa and everyone

-Gold Street diner...a lot!

-Kristin Louise coming to visit last weekend! <3

-Tribute cast party!!! <3

-Getting my laptop back today, free of charge because of my warranty!!!

Yup!  That's it...

Well, actually that was a lot...

but it's faster in list format!!

Sooo I have an Italian exam tomorrow that I need to study for, so ciao!!

<3

Note To Self:

Type with better grammar on the blog!

And stop skipping class because you are sick!

And finish memorizing your lines for Medea!!

(and get better soon!)

<3

oh it makes me ill...

i'm SICK...

REALLY SICK!!

and it SUCKS!!





The End.

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Two Shows Down...One More To Go!!

soooo my two weeks of semi-hell are finally over...

it definately felt a lot longer than two weeks, but now I'm sad that it's over!!

Tribute turned out to be one of the most fun shows I've ever done!! I had soooo much fun with it and the entire cast became so close so quickly...it was a great experience and I miss it already!!

sooo now I only have Medea rehearsals left, and that doesn't go up until April, so we've still got plenty of time!  I'm really excited for that show too!!  It's such an interesting (though a bit creepy/morbid) take on the play...only steven could think of something like this!! lol!!

but of course, after two weeks of going like the energizer bunny, my body has finally caved in and I am sick...it's mostly a sore throat/no voice (which was so much to wake up to the DAY OF Tribute!) but now it's turning into more of a cold with all the fun nose stuff!  But i'm sure I'll be fine!! My mom came up yesterday to see Tribute, and we went to CVS to get all sorts of vitamins and cough drops, etc. so hopefully i'll nip this thing in the butt...this whole "it hurts to talk" thing is not going to work for me!!

my mom took videos of TRIBUTE so I would love to get them up on the computer at some point...but I'm unsure of how to do that exactly...so we'll see!!

okay...I have rehearsal in about an hour, so I'm gonna grab some dinner!

peace!

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yay for the past week...

haha yeah sorry i haven't been updating this thing...

like i said, i've been having multiple rehearsals a day, mostly tribute work, that has been taking up all of my time and energy!!

in the past week, i had the vagina monologues, which was so much fun!! we wound up raising $1500 in ticket sales (which is amazing) and on top of that, the head of the women and gender studies department said that she would double whatever we made in ticket sales for the day one charity we're donating our proceeds to!!  so amazing!!!

like i said, we've been working on tribute all week, and it's most definately come a loooooooong ass way!!! everything's shaping up wonderfully! grant has been watching us and critiquing us, which has helped us sooo much!  tomorrow we're running the show for amy and a few other people as an invited dress rehearsal...which is a bit nerve-racking, but i'm sure we'll be fine!!

so much fun!! and i've been hanging out with so many cool people lately, i basically love college!!!

but i have 11am rehearsal, so i'm going to BED!!!

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Complete Exhaustion...

So yesterday marked the start of my "Have Multiple Rehearsals Per Day" for the next week or two...

I probably sound like I'm complaining, but i am most DEFINATELY NOT!!!  The fact that I'm even in three shows right now is AMAZING and I'm loving every single minute of it!! (Except when my feet hurt and all I want to do is sleep...haha!)  I love all of the shows that I'm in and they all have great casts and directors!!  This is what I want to be doing for the rest of my life, without a doubt!!

I would elaborate more on my rehearsals, but I was literally going from 10am-6:30pm today...and I dont want to rehash it, so i'm sure you don't want to read about it!!

Tomorrow, I go from 10am-8pm, mostly doing TRIBUTE! stuff, but from 12-3pm I have Vagina Monologue Tech Rehearsal.  I wish I could stay for TRIBUTE! the whole time just because the accompanist is coming (for the first time) and that's when they'll be working most of the songs, but I'm sure I'll pick up on it quickly enough...I can always plunk out the notes on my macbook! lol!!

completely exhausted, but still going strong!!

