WTF?!?!?!?!
Current mood: confused

So, we've worked our asses off to get Midsummer up (and it's a great show...those of you who read this who aren't in it need to see it), and I've got a question that maybe somebody else can answer for me:  Why is it that a 12-year-old girl with a fairly minor role gets written up (not once, but TWICE) in the paper, with nary a mention of the rest of the cast?  What's up with this?

I understand that she's the granddaughter of the founder of CLC's theatre program...that was covered in the FIRST article, cleverly titled "Girl Loves to Act" (or something very similar...

Once again, the old adage is proved true:  if there are children in the show, the show becomes completely about the children...

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The Least I Can Do
Current mood: energetic
Category: Friends

Here is my attempt to help those who feel overwhelmed and underappreciated.  This is going in my blog because, well, this seems to be how I communicate with people these days, and I'm sorry for that.  I wish that I had more personal contact with all of you guys, but I get busy and my time gets taken away from me.

Anyway, as I was writing a message to one of my friends, I realized that I'd just read a very similar blog from another one of my friends, and had the same thoughts myself.  So, I figured that I would share my thoughts and ideas (in a general sort of way, of course...if anybody wants clarification, they know how to get ahold of me).

Most of us here are theatre-type people.  We are fraught with insecurities and overactive imaginations.  Everything that happens to us is felt more keenly than it could possibly be felt by anybody else.  We have a flair for the dramatic.  However, when we let these tendencies out of our control, we begin to wallow in the morass of our own disappointment that the world is not living up to our expectations.  I'm not saying that this is true in all cases, but definitely in some cases.

How do we fix this?  I don't know.  I try to have no expectations, but apparently that has served only to make people think of me as distant and aloof.  That's not a bad thing, per se, but it's really not me, and most of you know that.

I've tried confiding in people and talking about things, but I start to feel like I'm being selfish and always talking about myself.  Or, like I'm always expecting someone else to fix my problems.  So I stop.

I think the problem is that we try so hard to "fix" our broken-ness.  What if we just accept it for what it is?  What if we just accept that we are broken, and that the world is broken, and we have to figure out how to live our broken lives in the broken world?

And who says that we're broken, anyway?  What's wrong with the dreams and flights of fancy that take us all from time to time?  Absolutely nothing, I say.  Sure, it'll lead us off the beaten path.  Sure, it might get us turned around and confused.  But, hey...you take what the world gives you and ask for more.  When life hands you lemons, build a treehouse. It's so much more fun than making lemonade.

I don't know if this has helped anyone or not.  I hope it at least brought a smile to one or two faces (actually, I'm hoping for more, but I'll settle for 1 or 2).  For those of you who have the number, my phone is always on (even if I can't always answer, I am getting better about returning messages).  For those of you who don't have it, you can still leave me a message here.  I will do my best to at least make you chuckle when you need it.

It's the least I can do.

Currently listening : Mothership Connection By Parliament Release date: 08 April, 2003

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WOW!

Well, folks, it's been kind of busy around here, but I think things are about evening out.  Rehearsals have started for Midsummer, and they're going pretty well.  No complaints. 

The radio show (and for those of you who don't know about it, SHAME ON YOU!  I've plugged it plenty...) is going better every broadcast.  We're shooting for a perfect broadcast by the end of the semester, but honestly...the mistakes are more entertaining.  Anyway, if you don't know where to go to listen to the Koz and the Mountain Man Show, broadcast LIVE every Tuesday and Thursday (10:30 PM-12 midnight Central), then just follow this link to get there.

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That was not as bad as it could have been

Well, we started our radio show last night.  Aside from the fact that technical difficulties kept us off the air for almost the whole show, I think that it went as well as could be expected.  There was no blatant obscenity or anything, so that was good.

What wasn't was that I verbally censored myself, because the comment I had been about to make might have been a little bit inappropriate.

My partner, Chris, asked what I had been about to say.

I told him...on the air...causing head banging and hand wringing all around.  Apparently, it WAS a little bit inappropriate.

However, it's over now.  We'll be on again tomorrow night (and ON TIME!) at www.clcradio.org/v2/player.shtm AND all of the following links:

 http://s4.viastreaming.net/7250/
-Listen Address: http://s4.viastreaming.net:7250/listen.pls
-Port 80 Listen Address: http://s4.viastreaming.net/cgi-bin/listen.pls?7250

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