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Thursday was a rather exciting day! The spring dance concert preview was during Bengal Pause and it was really cool. I can’t wait to start working on it! I really loved the first piece, I hope it’s the one I get to design for. But, honestly, I really loved all of the pieces. I never thought I would take an interest in dance until I saw my first dance concert here. I also saw Moon for the Misbegotten at the Irish Classical. It was one of the best perfomances I ever saw. The actress who played Josie was amazing. She totally embodied her character the entire time. I was really amaed to find out that she doesn’t have an Irish brougue in real life.The talk back afterwards was amusing. A man asked why they were so quiet at one point that he couldn’t hear them and the actress playing Josie offered to do the scene for him later, jokingly of course!

I actually don’t have much to do this weekend, homework wise. Just a play to read for theatre history. But, on a completley unrelated note, I got to see the coolest thing at work today. Normally, we don’t do surgeries at our clinic on Fridays, but a big shepherd mi had a tooth abcess and our doctor did surgery on him. It was so neat to see a sugery! I’m usually running around helping with it, but this time I was able to watch the whole thing! It was a bit gruesome, but totally worth it.

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Oy, I had every intention of posting earlier, but, thanksgiving and stuff. My thanksgiving was great! I had to work in the morning, but my brother taped the Macys parade for me, I hate to miss it! I got to see my family for the first time in what seemed like forever. I ate way to much and played with nerf guns with my little cousins.

Last week school-wise was really fun. Monday in practicum I finished the ironing board that was started the week before. It was really cool to see that thing finished. In lighting design we learned how to program the light board again. That class is still giving me a heart attack! We have the renderings due Wendesday and I still only have three fully done. I’m still trying to figure out one of the cues.

On Tuesday theater history was first. We discussed some of the Elizabethan playwrights. Go Marlowe! We also watched this bizzare documentary on how, apparently, Marlowe faked his own death and a replacement body was thrown in the Thames. Instead of having script analysis we went to campus house instead. That was super fun. I hadn’t had coffee in ages. I have to read A Moon for the Misbegotten for Tuesday and I’m having the hardest time with it for some reason. I really didn’t have a problem reading A Long Days Journey into Night, but that might have been because it was during the summer and I really didn’t have other things going on.

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I had a lovely past couple of days! Antigone opened on Thursday and it was very exciting. Even though I didn’t work much on the production I still enjoyed opening night. I think I was very excited for all of the people I knew in the show, and they all did great! It was so cool seeing people I had worked with in acting one take the stage and to see how much they had progressed.

I also saw Camelot on Sunday. It was very strange to be in Shea’s again. I hadn’t been their since I have become a theater major and it was a very differerent experience. I’ve seen so many productions in smaller theaters and it was weird to be in a crowd that big. The show was amazing though! Lou Diamond Philips was one of my first crushes and I was totally star struck when he stepped on stage. His voice wasn’t terribly strong, but he was such a charming King Arthur it didn’t matter.

Classes are bit crazy right now, seeing as how it’s getting towards the end of the semester. I have a paper due Tuesday that I completely forgot about. Luckily, it’s not too long. Lighting design has been my hardest class this semester simply because I have never thought in terms of lighting before. We still have two projects left and I’m totally nervous. But, I was offered the opportunity to design the lighting for one of the segments of the dance concert next semester, so I’m extremely excited too!

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It’s been so busy lately! School work hasn’t been a problem so much as work has. Since it’s getting close to the holidays, more animals are boarding and I have more hours.

Candace and I built an ironing board yesterday in practicum one. It was a very odd experience, but not as odd as our bed dilemma. We had to remove the bed and all of the headboards and backboards from TAB and bring it to Upton. But, the directing one class was in the theater at the time and we had to be very quiet when we were taking it apart and moving it. Luckily, Candace and I work well together so we were able to communicate very quietly, but that didn’t stop us from having trouble. First, we couldn’t get the sheets off the bed, then , I was having the hardest time unscrweing the headboard, and when we finally got it apart and put the matresses on the cart, we found out they were to wide to fit behind the risers and through most of the doors. We ended up having to pick up and carry them several times!

Lighting design has been very hectic. We have been designing for True West and working on our first light plot, which has been very difficult for me. I find it so much easier to work on the design or rendering aspect of the class than the technical side. Fortunatley, I figured out my design concept quickly, and that helped me with the plot greatly.

Theater history was amazing on Tuesday! We discussed english history and monarchs. We got to watch clips from Laurence Olivier’s versions of Henry V (one of my favorite plays!) and Richard III.

Last Thursday I went to see A Winter’s Tale at Canisius college. It was a lovely production. It began with a black tie christmas party in Sicilia and Bohemia was pretty much a hippie commune. The actors looked like they were having a blast in this production and they also understood the language very well.

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