Kiss Me Kate.

 

(It starts getting interesting at around 2:45)

Since I'm not in musical this year due to work, I stopped by early out of nostalgia.

I forgot how strange a culture musical forms: all these people who get used to being around each other all the time in all these different roles and levels of importance. During performance week, weird groups of people/ couples get attached to each other. Everyone is all pumped up all the time.

Apparently people also try to unsuccessfully make Kraft Dinner in the student council microwave and end up with an inedible clump of starch.

I collapsed on a comfy chair in the student council room while listening to Great Big Sea for a while, then I helped out with some hair and makeup stuff. I put foundation on about a dozen people, including some of my guy friends who looked really pretty. Victor combed my hair for a while as a sort of nervous habit and to prove to people that all girls' hair isn't that difficult to comb. Then I ran around pretty aimlessly until I took a seat upstairs.

Everybody in the musical was really good and so many of them are such good actors. Even though I wasn't a part of it, it's good to see so many of my friends accomplishing things like this. I'm friends with most of the cast and at least acquaintances with almost everyone else.

Noah showed up unexpectedly which was nice. Mike and I argued over who would get him. Mike said he should because he "slept with him all summer" (context: they worked at a camp together). Noah met Will which was a thing that needed to happen so that they can form a beautiful bromance based around the same obscure music.

I got and gave lots and lots of hugs and David tried to suffocate me with his cape. Basically everything that can be expected after a show.
Hearts,
Julianne

Haha (it's been an awful week)

Good things the past week:

• Gerald got the cyst removed from his brain and I believe everything went well. 
• I got a tenor ukulele.
• I went on a Thursday adventure.
• I've suddenly gained a new appreciation for Radiohead and it's been keeping me from losing my shit all week.
• Frappuccinos that taste like thin mints (one scoop vanilla bean, one scoop frap chips and one pump peppermint)  
• Finishing the last major IB assignment and only having exam prep left until the hellish IB stress is over after 3 years.

Bad things about this week:

• I had to drive the minivan a bunch.
• Tatyana announced that she's moving to Ontario permanently before the end of the month and I realized she's a lot of the stability in my life. I feel it's inevitable that somethings will fall apart when she leaves, for the worst and for the better.
• James' dad died. 
• That prompted James to break up with Katie after two and a half years. I spent time on this between comforting Katie with my miniscule levels of empathy and wondering if I'll be able to easily continue being friends with both of them even though I really want to.
• Will was inspired by Reeves and on Friday night he walked across town in a questionably sober state. I love the kid but (1) it was 10pm and (2) I had had a slightly traumatic incident occur 30 seconds before I walked out of my house. I was trying to react to too many aspects of my life while he was very bad moral support because he was amazed by and frightened by lights and was shoving commandeered coffee cake into his face.
• It's become painfully obvious that my parents' marriage is hanging by a thread.
• Knowingly consuming at least 800 calories, not including my actual supper, in one sitting in the form a frappuccino and a chocolate chip cookie because eating my feelings is happening.

 Hearts,
Julianne

After this week I need so much empathy candy but when you give yourself empathy candy it's just considered eating your feelings and you feel even more awful after that.

I could never quite get the hang of Thursdays.

Tonight was a strange series of events.

6:30pm: I went to Bulk Barn to get candy for the sole purpose of comforting my current abundance of emotionally distressed friends because I feel that I'm bad at empathy so I should compensate with mini eggs and gummy bears.

7pm: I went to a coffee tasting with Maegan at her Starbucks to bother her co-worker who was directing it and because we had nothing better to do. Lot of pretentious statements about cocoa and earthiness and smoky flavours were uttered.

8:30pm: We accidentally convinced Reeves to walk across town, because he was bored, angsty, and so high that he pretty much absentmindedly walked across the city to hang out with two girls that he is almost-kind-of friends with, mostly through mutual friends.

9pm: We went to Pita Pit because I wanted felafel.

9:15pm: Since the group of me, Maegan and Reeves didn't know what to do, we got on the highway to Rothesay, realized that we hate Rothesay and turned around.

9:30pm: We drove uptown and picked up Will from tech crew things at school. Will and Reeves together is a force to be reckoned with. They are actually the same person but in different evolutions, like with Pokemon. There were peals of Thom Yorke laughter and tries to give me direction punctuated by them occasionally yelling about their 5th grade teacher who now runs Grampie's Yummy Pizza and makes really great milkshakes.

9:45pm: We drove North and went down a treacherous hill to this sketchy place by the harbour. None of us were dressed for it, there was no light and tons of roots and dangerous things to trip over around. We got to the bottom of the hill.

10pm: Will realized he'd accidentally taken the tech crew keys and would be dead if he didn't get them back, right then. We had risk our lives all over again to walk back up the treacherous hill and drive back uptown.

10:15pm: As we were driving North (again) I told Will and Reeves to stop eating my mini-eggs and they were for people with more current emotional crises than them, but they are both angsty and continued to eat my mini-eggs. Due to some quick braking, there are also mini-eggs all over the backseat of the Jetta.

10:30pm: I finally got Will home and I think that Reeves was only beginning his Thursday night so he began walking who knows where. Will left us with an "I love you all" and Reeves left us with "I don't but I'm warming to you." Maegan and I drove back East wondering how the heck our Thursday night quest to a coffee tasting ended up including Reeves walking across town, Will bringing us on sketchy adventures and aborting for the greater good of tech crew, traveling literally all over town multiple times, and nearly all my empathy candy eggs being eaten in the backseat of my car.

It felt kind of like summer.
Hearts,
-J-