Bye Bye to Lovely Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. See you in a bit, I hope....

Had to return my Phantom of the Opera DVD, on long-term loan from my dad. I'm gonna miss all the Phantom's cape swishes =\

<< Gerard butler in makeup for the Phantom prosthetic. First time the makeup team tried it out on him, it took nine hours straight. Poor guy!

Spring Break

My spring break is here (thank God, I made it through a whole month and a half of solid school!) and I am officially CALIFORNIA-BOUND! That is, tomorrow afternoon. I still have to pack (a daunting task), do some schoolwork and clean my room (even more daunting).

that and if all goes well in 24 hours I'll be doing karaoke! First time. =)

Getting the ITCH.

My facebook friend tagged me in a note asking me how many good/classic books I've read, out of a hundred total. Turns out I only read 16. OUCH. Some of the books on the list ("Yes" means I've read them):

Lolita
The Color Purple
1984 (Yes)
Great Expectations (Yes)
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Catcher in the Rye (Yes. Ugh. See earlier blog entry.)
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Yes)
The Kite Runner

So anyway, I knew the plots of some of those books, and I was checking them out in greater detail on Wikipedia (I'm an addict to Wiki), and started wanting desperately to check some of those books out. Especially Lolita and The Color Purple. Despite all the issues pro-censorship people love to point out, especially in Lolita (sexual abuse in minors, kidnapping; racism in Color Purple, etc), they sounded really good.

There's a reason why they're famous and why they're regarded as classics. Speaking of which, I'm also feeling a dire need to check out some other, lesser-known novels of a slightly more grownup nature [this is a total euphemism]. Unfortunately, this goal will have to wait...

I am SO itching to do a Celeb Cutie write-up to Gerard Butler. However.....

More important things are on my mind.

FINALS
Trying to find some sort of point in the book The Bluest Eye
Sleep
Choir concert tomorrow!


Ayudame! Please?

Othello, Julius Caesar, and other things.

I love English, but my teacher's tough. She's a fair grader, but she's into details and she assigns a whole lot of work each time we read this or that. Imagine reading both Othello and Julius Caesar at the same time. No need to imagine...she's already ordered my honors class to do them both. In addition to just reading the plays:

• Othello test tomorrow. *frantically goes on Sparknotes.com*
  
• Recite from memory a 25-line soliloquy from either play, complete with props, acting, etc.
• Identify around 40 Othello quotes: Who speaks to whom and what the quote means
• Othello vocabulary test
• Othello character journals analyzing each important character
• Answer around 40 Othello reading comprehension questions
• Also answer around 30-ish Julius Caesar questions, complete with the act, scene and line number you find the answer in.

PHANTOM PIC OF THE DAY:

Thank God for Musicals.

The Phantom of the Opera helped increase my singing range (upwards) about, no kidding, 4 whole steps. Whoo!!

Might as well list them:

MY FAVE MUSICALS
Phantom of the Opera
Rent
Into the Woods
Hairspray
Annie Get Your Gun

I'm actually a bit uneducated in the musical greats like Evita, Les Miserables, etc., but what I like is good stuff.

And now..............
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THE WIZARD OF OZ

By: The Montgomery Players
Where: MPAC
When: March 27 @ 8pm, March 28 @ 2pm and 8pm

BE THERE. OTHERWISE SHE'LL GET YOU......AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO.
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(Thank god we're not doing the poppy scene tomorrow for school assemblies. Let's go Jitterbugs! Whooooo!)

Compulsion

I've recently been in the mood to sleep and sleep and sleep some more. With boy troubles and some school things stressing me out so much, I just want to break away from the crazy world I'm trapped in and drift off for a bit to................somewhere. Speaking of somewhere, I just watched The Wizard of Oz yesterday to get into the plot of the school musical I'm in, and it was really good. Sweet and cute, minus the Wicked Witch of the West. (Glinda's preferred mode of travel: iridescent bubble.) So anyhoo, I'm tired beyond belief, but being the hardcore procrastinator that I am, I still have a bundle of math homework to do...........>.<