of singing and swearing... but not at the same time

Procrastination -- the evil leach upon my back. I have ample time to write an essay right now before my friend Noah comes over to watch a movie, but what am I doing?? Writing a blog. Because I feel like it. And I don't feel like writing an essay. It's not a long essay mind you, but it's an essay none the less. Blech.
Went to the opera this pastThursday. It was my fourth opera -- my, am I getting cultured or what. Booyah. Sharon, Amy, Noah and I went to see "Abduction from the Seraglio" by Mozart. It was so beautiful. It did not make it into my very favourite opera book (and yes, I definately have one of those) mostly becuase it had a lot of dialogue which I didn't mind, but didn't like as much. But it did have Benjamin Butterfield in it. He is such a cool guy. He came to Redeemer for Opera Day and then he found out that Redeemer students were coming to the show and that was very cool becuase we got a special invitation from him for us to come backstage after the show. Oh yeah. Special invitation from Benjamin Butterfield -- world renown Canadian Tenor.
In other news, I'm completely and madly in love with Colin Firth. *sigh*
The play is going well. Lots of fun, but also rather demanding. Didn't really think this character (Duchess of Berwick) would be as challenging as she is proving to be. Not challenging in a bad way but one really never stops working with her. She's not in the play alot but when she is, she definately ON THE STAGE. She has quite the presence so one can get a little tired. :) But she's an absolute blast to play -- I love taking on her character. She just requires alot of energy.
I just found out yesterday that someone I am somewhat aquainted with has died. I didn't know him really well or anything but it's still a shock. He died in a head on collision. It kind of hits ya hard -- and to make matters worse I found out during my lunch break from rehearsal so I had to go back and go through the rest of rehearsal. Blech, what a weight.
So I've seen Pride and Prejudice (1995 version with Colin Firth -- hence the uber Colin Firth love) twice now in 5 days. All sixish hours. Oh yeah. But I have discovered that this movie leaves me somewhat depressed... mostly because a) I wish we could dress like that -- but maybe not so much the dresses worn in P&P becuase they make them look pregnant, but nice dresses none the less, b) I wish everyone still talked that refined and distinguished and with those accents .. I'm so sick and saddened by the erosion of our English language c) I wish men were still that civil and respectable with the ladies and d) I wish I could find and marry my Mr. Darcy. mmmm.. Or maybe just marry Mr. Darcy period. :) Why oh why was I born in Ontario in this century?? I know, I know, I have a purpose here.. but still.
So I might be going abroad. But not really all that far. This is still very very tentative but I might be going to a Christian film school in L.A. for a semester. It would be my first semester of my fourth year so it's a ways off yet but I have to plan and stuff so I just might do it. I'm pretty excited about it, but I still have to do a lot of research so we'll see.
I'm listening to Josh Groban right now... and he's still amazing. Life is good.

reading shmeading

So I'm supposed to update my blog so my sister can read how much I miss her. Ummm..... okay I'm done. There you go Trish.
hee hee.
Alright, alright. I know I haven't updated or anything of late but I kind of forgot about my blog. I mean, I don't really know if people read this thing so that doesn't make it a huge priority... it also doesn't help that our internet is NEVER working at school. *shaking of fist at computer guys* gr. But it's reading break so I have time and the internet. I know, try to contain yourselves --- that's a uber combination. Funny... that's always how I pictured "uber" to be spelt but now that I type it out, it looks weird. huh.
In local news, I made a recent exciting discovery. I discovered that our library has a pretty impressive movie/dvd collection and that it only costs 50 cents to take out a movie/dvd!! What have I been missing!??!?!?!? Course you have to have it back the next day but I beleive that's the only drawback.. that and that our library is about 10 minutes away. But besides that, I'm totally excited! They have a huge (well, huge compared to any movie rental place I've seen) foreign films section and they have a pretty good selection of "artsy" movies as well a recent releases... wow! I'm so stoked. How did I make this amazing discovery, you ask? Well, I went to the library! Yeah, I know ... shocker. And with all this great selection what did I end up renting? Shakespeare in Love. Yep. Okay, my sister recommended the movie to me, and honestly I didn't really mind it, but Trish, it was not as awesome as you made it sound.. I don't know why it won best picture nor why Gwenyth Paltrow won best actress for it. And it wasn't THAT funny. It had it's moments, yes, but I didn't come out thinking that it was really funny. It did have a stacked cast though... Geoffrey Rush, Rupert Everett, Joseph Fiennes, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench.. some talented actors.
Anways enough of my ramblings...
I have to be off.. time to go to church. To those of you in far away countries.. I miss you dearly....