So, for those of you who don't know (you know, if there are more than the two people reading this that I know of) Renaissance Festival has started for me. This means that I spend almost eight hours a day on and off dancing or singing (for free.)
Yesterday we danced a maypole every hour on the hour (me and my ensemble. We're the peasant dancers) and sang a few songs. We got pleanty of compliments from many people and loads of pictures taken.
Today, about a little over halfway through the day, I get this funny feeling in my nose and it seemed familiar, but I couldn't quite place it until right before my nose starts bleeding. Because of allergies I'm prone to spontaneous nose bleeds in dry weather, which it is all the time out at fair. Granted it hadn't happened since sixth grade so I was a little shocked, but I was able to get leaned forward with my hand out before I was actually bleeding to prevent getting any blood on my costume.
One of the girls in my ensemble walked with me back to the break room where I'm able to sit down. My nose had stopped bleeding by the time I got there, but it was nice to have a breather. A few minutes pass when an entire ensemble walk into the break room one after the other, asking me if I'm alright. The concern was touching, and I was then informed by my apprentice director that he'd called the medical staff that works on site and they were coming back to the break room to check on me.
Apparently my ensemble made a big deal out of my little dirt induced nose bleed, that my AD then made a big deal out of it to first aide, and first aide brought a pack of 200 gauzes for my nose.
It really made me feel good to know that I have a family in them that shows that much concern.
Later that day as our energy starts to dwindle and my mood has sunk again, just from how tired I am, another cast memeber, who's character is Lucky the Brewmaster, is making a joke to a patron, who keeps on walking by, not noticing. I didn't realize until just after that joke how misserable I was, and as the joke sinks in I start to laugh. Then I can't stop laughing. My face and stomach hurts from the laughter and I'm panting as I try to explain to another cast member why I was laughing so hard. The joke was so simple, and while it deserved parise there was no reason for my uncontrolable laughter other than it's exactly what I needed. That laugh, which left me almost uable to breath, allowed me to continue on the day in good spirits.
I apologize for the spelling and grammer errors in this post, as I'm much too tired to fix them. Perhaps I'll go back over it, but not likely. Just remmeber, we all need a bout of uncontrolable laughter once in a while. Don't waste your chance to really turn your day around.
Edited because part of this entry was written out of anger and that's all taken care of now.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Singles Awareness Day!
A lot of my friends seem to be feeling very bitter about this day. It makes me sad that they feel so strongly in the negative for a simple day honoring an unknown Saint or Saints. It's also sad that people feel they need to have a romantic love during this day. Why can't we celebrate ALL love on this day? Doesn't anyone remember Elementary school where we passed out cards and candy to every person in the class, if not because either we were told to, or didn't want to make certain people think we liked them 'in that way', but because we wanted everyone to feel loved, even if they didn't have a significant other to spend the day with. Why does this idea have to change when we get older? Why can't we just love every person in our lives and not worry about what other's may think about our relationship status. Yes this holiday is used to market jewelry and expensive foreign candies, but so is every other Holiday out there too, now. That doesn't mean we shouldn't tell our children the Nativity Story at Christmas time or dress up during Halloween. I, myself, do not have a romantic partner in which to spend this day, but I do have really good friends and an amazing family with whom I will be sharing my love.
I think I'll make heart shaped pancakes for dinner.
In other news, I got my first English test back today. 97! I rock! Although there are still more corrections that I need to do to my essay before it's up to the teacher's standards (if you want us to use a specific font let us know BEFORE we print it out woman! What is WRONG with her!?)
We have another essay we have to do as well, so, yay, I get to do two at once because the professor has a hard time telling us what she wants from us the first time around. Oh well. It's not like I'm bad at essays in the first place, so the only corrections she's giving me are on the technical things like type of heading and font and test size. Overall my essay is fine and so I should make a passing grade in this class.
Then I will NEVER take a class with her again! Like I said before, she's a nice lady, but boy does she suck as a teacher.
