Good friends even though you're vermin!

I had a wonderful day. I spent a good chunk of my afternoon improvising, which is always just lovely. There was a workshop with Dave Razowsky, who has worked with Amy Sedaris, Steve Carell, and a few other household names I can't think of at the moment. Needless to say, I got a lot out of it, and had written a full page of notes before we even got to the first exercise! Amazing. As soon as the workshop was out Jason picked me up and we drove down to his mom's house. Tim is graduating tomorrow and we're proud of him and whatnot. So we get down to the house and surprise, surprise, Sheila had bought four baby chicks! They are SO cute! Needless to say, the girls are already wanting to take them home. Yeah, no.

Cracker Cuties

Austin and I are totally sharing this pic on both our blogs today. Hooray! Today marked the end of my regular classes because both German and English will not be meeting tomorrow. Time for finals to begin.........next week! We decided to celebrate by going to Cracker Barrel. Sort of. See, I have this ginormous goose egg on my knee (yeah, it is possible to get them there. Who knew?) from running into the corner of the stage last Sunday (no shock there.) and it hurts like crazy. We're going on a week here and it's still swollen! I expressed my concern about the ouch factor to Austin before I sucked it up and went to my final yoga class, and Austin decided she would like to use her Girl Scout powers for good (as opposed to evil, like the rest of us) and patch me up. So we made plans to meet up after school. However, when I texted her to let her know I was done with my class I went to fill up my car. When I came back to my phone I had a couple missed calls from her so I called her back and heard, "Okay, I hope you're not too far down the road, because CRACKER BARREL!" (paraphrased.) I like the way she thinks! We shared grits and fried apples and pretended to be confounded by the triangle puzzle with the golf tees stuck in it (if you've never been to Cracker Barrel.......cry now.) then went back to her place and she got out the homeopathic spackle and patched up my knee. What a gal!

The best pegleg on the block!

Happy birthday, Jason! Poor guy had to work in the rain on his b-day. If that face is any indicator, though, he liked his present a lot. Love you! I had a great day in my classes, including a fabulous lunch with Austin as we practiced our scene for my acting class. I am going to miss hanging out in the theater kid area this Summer. I played drums again at church tonight. I think I'm getting better...but then keeping a basic rhythm comes a lot easier when you have a strong music background. Oh, and forgive my elementary writing style these past couple days, I have finals brain. Yargh............

Brides and zombies, trumped by Daria

Yes!!!!!! After too long, Daria has finally come out onto DVD! I am so very happy about this! So happy, in fact, that I passed over a picture of me with two zombies and two brides to bring you my 'Daria's out!!!' happy face. Why do you look annoyed with me? Merschk? So yes, Daria coming out was just the icing on my 'today was a happy day!' cake. I got to sit in on a small part of the stage combat class finals and posted a video of two brides duking it out on my Facebook. Just swell! This evening Corin called saying she was heading to my area so we hung out for a while. Sweet. I love my friends. I'm such a lucky duck!

Be Squared!

I'm pretty sure Joey was putting his game face on...either way, today was a very rainy May tenth. I like to hang out outside when I have time between classes and activities or rehearsals for class, but today it was (as previously mentioned) quite rainy. So I stayed indoors in the theater kid hangout. It's pretty awesome in our cozy encapsulated cave. Today everyone was running lines and rehearsing for finals. It's cool to not have to crack open a book for your final, but instead practice putting actions and subtext to words. Austin and I ran lines this afternoon, too. I forgot how much I used to love having a script and practicing emphasizing different parts of sentences and making new discoveries within the same scenes I know backward and forward. It's been a long time.

HYARRRRRRRRRRH!

Zak has an interesting habit of breaking things when he does improv. Nice.

This is way more fun than the pic.

Today was the potluck theater award banquet thingy at my school. An afternoon hanging out with the most amazing people under the sun? Sign me up! Before the banquet I went to Austin's house and we worked on our scene for my honors acting class. It was so much fun to do the scene, which takes place in a kitchen, in her actual kitchen! We had so much stuff to play with! Love it! Can't wait to run through it more this week and perform it on Wednesday!