it's been a while.

PG: 100. today i deserved a 100 because i read for and decided to be cast in the mainstage. i'm super excited because although it's not my major anymore, i still love to act. i really love the two character's i auditioned for. Vicki and Barbara are two such different character's and no matter which one i get a i have a few tricks up my sleeve :)

Journals: i satyed after school today for my Bolero Concept Metting, so hopefull when you stay after you don't have to do journals... i hope this rule is still in effect. please let me know it it's not so i can make it up :)

boo.

PG: 100% Today I deserve a 100 because I read Bolero twice and I started my director's book. I re-read Dog See's God because the monologue that I am choosing is from there. I also read Be Aggressive. Three plays in one day, not to shabby if I do say so myself. We did View Points today and it made me want to go to sleep so bad. I deserve a 100 for staying awake.. that's the real reason a deserve a 100.

After reading Bolero to myself and out loud about 4 times I definitely caught a few very suspicious things that made me way more excited that before to direct it. I was always excited, don't get me wrong... but I just saw some much that I could do with it! I'm have a concept meeting on the 28Th and I'm amped for that. I started some rough set and costumes designs with Scarlett today and Travis yesterday. I got some really awesome pictures online... now I need the measurements of the stage and things will be a lot easier. I don't want to put any of my ideas on here, because of course, my brilliance will cause people to want to copy me. I'm such an ass... but seriously. This concept meeting has got me totally excited and working my ass off.

I don't have a good Title for this.

Participation Grade: 100% Today I deserve a 100 because I showed up and did what I had to. It was a half-day, so things were pretty easy. We did the whole preparing for Parent's Night thing and made our goals and wrote the notes to our parents. I wonder what my goals were Freshman Year... because I really don't have the slightest clue that they would be. I was reading some of the freshman's goals... it was cute. It was so weird writing that one of my goals this year was to get into college, I don't feel this old. All the other seniors before me always seemed so much older.

Journaling: I read two plays today: Refuge by Jessica Goldberg and Bolero by David Ives. I think I spelled that wrong and I'm too lazy to go and check. Refuge completely killed my mood. I feel so bad for Amy, she's so miserable, you can just tell. Oh! side not, I also read God See's God on the bus ride home while everyone else was playing an intense game of Truth or Dare. But yeah, 3 plays in less than 7 hours, I'ma beast. I started getting some ideas for my Senior Showcase. I kept seeing everything as being very vertical and very bland, I have an explanation for this though, and I'll be starting my directors book soon. I need help with that.

Participation Grade: 100%
i guess today is the day that i can get a 100 for being pretty and having awesome hair? maybe. i took some pretty beast headshots. and i taught the headshots about "connecting with the camera" and all that good stuff and headtshots. they asked me a lot of questions, i feel like i answered them pretty well.

I re-read Jumbo by Dan and i started getting some ideas about how it would be staged and such. because it is a play that takes place i envisioned a beach house on the beach (a house kind of like August) with the front part of it open so we could see into it. The house itself is very bare, but is painted like sea foam green and light blues and yellows. this creates a very serene feeling that is a good contrast to the two main characters, hank and andrew. this also fits nice for the climax, which is anything but calm. that's all i have so far, and i hope it makes sense.

Blahhhh.

Participation Grade: 100. Today, I deserve a 100 because I did an ok job at 2 minutes of reality. I'd like to think that I've come pretty far since freshman year. I'll admit when I first entered I was running on pure adrenaline, but eventually I relaxed into it. I've finally become somewhat comfortable. It's about time I guess?

As for journaling, I just read a new play by Dan enetitled "JUMBO" and everyone should go read it. I was staging this the entire time I was reading it, mostly because the main character's name is Hank. He's this 20 something year old guy who dropped out of college. Somewhat witty, but a thinker. Overall good guy. I have a friend named Hank is who exactly what I just listed. It was almost eerie. Like, I want to talk about what this was all about but I don't want to give anything awway because I want you to read it. Other than that I just sent my character monologue, and I've continued to re-read "Doll's House". Oh, funny thing. Actually, not too funny, but reavelnt. Today in my english class Mrs. Meagher-Diello taught us the difference between things that should be put in quotations and things that should be underlined and I just realized that I did something wrong. I should have written A Doll's House and it should have been underlined but I can't figure out how to do that on here. Like, big things get an uinderline like titles and stuff like that, and subtitles get the quotations. See what a REAL english class can teach you! Other than that, shop was pretty chill. Lacey stopped by, she's enjoying MG which is nice... not that I didn't already know that. Ok, my fingers hurt. Buh-Bye.

September the Sixteenth.

Participation Grade: 100.
Today I deserve a 100 because Aladren said that I was her favorite student, aside from Javi, and I feel that that alone is a huge accomplishment (Haha). But really, I taught freshman as best as I could how to use a ladder, and I feel that I helped some of them. Also, after making my whole "It's ok to say no if you're scared" speech, I feel that a lot of them felt more comfortable admitting their issues with the ladders and I feel like I helped them. I also wore sneakers, which usually does not happen AND we talked about Midsummer and it brought back a lot of memories :( I can't believe I'm a senior!

As for journals, I started re-reading "A Doll's House", just to see if I hadn't caught somethings the first time around... and everything seems to be the same... so I think I'm going to re-read it again, just to be safe. I'm going to write a paper about it, so I want to make sure I'm well informed. I know I want my thesis to have something to do with feminism and the movement from Romanticism to Realism and how this play influenced it. Glenn just called me, random. Haha. Random. We're talking on the phone now and it's interupting my journal time. I think I'm going to start reading "A Sense of Direction" again, I think it will help me a lot. Ok, I'm siging off.