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Singles Awareness Day

haha!! aww...i remember that from like middle school!  good times!!

today was a generally good day...acting class (so fun!), music with Dr. Lee Evans (love him!), and then Medea rehearsal, which was so much fun!!!! I'm soooo excited for this show!!

but today is valentine's day, and in honor of my valentines (who both live in VA...sad!) i'm going to go out and get crunk tonight!! haha!!  that way I can send them sloppy, valentine's day voicemails and text messages!

actually, I'm babysitting until...i'm not sure when...so hopefully it won't be too late and I can hit up TJ's with the girls or something...

basically, since I don't have an actual valentine (that's within 200 miles), Tommy, the bartender at TJ's is going to be my valentine!! haha!!

basically, this entry is pointless...and I don't want to go to bed yet...but i have to, so goodnight!!!

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Not So Homesick Anymore...

Haha yeah...got over that pretty quickly!!

I literally have rehearsal every single day until 2/25, except for Valentines Day, which I will be spending going to class and then babysitting a 3 year old and a 6 month old...very romantic I should say!

I'm starting to get really excited for both of my shows coming up! Vagina Monologues is going to be great...there's a really great bond going on between cast members (I still don't know half the girls names in this show lol) but everybody seems to be getting along really well and has really strong characters!

TRIBUTE! i'm not going to lie, was making me pretty nervous this weekend...the dances were coming along, but tonight really sealed the deal for me!  The finale has been sorted out, we have a great dance number for "jumpin' jive" (and let me tell you, I have not danced that much in a VERY long time...and it was amazing!!) and everything seems to be coming along!  Granted we have to be completely off-book by Sunday, which should be an interesting feat...but I know we can do it!!

IT SNOWED TODAY!  IT SNOWED PRACTICALLY ALL DAY LONG!! Oh my goodness it was sooo pretty!! We've had snow a couple of times now, but only for like 10 minutes, and then it's completely melted...but today! They even cancelled all evening classes (which meant that my LAS film class and Vagina Monologue rehearsals were cancelled...) but it was great!!  We're all praying that the University will be closed again tomorrow...but those are some high hopes right there!!

City Hall/City Hall Park covered in SNOW!!!

not much else to report...tomorrow I have class then I have my first Medea rehearsal!! Woot!!  I'm excited! It should be a fun show!!

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Random Thoughts at 2am

i love when you start to feel homesick, but the last thing you want to do is leave where you are, and you really only want to teleport the people that you miss to right where you are right then and there...

i've been missing some people from back home lately...maybe it's because i haven't been going out that much lately or maybe it's because i truly truly miss them...

well...the next possible date/weekend for me to go home is April 19th...sooooooo i better be getting some sterling visitors a little bit before then...

supposedly kristin is coming to NY this coming weekend, which would be amazing, other than the fact that i'm going to be in rehearsals literally all weekend long!! not much fun for her, but at least we'd be seeing each other...but then again, she may not even be coming, so yeah...

hmmmm whatevs...

My brother and I at Algonkian Park back in November when I came home to visit!!

(This is probably my favorite picture of us!)

Alex and Joe, my boys, being ridiculously gay at Seaport...

(You people have no idea how much I love/miss these two)

Kristin and I at TJ's when she came to visit in November

(Miss you whore <3)

And of course, my mom and I at Christmas...

She's my scarecrow...I miss her most of all!!

(Luckily she's coming up to NY to see TRIBUTE! in two weeks! YAY!!)

ps If any of you Sterling people, especially those pictured in said blog, are free Sunday the 24th, my mom is driving up early that morning, watching my show, and driving back down all in the same day!  So right there is an opportunity for you to come up and see me perform/come and visit all in less than 24 hours!! She's got room in her car, and she's coming by herself otherwise, so ask her if you can come with her!!

and now...I must go to sleep to wake up for my 9am class...joy!!

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Weekend Antics

So this weekend was fun!

