I'm pulling an Oprah...

and listing some of my favorite things!!

This could be difficult for me because my favorite thing ever to get for any holiday is money/gift cards. I'm boring. I know. LETS GET STARTED!

1) the PED EGG. This is only #1 because I just used it and it inspired me to write this blog. If you don't know what this is, you obviously don't watch enough TV. Anyway, it's basically a cheese grater for your dry feet. It's awesome and you can get it at Walgreens on the "As Seen On TV" aisle- by far my favorite aisle at Walgreens.

2) TOMS. Now I have sporting TOMS for a very long time. They are the most comfortable shoes on earth, as long as you don't need a ton of arch support and you are not walking on a cobblestone street. AND, when you buy a pair, they send a pair to a child in need. www.tomsshoes.com. get some get some get some.

3) 30 ROCK. Duh. You can get Seasons 1 & 2 pretty much anywhere. If you don't like this show than you are apparently too stupid to understand it.

4) I don't want to do this anymore. It seemed like a good idea at the time but now I'm bored and I can't think of anything else.

My bitchin' weekend.

This may be boring because blogs seem to be better when things are not going well for me but like I said, this weekend was bitchin', and I'm going to tell you about it. Right now.

Friday night, a bunch of us made the dull-ass drive to Shreveport to see a play called Rabbit Hole at SLT.  The show was sooooo effin good. I saw it on Broadway a few years ago an I honestly liked it just as much in Shreveport.  It worked a lot better in a smaller space.  During the show, Laura got a call from our boss, who I refer to as Cher Bear.  She wanted us to stop at Wal-Mart and see if they had a bike.  Cher Bear does this thing every year where she and bunch of her friends go adopt a bunch of less-fortunate families for Christmas.  She wanted to get some bike for one for one of the kids and they didn't have it at the one in Ruston.  So we got it and when the kids grandma came to pick up the gifts the next morning she was so grateful.  It doesn't get much better than good theatre and helping those less fortunate! 

Saturday, Laura convinced me to dye my hair.  So I am now sporting some bitchin' DARK brown hair.  So later that night we went to Christmas party and drank some spiced wine and some feckin whiskey- that's what it was called.  And then we were going to go to Sundown but of course there was a cover charge so we went to The Porch.  Which is not a bar, it's an actual porch. Leigh Anne and Laura's porch to be exact.  It was goooood times.  Good Dark Side times. Maybe someday I will explain the dark side.  

And now I'm taking a break from the 10 pounds of homework I need to do.  Thats it.

Here's a funny story...

In my previous post, I briefly mentioned that I was ushering and LTCA event. For this event, I chose to wear a cute little dress with some black tights and heels. So the parking situation at Tech is ricockulous and my car was parked in a gravel/dirt parking lot. There happened to be a really muddy spot right outside my drivers door. So my plan was to lean over the mud, open my door, step on the foot ramp (yes my car has a foot ramp, I suspect it was previously owned by an old arthritic woman), and jump into the car using the steering wheel to steady myself safely into the drivers seat. I guess Baby Jesus had other plans for me. I put my foot on the ramp and jumped in and missed the steering wheel completely and FELL backwards out of my car and onto the ground. Thankfully my coat got the mud. Actually that kind of sucks because I was wearing my sisters coat. Anyway.

I need someone to remind me to NOT do homework after I blog. The language I used to write my directing paper last night is very similar to the language I use on this thing. I believe my favorite sentence was something like "Hodge discusses how we cannot change the history of play even if it is not historically accurate. I guess this would be an issue all the history buffs out there, but since I am not one of those, this situation really doesn't concern me." Maybe in a later post I will let you know the grade that I am given. Shit the bed.

And YES. After several rounds of me kicking ass in some beer pong last night, I was hungover this morning in combat. It was worth it. It was excellent dark side bonding time and I have no regrets. Hangover remedy's anyone?

2 blogs in 2 days?!

This is not a real blog. This is a tool of avoidance for my directing homework.  I don't know why I can only do homework after 10:00PM.  But seeing as how I have plans tonight that could eventually lead to me being hungover in combat tomorrow morning, now is my only chance to get this assignment done.  I mean the book is open, and sitting in my lap with a highlighter in the spine, the word document is open... 

Question. When I was in high school, there was this kid who had this term to describe when you poop and the poop makes the water in the toilet splash your butt.  I've been trying to remember what that word is but I can't think of it.  Not that this situation has happened to me recently... it was just funny and I can't remember it.  So if you know it, let me know.

