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:: Alina 5:02 PM

June 4 - Cascade in Blue!

im excited, i haven't had the chance to see the live yet ;)

:: Alina 10:45 AM

brief overview of the wildwood audition:

It didn't go too well, ergo i wasn't too surprised about not being called back. I felt really blase today, part of me not even wanting to go. After finally finding the place i got up and sang "Your Daddy's son." its nice to have the piece in my repetoire, even though ive been singing it everywhere. The pianist and kept up with each other for the most part, but there were a few moments which died. Then i had to read a monologue i hadn't looked at, and dance a fairly easy dance that i still managed to screw up (im comparing this of course to the Summer Dinner Theatre..)

Was late to Rachel's party, but w/e....we went to Bennigan's, then drove over to the Shakespeare Free For all Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Twas a good production, though a bit overplayed. Actually, the fairies had what looked like small lanterns, which created a really nice effect. Also, since the theatre was outdoors, I was amused at seeing a stage forest in a real forest. Ah, the little things that get me.

:: Alina 12:29 AM

summer plans: Beach Week
Wildwood summer theatre
work
Piano Tuning
Tae Kwon Do?
Dance - possibly jazz...
Guitar
Figuring out how to use the Cakewalk recording program
Gym - plymetrics?
Badminton?
Russian
Reading about bio - gerontology
cleaning
An MC class?
Getting David to visit Maryland
Scholarships
Chess
Finding out the artist of the spanish song "somo selmarco..."
GOFOR

Do i have plans, or what?
Oy
This

:: Alina 11:33 AM

I Think, Therefore IB

IB "graduation" was loads of fun; Hines made a short speech of how we should remember the halls and take pictures of the crap bathrooms, as they wont be there in two years, then gave us a 4 page synopsis of two years worth of IB history. Awesome.

oh ya, for superlatives, I talked the most in English and TOK class. ...Its a fact im not to proud of...but oh so true, though im sure Ersin was up there with me.

Choral concert went great, "Your Daddy's Son" rocked ( people i didn't know were coming up to me during intermission...:) There were a few, namely 2 mishaps, but Eddie and I were happy. It worked.

Also....I say Lissy! We might be going to hometown holidays on monday? Tomorrow= last day of school and yearbooks, i.e. ill be hanging out with Gittel for a bit, then saturday i have that audtion for Wildwood's "Grand Hotel," and sunday is work and Rachael Bday. It's not like I'll have homework...

:: Alina 11:28 PM

ok, so prom rocked. And my date rocked :P .

I looked hot. I felt hot. I got my eyebrows waxed (AAH!!) and my hair curled and parted on the side. It ended up looking soo good. Twas wonderful. Then my dress, even though a size 8, was perfect on me, and you couldn't see that i wasn't a size 8 beneath it (lets just put it that way..) The sun ray shaped necklace added so perfectly to it. Since the dress was all black (but nicely cut), it gave some shiney color, and the earing added to overall effect!! I looked so good that the only makeup that i donned was a bit of eyeshadow and lipgloss. Malerheusement, I didn't have time to do my nails (because the hair took so long) and i ended up being like an hour late to pick kimmy up. You may think "we'll you could've done everything earlier" since UI finished my exam at 8:15 am (phys part 3 wasnt as bad), but i had to finish the last 350 pages of Angels and Demons (Damn you and your addicting books, Dan Brown!), so i actually got started preparing at about 2.

We went out to Mongolian bbq beforehand, and since I called ahead (me, actually planning things? Yes ladies and gentlemen, it happened) we ended up having to wait about 10 minutes, even though they told us wait time would be like 30. They gave a little thing that lights up when we're called, but i figured had 1/2 hr and we were in Bethesda, and we're down the street from mustard seed....lol... so we ended up walking there (but it was just closing) and back and they called, wondering why the device hadn't worked.... Anyway, the food was good, and probably good that we hadn't gotten the awesome cheesecake, since there was so much stuff at prom and postprom.

