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Sunday, July 29, 2001 @ 6:05 PM
Well, today I baby-sat, and got a paycheck for $70... which will come in very useful this week while I'm running around buying things. Don't expect to hear from me until my show's over... I hope you can all find something around my site to look at while I'm gone... Or, here's an idea... check out my archives (see sidebar). Go back to the beginning again, that's why I have them in the first place.
And don't forget to come support Stick & Co. Productions' No Exit, 8:00 this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Unitarian Church (at the corner of Emerson and Towanda, by Ewing Park)!
Saturday, July 28, 2001 @ 7:34 PM
Guess what, everyone? I am 36% gay... slightly moreso than I expected.
So much to tell you all...
Yesterday I went to Six Flags with Stephanie, her new boyfriend Mark (I'm still in shock), her friend Summer, sophomores Allison Chu and Julia Bartelone, and Kat Helgeson. Julia and I played Geography while waiting in line for rollercoasters, and ended up getting really into it after about three hours, while everyone else watched and wondered why we were fighting and yelling states at each other. Seriously, it was something like...
"Gahhhhh!!!!! ...Oh! Oh! North Dakota!" "I hate you!!!"
This weekend I baby-sit 8-4:00 today and (today was... um... Hell) tomorrow (almost certainly will also be Hell. I had coffee with Josh (poor boy is so... waif-y. withdrawn.) then headed to Mom's work to comandeer her computer in the absence of the people who work there (I love sharing a keychain with her... hehe) and now I"m talking to Ryan Donovan, who is also now dating someone named Mark! (Who, I must say, is very cute, because I saw a picture.) My question is, where is my Mark? I hereby have dibs on the next cute, single, straight guy named Mark who anyone meets. Got it? I'll give you a reward... :)
Tuesday, July 24, 2001 @ 6:43 PM
Last night Eric came over, and we watched Two if By Sea and we talked about war and abortion for about three hours. He left around 4 am, and I went to sleep at 6:00... Then Logan woke me up at 10:30... Half an hour after I should have been at Rob's for practice. (Shit! Shit Shit Shit! I am a total hypocrite!) Later people started showing up at my door again - Logan, Eric and Ginny, and then Justin and Cori. We ordered pizza and Eric and Cori took turns working on Jack Kahn. Eric wanted to make him a miserable, militant, employed man. Cori got him a lot of new furniture and a lover (Mortimer Goth). Now Cori's browsing my floor files for ones she wants to take home and put on her computer while the three of us watch Win Ben Stein's Money. The best part? Mom and Will aren't expected home for another hour or maybe two! Yay!!
Monday, July 23, 2001 @ 4:21 PM
Well, things have calmed down a little. I still need status reports from all my crew heads... I'm starting to get really frightened about costumes... Basically I still have some serious I-Need-To-Get-My-Ass-In-Gear Anxiety about the show. On the plus side, I'm having a really creative time with my room - collaging, painting, decorating, etc... And I bought a really great stereo that I love. All I need now is a bookcase and a few more posters, and the room will be complete. My writing has pretty much been abandoned while I explore my fascination with visual art, but I hope to transition back into writing, probably once I finish reading Fahrenheit 451, which Dan loaned me. (Thanks, Dan!)
Here is a list of things I bought today - thumbtacks, colored paper, poster paints, batteries (AA), the new Blink182 CD, some cheap glue, a new incense holder, and a big $5 package of incense. There's a thunderstorm warning tonight, so I plan to spend the evening at home, directing a rehearsal and making magazine holders out of cereal boxes, just like I did when I was twelve. Maybe by candlelight. Ahhh, I'm giddy...
