SUCCESS!

We did it.  And it was amazing.  And there were around 100 people their.  Gahh!  THAT WAS THE COOLEST.

And now for bed.

Final Tech!

We are teching our final of the three shows!  In an hour and 20 minutes, there will be an audience here and the shows will be starting. 

Close!

It is almost that time!  After some food and a break, we are heading back for our last tech!  I have put on super cute clothes and I am all ready for tonight!

Just What I Am Thinking About Now...

Alright.  It seems an appropriate time to recap all that has happened thus far (plus add some things in that I might not have mentioned before).

Number of hours of sleep: 4.  And that is with oversleeping this morning.  I have almost fallen asleep on the floor of Cloak a couple of times but I have managed, somehow, to stay away.  It has been rough.  I hit a brick wall of exhaustion around 2 when Abi and I had to run out to get corn.  Staying away was physically painful.  Luckily for me, I saved my Mocha Frappachino from this morning in the fridge (as did Abi) and so we returned to the theatre and drank those.  So I find myself with a little bit more energy.  Now to just make sure that I don't let myself become exhausted by dinner.  Cause meals are exhausting!

Well, we have finished the first tech and are now into the second.  

Almost there!  Now we are even closer!  Less than 4 hours until the curtain goes up and the first 1440 Theatre Carnival happens for the first time in 2 years!

We are having a hard time getting the sound to work so we have decided that we are going to make our own theme music while we change the sets, like Kronk in Emperor's New Groove!  It is going to be amazing.

I am surrounded by papers.  What is happening?  What are all these papers?  Why are they here?  I should clean this up.  I cleaned up Comedy House earlier because the house smelled like pizza and tired after having the writers there last night.  But now it smells like normal house!  Yay!

1st Tech!

It is our first technical rehearsal!  It is all becoming so real. 

This one involves a gnome...

KERN!

Don't worry guys. The corn has been purchased. 

Almost Tech!

Tech rehearsals start in an hour!

Brunch Break!

And now we break for food. Real food!  Not junk food!  And they have the good hash browns! 

Coffee!

(Due to some technical dificulties, this didnt post on time. Pretend it is 7:30 in the morning.)

We have the coffee!

And I got myself way too many calories. 

Oh man. Directors are meeting and actors will be joining them soon. 

We made a breakfast spread!

Gahhh I am tired. 

And the Vines Continue!

Oh man guys.  In our sleep deprived state, we have started making copious amounts of Vines.  We are LIVE VINING!  HERE THEY ARE!

Giant Gatorades (by Abi)

MONEY BAGEL! (by Sophie. This one took forever. But it was so worth it.)

Actor Creeping! (I made this one!)

No sleep. Woo!

Yeah.  Things went crazy.

Hanging in Cloak, getting everything ready!

But tonight is going to be awesome!  I am super pumped!  And super tired... BUT MOSTLY SUPER PUMPED!

Overslept!

We took a nap and woke up two hours late!  Gahhh!  Abi and I are running to pick up coffee while Sophie prints things and sets up for people's arrival.

We are in the car!

First Shift

I am coving the first shift while Abi and Sophie take naps.  And I now find myself surrounded by phones.

All the phones!

We have to keep track of all of our phones so that there is always someone available to the writers.  And this way we can make sure that we can help them regardless of which phone they call.

In an hour, I will be waking Abi up and she will be doing the second shift.

And Now It Is 1:00am

Pizza has arrived and some of it is now in my stomach. It was delicious in that cheap pizza way. But now I feel all greasy and heavy. Which makes me feel sleepy. But I also drank some Dr. Pepper so I am hoping that the caffeine kicks in soon. We were hanging out downstairs with people but that wasn't very productive for those writers so Abi and I have returned to our room. Jessica is watching a movie and planning on falling asleep. I am sitting on my bed writing a journal entry about 1440 while watching Weeds in hopes of keeping myself awake.

Plays are due in slightly less than 3 hours and then the real fun begins. 

Abi has lost her headphones and is now searching the room trying to find them. She has just thrown everything off of her bed and is crawling around on it like some strange part snake, part human creature. The lack of sleep is already kicking in and it is only 1am. I can do this. I can stay awake. I am terrible at this whole not sleeping thing...

And Now Begins the Vines...

It has hit the point of the night where I have started making Vines...  Here are the two good ones.

I feel you, literally...

Sleepytime!

Abi is Harry Potter!

And it is only midnight.  This is going to be a long night.  We can do it!

Waiting Game

And now we wait. We have to stay awake so that we are available for the writers. So we have moved up to Abi, Jessica's, and my room to watch Dollhouse.