okay, on to prom. so we end up there "fashionably late" at about 9 ish? Everyone looked really good, though i feel like I looked unique. You know? There were so many people with similar dresses, and and big updos. I'm glad i choose to look somewhat different. I thought i'd taken gazillions of photos, but i ended up with a lot of extra film. I met some dates of pple i knew ( i don't remember her name, but Humza's date was cool.) there was the main ballroom with a projector of music videos with the black hole of people dancing [ its one of those mob's where you cant actually see the middle of dance floor, you wonder how people made it into the center, and if the rules of physics still apply the vortex of people.] Then there was the hallway where it was light and people gathered around with mini bottled sodas and waters. That was classy and cute. Speaking of which, i loved the guys in the tuxes with top hats and canes (Hendel and Ersin). They looked like they should be 50. I guess it looks classy, but whats the deal with canes??? Anyway, there was a spare ballroom in which most of our group gathered and talked (Humza, after asking amnesty from Laura, proposed a small game of Dnd. Now That, deserved caning. Anyhoo, the last hour i got into dancing when they stopped the rap and started some latin. Actually i started dancing with Rob whose started taking some Arthur Murrey classes , so he kinda sorta knew what he was doing. What was weird was that Leon (POLO Leon) came up to me, greeted me and started shaking my hand. That was weird. I'm sure if it was cause i looked hot, cause I looked good dancing, or if i looked completley stupid dancing. That made no sense. Twas great! So that ended, whooho seniors 2005, blah, blah, onto postprom.

I was tired (just a wee bit) and so i got myself and Rob lost. In Rockville. Not in Bethesda, where'd you think i'd get lost, but in Rockville. I was so tired i confused the 5th and 6th exists, for some reason thinking the 6th was the 5th, and started going down what i thought would be falls rd. Not so, we ended up on west mongomery, then we we wanted to backtrack ended up near my house. Much death and badness. Anyway, except for general tiredness, post prom rocked. There was sumo - wrestling (great fun to watch), a mech bull, moonbounce, (and moonbounce laser tag), karaoke, prizes, and a lot of food. Actually im not even listing like 1/3 of the events and stuff. I'm really sore from the mechanical bull ( I stayed on the longest). The lasertag was great fun, but afterwards, i was amazed that i was doing that at 3 in the morning. The entire thing was somewhat of a blur. The really weird part of the night was when I went to get Italian ice and the guy selling it looked oddly familiar. I start going, where do I know you from? Apparently, he was Matt, the hot guy I used to dance with at Arthur Murrey! I ended up taking a picture with him, but it must have been so amusing for what appeared to be his girlfriend. What a night.

:: Alina 3:56 PM

wow, physics is not happening at the moment. At all. I spent most of the day reading Angels and Demons, (Damn you Dan Brown!) until my dad literally pried the book out my fingers. I knew it would be like this!! I like how im on pg. 256 of A&D, and im on pg. 36 of Lolita (not that it's bad!!) and still have not yet looked at physics which according to my precise calculations is in approximatly 18 hrs.

:: Alina 7:37 PM

...yeah, so I didn't get cast. I think i should have paid more attention to my callback audition; guess the dance was really bad, and i think i was way ahead of the accompanist during the song (now that I think about it.) Kinda wish I would've at least gotten ensemble, but i might be doing tech...

:: Alina 9:00 PM

Help! My brain has been taken over!

...I don't really know by whom, but I'll find you! One day! *Shakes fist*

I finally bought a prom dress! It's plain black, has a nice cut, and I have the perfect jewelry to go with it!

My family and I have developped a new system of shopping: I go in for a few hours and try on stuff like crazy. Then, once I have basically what I want, I call mom who drives up and we go thru another fitting room trial. This takes maybe 1/2 hr. Once we decide what I do/do not what we stand in the 1/2 hr long line. In total my mom only spends an hour at the store, and leaves without a "Alina already choose something" headache. I. on the other hand, leave without a headache from being yelled at, and everyone peacefully goes home. It's wonderful.

