School

I'm sitting in Health right now. We're typing CIM stuff, but since I've completed it, Griff let me not write this paper. It's really cool being done with CIM. So far that's 2 assignments I haven't had to do.

I'm sad that I won't be able to see the Musical Theatre performance on Thursday, but I'm going Friday, whether or not Sil will let me. I'll either sit in the light booth or in the audience or be backstage. Either way, I'm going.

My sister is counting down the days until we leave for our big trip. I believe she said 26 days yesterday, so 25 days! Scary! I'm really excited to go to DisneyWorld.

My family and I have decided that I'm not doing Junior Miss. I feel really relieved. I knew I wouldn't be as prepared as I could have been if I wasn't going on the trip, so that was one factor. Also, I was going to be out of shape from not dancing all the time. And I would have no desire to read about current events while traveling. Also, I knew this trip would be ruined because there would be the constant battle between my parents and me about learning the current facts. SO, I'm not doing Junior Miss and I feel a lot less stressed.

I watched the Miss Universe competition last night. It was interesting. Our friendly neighbor to the north (aka Canada) won. I'm sad that now there is no talent competition. That was the real reason I watched. I guess I also watched the evening gown, but really. Talent was by far the best part of the whole show. Now there is no talent. Not in Miss Universe, not in Miss America, not even in Miss Teen USA. What is this world coming to?

I found out that tomorrow we are once again in the computer lab. Oh joy. I guess I'll work on the english paper tomorrow. Don't worry, I've already worked on it as much as I can. Now I'm waiting for revision from my parents and tomorrow, hopefully, fellow students.

That's all for now!

Well...

I have decided that putting titles on these posts is pretty pointless. But I do anyway. Why? I don't know. Anyway, I now can look at my blog again. Yay!

The fiasco of only having 1 toilet between teh 4 of us is finally coming to an end. We're almost done repairing. We really just need to install the toilets and we're done. OK well another leak was just found in our ceiling so just kidding. We still have work to do. Boo!

I just finished my TOK paper. I think it kinda stinks but oh well. It's done. Actually I didn't really understand how we were supposed to incorperate skepticism into it, but I did...somehow.

I finsihed "Me" and am going to teach it to Michelle and Scott tomorrow. I'm really excited! It is my favorite song. It is soooo funny! My sister and I had fun on Monday figuring it out to see if my crazy choreography actually worked. It did.

Well I've got to go write a 250 word French essay and then read Siddhartha. Oh joy.

Play

Well, tonight is closing. I had a geat time performing with such talented actors and actresses. Ok, so mainly I'm writing something to see if I can get to see my blog. When I type in my blog name, nothing comes up. I can type up anyone elses and see what they wrote, but mine won't let me look. Well, tonight will be fun.

State Solo

Well, yesterday was State Solo. I felt like I did horrible. I had very little breath support, my legs were spazzing, and for some reason I was extremely nervous. I know it is normal to be nervous, but I was almost scared. That's unusual for me. Anyway, My first song, the flirty Italian one, I felt, went horribly, besides the acting. At the beginning when there is just accompanyment, I totally made some guy feel uncomfortable and more aware of his posistion. I gave him a look, I can demonstrate much better in person than in writing, and he sat straighter and kind of looked around to see if I was actually loking at him. I laughed at my own cleverness. The second song went ok. I had more breath support, but not by much. I did, however, have vibrato (?) on every note. But all in all, I felt the performance was horrible.

On a ggod note, after I was done, I watched myself, and it sounded better than it felt. So that made me feel better. And the judges were cool. One of them was my District Solo judge, the one who sent me to State. Another one was Karen's High School Choir director. The third was some old guy who was gay. And of course, Karen knew all three. But she told me to flirty especially with the old man durning the "I burn men's brains" part because it didn't mean anything. So I did. I did have fun flirting, but it was a lot harder to do so with my legs spazzing.

So how did I do? Well at 4:30 AM Dad pounds on my door and yells at the top of his lungs, "Crystal Carlisle tied for 3rd!" I got 3rd! Actually, my division was tied for 1st, 3rd, and 5th. Kind of interesting huh? The judges didn't even get to converse about the scoring. Scary! So after we found that out, I couldn't go to bed for at least another hour. But I'm really excited! And, mainly for Michelle, Morgan also placed 3rd. And, I tied with the girl who drove with Devin and me to All-Northwest. Cool huh? State was definitley a great experience. So I guess you can't always judge a performance on how you personally felt it went.