Someone else did this on their blog and I thought it was cute, a collage of favourite things, one for each letter of the alphabet. (made with http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php)

(if you couldn’t tell, some of my favourite things are: Acting, Bath bombs from lush, cupcakes, dance, earrings, Freaks and Geeks, glitter, henna, Iron and Wine, jelly fish, Krispy Kreme, Lipsmackers in Dr. Pepper, the Mountain Goats., Nutella, owls, painting, the letter Q is my favourite letter, robots, swings, tea, Ugg boots, virgin daiquiris , Woody Allen, yoga and Zooey Deschanel.)

I've only had two full week of classes but I feel like I've been back here forever. Way too much work. I have a pretty bad case of bronchitis so I haven't been able to go to class for the past 2 days, the fact that I can't go to class bothers me more than the fact that I'm sick. 

But I have lots of lovely medication and it gives me time to finally update this blog.

The extra week break was lovely, One of my closest friends who lives in Baltimore came to spend Martin Luther King weekend in Mississippi with me. We had a fabulous time and it was so good to see her. It was her first time in the south so I think it was quite an experience for her.

I love the South, I love Mississippi, it is so different from anywhere else I've ever lived. I know so many people can't wait to get out of here but  have never lived anywhere else where people were so proud of where they were born. Every day I love the south a little bit more, this scares me because I am not a southerner and it's never been my plan to stay here after school, but at the same time I'm hoping it doesn't stop. 

I was cast as Dr. Khdar in my school's main stage production of "Fabulation: or the re education of Undine" it is such a great play, really different from other shows I have done and I'm so excited about it. We have such a great cast and I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone. We've only had a couple rehearsals but it already seems like it's going to be a great show and I suggest everyone come and see it in March.

I'm going to sleep now, love to all. 

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

after less than 48 hours back at school I am back home for a week. The whole city is out of water and dorm rooms without water is just bad. very bad. so as a result christmas break is extended by a week. This is nice in the sense that I get more time to do my homework and sleep in, but everyone else is back at school leaving me quite alone. I haven't even had all my classes yet. I'm hoping they'll be good this year. French is, as always, ridiculously hard for me. très difficile, je n'aime pas le français. Math is kind of a joke so far and I think my IDS Contemporary World class is going to be great. It's about the 80s and during the first class we discussed Reagan, John Dolorian, Michael Jackson and Crack, yeah I think I'll like this class. 

My godmother was an amazing women, she was German, she interpreted peoples dreams for a living, she didn't drive and had opinions on everything. She died this past year after a long battle with breast cancer. I miss her a lot. Recently her husband sent us a bunch of photos she had had of us that we sent over the years. It is really fun to look through all of them. I was a tremendously awkward looking child. My mother thought it was good to let your children be creative and dress themselves and as a result there are countless photos of me wearing hot pink polka-dotted skirts layered over forest green sweatpants with elastic at the bottom and mismatched socks. This was also back before I had ever heard of Frizz-ease or Chi straighteners. But strangely I was way happier with my appearance back then in a way I never am now. It's weird to think there was a time before Andrew and Finn, there were 7 whole years before Finn, it's weird that we're all so old now. But really still exactly the same.  

Every time I go through my stuff to pack for school I am amazed at how many useless things I possess. I never get rid of anything and it's a bit of a problem. Today while looking through my filing cabinet for some books, I found several things . . .

 . . . framed photos that I put away when I ran out of room on my shelves., I don't know when I stopped framing photos, once they were all on facebook they stopped being in frames. 

 . . . The sign that Rissa made me on my 19th birthday 

 . . . Notes that George and I passed each other during rehearsal

 . . . chemistry homework from high school (I can't remember how to do any of that, I think I forgot it all the last day of class)

. . . CDs with my competition music on them 

. . . The program from the Keystone state championship competition (when I was 15) 

. . . My feather duster prop from when I was in "Annie" (when I was 14) 

. . . a folder of pictures I drew when i was around 8 years old and then a collection of sketchbooks from when I was around 16, and one of the prints I made in my art class last semester. 

. . . The Jellyfish beanie baby Zach gave me last year after I told him  about how when I was 6, I wanted to be a jellyfish scientist.

. . . Every program from every play I have seen, or been in since moving to Mississippi

. . . the remainder of the snow powder Hannah bought me my first full winter here (hence being the first winter of my whole life I didn't get actual snow)

They are all little, they're not important but I like them because they remind me of things. Just little moments in life where nothing specific really happened. But for some reason they were just really lovely. These are my favourite moments in life. The ones that are great for no reason at all. And I sometimes like to have physical reminders of them. 

Back to school tomorrow. The adventure continues.  

Today was a nice day minus the fact that is started out 10 degrees. 

Was still up this morning when Mum went to Thea's so I went with her at the lovely hour of 6:00am, I seriously don't know when the last time I left the house at 6:00am was. It was so cold it was miserable. I honestly don't think I could go back to living in New York after living here. 

Tonight Jess and I went to Fenians to see Brynn play. She is so hardcore, she played "Don't stop believing" on her accordion. hardcore. There was also a girl who played hip hop songs on her guitar so that they sounded really cool and indie, it was awesome. Lots of fun. 

 Practiced the harp a bit today which just reenforced the knowledge I already have that I have no musical ability at all.  Listening to Jess play the guitar did not help that feeling. New years resolution? I think so. New years resolution for the past 2 years that was unsuccessful? sadly also true. I'm on the lookout for a new talent. 

Hoping to convince Jess to go to Keifer's tomorrow. I need a humus fix. 

27 things . . .

So I did this one facebook last year whenever all the cool kids were doing it. But I thought I’d do one here too, because I'm bored like that and can't sleep. 