Spinning this morning was good.  Because I'm sure my 2 devoted readers are dying to know how my spinning class went this morning.  Our teacher tried to start a conversation with us again. She asked us what type of music we listen to and no one said ANYTHING. So finally I said, "I like Weezer a lot." She kind of giggled and then dropped it.  I was like WTF, do I get bonus points for being the only person in this class who actually responds to your bullshit? Seriously.

Anyway, I'm ushering an LTCA thing tonight and I seriously have to do this homework and take shower.  Yes. I had spinning this morning and I have not showered yet.  Heh.

I'm bad at this.

I'm a terrible blogger. My friends have to remind to blog. Thanks Laura.

Well. Not much to tell. I've been back to school for about a week after a painfully long thanksgiving break.  It was wretched. It really was.  I literally had 2 weeks in Oklahoma, with no friends and I managed to basically do nothing but watch the entire series of 30 Rock. But I don't regret it.  So this quarter I am taking:

Combat, Single-Sword to be exact.  Great fun. 

Directing, should be interesting.

Spinning, which I realized after the first class that I am in way over my head.  I mean the teacher wants us to have a conversation with her while we are cycling.  Are you shitting me? 

Spanish 2, and can I just say... I can hardly understand our teacher when he is speaking english. I. Am. Probably. Fucked.

Costume Design, which is actually a one-on-one seminar with Guinn.  He's kicking my butt. He asked me at our first meeting if I had a complete design for Private Lives, and I said "no, but I can tell you anything you want to know about 30 Rock."

So thats my schedule.  It is wicked cold outside. Nothing makes me bitch and complain more than cold weather.  It just hurts.  On a happier note, I am stoked about the Private Lives cast.  Congratulations everyone, especially Laura and Jessie.  Way to represent the Dark Side.  Also, I went to see the annual food fight, which is a fight show we do every year and instead of selling tickets, the audience brings in canned food.  Anyway, we did a show called Living Dead in Denmark which is basically a bunch of zombie Shakespeare characters. Fucking HYSTERICAL.  My favorite line would probably be... "You did have relations with a mortal, wasn't his name bottom or did he stick it in your bottom?" or maybe "if you were any more of a pussy, I would have to fucking shave you."  Anywho. I should stop. I have spinning in the morning, but more importantly, Jon & Kate Plus 8 is on.

If you're not watching....

30 rock, you should be.

Now you should all know:

I. Love. Tina Fey.

Ever since the first time I saw her on Weekend Update with Jimmy Fallon, I have loved her. In highschool.. at a speech contest.... with extremely small town conservative judges... I did a monologue that Tina Fey did on SNL about Hugh Hefner and his 7 girlfriends. God I wish I still had the critiques from that performance so I could share them, because they are priceless. ANYWAY, I love Mean Girls, I love Baby Mama, I lived and died for the Sarah Palin skits during the election, but for some reason I never got into 30 Rock. I don't know why. So there was an article in a very old Entertainment Weekly magazine that was in the bathroom at my house, and it was Tina Fey and the 5 Reasons You Should Watch 30 Rock. And she said one of the reasons was "You're already watching The Office, just don't move." And also you should know:

I. Love. The Office.

So I was watching The Office on Thursday and I decided to stay put and watch 30 Rock. That show is freaking hysterical. It is smart, the cast is great, it's fast paced, I can't say enough good things. So I watched the rest of this season online and part of last season and it is SOOOO FUUNNNNYYY. Seriously, that show is AMAZING. Watch it. So we can talk about it.

Thats it.

thanksgiving break #2 I'm a thief!

I stole this list thing from Jen!

Five things I was doing 10 years ago (1998)
1. Starting middle school!
2. Being an awkward 12 year old.
3. Suffering through The Hobbit in Mr. Chaffin's english class.
4. Terrorizing my then 7 year old sister.
5. Taking piano lessons. Wish I still did that.....

Five things on my to do list
In addition to the to do list on my previous blog....
1. Hit the gym.
2. Get interview clothes.
3. SERIOUSLY register for SETC.
4. Reserve a hotel room for SETC.
5. I don't know, see my previous blog.

Five things I like to snack on
1. Grapes
2. M&Ms
3. Cheddar Munchies
4. Pumpkin bread.. thanks mom!
5. Tortilla chips and hummus

Five things I would do if I were a millionaire
1. Pay for school.
2. Spend a year traveling to Dublin, London, Athens, Barcelona, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney and other places. Okay maybe 2 years.
3. Buy a dog.
4. Buy an awesome apartment in New York.
5. Give some to my parents.

