My updates have gotten sporadic. Sorry. I have a lot to do these days. Dress rehearsal tonight, till eight. Also have to write a 1-page rough draft for a final paper in Intro to Drama (literary analysis of Fences). Take notes on Act 2 of Fences. Edit the video of CCHSTDG's monologues from last trimester. Talk to stage crew about getting some people to film the plays. Get Leia to take pictures of the rehearsals. (We really, really need those pictures.) Umm... There's something else, but I'm not sure what. OH! Physics. Chapter 22 and 23 physics problems.

Geronimo!

We're comin' in! We've come in! We're in! the theatre! and I'm! excited!

Monday night people got a LOT done at the theatre (which actually surprised me--I wasn't surprised at their competency, but at their SPEED!). I only saw it briefly on Tuesday, and I was absolutely stunned. I wanted to tackle the SM with hugs. And everybody else. (Also, Tuesday was the day I straight-up knew that I AM GOING TO BE A TEACHER. Period! It's always been in my Top Five Careers I'd Like To Have, but now it's definite. It's what I want. But that's a different story.)

Tonight, Wednesday, was the first time I had a real rehearsal in the theatre. And there was all sorts of new-ness added to the set! I was so happy. I hung around waiting for 9th/10th graders (none of whom actually met at the school, so it was a waste of time, but whatever, no biggie), and then headed over to the theatre. When I got there, I was happy to see that there was even MORE done with the sets, and Real Death was helping John and Janice of "No Chewing" go over their lines. I took over "No Chewing" in the green room while "Unturned Stone" did a run through on the stage. At 5:30, we switched.

Jane, Janice, and John did a FABULOUS job. I was very, very pleasantly surprised. Especially with all of the new changes we have to make in the blocking (due to actually having a set now!). But I'm very pleased with rehearsal. I think it went quite well.

And tomorrow I get to stay and actually rehearse, on stage, for "The Fourth Wall". I'm totally psyched.

Rehearsals get intense.

We're 13 days from Opening Night. Things are crazy now. Rehearsals have been running from 3:30-6. I was sick@home two days this week (Tues/Wed). School's Robotics team is at the FIRST Robotics Competition yesterday/today/tomorrow. I'm going to write an article about it for Journalism. Tomorrow some people are fixin' to come over to play games and hang out and such. I've rededicated myself to piano in recent weeks and have made progress even I can be proud of. The Direktor's mommy (+ family) are going to be coming to all three nights of the show, and I'm glad. (They give off good vibes, that lot.) Sunday night people will be moving things into the theatre, and I want to be there. The Direktor tried to make the cast of "Wall" play an improv game today, and it wasn't very good. (I hate improvising, especially in the comedy game-sense, because I'm not a funny person. I'd much prefer to watch.) I think that's it for now. I'm really exhausted.

This is about Movies. And not CCHSTDG.

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops--no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm currently watching Edison, The Man. That quote prefaced the film. I'm about five minutes in and I'm already really enjoying it. It must be Spencer Tracy in the leading role. Tracy = brilliant. Forty, and playing a 22-year-old? Lovely.

One thing I'm wondering--how exactly does a biopic get nominated for the Best Original Story Oscar? (As an aside, Edison was also nominated for Best Writing.)

Other movies I've seen recently: Libeled Lady, another Spencer Tracy film. It was a sort of romantic comedy, I suppose. But it wasn't romantic, and it wasn't comedic. It was entertaining. But not very much so.

I thought that this was a pretty good article. Very to-the-point. Charles Krauthammer is a loser.

One of Those Madmen

"In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems." --Georg Cantor

Appropriate Wikiquote of the Day. I took a math test earlier. I guess I did well.

Yesterday's "No Chewing" rehearsal was a little disheartening. Well, first, we had to wait for space to open up for rehearsal--a certain faculty member decided that she just had to get married, and the other faculty members just had to be happy for her and celebrate. Once we did have a space, we had to wait for Janice. We waited. And waited. And waited. And when she didn't show, we started without her. Tried to work through better blocking. It didn't work. The play doesn't have a lot of obvious action.

I think I might schedule an extra "No Chewing" rehearsal for next Wednesday... I think. We could probably use it... No, we could definitely use it. Show opens, the Direktor reminded us many a-time yesterday, in three weeks.

We used this quote in the yearbook:

"You cannot carry out fundamental changes without a certain amount of madness. In any case it comes from non-conformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen."

--Thomas Sankarra of the African Congress.

"Our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'" --Carl Schurz

Coincidentally, when assigning the essay for Monday's Mod Pol Thought class, Dave (the teacher) said to pay close attention to the "Wilt Chamberlain" part of Nozick's writing. Today, in 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a basketball game, still a record in the NBA today (says Wikipedia). Huh.

Another Wikiquote of the Day.

I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:
But whether this was false or honest dreaming
I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.

--Richard Wilbur