:: Alina 9:18 AM

okay, so a short update on the actual callback...

yeah...i don't think it went to well....

I spoke to Dan yesterday after improv (the last improv, oh the tragedy!). He told me that they would probably want me as a pickalittle woman. That was one of the 6-7 songs we were given to choose from, with little range and extremely difficult articulation. Its crazy. But he told me that since at this point they're looking for the people who suit specific roles, I should just do the song, they could always ask me to do another. You should have seen me yesterday and today. The song basically goes "pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, cheep, cheep, cheep, talk a lot pick a little more." I was screwing up artic. every other time i did it. Actually I came up with a cute routine which included imitating birds with my hands on the "cheeps." (thats quite a bad ezplanation, but w/e.) Anyway, after I'd been completely behind on the dancing (though i actually had memorized most of it!), I got up there and sang it, with the piano kinda trailing behind me...i was really fast, and I didn't screw up! I tried some "hand cheeps" (ill call them such) but i dunno... I couldn't really remember what I'd done in terms of choreography b/c it went by so quickly, though a few people told me it had been cute, and one of the judges started cheeping every time he went by me. lol.
I actually met some really cool people at the audition. Guys named Spencer and Gil(?) and girl named Kelly. It was wonderful having someone to talk to in a room of people I'd never met...though actually, I recognized this guy named Randy whose Halloween party Dana had dragged me and Ron to. ( What a terrible night...) Anyhoo, I ask him, " you do MTC right," (and he's like the best dancer ever apparently,) and I go "I've definatly been to you're house." That was quite an amusing look I got from him before I explained why/how...etc.
Okay, so i didn't make the second cut, which I expected, because thoses seem to be call backs for the leads, and having sung the pickalittle song, I was realizing my not being a lead due to lack of experiance. But that's not a bad part at all! And that's how you move up, first you get small parts then bigger...

Oy, so I missed getting inducted b/c i didn't get my points appeal letter, and I'm behind on sooo many things (including tests....) My grades are amusing I must say. I gotta get prom stuff together, and the possibility of beach week, and also possibly study for my last 3 IB exams? Possibly. Not sure yet.

:: Alina 9:26 PM

okay, so history is done, and paper three didn't kill me!!!!!!!! ( though who knows?)
Ok

so, I went to the callback prep session yesterday. It was kinda weird, b/c the directors were all saying hi to me ( specifically to me.) Was I that good? lol.

But seriously, It's the morning after, and I am still exhausted. And all we did was sing and dance. The singing I can do - i have to learn one song out of the six that they gave us. Of course I have to pick the best song for me, though memorize all of them. That's alright. That I can do( and may i just point out how glad I am that I took notes!!!) Thank you frezzo and your pencils.

The probem came with the dance which was incredably out of my league. I mean, i suck at dancing, but even more so, I can't memorize and entire routine. A crazily long routine. I must of stumbled a hundred times last night. Even when we'd gone of the the thing a bazzilion times, I was alwasy behind on the piroettes and passechabre thingies. Oh my god, I am completely incabable. Actually, its not that I am, but moreso that I've never taken a jazz or ballet dance course in my adult (sort of ) life. And the 6 years of French that simply helped me understand the world "pliah relever." Beyond that, I was moderatly screwed.

So I got home, and actually remembered the dance, though I serioulsy think I only know like half of the dance, and actually just subconciously blocked it from my memory. I guess I know something, but it definatly seems to simple. So i practiced in the basement so i wouldn't forget, and then i show it to my mom, and who basically tells that besides the swirly turns, I suck. Thank you mom. But then, she adds that she supports me! lol. Yeah.

Wish me luck!

:: Alina 12:11 PM

I MADE CALLBACKS!!

:: Alina 12:02 PM

Greatest Audition ever! Greatest Audition Ever!