Art progress: Not much. I do have seven pages of the first chapter of my comic roughed out. I just need to outline what I want to happen in the overall chapter, then rough and flesh the pages out, and then I can start posting as each one gets done. Here's praying that I don't get artists' block in the mean time.
To any of you out there reading this that finds Valentine's Day to be tough, don't let it get to you. Even if there are no romantic relationships in you life right now, don't let the other relationships suffer for it. You are a special and beautiful person and there is love out there for you. For now, let your friends and family be your love.
Until next time!
I think I'll make heart shaped pancakes for dinner.
In other news, I got my first English test back today. 97! I rock! Although there are still more corrections that I need to do to my essay before it's up to the teacher's standards (if you want us to use a specific font let us know BEFORE we print it out woman! What is WRONG with her!?)
We have another essay we have to do as well, so, yay, I get to do two at once because the professor has a hard time telling us what she wants from us the first time around. Oh well. It's not like I'm bad at essays in the first place, so the only corrections she's giving me are on the technical things like type of heading and font and test size. Overall my essay is fine and so I should make a passing grade in this class.
Then I will NEVER take a class with her again! Like I said before, she's a nice lady, but boy does she suck as a teacher.
Art progress: Not much. I do have seven pages of the first chapter of my comic roughed out. I just need to outline what I want to happen in the overall chapter, then rough and flesh the pages out, and then I can start posting as each one gets done. Here's praying that I don't get artists' block in the mean time.
To any of you out there reading this that finds Valentine's Day to be tough, don't let it get to you. Even if there are no romantic relationships in you life right now, don't let the other relationships suffer for it. You are a special and beautiful person and there is love out there for you. For now, let your friends and family be your love.
Until next time!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Mignight snacks should be outlawed!
At least when it's me that has to clean up after them! Who wants taco salad after midnight? Can someone say "BLEGH!" (That's the sound you make when you throw up form eating too much late at night. Yup. That's what it sounds like.)
In other news had my first English test today. I think I did well. Went back and checked all my answers... and it was open book so I kind of feel like I cheated, but you know what, in a real life situation where you'd have to tell someone what kind of phrase they just used you have the internet as a resource so why shouldn't it be an open book test?
Ha, see what I did there?
Turned in my final essay draft as well... or at least I hope it's final. The teacher may make me do more corrections, but hopefully she'll let me skate by with an A- and call it a day. I drew all over my Essay folder, and she found it amusing and showed the class. XD The class found it amusing too.
More updates as more things happen.
In other news had my first English test today. I think I did well. Went back and checked all my answers... and it was open book so I kind of feel like I cheated, but you know what, in a real life situation where you'd have to tell someone what kind of phrase they just used you have the internet as a resource so why shouldn't it be an open book test?
Ha, see what I did there?
Turned in my final essay draft as well... or at least I hope it's final. The teacher may make me do more corrections, but hopefully she'll let me skate by with an A- and call it a day. I drew all over my Essay folder, and she found it amusing and showed the class. XD The class found it amusing too.
More updates as more things happen.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Twice in one day!
So, decided to update again today just to share a little bit about me since i haven't really done that yet and I've been considering things about myself so while they're still fresh in mind let's get to it.
Most people have a favorite subject in school, but after the third grade I've pretty much hated the whole thing. This wasn't because I was a bad student or a slacker, but because of incidents that occurred in preschool I'd developed an anxiety disorder that was triggered by people of authority, which there are a lot of at school. I don't have as big of an issue now that I'm in college though, probably because Professor's aren't going to take you aside and force you to do the work whether it bores you out of your skull or not. They send you an e-mail saying, "You know you've got this grade now, right?" And then let you do whatever the heck it is you're going to do. Less confrontation is involved because we're adults and there is no standardized testing that will reflect on THEM should we get a bad grade.
Wow, that turned into a nice, long, unplanned rant. Anyway, moving on to things about me.
