Sunday, March 19, 2006

Well, it's been a whirlwind of a week. Like, really. My teacher have been evil, and I had three tests: One on Thursday, two on Friday.
The one on Thursday was for biology, und it was over proteins. Very easy. The first on Friday was for German...I have no clue how I did. There were same parts I whizzed right through, but others...I must've stared at two pages for at least five minutes. Each. The second one was for world history, and I'm fairly confident I got, at most, minus 5 or something.

Meep.

Third quarter also ended on Friday, so we got released at 1:00. Therefore, each class was 55 minutes, which worked out quite nicely. For example, first period started at 8:00 am. We went until 8:55, had our usual passing period of five minutes, then started second period at 9:00 am. Very nice.

We have four days this week - Friday, we get off. Then next week is spring break~! Wootness!

Hmm...

My high school's spring musical "Guys and Dolls", ran this weekend (March 16-19). I designed the art used for posters and on the playbill cover, and this time around, I finally got recongnition. And lots of compliments. ^^;; For God's sake, I had kids I never talk to come up to me and go "Wow, nice job on the cover!"
Anyways, Guys und Dolls was an eye-popping success. Tickets ran for five dollars a seat, and I would guess that maybe, in total, twenty seats didn't sell the entire weekend. Our auditorium seats about 400 (we're a dinky cornfield school :3). LOTS of people.
About half or 3/4 of my friends were involved in the production. The only freshman to get a name part - Agatha - was Haya. *points to friend list* ^_^ So we were all happy and bouncy for her. Even though she only got, like, four lines, she was great. And she looked very cute up on stage in the "Save-A-Soul Mission" uniform. ^^;; No, really, the others were all sophomores (except one other freshman), and they were just kinda like "blah".

I was totally blown away by some of the people up on stage. The guys playing Sky and Nathan were terrific. The girl who played Adelaide had an amusing "New-Yworker" accent, and she even...she even SANG with it!
But who was really, just amazing, was this guy, Joe, who played Nicely Nicely. He's friends with my posse, and pops into our morning meeting spot of the band room from time to time. He's really funny and a fantastic singer.

Act 1, Scene 3, took place with the curtains down and two things in the front of the stage: A phone booth on one end and a workbench-like table at the other. Nathan Detroit was in the phone booth calling Joey Biltmore, asking if he could hold the crap game there. At one point, Joey's supposed to say "Wait a minute, I have a costumer", put down the phone receiver, and fire off a gun. And now that we're in high school, they use a real prop-gun, that makes the noise and smoke and all. Well, he pulled the trigger - the barrel rotated - and nothing came out. The actor made this face, muttered "What?", aimed, and fired again. Nothing. So he calls out to the 'costumer', "Come back when my gun's loaded", a total improv line. XD This was so great that the audience applauded.

Erin: "Oh, I'm a bobby soxer."
Katana: "What the hell's a bobby soxer?"
Erin: "Well, I wear a pink skirt and a white blouse and I come on stage going 'OhmyGod New York!'"

Analise: "I'm a street walker. With Carmella."
Katana: "So...you...and Carmy-san...are street walkers..."
Analise: "Yep. It's a fancy word for prostitute."
Katana: "Got'cha."

Katana: "So now, we have two new quotes. 'Come back when my gun's loaded' and 'Let's play some crap!'"
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