I'm almost done! (only five more semesters to go)

The past couple of weeks have been sort of busy. When I say "sort of busy" I mean really busy. Last week we had our design fair where we showcased our work from the year and then received feedback. I was apprehensive because I only have one semester at USU and therefore not as much work to show. Fortunately for me I like to render on large paper and I have work from my undergrad at Weber. Here is a rough sketch from my first project as a grad student: ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

It is what we refer to as a "paper project" because that is as far as it gets, production wise. It was for "Sweeney Todd." I still have a long way to go as a designer but I think it was sort of a break through because it is a lot looser than my earlier work. Hopefully I will continue to improve during the next two and a half years.

While we're discussing paper projects, I'll post another picture. This is a white model of a set for "Death of a Salesman" that I constructed for Van Tinkham's set design class a couple of years ago. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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Unfortunately, the only reminder of this set are some inferior quality cell phone pictures (hint, I could really use a digital camera.) It's a pretty basic set: a kitchen, two bedrooms, some stair cases and some acting areas downstage. I also did a rendering on some fairly nice gray paper but I can't remember where I put it. It's probably at my parent's house.

The day after the design fair we (meaning the theatre department) had our end of the year banquet at the Bluebird. Initally I was sort of like, "Oh, it's at the Bluebird?" and I had a sort of snotty attitude but I went and I had a really nice time! The food was much better than I was anticipating and the room upstairs was surprisingly nice. It made sense why my roommate is having her wedding luncheon there in a week and half.

As usual, I didn't have a camera so I have to pull a Blanche Dubois and rely on the "kindness of strangers" (whoa, how many theatre terms/references can I cram in this post?) My friend Leslie posted a bunch of pictures on her facebook page so I'm going to use them here. Thanks Leslie!

Left to right: Ruby, Jared Rounds, Amanda Profaizer, Brandee Jenks, Me, Leslie Aldridge, and Jeff Dransfield. We had a good time. Can you tell?

Typical!

I decided to come home for the weekend, right before finals. I wanted to see family and have a break from Logan. I also needed a haircut and my favorite hairdresser is located in, you guessed it, Kaysville. During my appointment we talked about theatre and she asked if I was going to see "Wicked." I told her I probably wasn't because it's expensive and I am a grad student. Imagine my surprise when my cell phone rang an hour or so later and my aunt invited me to see "Wicked." It was AMAZING! I only had my cell phone so enjoy the sort of awful picture quality. I'm so lucky!!! Thanks John and Kathryn!!!!

Overhaul

I just wanted to shake things up and change my blog around. I hope it isn't boring any more.

Now if there was only something that could be done about the writing.

Blah

It has been a wet couple of days. I don't mind the rain, I'm actually kind of fond of it. This, I am not fond of:
















All in all, it makes me feel like this:











Blah. That is what this picture sums up, blah.
I hope spring finds its way here soon.
It's almost finals week, I can hardly believe it.

I used to dance...

I have been feeling nostalgic the past couple of days. There is an aspect of myself that some of my friends don't know about. I took ballet lessons when I was younger. I danced from the time I was nine years old until I graduated from high school. I danced for two semesters in college but it wasn't the same so I stopped. During my time at ballet school I participated in nine recitals and six productions of the Nutcracker. I went through a very brief scrapbook phase and the following pages are proof of that. Here they all are in an album. It's weird to see how I grew from nine to eighteen.

Ballet

What. The. Heck.

For an April Fool's Day, today wasn't so bad. Sure the morning was a little rocky but it got better! I didn't fall victim to any pranks, the only one was a theatre student who had a very convincing shiner. (She did a great job.) Anywho... I found out via a friend that "Pushing Daisies" season two is going to be released on July 21st. There are three episodes that haven't been aired and I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS! I WANT CLOSURE! Ahem.

Speaking of closure, "Life on Mars" wrapped up tonight. I was excited for most of the day because I just didn't know what was going to happen. How was Sam's life in 1973 going to be explained? What was up with all the space man references? What about the rocket ships? Or the space cruiser robot thingys? Rather than go the BBC route and explain it away with a coma induced fantasy, ABC went to space. Mars, actually. Sam, Gene, Ray, Chris, and Annie were all on a two year journey to Mars that required an induced coma for ease in traveling. Sam was supposed to be in 2008 but his "dream maker" thingy got messed up and it sent him back to 1973 with his 2008 memories. As it turns out Gene and Sam are father and son and Gene had the same tattoo as Vic, Sam's pretend father. It was weird. Although, not as weird as the dinky little pony tails sported by Ray and Gene. They got rid of the facial hair but they couldn't just chop the hair as well? Heck, Annie was wearing a really bad wig with little stringy bits hanging off the front. I'm not so sure if I liked how they wrapped it up. The last episode was pretty exciting up until the end.

My sister is coming to visit this weekend. I'm really excited. AND I am going to my mission reunion. Hopefully it will be a good time.