BLACK OUT!

Yesterday Dad and Kevin came to visit! We had alot of fun loading up set peices for Dad's up coming show, Little Shop... We then went to Old Chicago and ate lunch.
Last night they were supposed to watch Peter Pan, but we had a power outage. We had to cancel the show, so I got draged into the box office to switch peoples tickets. Fourty Five minutes later we got to the last customer and guess what happened? The power came back!
But it was fun hanging out with the boys :)
This morning they left, so now I'm waiting for Cinda and Chuck to show up :) I love visits!

The Crazy Life of a Theatre Student

So pretty much my life has been a crazy, insane, blur this past month and I haven't had a chance to blog, facebook, e-mail, or really even talk to my family. So now that I have a semi-life until 6:00 tonight, here's the low down.
Here at Casper College we are doing the production of Peter Pan, an awesome family show and great for the cast and crew, if you get along well with kids. This production is a show that needs alot of, props, costumes, flysystems, lights, sound FX, and crew members to run all of these lovely elements of theatre. So if you know anything about Casper College, you will realize that here in the theatre department they don't plan things out very well, nor communicate. So when they decided to have Peter Pan as their Summer show they realized just before tech week, that they didn't have enough crew members, so we have been juggling jobs, desperately calling people, and well I think you get the picture. So this is all of my jobs right now: Grip (Person who moves the set), Prop run(I make sure props are where they are supposed to be and find them after actors don't put them away), fly crew, backstage manager for the last scene, window opener for the last scene, and possibly an usher. Let's just say that the last two scenes I'm running from one side of the stage to the other about six times. I've also acquired the talent of being able to jump over little kids, skip five stairs, and I'm not so out of shape any more. :)
The theatre is my gym, I lift the youngest boy, who weighs nothing, help lift the girl who plays Wendy, weighing 150, and I bring in the three ten pound sand bags. Let's just say I've had to tighten my belt YAY!
A bunch of us want to start a techie t-shirt company and have one of the shirts say, "The theatre is my gym, I lift about three actors" (This phrase belongs to Bryce Ledbetter, Lance Robinson, and Kristen Criman, Please don't steal it)
Some might think my life is not exciting, but I'm having a blast! The kids are awesome, our Stage Manager/ Props Designer is amazing, although she gets super stressed, and I really think this show will be well worth it in the end!
Sorry I know this is kinda lame, but it's more for me to remember what to put in my resume :)
LOVE Y'ALL!
oh my goodness I've been in Wyoming way too long!

Missing Shakespeare

So I was just reading an article in the New York Times about the up coming production, of 'Twelfth Night,' in Shakespeare in the park. I realized how much I've been missing performing Shakespeare! I finshed my dream role as Regan in 'King Lear' this last March and loved it. When it ended I was so sad, though some what relieved that I didn't have to have such evil thoughts in my head every night, and people didn't have to be afriad of me when I looked at them. After all Regan helped tear apart a country and a family.
*Sigh* my dream is to be apart of a Shakespeare Company and share his great liturature with all sorts of audiences. Performing in the outdoors, speaking a beautiful language, creating life in a character that has existed for hundreds of years! Geez I'm a nerd, but ha ha ha how cool would that be! I can picture going around the country with my family, Dad as Capulet, Mom as Lady Capulet, Kevin as Mercutio, and Kyle as Benvolio or Tybolt... maybe not Tybolt, but... and this might sound big headed, but I would love to be Juliet, I've fallen in love with this character ever since I competed with Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 5.
Or perhaps Tempest or- well all of them!
...I think I've delayed doing my homework long enough. Day dreaming is not helping :)

Can't Wait!

I can't wait to leave here and get my life started! I'm getting really frustrated with my shop forman. I swear he has mood swings or something, because we don't know if he is going to yell and cuss us out or if he is going to love our work. So far he has treated my best friend Michelle like scum, she is the stage manager and props designer for Peter Pan. He hasn't liked hardley anything she's designed. Everyday she walks into the shop, he finds something to point out what she's done wrong.
I thouht this was a school where we learn what we're doing wrong, not to be afraid to do anything else we do it wrong and get chewed out. Also this faculty needs to learn to work together or not at all. They all have different ideas of where this show is going and la de da.
I am so ready to move on and get my career going! I never thought I would be so excied to be a Drama teacher! :) gotta love God's sence of humor!

Tornado Warning

You would never guess what I'm doing right now! I'm sitting in my hallway waiting for a tornado warning to go away! I know right! My life is so exciting here in Casper! There has been thunder and lightning and hail and crazy wind and all sorts of awesome weather stuff! I think it is passing over us right now, not a tornado, but the heart of the storm! Yay us!

Crash

*Sigh* so this day kinda stunk hard core! I had to be at work today at eight this morning to make up hours, because I'm taking an English class so I can't get my thirty hours a week in regular work time. Anyway I was super tired and not gonna lie I was cranky. I started building and was totally fine and actually getting happy. Then there was confusion with with how to build things and it all went down hill.
I am trying to understand, is God trying to humble me, am I being self centered? Jeez I wish we could just know what is going on!

Institute Presidente!

So last night was pretty much awesome! I was debating over whether or not to go to institute and just stay in my room, lye in bed, and watch TV. I went so I could see my friends since I hadn't seen them in about four weeks. When I got there everyone was super inviting and smiley faces. Brother B started explaining that our old Institute President is in Utah for school and we need a new one. He asked who didn't have a calling in the Branch, because we don't have enough YSAs to have a ward in case you didn't get that... ANY WHO... A bunch of us raised our hands and he called me! I know it's just for our small class of no more than 20, but I feel like this will totally help me make it to class every week!
And to top off the first half of the week god has cealed his answer from sunday with the scripture 2 Cor 6:14 basically I need to date only guys that are members of the church, which is in my P. Blessing too. I've kinda felt stupid everytime I've dated someone who isn't, kinda like I'm betraying God. Well from now on I'm going to say, No Thanks!
Yay institute!