I haven't written a blog for awhile, wow.

Well, the job is going well. The firsf couple days were kind of rough, between doing my first real show as a Storyteller- working the iPod was the hardest part because I hadn't touched one ever until i got the job- and my coworkers. My coworkers absolutely did not like me at first. Later I found out (at least one of the reasons) why- I look kind of young for my age, and to be a Storyteller, you have to be 17 to even be considered. But they all thought I was fourteen, and so were kind of indignant that a girl who was two years younger (they thought) than them was getting a better job... and therefore, better pay. it seems I was quite a hot discussion topic for awhile. But anyway, after they found out that I was really seventeen, they seemed to like me better. One girl still seemed to have some problems, but now we work really well together. Ha ha, I suspect it's because on the first day we worked together, she made a nasty comment to me and I made a pretty good comeback response, so maybe I just had  to show her she couldn't push me around.

So since that's been fixed, I've been getting along really well with my coworkers. This job is good for me not nly because I have to count money (my math skills are abysmal) but also because I have to think on my feet all the time because we just tell the story and audience members act it out and they don't always follow directions. Improv isn't my strength, so this is really helping.

I really only have one true week of work left because of school starting. I've been getting major work overload, though, because I'm one of three Storytellers left, and for some reason, they tend to avoid hiring the one girl. I feel bad about getting six days of work a week, since I only have this job to "learn the value of a dollar" and earn some extra money and the other girl needs to pay her rent. I've brought this up to the boss but was kind of ignored, so I figure it's none of my business (though I did give that girl one of my days recently). Plus, six days of work a week is WAY too much for me to handle, what with school coming up and a project for AP Lit still not completed (though I get a surprising amount of work done between shows- we do five a day). I was completely burnt out today- I had worked almost all last week, then got one day off, which I used to go on a college tour, then I work almost all of this week. I felt like I needed a hard slap in the face. I felt bad for the first show audience because my brain felt disconnected and I couldn't keep track of the plot.

So there are auditions for Ramona Quimby (play) at a theatre semi-near me. The auditions are Tuesday and Wednesday. I was really really mad that I'd have to miss them for work because there were auditions for this three years ago that I had to miss, too. But since I'm filling in for a girl half the day tomorrow, the boss let me pick whether to have Wednesday or Thursday off. First I picked Thurs, but then realised if I chose Wed, I could go to the auditions! so now I can go and I am really really happy.

I really wanted off for Friday- I'm one of those dreaded HSM fans (*avoids annoyed glares*) and my friends and I are having a party to watch HSM2. There is no way I will make it to her house by the time the movie starts. I'll be four hours late to her party (though I'll miss only about a half an hour of the movie, and it'll be on again). It's actually the fact that I'll miss the hanging out time because these are the girls from my theatre school who don't live very close to me. I've only seen them once this summer and miss them like crazy. But I'm part of the working world now, and I guess I'll have to deal. No matter how much I don't like it and will probably be at work looking at my watch and singing huffily, "What time is it? Movie time! Where's my vacation?" (Ha ha, that's for my fellow HSM fans.)

In other news, I got some nifty new music off the internet- two Hairspray songs (I am now a fan after seeing the movie) and Home from BatB.

Also, auditions for the Elite Triple Threat class at my dance studio are coming up. I don't know what to sing. I'd love to sing I Can Hear the Bells, but Hairspray'll probably be off limits for awhile and I don't doubt that the less-experience auditionees will choose one of the songs. My voice teacher really wants me to since Maybe. Now I love Annie to death and I especially love Maybe. But I'm so used to hearing it sung alto and i sing it soprano and, really, I just cringe the whole way through the song. My teacher says it sounds good, but I don't think I should sing a song I think I suck at. I have a lot of non-Broadway songs I like, but I should probably sing something Broadway, since that's what we do in the class. What I'm most nervous about for that audition is the dance portion. Dancing is probably the least threatening of my three threats, LOL. The TT class last year has made me way more confident in my singing and I'm excited for the acting part of the audition. And I took the summer class, which only had two people in it, so the teacher knows more of  what I can do. But dance? I'm not a dancer. I pretend I can dance, but I really can't. Scary.

Dance-wise, I was debating whether to drop tap and take ballet, which is new at my studio. Eventaully, though, I decided to stick with tap even though I hate it, because I take jazz, too, and I get ballet basics in it. But now my mom seems all for a ballet class, too, so we'll see what happens.

I've decided I want to major in musical theatre rather than straight theatre. At UArts in Philadelphia, which is where I'm looking seriously, I like the classes more and I want to continue singing. Plus, you take tap, jazz, and ballet classes and that sounds awesome. (Truthfully, another reason why I chose to keep up with tap is that my shoes aren't even a year old and I feel bad using them for only a year).

Summer is almost over for me... I've still got a project to finish and school shopping to do. I'm not that excited to start my senior year at regular school, but I'm pining for CASA, and i can't wait for that to start.

And now, I'm really hungry, so I'm finally going to have dinner- at ten o'clock!