Friday, July 20, 2001 @ 2:49 PM
My day just got worse after that. The kids I watch weren't very well behaved... Andrew threw a dollhouse down the stairs at me, and McKayla kept throwing her food on the floor... I went to Eric's when I was done, and the movie we watched (Keeping the Faith one-half star) was longer than we thought, so I was already late getting home when I left, but then I actually (please don't laugh, it's too pathetic to be funny) got lost trying to get back to my house. I turned around in someone's driveway on Beech Street and hit a car. I left a note, of course, and this morning he called. The estimate was over 1,100 dollars, so we had to take it to our insurance... which means our rates are going to go up... My mom is being pretty nice about it, but seriously, it's so frustrating. I cannot and should not drive!
Plus, rehearsal had to be cancelled tomorrow because Rob told me last-minute that he had some kind of appointment at U-High, plus he had to supervise the orientation of two new cats. Needless to say, this made me kind of psychotic. I finally got to a point where I had resolved to give Rob a fair amount of shit and then forget about it, but when I called him and said, jokingly - or so I thought - "Think you could go to the trouble of attending rehearsal today?" he sounded ready to strangle me when he said, "Actually, Kellie, I was planning on it." Sigh... Between Nate never wanting to act again after Blue? and now this, I wonder if mabye I'm too bitchy to make it as a director. Maybe I ask for too much... It's just that No Exit... it's Sartre's great masterpiece, and I was so excited about making it my own, about bringing it to life... And my lead actor can't move an appointment he has the rest of the summer to worry about and stick his cats in the laundry room for a couple hours... I mean, I'm just wondering whether this is the first or the last time that this production falls last on his list of priorities. It's frightening. I'm just so fucking stressed right now! ...And I keep feeling like I want to go home... Even though... I sort of am.
I'm not going to stress anymore right now. I am going to download skins for the Sims, and be merry.
Thursday, July 19, 2001 @ 12:26 PM
Must... get out... rage... before... play practice... Must... control... Fist of Death...
Today I was woken up at 9 am - after staying awake until 4 - and told that I had to spend my day helping my grandmother - imagine all the annoying old kooks you know combined - and her good friend Bill move an old bed to my new house. This was bad enough, but when I got there, I realized I don't even like the bed and I still had to haul it practically single-handedly - as Bill had thrown out his shoulder - onto Bill's truck and then into my house. Plus a dresser, a bedside table, and an antique desk that apparently my mom decided she wanted to put in the hallway. It was a lot worse than it sounds. My grandmother kept trying to be helpful, and there's nothing worse than someone cheerful and incompetent who you can't simply tell to fuck off, because they're related to you, not to mention old and about to die.
Plus, my grandmother has still not left. She's in my basement, watching TV and making that really annoying sniffing noise that she makes just to annoy me. The kind of sniffing noise where you can actually hear the mucous being sucked into the nasal cavity... She's going to be here until about 1:30, when my mom is going to take her to the eye doctor. That wouldn't be so bad except the cast is going to be here soon for play practice, and she's sure to warp them, and I'll end up pushing her down the stairs.
I'm not really an evil person. You've just never met my grandmother.
Wednesday, July 18, 2001 @ 10:39 PM
I have moved to Normal! If you want my new phone number/address, send me an e-mail. I won't have the computer very much longer, but I did want to explain that I've been not writing so much because of the moving insanity... etc. Yup.
Friday, July 13, 2001 @ 5:05 PM
Sigh. My brother is creating a house on my computer... I had to evict Jack so there'd be an empty lot. G'damn. I tried to get him to move in with Ryan, but he wouldn't do it, and now their relationship has gone down to 95. I don't think I"m going to put him back, he can live in limbo until I get an expansion pack.
And since my laptop will no longer connect to the internet, and the regular computer is completely broken now - g'damn f'n "virus" - gahhhhh! - sorry about that... I am using my brother's laptop to connect to the internet... while he plays with my Sims - and I'm going to buy some disks so I can download skins and transfer them to my laptop, which is now my SimMachine. The only other things that are even on my computer are Hearts, Solitaire, and Internet Explorer, which I may never need again. On the plus side, it only takes about ten minutes to defrag my harddrive. And I do that pretty often.
