It liiiives!

Thus starts my 7th day of Thanksgiving break. Yeah, TG break is a 4-day weekend. I caught some sort of devious devil's-cold from our TG guests. So sick Patrick is staying home for the third day... but going to go back tomorrow. Ugh. So much to make up.

I'll put this part simply. I am now single. You want more details, you gotta work at it.

So... let's see here. Make up work. Finish The Lion In Winter, finish Lord Of The Flies, read 3 chapters of A Separate Peace, do my chemistry packet, learn 4 pages of japanese vocab, and prepare an oral book report on Lord Of The Flies by Monday. That's what I have *so far.* And I haven't even gotten today's assignments yet.

Yes, I'm getting assignments when I'm absent. I'd rather do that than make up 3 days of work.

Anyway...

Yeah.

I'm not dead... just busy.

May your days be merry

Ok, so I know I shouldn't be posting this until tomorrow, but judging by the rate that the lights are going up on the neighbor's houses, I'm already a month behind. So, here you are. A bit of Christmas Cheer.

went well.

Play last night. Went well. More detail after the sunday show. Can't expend too much energy on blogging when I've got two more shows.

I need help.

I played the sims today... The Sims always puts me in a weird mood. I live vicariously through my sims. Then I stop playing, and no more living vicariously for me. It's just like that when I read certain books... I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen. Maybe I'm just insane. Hmm. Probably.

I'm having a personality flashback to early '04. That's not good. Stupid 13-year-old patrick. That wasn't such a good year for me. Lots of growth, though.

Anyway, I haven't got a whole lot else to talk about. I can't write right now... Still have a sims hangover.

This is so annoying.

I guess I'm just in a black and white mood?

Remember all that I mentioned about cleaning gutters, etc? Well, I took a 10-minute photography break in there somewhere, and got a good 17 pictured, 5 of which I deemed worthy of viewing. I edited them all. See if you can spot a pattern.











Can you guess?

Huh? Huh?

Black and white. That's it. That's the theme. Crazy patrick.

The eyeliner monologues

Hmm. Midsummer is kind of getting sloppy again... probably amounts to overconfidence earlier. This isn't so good, though, cause our first show is on Wednesday. Two more rehearsals to fix it.

Yeah, opening day is Wednesday. We're doing two shows for the 8th graders and freshmen. So, two shows in the normal school day. I get out of all my classes, though, so it's all good. I guess. And then shows on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Today was technical stuff, basically. Makeup, Hair, Costumes, Tech, Lights, Sound, the works. We had a 4.5 hour rehearsal, and we didn't even get through the whole show. Mostly because the first three were people getting on makeup. There was some pretty elaborate stuff. Mine was just normal makeup. Base, Shadow, Eyeliner. Oh, yes, eyeliner.

Turns out I have improved at putting stage makeup on (I'm not entirely sure how) since last year. It actually looked somewhat natural (by natural I mean similar to neither Marylin Manson nor a plastic mannequein), and it was a lot easier to get off today. No screams of pain, even. Turns out baby wipes work just as well as soap at getting off the eyeliner, with a lot less pain. This... is good. So, I don't have to complain about stage makeup anymore. Huzzah. Woohoo. Yay.

Spent the majority of the remaining afternoon doing yard work for the neighbors. Climbed up on the roof, cleaned out the gutters with the leaf-blower (and after a while my hands, cause no matter how hard you try, pine needles do not blow out of gutters easily), blew some leaves, raked the rest... all in all, two and a half hours, which at $12 and hour amounts to $30. I am suddenly less poor. This... is good.

Anyway, now I'm in veg-mode... again. I haven't driven anywhere since tuesday. I'm itching. That's really strange.

For my Cable Modem friends

Ok. Go to launch, (here) sign in with your yahoo account (everyone has a yahoo, right?) and watch the following videos.

1. Monsters -- Funeral For A Friend
2. Title And Registration -- Death Cab For Cutie
3. Staring At The Sun -- TV On The Radio
4. Dance Dance -- Fall Out Boy
5. Such Great Heights -- The Postal Service
6. Wires -- Athlete
7. I Predict A Riot -- The Kaiser Chiefs
8. All These Things That I've Done -- The Killers
9. Buried A Lie -- Senses Fail
10. Teary Eyed -- Missy Elliot (can't all be emo, right?)

Just trying to expand your horizons here. :P

Slowing down

Hello, everybody.
Don't let the title scare you. I'm still blogging (aren't you lucky?).

I'm in one of those moods. Feeling alone, depressed... Whatever. It's times like these where I automatically try to revert back to the old ways... Self deprecation, sitting around moping. I'm trying to spare you most of that, simply because I know you don't want to read it, and it always seems to spawn arguments anyway. So, for all practical purposes, it's any other day.

Well, except for the fact that I wrote another poem. This is something I haven't done for a while. So, head on over to Patrick Is Talented and check it out. I could describe it, but I won't. Just read the damn thing.