Nothing too exciting happened, but it was fun!

Friday night, Melissa, Marlon and I hung out in the dorm with some Blue Moon (which is always better with an orange slice lol!) We played this one game entitled "Roxanne" where you listen to the Police song, and everytime Sting sings "Roxanne", half of the group takes a drink, and when he sings "Red Light", the other half does.  Well, I don't know if you've ever heard the chorus of that song...lol!!!  Needless to say it was a lot of fun!

Saturday, I had rehearsal for TRIBUTE! in the morning, which was good...We (sorta) learned the choreography for "That's How You Jazz" then spent about an hour and a half sitting in the caf and talking about everything from Grant's acting class to masturbation (which really isn't too far of a stretch when talking about Grant's class!).  After that I hung around the dorm, then went to do House for Butterfly Collection for the last time.  I stayed and watched the show with Deej and this guy Mitchell who was doing house as well.  Good times...

After that, I hung out in Courtney and Melissa's room with the girls, watching bad Arnold Schwarzenegger movies ("BYE" haha) and the like.  Around 2:30am, we moved the party out to the lounge where some other people from the floor and Kavita were all talking.  It was crazy because none of us have sat and talked like that since the beginning of the year, so it was nice to sit like that...Of course, I wound up going to bed at like 4:30am AGAIN for no apparent reason! But whatever...haha!!

Had Vagina Monologue rehearsal today, which was fun.  I'm starting to get really excited about that show!  It should be fun to do in front of an audience...I'm hoping people will be relaxed enough so that they'll laugh at the jokes and stuff...don't want a lot of uptight people in the audience, especially with the "climax" of the show, if you will... ;)

OH! haha forgot something pretty important/cool...I auditioned for Medea on Friday night, which was fun within itself (we did lots of improv...i miss it so much) and I got the Chorus Leader!! I'm so excited!! I'm onstage practially the whole time, which of course translates to me having a SHITLOAD of lines, so that should be a fun task of memorizing all that junk...haha!!

 For those of you who don't know, the Chorus in a show like Medea is a Greek Chorus (Not a dancing/singing chorus), and it's kind of the theatre version of the peanut gallery...It's usually a whole group of people, but this is a small cast show, so I'm basically taking over for the entire chorus...oy!! haha! I'm excited though!  I haven't done a classical play like this in a while, so it should be fun.  Oh, and also, Steven, the director, is really into improv and just trying weird, crazy things with our characters...so i'm really excited for that aspect too...

soooooo i've rambled on enough about my weekend...I've added a couple of things onto this page.  I'm starting to get the hang of this whole blog thing...yay!  Oh yeah, if you, as the reader, have the urge to post something in the comments section, I made it open to everyone, so even if you don't have a blog, you can still comment on stuff if you'd like...whateva! haha!!

so i'm going to stop being anti-social and either do homework or go hang out in the girls room...woot!!

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Bliss...and lots of Tide!

I think it should be mandatory for college students to not have classes on fridays...

it's so relaxing to be able to sleep until 1pm without feeling obligated to wake up because you're sleeping the weekend away or because you have a class at 1:25...

plus, if you have a three-day weekend, so get so much more done without having to cram a million things into two short days!

speaking of getting a million things done, i don't think it's possible for me to hold off on doing laundry another day...so i've gathered up my quarters (though i'm still about 75 cents short of drying my clothes) and i've proclaimed today as my laundry day!!

of course, doing laundry in the towers is always interesting...not only do the machines barley get their job done, but usually there's a line to do your laundry.  I don't like venturing to strange floors in the towers, so I've been patiently been awaiting for my floormates to finish their loads so I can do my own!

i think that's really the only part about college that I really don't enjoy (other than the caf).  I can deal with the noise, and the homework, and waking up for a 9am class after going to sleep at 3am, but laundry really is a pain in my ass!