You'll never guess what my brother and I watched today - Destinos on PBSU. Amazing, no? (For those of you who don't know already, Destinos is what they make Spanish II and III students at U-High watch. It's a ridiculous, cheesy Spanish soap opera which we loved to hate. I'm sure you know the type.)
No Exit continues to go well, and as long as my cast works on their lines (a lot) this weekend, I have faith that the show is going to be the best thing I've ever directed (well, wait, actually, that wouldn't be hard...)
Tuesday, July 10, 2001 @ 6:40 PM
These are the things on my list of things to do:
Pack E-mail Megan a script Make sure we find a space Try to Contact Josh Tech Elements Laundry Hijack a jet plane and steal a nuclear weapon Above is joke. Wanted to see if you were paying attention.
Mom's grouchy. I hit Rob's mailbox - we fixed the mirror but there's a "scar" - a long thin scratch with green paint on it. Eek. Saint Evan's mailbox is probably very angry with my car.
Monday, July 09, 2001 @ 5:48 PM
Sigh. So bored. My brother's friend Josh has borrowed Cori's Sims CD to copy it - I'm supposed to get it back tonight... If I don't, I'll take the little mini-jock's head off. Speaking of Sims, I saw Rob's houses and families - they are so elaborate and creative - he makes SimDesign into an art... It's remarkable.
No Exit rehearsal went really well again today. The show basically directs itself. My actors are amazing. Right now I'm watching an episode of X-Files that I've already seen before - Law & Order's on at 6:00 - yay! Then I really should go pack, but I think I'll wait until after dark - it's really hot upstairs... God, I will be so happy once we move to the new house and have air conditioning!
Sunday, July 08, 2001 @ 4:23 PM
Moving Day is 6/18. Yay!!!
I went to see Scary Movie 2 with Dan. Not as good as the first one... I'm trying to compile a list of all the movies that were made fun of in the original and in the sequel, and you guys can help me.
Scary Movie (the original)Scary Movie 2
- Scream (I & II)
- I Know What You Did Last Summer (I & II)
- The Sixth Sense
- American Pie
- Excorcist
- Poltergeist
- The Haunting
- Titanic
- Mission Impossible 2?
- Hollow Man?
- It
- Nike Commercial
- "The Weakest Link."
Friday, July 06, 2001 @ 12:13 AM
Arguing with Josh over Seeking Salvation. Sleepy. Want to sleep.
Went out with Nate tonight. Very fun. Very good. Saw Dan and Eric at Target. Chill with all three tomorrow. Saw Swordfish. Very good action movie - which is high praise from me, I think "good action movie" is an oxymoron.
Ahh... Josh, shut up. Time to sleep.
Thursday, July 05, 2001 @ 8:55 AM
Today, the library. Practice at 2:00. I still don't feel too terrific, but I think I'm getting better. I have nothing else to say.
Wednesday, July 04, 2001 @ 5:42 PM
I have developed some kind of stomach bug. Icky. No Exit practices start tomorrow and I need to be feeling better by then. I'm getting plenty of rest, drinking only Pepto Bismo and Ginger Ale, and sleeping off and on.
What a way to spend Independence Day.
Monday, July 02, 2001 @ 6:27 PM
Steph and Rob broke up. Megan and Adam are broken up. Cori and Justin have vowed to stay together if only for my sake - damn, I love those guys. =)
I have a small case of the post-show-blahs and I think I may have had a little too much lemonade =) this morning... My mom and brother are making me go buy ice, the bastards. I can't believe that in the entire time I didn't check my mail (like, three days) I got 106 junk mail messages at my hotmail account. Not a single one was worth reading. I didn't even get any "real" mail from my blackglass account. No one loves me.
My cast for No Exit is Rob Carroll, Eva Visscher-Simon, and Maria Le. Plus one unknown "Valet." I have someone in mind but I need to call him. Tomorrow I'm staying home and Wednesday I'm going to the flea market.
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