Okay, I know that all three of you that probably read this will be saying to yourselves, "Wow, Michelle is posting something? And it's a honest to goodness real post?" I know you are shocked but bear with me here.

So, I was on facebook a little while ago and on the entry page, you know with the pokes, etc... The very first thing on the main part were pictures from a wedding, so I went to check it out. It seems that several people I knew in high school got married. This in and of itself is not really a big deal. What was surprising though are how many other people from high school were in the pictures. A good amount of them were even people that I was friends with.

It made me wonder if I missed something along the way. I'll admit that in high school while I had a number of friends I was not super close to very many, and didn't spend tons of time outside of school and rehearsal with many people (and when I did it wasn't always necessarily the same people as more and more became my habit in college). I will also admit that I didn't particularly like a lot of the people I went to high school, which is why to a certain extent I chose Wesleyan where I knew no one from my school was going over JMU or VT. During college I only really kept in touch with one person but not regularly, since graduating I haven't talked to her at all. After all this explaining I reach the point where once again I wonder if I missed something. Was I just antisocial in high school? Did I just never give people a chance? And why are they all still friends when I don't speak to anyone? Would it have been different if I went to a state school. Do I even really regret it?

After pondering this for a while I came to the conclusion that in part it has to do with my opinions of my high school. It wasn't that I disliked everyone or anything as dramatic as that. It is simply that I never truly fit in anywhere. As with most high schools (I'm assuming anyway) the social atmosphere was made up with different cliques. I however, was never part of any of them, not that I was an outcast either. I had friends in every group but wasn't really part of any of them. Thus, I was accepted while I was there but forgotten when I wasn't which in the end seemed to leave no lasting impression (good or bad) on most anyone.

I wonder if I did it again (shudder) knowing what I know now, would I do it any differently? Probably not.

1) What was the first play you ever did? What role/job?
I was an ostrich in a musical version of Noah’s Arch that my choir director wrote. The ostrich song was actually the best song, surprisingly enough. I have pictures, good times. BTW, for an original show it was actually pretty good.

2) What was your most recent show? What job/role?
Richard III. I was Queen Elizabeth.

3) What was your most fun show/role?
Probably Claire in Fuddy Meers. That show was awesome!!!

4) What was your most challenging show/role?
It’s a close call, but the most challenging was only a scene but One for the Road with James and Jack… no more story needed, especially for those who were around at the time.

Next would be Richard III because of all the walking on stage sobbing, oh and not getting any notes for the last two weeks of the show.

5) What is the most bizarre show or role you've ever done?
It was about the Earth, and I played the Earth (singing of course). I had a huge ball around my body painted like the Earth, and blue leggings. My face was painted blue with sunglasses on, and my hair was braided pigtails. It case you haven’t figured it out yet, it was totally hot.

6) Has anyone ever written a show for you?
Ummm, no but maybe they should.

7) Have you ever gotten romantically involved with a co-star?
No.

8) Have you ever quit a show to accept a better one?
No but I wanted to, minus the better one part.

9) Have you ever completely blown character on stage?
I almost did during Richard when I saw the goldfish was still in Ian’s pocket and he had no idea. Pretty funny!

10)What shows are you just dying to do?
Little Women, Jekyll and Hyde… there are a lot I’d love to direct… Assassins, A Piece of My Heart, Children of Eden… and the list goes on.

11) Have you ever been one of your "dream" roles?
No, unfortunately.

12) Who was your favorite director?
Barbara, definitely Barbara. But Jon was pretty awesome as well. (and hot)

13) Who was your least favorite director?
Well, there is my jackass high school director who told me after an awesome audition, “that was really great… but it doesn’t matter.” Then there was once again the whole not getting notes thing. Hmm… probably a few more to choose from if I think hard enough.

14) What is the most surprising role you have ever been offered?
I was rather surprised when I was offered Elizabeth, I never thought that I would be playing that role. Murder, yes, Anne, maybe, Elizabeth, no. But alas, yes indeed.

15)Have you ever injured yourself onstage?
The real question should be… when have you not injured yourself during the course of a show? Umm, never.

16) Have you ever worked on an original play?
Several times, see above: Noah and Earth.

17) What show have you done multiple times?
Bye Bye Birdie

18) Have you ever done different adaptations of the same show?
Nope

20) Have you ever had an onstage kiss?
Several, unfortunately all awkward and none romantic. One was in Fuddy Meers where I thought he was my brother, and the then in Richard where he was scamming on me while trying to convince me to marry my daughter to him. Plus he was creepy.

21) What was your scariest moment in a show?
During the fight scene when one of the guys decided to go Rambo on us. Enough said.

22) Who was the best Miss Prism ever?
Well, that would have to be Carrie Greenberg.

23) What is your worst show memory?
Getting my fingers glued to my head.

24) Have you ever pulled a prank on someone in a show?
Goldfish, although it didn’t start out as a prank.

25) Have you ever been the recipient of a prank during a show?
No, but I was a witness to one that was really quite amazing in high school while I was doing Brigadoon. We had understudies at my high school, but they never did anything or even had to go to the rehearsals to learn blocking, nothing. Well, one of the nights of the show we get there and our director is very sober looking. He says that our Harry Beaton had to go to hospital to get his appendix out because it almost exploded. So, the understudy had to go on. He didn’t know any of the part and it involved a lot of dancing. He spent two hours learning the dances (and wasn’t very good at it either) when who shows up looking just fine, but the guy playing Harry Beaton.

