Quick checkupon high school: Going much better than I had originally anticipated. To all the teachers who were saying how much harder you had to work in high school were spouting complete crap. I had a Geometry quiz today that was just beyond easy. And here I was getting all stressy...And in the line of "clubs" I attended a meeting yesterday after school for the "Freshman Sophmore Theatre Experience."(What is it with dramatic people and sounding completey snooty?) It's not a real a play, it's just a series of 4 ten minute plays. Auditions are tomorrow, and there were four short monologues to choose from. The one I'm doing is from the play "The Supers". It's the shortest (not intentional in my choosing) and it's rather amusing. It goes as such:
Sometimes having super-abilities can be a super-curse. I try my best! Sometimes that's not good enough...Take right now for instance. I was late getting here. I missed out on the opportunity to defeat my greatest enemy since...forever! They had a marathon of Macgyver on all day today. He was just making a bomb out of a screw, a shoe string, a tree branch, and a cheese ball! Being a super hero is tough sometimes.
Whadda ya think? I don't actually watch Macgyver, but I think I'll do ok.
Anyhoo, the original reason for this post was to complain/tell in extreme detail my weekend. It didn't start out too badly. Friday night was my mother's art show, which was not thrilling, but hey, at least I finished my book! (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for any of those invisible readers who are following my book quests.) And I had a conversation with a passing college guy about the series, which was rather a nice change. Then, Saturday was a bum. Cleaning, avoiding homework, avoiding cleaning, etc. You get the drift. Sunday was the big winner! To add to the artsy fartsy-ness, my fatha, my motha, and mi abuela went to Marian College's annual art fair. I saw my buddy Ashley and her lil sister Megan there, as a side note. But after we ate, the deal was we were going to go to Hairspray, which I have not yet seen. (My parental units figured that they needed to bribe me in order to get me to come along. Hehehe.) But you see, we were running late. And the theatre was across town. Without further information, you would imagine that I was rather upset by this. But no, I wasn't. Want to know why?
There was a showing of Stardust at 1:00, which we could just make, instead of Hairspray. Don't get me wrong, I still want to see Hairspray, but Stardust was so waaaaaaaaaay cooler!!! You know that I am a sucker for fantasy, and Stardust was like my dream fantasy (is that a confusing phrase?) movie! It was reminding me so much of Keys to the Kingdom during some bits. And the very best bit was: RUPERT EVERETT WAS IN IT!!! I didn't know that he was going to be, and seeing Rupert unexpectedly always lifts my spirits. Sure, he only had about a 5 minute part, but it was quite hilarious. When he first walked into the room, you schould have seen me, I was kicking and pawing at the air. It may have been a good thing that there were only 2 other people in the theatre.
The other reason that the empty theatre was good was because of this: The main charcter in the movie is played by Charlie Cox. In the beginning Tristan, (Charlie) is an average English shopboy, and he's not very magnificent. Actually quite the opposite. So here I am thinking, "Jeez, if he's the hero, they have to spiff him up a bit at some point." That point came. Let me give you a "before" and "after" so you can get the idea.
Before:
(I am sorry, but it was practically impossible to find a decent before picture. This was the best I could do. make my life easier, just go see the movie.)
After:
(This I can manage.)
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