Common Courtesy

Feb27

How many people have gone to a play at least once in their life? Probably a lot, no? One would think people seeing a play would be able to exercise courtesy to the rest of the audience, and to the actors on stage. Today, at one of the plays for the Sears Drama Festival,  there was a water buffalo-esque woman in the front freaking row taking pictures of the cast, as they were performing. This would seem normal in any other situation except for the fact that every time she focused the camera, it would make a (loud) beep noise. It wasn’t like she was taking pictures every couple of minutes, either, it was every four fucking seconds. As you can imagine, this got pretty god damn annoying after a while. It got so bad that I couldn’t even focus on what was going on in the play, even though it was bloody terrible. The actors didn’t move around the stage much, there was huge spaces in between lines, and the scene stayed the same the entire time. Still, this random lady kept taking picture after picture of this Godforsaken play. Then, low and behold, she whips out a second camera.

Now, this one didn’t beep. Oh no. It was a DSLR, and it had a huge lens attached to it. Of course she zoomed RIGHT in on the people, even though she was in the front row, and when she pressed the button, there was a “KAH-CHUNK” noise as the shutter closed. Oh hell no. I wouldn’t stand for it. I couldn’t take it any more. So, in retaliation, I thought very mean thoughts at her. I actually considered throwing the little ring thing from my Gatorade bottle at her, and pretending nothing happened, but decided that one of the people behind her would point me out, it would miss, or Joel (who I was sitting beside) would start laughing, therefore causing me to laugh. So I decided not to, and tried to tune her out. Finally she put it away, in time to see the mother get stoned for who knows what reason. Said stoned mother was played by my friend Helena, who was ACTUALLY the only one who did a good job, and stood out a lot. The adjudicator pointed her out at the end of it, during the public adjudication.

Sears has actually been pretty good so far. There’s been one or two good plays that I really liked and I think will be going on, but Jimz and Courtz have different opinions for some of them. The sets haven’t been as nice as ours, except for one that performed today, that rotated. It was kinda cool, but he said it was distracting. We’re hoping our set gets an award, cause Jimmy designed it. That would be cool. Right now however, I am tired and sick, so I am off to bed.

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I am so sorry.

Feb24

I have been a very bad blogger. I have no excuse either, except for the last two days. Wtf. Sears is this week, so I’ll be blogging after it. I am SO sick of Esther.

Anyways, it’s 12:30 and I still have homework to do, so TTYL Y’ALL.

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Yuss! Updates!

Jan26

Yess! Updates! *Puches air like Ron* Today, instead of studying for exams that I start next Monday, I put up a new layout, (TA-DAAA!) updated my About > Webmaster page, and fixed/added to the About > Design page! YAY! They all look GREAT :D You should ALL go look at all of them.

So, the other day Taylor and I went to her dad’s house to hang out, take pictures, and make Alfredo pasta! We went out on the trails in the forests behind/around her dad’s house, taking pictures and talking about anything and everything. We also got pizza, and lots of candy for out little hike. We both got great pictures out of it. One idea we had was to do one of those panoramic ones with multiple pictures of yourself in different positions that gets photoshopped together afterward! We did this at two different places, the park and a stream, and one version for each of us. Here’s mine, at the stream:

StreamPan

I like editing pictures like that. It was difficult with the park though, cause we turned the camera (bad idea) to accommodate the entire park, so some of the bars we a bit distorted in comparison to the bigger picture. You can kinda tell if you zoom up on it, but I tried to blend it as best as I could. The stream was easiest to do because it was just one shot we did, on my tripod :)

Also, I don’t think I’ve posted a screenshot of my new computer yet! I got it for Christmas! It’s running Windows 7 (home premium I think) and has a BRAND-SPANKIN’ NEW monitor! It’s 1600×900 resolution :D :D :D Great for Photoshop. Yummy. Here’s a screenie:

New Monitor

HEHEHE. It makes me happy. Yes, that is the OS X Tiger default wallpaper. I still love it. Plus I think it goes really well with the Windows 7 interface. ‘

Anywho, I’m going to go do elsewhat. That is, other stuff. YAY!

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