I auditioned for MC's Summer Dinner Theatre that i didn't make last year. It's hard to get in - there are a lot of great people in for one part. Alright, so my dancing sucked. There were two parts - a jazzy part and a ballet part. Lets just say I was bad at both, but worse at the ballet. My biggest problem was not being able to remember the parts (more so the ballet - it was all the same to me!) So we moved on to the singing, i got some water before hand, felt unprepared, but was pretty chill about it. There was 5 peope, not really that much time to get a panic attack. I was somewhat warmed up, I'd say, but not extensively, though I really think that dancing beforehand really helped! Anway, so I get up there with "Your Daddy's Son' (Ragtime) prepared. I know it....kinda...sorta...not really. And I've sucked majorly on the high notes. Knowing all this, I get up there and sing. The tempo was kinda (sorta) offbeat, and the second set of lyrics died, but the end with the "I buried my heart in the ground, when I buried you in the in ground." I get down on my knees, and then with " daddy played piano , bet he's playing 'still mama can't forgive him, don't suppose I will. God wants no exuses, I have only one. You had your daddy's hands. You were your daddy's son" I end up with my head near my knees, almost in a praying position. THe first time i heard the song done at Theatrefest this year, i saw the girl(who was very good) do it similarly to that. I just did that impromptu. Afterwards, the judges called me to them, and ask me if I was the girl that sang "Poor Wandering One" last year. They tell me it was so much better, and it was beautiful, and start asking about my taking vocal lessons. Then with the monologues, I went to a bathroom, and started really dramatizing the monologues, not trying to read them as I usually did, but actually tried to picture people that i knew that would fit the description. They gave me two monologues, (one from each show, both older people). The one from I think Annie get your gun, was supposed to be overdramatized - I had this line at the end that said, " beat me, violate me, ravish me. I'm ready." I said that like in a cocky sexual manner, and they laughed when they heard it.
Okay, so i feel really good about this audition. I think I have a very good chance at the ensemble, and i think i even have a chance at a lead!

WWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

:: Alina 8:14 PM

I will be famous. Soon.

:: Alina 11:52 AM

I turned on the tv this morning and saw It's Ac. was on. And of course RM was kicking major ass.

I know I am a former Science Bowl devotee, but I must admit ...It's AC is superior. Of course, those that participate have to generously "donate" their time and their souls to Mr. Mckenna, yet I guess this pays off...

Compared to anything else in this school, RM quizbowl must be RICH.


The way i see it, its a training/breeding ground for more smart little quizbowl and Jepardy people.
Think of it - Individuals meet at It's AC, spend eons practicing together, and eventually win together. Then they go off to their big name colleges and win tons of jepardy money. Then these two former quizbowl people meet up...it's love at first buzz. They marry, and have smart little kids with whomn they watch Jepardy on TV every night. The little kids go through a few awkward years, - their middle school experiances include getting stuffed into locked and doing others people's homework. But when high school comes, (if they're not shipped off to Blair), they end up at RM, drawn immediatly into the bright buzzer lights ( very similiarly to mosquitoes) of Richard Montgomery's It's Ac team. They are now in the hands of Mr. Mckenna. This circle of life has begun once more.

:: Alina 10:35 AM

The History of our medicine.

"I have a sore throat."

2000 BC : "eat this root"
1200 AD : "That root is heathen, say this prayer."
1500 AD : "That prayer is superstition, drink this elixir."
1800 AD : "That elixir is snake oil, Take this pill."
1900 AD : "That pill is ineffective, Take this antibiotic."
2000 AD : "That antibiotic is artificial, Here why dont you eat this root."

:: Alina 9:13 AM

Today's audition for Washington Talent agency.

Was not prepared in the least, grandma calls me yesterday, says there's an audition today.
I wait , and wait, and then finally end up going.
Get there, there's actually no line, get a complimentary headshot, then sing "the Rose," make the 1st cut, then am given 3 songs of which to choose. Study "I will survive " for an hour or meander around then go and sing.

Was wonderful! I was first; sang/ danced my crazy heart out.
They'll call within three days.

I asked for a critique, was actually given one!

Was told - I moved well, but was a little pitchy.

Not too bad, I'm not expecting to make it, but was a good experiance.

:: Alina 3:06 PM