not only does the washer seem to leave little bits of detergent on my clothes after I paid $1.25 to wash them, I then have to bust out my drying rack (which makes it impossible for sarah and I to move around the room) and hang practically all of my clothes to line-dry.  Then, I have to let my non-line drying clothes sit either in my hamper, in the dryer, or on my desk chair so I don't have to spend an additional $1.25 to just dry my underwear.  Long are the days of separating my colors from my whites!! (That's another $2.50 for wash&dry)  So once my clothes are done air-drying, I can finally put in that final $1.25 to dry everything!  But why should the dryer actually DRY my clothes??  Despite the fact that my clothes have been line-dried AND put in the dryer for 60 minutes, they STILL come out damp somehow?

but that's just the actual laundry process...finding $2.50 in quarters is a lot easier said than done! if i actually have cash on me (which is rare) the change machine on B-Level never works, and if I don't have cash, I have to go around begging for quarters from my floormates in exchange for dimes and nickels...oy! haha!!

so i have declared today as laundry day...hurray for me!!

at least it gives me time to sit at my desk, do some homework, and send ample bumper sticker requests on facebook...

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I'm Still Learning

thursday is always my incredibly busy day where usually i'm going from 8:30am-10pm (and a lot of the time, a lot later), but today was actually a very slow, calm, almost relaxing thursday.

i started the day off right by ignoring all of my alarm clocks and sleeping through my costume lab (really, are we doing anything in that class if there isn't a show going on?) I woke up around noon, didn't get out of bed until 12:20 and went to my Italian class at 1:25. Took a microscopic break after that, then went to my latin american film study class where we finished the rest of "El Crimen del Padre Amaro".  I'm not going to lie...I was a bit apprehensive about taking that class, not really knowing what to expect, but I really enjoy that class!! Not only because we watch R-rated movies and get graded on it (as my professor stated today) but also because both movies that we've watched so far have been really great movies, ESPECIALLY "El Crimen del Padre Amaro"!

Esta aqui Padre Amaro:

(Now you can see why I liked the movie so much ;) haha!)

anyways, TRIBUTE! rehearsal was cancelled for tonight, so with Courtney and Vanessa both gone for the night, Melissa, Marlon and I had some quality TV time.  That shit was poppin!! We really know how to go crazy on a thursday night!! haha!!

sooo tonight wasn't so crazy, and tomorrow i'm not doing anything for the greater part of the day, but it's all good!!  Mission Impossible II on TBS is just as good as getting wasted!! haha!!

well, it is again a little too late for me to be posting a blog, but eh, what else am I going to do!

I'm still trying to figure out the mechanics of this blogspot thing...I remember the days of livejournal, I used to know all these html codes and I always had a blog that looked awesome!  So I guess I have all day tomorrow to figure all that shit out! haha!!

Until then,

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Semi-Apologetic and Semi-Spring Break

yo yo yo what up playas?

haha sorry...just got done watching love and basketball...haha!

i wanted to semi-apologize for my semi-pompous acting class entry...

that was a pretty intense second entry! haha!

I do have some good news though!!

I'M GOING TO FLORIDA FOR SPRING BREAK!!!

OFFICIALLY!!!

yup! bought my plane ticket today!!

courtney, vanessa and i are spending a week down in boca raton with my grandparents and it's going to be AMAZING!!

soooo excited! i cannot wait!!

and on that note...it's 2am and I have a 10am costume class tomorrow!

sooooo goodnight!!

<3

Acting Class

Today in my Acting class, we did this really interesting exercise, dealing with acting from the outside-in.  My professor, Rosalie (who is amazing and I adore so much!) told us to walk around the space, looking at everything, taking it all in.  She then told us to walk, but to lead with our chests, and to let our chests guide us around the room and to recognize the way our bodies responded to our chests.  I started doing that, no big deal...