Junk Food!

WE HAVE OBTAINED JUNK FOOD AND CAFFEINE!

And there will be pizza ordered later. Nom nom nom. 

Meeting Over!

We met with everyone and broke everyone into groups. Everyone has been released and now the writers are writing. 

All the people involved!

Then we have our directors. 

And our writers!

(Except for me. I just happened to end up in this photo.)

This is going to be the best. 

Almost Time!

The three of us are all ready for people to start arriving!  This is going to be a blasty blast!

(Sadie's tongue is all ready to get writing!)

T-1 Hour!

Oh man.  In only one hour, the 1440 Theatre Carnival will be beginning and I am SUPER PUMPED!  This is going to be absolutely amazing.  In just 1440 minutes, plays will be written, rehearsed, and performed.  Get ready for a whirlwind of awesomeness!  AND, I will be live blogging throughout those 1440 minutes so that everyone can know what is going on and how amazing it is.

Abi, Sophie, and me.  We are all super stoked.  (Also, this is an older picture that we made to advertise this awesome event.)

Stay tuned!  It promises to be great.

Shire Shower and Jimmy Fallon

Hey y'all!  Since I headed back to school, I haven't really taken the time to sit down and write an honest to goodness blog post.  I have been keeping up with my weekly dances and having a great time.  And now, because I probably should be working on homework, I am finally taking the time to write an update.

Here are the basics.  I am living in a house on campus this year that I share with 7 other people.  It is awesome.  I live in a triple, meaning that I have two roommates.  This is us.

Jessica, Abi, and Me

We are pretty amazing.  The room is nice and we even have our own bathroom that we share with the guys next door!  The bathroom is weird, though.  The ceiling is short and our shower looks like this.

Yeah.  The shower head is in the shorter part.  And on a string.  And we have to kind of hang it off this hook in the ceiling.  But there isn't really water pressure...  It's a whole thing.  We call the bathroom our Hobbit Bathroom with the Shire Shower.  It's pretty cool.  At least we can laugh about it.

Last week was Abi's birthday and Jessica and I got her Jimmy Fallon's comedy album, Blow Your Pants Off.  And when I saw album, I mean the vinyl.  It is awesome.  But the cover can also be incredibly scary if you are not expecting to see him.  So we have started a new game that we like to call "Hide Jimmy."

This was the first hiding spot.  Abi got me with this one.

Jessica was the next victim when we placed him on her desk.

Jessica and I put him in the bathroom.

Abi and I hid with Jimmy when Jessica went to the bathroom.

Jessica found herself the victim again when he was found hanging out with her pillows.

I put him watching the stairs for a while.  Scared myself with this one.

He visited Abi's computer.  Didn't scare her at all.  She heard Jessica and me laughing about this one.

And most recently, Jimmy found himself in Abi's shirt drawer.  It took her 2 days to find him this time.

We have way too much fun with this.  And I am frightened for where I am going to find him throughout the year.

This is going to be an awesome year, though.  Between classes, rehearsals for our 70 minute version of As You Like It that I am directing, and improv, I am incredibly busy.  But I am loving every minute of it.

Awkward Dancing All Over the Place

This week's dance!  Guest starring Abi, Jessica, Kayleigh, and Sophie.

Sweater Weather
by The Neighborhood

Togas & Trekno

Every year, there is this huge party on campus called "Togas & Techno."  I am not a party person myself and neither are my roommates so we decided to stay in and watch the new Star Trek movie while wearing togas.  We call it Togas & Trekno.  We found a techno version of the Star Trek theme.  It was awesome.

Awkward Dance Wednesdays: Family Edition

This week's Awkward Dance features my brother Tuxford!

Harlem
by New Politics

A Typical Thursday Night

STEP 1: Organize basil on a cookie sheet so that it can be dried out for later use.

STEP 2:  Go to the library and get movies that Mike Birbiglia has been in.  (If you don't know who that is, then you should look him up because he is amazing.  Fill the Birbiglia shaped hole in your life.)

STEP 3:  Eat dinner which consists of tortellini with fresh, homemade pesto.  (The best!)

                              

STEP 4:  Watch previously mentioned movies that have Mike Birbiglia in them while crocheting a Union Jack so that you can make a giant Union Jack pillow to put in your Sherlock themed room which will be coming into existence in the very near future. 

So now you know how I spend my Thursday nights.  It is quite the party.  I know you are all jealous.  Carry on with your lives.

And Yet Again I Dance

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Have a dance!

Miracle Mile

by Cold War Kids