Five jobs I have had
1. Stage manager.
2. Recruitment coordinator for the theatre department.
3. Babysitter.
4. Waitress at Macaroni Grill.
5. Hostess at Macaroni Grill, yes I'm pulled that out of my ass.

Woohoo that was fun!

thanksgiving break #1

I'm back in Oklahoma City for Thanksgiving break. I've been back since Friday afternoon. It's Sunday. I'm ready to go back to Ruston.

To do list for the break:

1) Costume designs for Private Lives.
2) Get grad school stuff organized and ready to send off.
3) Register for SETC.
4) Study Spanish. Seriously.
5) Play Rock Band.
6) See TWILIGHT at midnight.

I was fully prepared to accomplish all of these things before the break started but now that I'm home... I just wanna lay in bed and watch 30 Rock. The only thing I have accomplished is #5. And I did 1 costume design for P.L. last night. ONE.

Can I just say... my family loves to gossip. But there's really nothing dramatic about my family so it's really hilarious. Case and point: For those of you who don't know, I recently became a vegetarian. It started October 20th to be exact. So this afternoon we went to have lunch with the family, a Sunday tradition that has been going on for as long as I can remember. I sit down and my 10 year-old cousin Erin walks up to me like she's the queen of the world and says

Erin: KATY! Are you weally a vegetarian?!
Katy: Yeah, how did you know?
Erin: Aunt Cindy (my mom) told Mimi (my grandma) and Mimi told my mom (my aunt Amy) on the phone last night that you don't eat mean and your a vegetawian.

I was bombarded with similar conversations and questions about my recent life altering decision. "Why are you doing it?" "How long has this been going on?" "Why do you want to be a hippie?" etc. etc. etc. Good times.

Well, there really is not much to say about my break thus far. Hopefully something amazing will happen soon.

Thats it.

back to school, back to school, to prove to dad i'm not a fool!

I am back in the grand ole' town of Ruston.  It's been kind of weird.  I'm in a phase right now that Laura calls "Summerstock Blues".  Everything in West Virginia was so fast paced and I was busy all the time, and being back in Ruston.... is just nothing like that.  I'm already looking at my calendar to see when I can go to Alabama to see Zach and Jen and Brittney.... but anyway!

The first few days here sucked big time.  Hurricane Gustav sent some awesome wind and rain for a good three days. Let me tell you how fun it was to move into my apartment. Thank Baby Jesus for Laura and her husband Clay, they helped me move in so I didn't have to make 12 trips to my storage unit.  

This quarter, I am taking Biology, Spanish, and Stage Combat.  I love being a senior in a freshman biology class. Way save your general education requirements for your last year of college, Katy! Smart. Real smart.  

Things are not all bad though.  The local (and awesome) coffee shop here, The Frothy Monkey, is turning their upstairs space into an internet cafe/performance space. Anyway, for the opening, Cherrie is directing Parallel Lives and I am stage managing that.  It is hysterical.  And I am so thankful that I have rehearsals to go to again or else I would be going INSANE.  But anywho, I have combat at 8 in the morning.  

Thats it.

Why did I not start this in WV?

I really should have started this blog business during my time in West Virginia, now I'm mad at myself..... OKAY! moving past it.

Well, what can I say. I'm back in OKC (oklahoma city). I have not been to Oklahoma since Easter... which is the longest amount of time that I have gone without coming home. Needless to say, it is STRANGE to be back. I swear there are 20 new Starbucks which I'm not complaining about because we all know I need my chai... but DANG, this place has changed a lot. I got back late Monday night after an awful 16 hour drive with my parents. If driving like an asshole was an Olympic sport, my dad would have the gold. Sorry Michael Phelps. But we made it home safe and I've been running around like a crazy person trying to see all of my friends and go to the lake and spend time with family.

Being home is great, but I must say, I miss West Virginia a lot. A WHOLE LOT. This summer was crazy and their were definitely some intense "Is it August 24th yet?" moments, but despite that I had a freakin' blast and made some awesome new friends... and got shot in the back with whipped cream.... i'm not mad.

NEWS FLASH: LA Tech just beat Mississippi State! GO DAWGS!!

We're going to the lake tomorrow and then I'm heading back to school on Monday. I'm so excited to get back to Ruston... but not so much looking forward to classes..... I guess thats normal for a SENIOR!!! Woohoo!

Thats it.