Life shall soon begin again.

Closing night today, followed by cast party. Shall be fun.

Some highlights so far:

• Less skepticism about the subject matter of Miss Saigon. 
• People telling us how awesome we are every night. 
• One of my costumes looks rather Ellen DeGeneres-esque. I will get a picture.
• Aidan wore a bright blue feather boa with his suit for curtain call.
• The anticipated creation of a facebook group called "A.W.K.W.A.R.D." where a few of us will plan to have lunch occasionally, talk about the weather and play Uno. 
• Stage makeup malfunctions.
• Tech crew's conversations, such as planning an epic celebration of multiple birthdays by the creation of Skydiving-laser-paintball.
• How our stage lights repeatedly stop functioning at random, but adjustments are made and the show can go on.
• Ben's aversion to walking further to get to the men's washroom, so simply using the women's.

Love,
-J-

Opening night.

Opening night went well. Actually, it was severely underwhelming. There wasn't a very big crowd, but we didn't expect too many people to show up on a Wednesday. Hopefully more people come the next three nights.

I'll try to get pictures of my hideous stage makeup for your amusement. I look somewhere between a doll, a clown and the results of a small child with paint. I let David, commonly accepted as the future prime minister of Canada, do some of my makeup to see how it would turn out. Not bad, actually.

I will so exhausted the next few days. Also, there's an alarm clock that's been going off for twenty minutes and I can't find it to shut it off.
Love,
-J-

♫ I remember when I lost my mind ♫

Quote of the day: "I like how most school's musicals have themes like The Power of Music and The Power of Love and Be Yourself and ours is White People Think They Can Fix Everything But Then They Just F**k It Up."

To survive the next week, I may legitimately need a time turner. Wednesday until Saturday holds costume and makeup at 5:30pm, curtain at 7:30pm and going home at around 11pm. Next Monday I have my IB French interview, which I need to spend a lot of time preparing for. So my plan is to prepare as much as possible for French tonight and tomorrow night, go through musical, prep more on Saturday before musical and Sunday, go for my interview at 11:40am next Monday and then collapse until April 19th when I go on the choir trip to Boston. Maybe I'll also read for leisure, dye my hair a funny color and go outside every now and then. 

This week obviously calls for a reassuring countdown:

Days of crazy remaining: 7

Now I shall go confront the mountain of life.

Love,

-J-

Things I don't understand the appeal of:

• Expensive socks
• Pet tarantulas
• Celebrity gossip
• The Republican party
• Smoking
• Gambling
• Obsessing over crushes
• Two and a Half Men
• Intentionally improper grammar and/or spelling
• 99% of pop music in 90% of situations
• Staying up really late without a good reason
  
• Using song lyrics to express everything
• Teenage drama and books/movies/TV shows based on it
• Scary movies
• Skipping class consistently for no reason
• Cheerleading
• Comic Sans

Love,-J-