Sucks to be Someone...

So my boss got fired today. 'Twas exciting.

I can't legally reveal any information regarding why he no longer works for Sovereign Bank, a subsidiary of Santander, but this largely means that until a replacement for his hours is found, we are a man short and that means more hours for me! W00t! Maybe I won't have to raffle off a kidney after all!

Not that selling an organ on the black - or at least slightly off-white - market was ever a practical option, but it does mean more money to pay back my sister, pay my bills, and save up a bit for the Big Move in May/April.

This is a big deal, y'all. Real big. There's even a small chance that I will be able to apply to be trained as an assistant Head Teller since we already have a woman who would be perfect in the Head Teller position and, frankly, I am not experienced enough to be a Head Teller anywhere. Much less a bank that requires me to sell all manner of devilish financial products for no good reason beyond that we need to keep sales up and retention high.

I'm getting the hours I need! Sucks that it had to be at my boss's expense...

-S.

Impromptu Weekend

It's a day late, but this is a thank-you to all my friends back at SVU. I mean, I really appreciate everything everyone did for me, especially since it was all so last minute. Now, i won't be able to come back until next semester, so I'd like to come back for a concert or a show or something. Not that I don't love visiting with friends and everything, but I'd love to see the choir in action again. And be able to join in for Shenandoah as an Alumnus.

Keep me posted y'all!

-S.

Life Outside my Apartment

So my sister and I had a fight that ended bad.

My Sister and I are heading for a small feud.

My sister and I won't be living together come May. Oh yeah.

Because my sister is now turned into a total bitch!

All that, by the way, is supposed to be hummed to the tune of "An Act of Desperation" from Chicago. I didn't mean to write it that way, but that's how it turned out. Funny, no?

Anyway, I'm not making this crap up. Because she refused to meet with - just meet and be formally introduced to, never mind get to know! - my friend Jared on the grounds that he was my friend and she wants nothing to do with me or my friends - I know! She's a wench, right? - I'm pretty much waiting for her to push my patience just far enough for me to actually have enough grounds to leave and ditch them both with the apartment.

And I don't care any more. I'll admit that she and I got into an argument. I was childish at some points. I should not have yelled. However, I wanted to share something that was important to me with her and she just shut me down for the worst reasons out there. Because of me.

Damn, now I've got Stone Tables playing in my skull....Oh well. Doo do doo do doo, doo, doo, doo....

So come May I'll be moving out and on my own. I don't know if I want to move down south, where the living is cheap and many of my friends still are, up north, where New York is and my dreams of the Theatre, or to the Midwest where my parents and younger brother are. I'm pointed at NYC at the moment. Life, however, may intervene and point me elsewhere.

But! If Alanna pushes me the wrong way again, I will leave and I will apologize to Stephanie for ditching them with the Apartment. I will not abide with a person who hates me. It is not fair to either party and it's not healthy in either case.

Fortunately, I live in NJ, where there's plenty of places to meander and wander with a relatively low cost to myself. Boardwalk here I come!

-S.

Cash-Flow Problems

So Memorial Day Weekend, I said that I would try to make it out again to SVU to see the Opening Show, Songs for a New World. Yeah. That didn't really happen. Not so much.

There are a few things I blame particularly for this misshap:

Sovereign Bank - for not paying me enough nor giving me the hours I need.

the State of New Jersey - for having so many unemployed people that finding a second job is next to impossible through the conventional methods

Myself - for not realizing that the show opened Labor Day Weekend and I had, with Saturday off, a four day weekend and I didn't even realize it.

But mostly I blame the first two because without those I couldn't go down anyway.

So instead, I think I'm going to try going to NY ComiCon in the middle of October with a couple of geeky friends up here. We'll see how that turns out, but here's hoping for the best!

Still need a second job or at least full time hours at the bank...

-S.

Present Tense

So Monday evening greeted me with an email from the director of Doubt that I had auditioned for the week previous. I did not get the part, which was no surprise really. The basic rule of community theatre, as I understand it, is that if you are not part of the typical clique of community theatre-auditioners, you will not get a part purely because you are new. It takes several failed attempts to get a part to actually land one.

On a side note, I've found a new friend here in NJ. It was kind of random, that meet-cute. But he's got this whole circle of friends who are dorky like me and I think I've finally found a new group to hang out with besides my family.

Don't get me wrong; I love my family and I will always place them first in my heart, but sometimes I need my dorkiness to go appreciated as opposed to just kind of lived with.

Here I go! Into a bold new chapter of my life!

-S.

August

So it's been three months since I last wrote and I'm a total moron for not writing earlier. This is me being a moron. See how stupid I look! Wheeeeee!!!

Anyway, nothing too major has happened, except that my parents sold their old house, bought their new house and I did my first audition in nearly three years.

The last is the biggest piece of news yet.

So, I was checking this website for auditions in NJ, looking around for something in the area, and I saw a thing go up for Doubt - which I love! - and I decided to go for it. I seriously doubt - no pun intended, I assure you - that I'll get the part of Father Flynn, simply because I'm only in my 20s and I didn't know the director, but I feel like I totally blew the competition away in my audition. It was open and we performed in front of everyone, which I think was bad form, but the space was very small. Like, 20 seats small. We are talking black bread box space. I think my apartment is larger. Half my apartment is larger! It was ridiculous! But doubt deserves an intimate setting. And you don't get much more intimate than twenty folding chairs in front of a raised dais in a twelve by twenty room with an eight foot ceiling.

Anyway, space aside, the competition was varied, and I think my biggest competitor has me beat on look alone. he actually looks like a middle aged pastor who might or might not be a child molester.

Wow. I just realized what I wrote down. Only in theatre can that be a good thing.

Well, I shall know by Monday evening if I got the part or not. Here's hoping!

-S.

Buena Vista Getaway mit Singen und Tanzen!

Big shout-out to all my friends in the Beev for an awesome Memorial Weekend. It seriously felt like I had never left. I thank God I've got friends who make me feel welcome even if I haven't been the best person in the world.

The show was "Annie, Get Your Gun!" and the night was balmy and warm. Well, muggy and warm anyway. In the best of SVU tradition, something unspeakably awkard happened onstage that the cast handled perfectly. Despite the valiant efforts of the Technical Director/Rigger, a small-ish piece of flown scenery fell behind the actors on stage. Right int he middle of the show. To the actor's credit, not a single one of them broke character or acknowledged the incident, thereby allowing the house to stay at ease and to continue enjoying the show, regardless of technical difficulties. Three Cheers to the cast and crew! Huzzah! Hurrah! Exuberance!

Despite technical difficulties, the show went well, I thought. The mics are always bad, the orchestra is always a little loud, but despite these usual hurdles the cast met them adequately, if not spectacularly. Favorite Scene: the second Shooting Matche between Annie and Frank, including the song, "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)". Annie was a joy to watch and Frank was great to hear. Kudos to you both for a solid performance.

In my humble opinion, though it may not be the best SVU has ever done, it is certainly good and definatly worth seeing!

It seems you CAN get a man with a gun...

-S.