I enjoy the food pasta. Never understood WHY really, but I've decided today that it is the perfect food. It comes in many shapes and styles, yet tastes the same, it can be cooked to be hard or soft and it's not 'wrong', you can put anything you care for on top of it (cheese, cream sauces, tomato sauces, etc), it can be eaten out of a bowl or on a plate, which ever you have or is easiest for where you're eating, and it can be made out of eggs, wheat, flour, rice whatever. So not only does it have varying degrees of yumminess, but also varying degrees of healthiness.
I have no favorite color. I mean, yes my favorite color is yellow, but I can't REALLY say that I like yellow MORE than any other color. I mean, yellow doesn't ALWAYS look good. Sometimes orange is a better choice for a hat or shirt. As an artist it's very hard to have a favorite color because we're always thinking about how the color is used, how it SHOULD be used, or maybe what should be used instead. I know at least I am always considering choices made when looking around at colors and what that color is on.
And then of course I get to thinking about how the thing is not ACTUALLY red, that it's ACTUALLY everything BUT red because red is being thrown off of the object, which is why our eyes see the thing as red. It get's very confusing and so instead of explaining all this to people I simply say that my favorite color is yellow.
I say that my favorite color is yellow because my favorite flower is a sunflower.
I like pirates... and no, not real pirates. Real pirates were thugs and I would never want to be or know a real pirate (not counting computer hackers, because they rarely influence your physical well-being.) No, the kind of pirates I like are the ones (one really) Johnny Depp plays in movies.
But that may be because I like Johnny Depp. Mmmm... Johnny Depp.... Wait, what were we talking about?
My favorite animal used to be wolves. Then everyone else started liking wolves... thanks anime. I stopped feeling unique and special after a while because I ended up stereotyped as one of those people who THOUGHT that they were wolves, and would go crazy over them.
Now my favorite animal is a hummingbird. I'm connected to hummingbirds in a very odd way. They are so tiny and beautiful.
I hope one day to get a hummingbird tattoo. It will be my gift to myself once I get down to a healthy body weight. It's going to go on my hip. It will be very realistic until you get to the tail, then it's going to have an exaggeratedly beautiful tail that swoops down.
The only jobs I've ever had are acting jobs, both were seasonal, and so it's very hard to give information about them on applications, making it very hard to get a job.
I enjoy watching, drawing, listening to, and listening to commentaries of cartoons. I hope one day to be involved in making one.
One of my biggest stregths as an artist (and as a person in general, I feel) is I'm very adaptable. If you need something drawn in a certain style I will be able to learn that style quickly and draw in it.
As a result one of my biggest issues involving art is consistency.
I don't believe in telling the future through astrology, and my horoscopes are almost always wrong, but I'm so very much the stereotypical Gemini that I can't say I don't believe in it entirely.
I have finally started drawing my own comic series. Oh, look, here it is: http://devtehfiend.deviantart.com/#/d393hin
That's basically it for now. Pray with me that I do well on my test and that my essay is well written enough that I don't have to FIX IT again! ^^ Thanks for reading! <3
Most people have a favorite subject in school, but after the third grade I've pretty much hated the whole thing. This wasn't because I was a bad student or a slacker, but because of incidents that occurred in preschool I'd developed an anxiety disorder that was triggered by people of authority, which there are a lot of at school. I don't have as big of an issue now that I'm in college though, probably because Professor's aren't going to take you aside and force you to do the work whether it bores you out of your skull or not. They send you an e-mail saying, "You know you've got this grade now, right?" And then let you do whatever the heck it is you're going to do. Less confrontation is involved because we're adults and there is no standardized testing that will reflect on THEM should we get a bad grade.
Wow, that turned into a nice, long, unplanned rant. Anyway, moving on to things about me.
I enjoy the food pasta. Never understood WHY really, but I've decided today that it is the perfect food. It comes in many shapes and styles, yet tastes the same, it can be cooked to be hard or soft and it's not 'wrong', you can put anything you care for on top of it (cheese, cream sauces, tomato sauces, etc), it can be eaten out of a bowl or on a plate, which ever you have or is easiest for where you're eating, and it can be made out of eggs, wheat, flour, rice whatever. So not only does it have varying degrees of yumminess, but also varying degrees of healthiness.