I've been up since 5AM and I'm really tired.

Participation Grade: 100%
today i deserve a 100 because although you (ms. aladren) may have thought that my attempts at moderating that debate were futile, i would like to think that towards the i didn't do too poorly. it's really interesting what the freshman think and it's nice to see them opening up and some of them not afraid to share their opinions. they seem so malleable that i'm almost afraid to say somethings because i don't want them getting the wrong idea. i hope that my points made some sense today and that they took something away from that discussion. i feel like i'm mentoring.

SHOULD ART ALWAYS SHOW THE GOOD TRIUMPHING OVER THE EVIL?
no. i think that art should show whatever the outcome is as is, whether it be good or evil. yes, stories do have happy endings, but they have dismal ones as well, that shouldn't be ignored because they are "good" or "evil". no doubt more stories leave you with a thread of hope at the end of a dark situation, but should we only limit endings to just that? i don't think so. i think today in class this debate turned into "do bad endings have hope in them" or "even though the ending is seemingly bad, there is still hope".. which is why i posed the "what is good and what is bad" question. but, never-the-less, the questions still asks: should only good be aloud to win in the end? and i think not, because, plainly, in real life situations, good does not always win. does this mean that you have no hope left? no. it just means the the outcomes of that situation were not good for you (aka, bad) but you still have hope left. the presence of hope had nothing to do with the question, but the debate was good anways.

SHOULD ART BE PRESENTED IF IT WILL OFFEND CERTAIN MORALS OR BELIEFS HELD BY SOCIETY?
yes. education is key. dan and i had very close opinions in this: everything should have a reason. like, language. like, take "out lady of 121st street", a play set in a very urban environment. the language is pretty disgusting if you just skim through it, but when you actually read it read it, something more is revealed. the people in this play are uneducated ghetto people (and not to say that ghetto people are uneducated, but these people are). they were never taught the right way to communicate or how to express themselves, so they resort to petty name calling or throwing curse words around as fillers for words that they don't know. sure, the language probably offend lots of people, but it shouldn't be aloud to be performed or published because it has relevance. it sheds light on the uneducated people in the world. i know after reading that play i started to clean up my vocabulary. it just wasn't throwing around the word "fuck" for fun, it had a purpose, and i think that the goal was reached.

A DOLL'S HOUSE:
so i just finished it, and that door slam is so satisfying. i kind of suspected that this was going to happen. you told us that this was one of the first feminist plays, so i figured she either killed him or left him.. but i didn't think nora could murder someone so i opted for the second one. but damn, the entire time i was just like.. wow. look at everything that she's been keeping insider of her. she acknowledges that she has no idea what the world is, but she's willing to find out. she admits that she has no education, but she wants one. ugh! i was so happy for her. i felt for her. i was so proud of nora. i need to see this play. i can see why this would start riots, but i'm so happy it was written. this needed to be written because it started such a powerful movement. girl power. go me. go nora!


as a side note: while doing college applications today, i came across a problem. alot of them don't have the fall of 2010 application on line yet. CalArts comes out at the end of september, but we'll talk tomorrow.

i have finally surrendered.

i hate blogging. i think i have a vendetta against it. but here you go, aladren. you've won this one. anyways... "a doll's house" is going surprisingly well. i really do not like torevald at all.. like, i just want to hit him with something heavy and blunt. he's so forkin' controlling. and dr. rank and nora have totally "been gettin' it on" btdubbs. i'm not even acting in this and just by reading it i could feel the sexual tension between the two of them, like mad woah. i really want to find out why this is considered to be one of the first feminist plays.. actually. i know why. you can tell, as i mentioned in my last entery that was not a blog, that nora is totally using her ditzyness as a way to "cheat the system" like paris hilton. that shows a woman in power, so that's always a plus. go nora. that dr. rank is tricky though... it was tough reading his parts becuase he's dying. i kept imagingng my aunt's boyfriend who passed not even a week ago from cancer playing him. i guess it's the whole illness thing. was that bitchy? i don't think it was. OH! and then dr. rank like admits to loving nora... which i totally called. i read this going "hmm.. i bet her has the hots for nora" and he so did. and i'm so happy he did. not because i want to break up nora and torevald's marriage or anything, i just really wanted to be right. blogblogblog. blog. ok, whatever. i think i'll finish this play by tomorrow. i'm almost done with the 2nd act, so i'm in pretty good shape. yay being a senior who knows how to read and understand plays! go me! go katelin!

ok. so i never gave my participation grade yesterday: 100.
i deserve a 100 for Septmeber 8, 2009 for three reasons:
1) because i am awesome and i have amazing hair.
2) we started reading a doll's house, and i read nora. and alothough that part is no where, and i mean not even remotly close to my range, i'd like to think oi banged it out pretty well... ok. i lied. it was horrible but i didn't give up! i just did it. and i think that says alot about me as a person. not really, but i still read and participated in class and that should count for something.
3) i started my auto-biographical college essay and i came to the conclusion that i have no idea what i'm doing. but i'm assuming that feeling is healthy becuase if i did know what i was doing, i would already be in college. that realization is a very goo reason to have a 100.

september 9, 2009 participation grade. 100.
today, i get a 100 because i am smart enough to give myself one. why would you not give yourself a 100? that's like finding $10 dollars in your pant's pocket, knowing that you are going out to lunch and plan on buying something for exactly $10 and leaving the money in your pocket. maybe it isn't anything like that but i thought it was a good anology. but other than giving myself a 100 and being awesome the other seniors and i discussed the showcase alot, i helped dan with "don't cut class" and such. go life.