Now this was pretty funny, but the story thickens. The understudy was also the understudy for someone the year before, and they played a similar joke on him, and still got away with it a second time. Oh, he was sooooo pissed. And it was soooo great!!!

This is really disturbing. I just can't believe it, and I watched the video. The most recent article about the incident and the video are on the website below.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070426abbate,1,4948396.story?coll=chi-news-hed


It really makes me mad, and the fact that he is a cop only makes it that much worse.

The World's First All-glass Undersea Restaurant Opens
Wednesday 04-25-2007 1:06pm

The Maldives | The first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. Ithaa* will sit five meters below the waves of the Indian Ocean, surrounded by a vibrant coral reef and encased in clear acrylic offering diners 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views.

The five-metre by nine-metre transparent arch, which spans the entire room, seats 14 people and provides a feeling of being completely at one with the underwater world while submerged beneath the surface of the ocean. Set with the resort's renowned house reef one side, and a clear lagoon on the other, diners enjoy their meal within Ithaa's translucent shell as the underwater drama unfolds on all sides.
Ithaa is reached by a wooden walkway from the nearby over-water Sunset Grill Restaurant. Diners begin their meal with drinks on a specially constructed deck over the ocean and then descend to the restaurant via a spiral staircase where the à la carte menu is served. Seating only 14 people, Ithaa offers one of the most intimate and exclusive dining experiences in the world.

This innovative restaurant is the first of its kind in the world, and is part of a US $25 million re-build of Rangalifinolhu Island, one of the twin islands that make up Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. This re-build includes the construction of 79 of the most luxurious Beach Villas in the country as well as the Spa Village, a self-contained, over-water 'resort-within-a-resort' consisting of a spa, restaurant and 21 villas.


To see pictures go to this website...
http://stranger-worlds.blogspot.com/2007/03/worlds-first-all-glass-undersea.html


It's pretty awesome.

Thus far it appears that everyone I know that goes to VT (which is a lot of people) are okay. I am not certain yet however, so please be praying for the unknown.


More on this later.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Alright all of you musical theatre people...

On March 3 I'm going to audition for the following four shows (in one audition):

High Society
Aida
Songs for a New World
The Foreigner

Now, I don't need a monologue. But I need to decide what song to sing. HELP!

What do you think?

This article was really upsetting. It's so sad and disgusting. How can people do this?


http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/02/12/child.soldiers/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Okay, story...

This happened today.

I went to the store to buy a new DVD player today, because my old one (not really so old, only 2 months) decided to try and eat my DVDs. And it refused to play brand new movies. So, there was this huge line because Best Buy was cool and only had one register open and all of Maryland decided to be in the Best Buy at the same time. I started talking the guy in line next to me. We must have talked for an hour or something waiting in line. It was amusing but nothing to write home about. It was just a way to pass the time. Right before he turned to got check out he says to me, and I quote, "You are almost amazing, kinda like how I was almost happy to be talking to you." He shakes his head a little and walks away.

I ask you, WTF?




Also on a side note, Valentine's Day is this week. And to that I say:


Fac me cocleario vomere!


Translation: Gag me with a spoon! (that's Latin, it's sounds so much better that way)

Valentine's Day is just about the worst day in life, certainly the worst holiday, although St. Patrick's Day is up there too, since I inevidibly forget and don't wear green and people pinch my unsuspecting person which makes me in turn want to throttle them. However, Valentine's Day is indeed worse because I want to throttle at least half the people I see. Damn them for being happy! Why did they make a day so they could flaunt it in front of us poor single, and probably always single people.

I am sickened!!!

The following is taken from http://www.wikihow.com/Act-Drunk. I must say there are some very funny articles on this site. Please read and laugh at will. Feel free to comment as well.



How to Act Drunk

Ever been at a party and that complete weirdo from your Math class comes over to talk to you and you don't know how to get out of it? Acting totally drunk is a sure fire way to avoid any conversation or any other awkward situation you can think of!

Steps

1. Let out random expletives. Some good ones include "wanker" and "tit." These work best when fired as an insult at an innocent bystander.

2. Let your eyes glaze over slightly and roll your eyeballs a bit. Try and act as nonchalant as a stoned Rastafarian.

3. However hard other party goers insist that you are drunk, you must deny this completely and utterly.

4. Be touchy feely. Now you are at a party, it is completely acceptable to hug anyone and everyone even if you have never spoken to them before!

5. Find yourself a chair and slump yourself in it allowing one hand to fall onto your reproductive region and the other onto your thigh, preferably with your thumb pointing 90 degrees to your other hand. Stare lustfully at everything that goes past you, your tongue slightly lolling out of your mouth. Groan periodically. Every party has it's own resident perv.

6. Lose your balance altogether. Imagine every wall pulling you towards it and neither wall is managing to win.

7. Find some stairs and lie on them. Stairs are a magnet for drunken fools.

8. And finally if you do unfortunately find yourself roped into a conversation, remember these rules: Think of 3 adjectives and look around the room for the first object you see. Point at it and describe it to the person you are talking to only using your 3 adjectives and the terms "thingy" "whatchamacallit" and "you-know-whats."

Tips

• If you are playing the perv role, ensure as a man, you only focus on the torso or alternatively as a woman, focus primarily on the abdomen.

• Never say "Oh my god I'm so drunk." A good drunk never admits to intoxication.

Warnings

• Do not insult people by touching them in private regions even if you are playing the perv role! This will result in a slap.

• Be sure to keep up the charade for if people find out you are not drunk, people will laugh at you and possibly call you a big pansy.

• Be safe. Don't drink alcohol!