I have no favorite color. I mean, yes my favorite color is yellow, but I can't REALLY say that I like yellow MORE than any other color. I mean, yellow doesn't ALWAYS look good. Sometimes orange is a better choice for a hat or shirt. As an artist it's very hard to have a favorite color because we're always thinking about how the color is used, how it SHOULD be used, or maybe what should be used instead. I know at least I am always considering choices made when looking around at colors and what that color is on.
And then of course I get to thinking about how the thing is not ACTUALLY red, that it's ACTUALLY everything BUT red because red is being thrown off of the object, which is why our eyes see the thing as red. It get's very confusing and so instead of explaining all this to people I simply say that my favorite color is yellow.
I say that my favorite color is yellow because my favorite flower is a sunflower.
I like pirates... and no, not real pirates. Real pirates were thugs and I would never want to be or know a real pirate (not counting computer hackers, because they rarely influence your physical well-being.) No, the kind of pirates I like are the ones (one really) Johnny Depp plays in movies.
But that may be because I like Johnny Depp. Mmmm... Johnny Depp.... Wait, what were we talking about?
My favorite animal used to be wolves. Then everyone else started liking wolves... thanks anime. I stopped feeling unique and special after a while because I ended up stereotyped as one of those people who THOUGHT that they were wolves, and would go crazy over them.
Now my favorite animal is a hummingbird. I'm connected to hummingbirds in a very odd way. They are so tiny and beautiful.
I hope one day to get a hummingbird tattoo. It will be my gift to myself once I get down to a healthy body weight. It's going to go on my hip. It will be very realistic until you get to the tail, then it's going to have an exaggeratedly beautiful tail that swoops down.
The only jobs I've ever had are acting jobs, both were seasonal, and so it's very hard to give information about them on applications, making it very hard to get a job.
I enjoy watching, drawing, listening to, and listening to commentaries of cartoons. I hope one day to be involved in making one.
One of my biggest stregths as an artist (and as a person in general, I feel) is I'm very adaptable. If you need something drawn in a certain style I will be able to learn that style quickly and draw in it.
As a result one of my biggest issues involving art is consistency.
I don't believe in telling the future through astrology, and my horoscopes are almost always wrong, but I'm so very much the stereotypical Gemini that I can't say I don't believe in it entirely.
I have finally started drawing my own comic series. Oh, look, here it is: http://devtehfiend.deviantart.com/#/d393hin
That's basically it for now. Pray with me that I do well on my test and that my essay is well written enough that I don't have to FIX IT again! ^^ Thanks for reading! <3
Fun Times
So, things are looking up a little bit since I last wrote. My English teacher finally realized how smart I am (said so in front of the entire class), and my essay is done, to be turned in tomorrow. I have a research project going for my religion class, and my and the rest of the group have got a nice pile off webpages going for research.
I'm excited about Ren Fest. Two more rehearsals until the show starts and my costume is almost complete (just need my tights and bodice, which I should have by next weekend.) I can't wait until it starts!
A few more things I have going on, my comic, which I have the first few pages of done and will be posting soon (will add a link as soon as I do), and I'm painting portraits of all of the fops for the fair site. Very excited about that. I do need to get a few more colors of acrylic paint.
That's about it for now. Will update as soon with pictures of my finished costume and with links to my comic.
I'm excited about Ren Fest. Two more rehearsals until the show starts and my costume is almost complete (just need my tights and bodice, which I should have by next weekend.) I can't wait until it starts!
A few more things I have going on, my comic, which I have the first few pages of done and will be posting soon (will add a link as soon as I do), and I'm painting portraits of all of the fops for the fair site. Very excited about that. I do need to get a few more colors of acrylic paint.
That's about it for now. Will update as soon with pictures of my finished costume and with links to my comic.
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