I felt myself trying to walk around the room in "interesting ways" instead of really letting my chest lead me.  She then told us to make up a sound and gesture to go with the way we were walking.  I had noticed that when I followed my chest, my posture was more upright, my head was looking forward, etc. so I began to feel this very pompous air about me.  My gesture was me raising my eyebrow and essentially checking someone out, but not in a sexual way, more in a judgemental way. My sound was me laughing pompously, you know...one of those "HA!" types of laughs.  We continued to walk around the room, expanding on our character we had essentially created from our chests.  My character became Cynthia, the leather messenger bagw with the MacAir carrying, skirt and jacket with stiletto-heel wearing, Wall Street Bitch.  I noticed what everyone else in the room was doing with their characters and began to think of how much better my character was than theirs.  Rosalie would stop us occasionally to have "conversations" with the other characters in the room, using our sound and gesture.  And as I would converse with people in the room, I honestly began to judge them and started feeling better about myself.

After a while we would finally begin to shake-off our characters, begin to unwind, etc. and get back to our neutral selves.  We did this exercise twice more, leading with our belly/hip and our heads, respectively.

My second character began as a very self-conscious person, walking slightly turned-out and slowly, kind of just dragging themselves around.  As we continued to walk around, I began to lose that self-conscious character and began feeling delight almost.  It was an odd path I was taking, but I went with it, just to see what would happen...I wound up with Jessica the "I just had mind-blowing sex with a guy that I truly love and I know he loves me back!" young woman who was so elated and completely enamored that I was walking around basically on Cloud 9.  My gesture was fluffing up my hair and reaching my arms up towards the ceiling and my sound was a "mmmm...him!"  (I didn't feel right naming the guy...lol!)

My third character was a bit harder to come up with.  I felt extremely awkward and anxious about walking with my head leading the way.  I wound up with this character (I never got around to naming her) who was jittery and jumpy and was at wit's end.  My gesture was me sort of grabbing my head, clenching my fists and throwing them down towards my side and my sound was "Just stop!"  It felt odd...obviously I've been to a point in my life where all I've wanted to do (or have done) was to do that exact motion and sound, but this character's motivation was coming from a different place, and I still can't put my finger on where.

I know this was probably extremely in-depth about a silly little acting exercise, but what I got out of it was something really honest and exciting!  I've been acting basically my entire life, and I've been emotionally attached to characters before, but usually it's when I'm working on a show or doing a monologue and I've been rehearsing and working with this character for weeks at a time.  But today, I made up THREE different characters within a 45-min or less exercise and felt that same intense connection, if not, I felt it moreso today than ever before!!  I haven't really explained it to myself yet...but I wanted to write it all down so I can hopefully look back on it later and say "Oh yeah!! Now I know why that worked!!" Like I said, it was a very honest connection...maybe it was because I literally bore these characters myself, maybe it was the environment I was in, maybe it was the muffin I ate for breakfast, but whatever it was...I want to be able to find that connection and be able to recall it so I can use it again!!

The moral of the story...I love my acting class!!

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I Just Popped My Own Blog Cherry...

Not since the days of livejournal back in our freshman year of high school have I ever even thought of posting my thoughts and feelings in blog format...

I don't really know why I decided to make this blog...

maybe it's because I feel like I should be posting my life on the internet for all to see, maybe it's because I'm in college and I'm bored as hell, or maybe it's one of those "why the hell not?" type of things...

anyhow...here I am!

I'm Stephanie, I'm a freshman theatre major at Pace University in New York City...and this is my blog!!

I love to perform (that's a given with my major), I love to make people smile/laugh/happy, I'm pretty laid back, and a lot of the time I talk about things that either don't make any sense or are completely irrelevant to the topic of discussion... :)

I seem to keep my friends amused about 75% of the time, so hopefully my antics will entertain you, the reader!

Hopefully I haven't started boring you already, but it is the "first entry" so the formalities must be attended to!

But also, I have a 9am class tomorrow AND I have to shower in the morning, so I must depart!

Until next time,

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