1: I am a theatre major. I have No idea what I'm going to do with this major.

2: My whole life people have said things to me like "you're very (pause) interesting." or "You're (pause) different" or "I've never met anyone that quite reminded me of you" I have never been able to figure out how I am (pause) interesting and never quite knew how to take these sorts of statements but in the past year  or so I've learned to embrace that I'm different.

3: earlier this year someone described me as "quirky" and I thought this was an awesome compliment. 

4: I wanted to audition to be a princess in Disney World but I don't meet the height requirement, I'm too tall. This is one of the great tragedies of my life. 

5: I have a really hard time with capitol letters, I always put them in the middle of a sentence where they don’t belong Like This. 

6:  I talk to myself constantly. I could never do a 24 hours of silence. I also talk to my printer, my cell phone, my car, my computer and other inanimate objects. 

7: I have mad love for wikipedia. I never get anything done because I look up something on wikipedia read the article then click related articles and just go on a crazy adventure throughout wikipedia reading a lot. I know a lot of completely pointless information as a result.

8: I like to ask people random questions. Usually “would you rather . . .” questions. I feel like you can tell the most about people by the way they answer the most ridiculous questions.  The question I most frequently ask is "If you were a flower what flower would you be?"

9: I would be a dandelion, at the stage where they are just made up of seeds and you can wish on them and blow them away. 

10. I have a “Neorlogical phenomenon” (as wikipedia calls it) called Synesthesia. (I have both “Graphame-color Synesthesia” and slight “narrow band sound Synesthesia”) Mine was the first documented case of an identical twin who had Synesthesia without her twin having it as well, as well as being the youngest documented case.  I When I was 10 years old some Canadian scientists wrote an article about me for a medical journal. If you look Synesthesia up on wikipedia they actually talk about me . . . kind of. (They mention a fact about synesthesia and then cite the article in the medical journal about me)

11: I love Bob Dylan and my favourite quote ever is “All I can do is be me, whoever that is” because I think it kind of describes me. I really don’t know who I am but all I can do is just be that.

12: I love Ballet, I love to watch it and I love to pretend I can do it. I used to take ballet but I was absolutely horrible at it and then had to quit last year. I am just a little bitter towards people who are really good at ballet. I paint ballerinas instead. 

13. I was a vegetarian for 8 years but started eating chicken this summer because I was just not healthy. I am still picky about what kind of chicken I will eat though and avoid any that comes from fast food places. 

14. When I was little my sisters and I were really creative with out Barbie games. Among many others our favourite games included “Split personality Barbie” (Ken was her shrink) and “World War 2 army nurse Barbie” I made my Barbie house in to an army hospital complete with Black out curtains where Barbie would treat G I Joes. Also one time my brother broke my Barbie Jeep by throwing it down the stairs claiming that Barbie wanted to kill herself and was driving off a cliff. We were odd children.

15:I still do not eat the crusts off of sandwiches. I just don't like them. 

16: I can not walk in a straight line and am very uncoordinated overall. I would fail a sobriety test if I ever had to take. I also fall over a lot. I am overall an awkward little person

17: I don't like to wear shoes. my feet get claustrophobic, I am almost always in flip flops, no matter what the weather.

18: I kill phones. I had 8 phones in the course of one year. When I get them they just become suicidal, they just stop living.

19:I don’t know what my dream in life is. I think this is a little sad

20: I seriously love Alice in Wonderland, and also the Wizard of OZ

21: last semester I won a watermelon eating contest at a school event. It is a little strange how proud of this I am.

22: I am a very curious person. People fascinate me.

23: I don’t like my first name. I wish I had been given my middle name as a first name: Virginia. but really I wish I had been named Amelie or Annaleigh or something interesting like that. My name is decidedly uninteresting 

24: 1.    Air ports are some of my favourite places because I love watching people. I love that on a plane everyone is coming from the same place and going to the same place but we all have different reasons for going there and a different story behind it. 

25: I am a worrier. I worry more than most people I know. I worry more than probably most people you know.  I worry about everything. I am aware that I have a relatively negative outlook on life and that this bothers some people. It gets kind of crazy sometimes but it’s how I’ve always been.

26: I have a slightly irrational fear of monkeys and apes. especially gorillas. 

27:  I want to do something really exceptional one day. I suppose everyone wants that.

I thought I should make a blog so I could stop posting so many facebook notes . . . .

Only a few days until I go back to school. I have very mixed feelings on this event. I should possibly start packing at some point but packing would be admitting that the holidays are over. 

It's been a nice and much needed break. Very low key and consisting mostly of watching movies, eating non cafeteria food and going back to my non school sleep schedule.

I have no circadian Rhythm. My sleep schedule is all over the place. Some nights I go to bed at 7:00am and wake up at 1:00pm and other nights I go to bed at 9:00pm and wake up at 4:00am and am up for the day. I always have to fight this when I'm at school and make my self go to bed and wake up at reasonable times. I made it work at school so I suppose I could do it here, But I choose not to. I function better at night.

I like being home but in a lot of ways school is so much calmer. My entire family is in intense wedding mode. While the sister was home we went to Barnes and Nobles and she took over two tables in the cafe and just poured over every single wedding magazine and book they possessed. I'm excited. But it's kind of weird. I am on a quest for my bridesmaid's dress, I have been told I can pick my own dress as long as it fits in to the colour scheme, I'm sure once I start picking things more requirements will turn up. I've  been informed I need to wait on getting my tattoo until August because supposedly having stars on my foot will "Throw off the entire feel of the wedding." I've also been told I'm not allowed to make a speech. We'll see.