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I feel like I never had enough energy! I should start buying coffee or red bull, because I cannot make it through the day without getting tired around 4pm. And it’s not like my days are all that hard. I have classes until 2 on Mon/Wed/Fri and there is a break at 10. Tuesdays goes until 3:15 but I only have 4 classes. And in Opera, we’re doing the beginning scenes, so Buoso is dead and I just lay in bed the whole rehearsal.

I just can’t wait until my Fall Break next Friday. My mom and I are seeing Jason Mraz in NYC so that’s going to be a great get-away from school. I hate that the break is short, but it’ll give me a chance to catch up with my family and really get to see my niece, who I’ve been missing like crazy.

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So I finally get a chance to write! Phew!

School has been going great, but I’m basically exhausted all the time. I was cast in my schools production of Gianni Schicci (it’s an opera), but I’m Buoso for the first half, meaning I just lay in bed, dead. But I do get to redeem myself later by coming back as the Lawyer for a quick 10 minutes. Hey, whatever. At least I’m in it, and I get the credit!

I’m also Musical Director for the Musical Theatre Organization’s Revue. I’m the Vice President of the group this year, so it’s been keeping me pretty busy. Our show isn’t until Mid November, but things are going GREAT so far. I’m surprised by the amount of talent we cast in this production. It’s going to be a blast.

I’ve decided against the whole transferring thing. Even though I would LOVE to go to school for Musical Theatre, it’s really just too late for me to do it. I’m already half way through my 2 majors here, and I want both of them. I know I will be missing the experience and training for a musical theatre degree, but that doesn’t mean I can’t take dance and acting classes when I have free time. I really just decided that I want to focus on what I am doing right now and just finish it.

I’m going to see Jason Mraz in concert next Friday in New York. I’m pretty excited. I’ve been a fan of his for a while so it’s going to be fucking amazing to see him in concert. I’m taking my mom with me… haha. But my mom’s pretty cool and loves him too, so we’re just going to have a party together.

I hope everyone’s doing well with whatever they’re doing. Sorry I haven’t commented back or on your blogs in FOREVER. I’m trying to get back into it!

I just hooked up with a guy that I have no desire to be with ever, and really had no intentions of ever getting that close to him. It was just sort of this thing that happened - we’ve been texting all day, we’ve been talkign about hooking up, I decided that I was horny enough to go over to his house and see what would happen

Of course, half way through, I stopped and decided I needed to leave. It was so awkward - he’s a really nice guy, but nothing in me wants much to do with him. I don’t know how mean that sounds, but it’s the truth.

And I’m not seeing anyone, so I need action here and there. Sorry, but I’m blunt, and it’s the truth. I can only do so much myself, you know? There’s a couple guys here that I have some interest in, one of them being Vince, which I should just learn from my mistakes but I’m stupid enough to think that he may still be interested. The other doesn’t really notice me, and the third is someone I haven’t even met yet. Things are going great, aren’t they?

And I’ve noticed that this blog is going down the tube :(. I’m thinking that once my domain expires, it’s back to Blogger for me. Seeing that I only write in here occasionally, and have lost all habit of checking everyone else’s blogs, it only makes sense to downgrade I suppose.

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What a week. It’s been pretty busy, non stop since I got here, but I love it. I’m really thinking that the transferring idea is just unrealistic. I’m already in my sophomore year and want to transfer into a program where none of my credits will really transfer anyway. I’m still planning on taking dance lessons this semester and then hopefully getting into classes for it next semester (if I stay). It’s just hard to know what to do. I got cast in this falls Opera, which only took 12 people, and I’m already looking forward to the Spring Opera which is a full scale show. But realistically, Opera really isn’t my thing. I like it, and like to sing it, but after college I won’t be in any operas, I’m sure. I’ll be a choir or voice teacher. But there’s always that thing in the back of my mind that is telling me that I need to at least try Musical Theatre. I think I might go to my advisor and ask about a leave of absence or whatever, to see if I can take a semester off from here but still be able to come back if I chose to. I don’t know.

But like I said, the week has been good. My classes are all good, almost all of them involving a lot more work than expected. The house is great still, and we had our first party last night that no one showed up for but was still a blast. Now we have two 30 racks left.. haha. And Opera rehearsals start this week but because my part isn’t as significant as everyone elses, I don’t think I have much of rehearsals this week. Instead, I will be crocheting. Don’t judge.

So here I am, at school. I’m not sure how I feel about it. Like, I’m SO glad to be out of my house and to be living in my own, and I’m loving my roommates so far and we’re all having a blast (for now, I guess). But classes start tomorrow and I really just have no desire to work at them, or even go to them for that matter. And my opera audition is on Tuesday and I’m about to shit my pants about it.

The house is great though. I’ll try to post pictures sometime. Basically, they’re townhouses. They have a living room, a full kitchen with a small dining room, 3 full bathrooms and 4 bedrooms. The rooms are sort of small, but you have plenty of room for a bed, a desk, 2 dressers and a built in closet. The only thing I’m worried about so far is all the money I’m spending. We bought some groceries yesterday just to get us through yesterday and today, and I already ended up spending $35. Our idea is to only eat dinner together here, as we’ll eat lunch in between classes as the cafes. But it’s been a little hectic so far, and I don’t want to keep forking out a million dollars. And I was trying to get us all to agree to having our own cupboard, so that we can buy meals for ourselves or whatever, but so far that has not gone anywhere. Like I want to buy cereal and snacks that I don’t want anyone else to eat. Take that.

And the whole transfer thing.. eh. I’m thinking about just waiting until the spring to audition in places, that way I can audition at Point Park and Boston, along with Fredonia which is where I will probably end up. I just don’t know if it’d be a good idea to try to pack in an opera or revue, classes and plus college auditions all into one semester. If I can worry about the applications this semester, along with my dance lessons, I will be able to plan my auditions for those schools on my breaks or in driving distance and still balance everything else. Of course it looks so great written down, but I have no idea if I will even go through with it.

Now, I need to take a shower. This shall be interesting.

Dear College Freshmen,

You are probably moving into your dorms today, or have already been there for a couple days or at least a week.  Last year, I was in your place, moving into my dorm and excited but nervous about college. Now that I have experience a whole year of college, and basically know the whole shpeal of it, here is a list that I have decided to write for you concerning things you should know and things that overhyped about college.

1) Bring flip flops for the shower. No this is not a joke - if you want foot fungus, be my guest. You don’t want to know what other people have done in the shower before you.

2) Don’t over pack. When you’re packing for school, you’re probably tempted to bring everything. But once you get there, you will realize you have less space than you thought, resulting in your parents taking back home the things you didn’t need. You will probably have a break in 5 weeks were you can grab the extra stuff if it’s still needed.

3) Don’t eat with the same people every night. Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner are all really social times in college, and you don’t want to eat with the same people every night or you won’t meet other people. I had a couple friends who I ate with every Wednesday - it was our thing.

4) Go to parties. Even if you don’t drink, go to parties. You will meet so many people and you’ll be able to talk about that party the next day with people. I have met some of my best friends at parties, or have grown closer to the friends I already had. They’re fun, and just go.

5) If you have a car, don’t tell anyone. People will want to take advantage of you and will ask you to drive them EVERYWHERE. And if you do tell them, stand up for yourself. People were always asking me to drive them somewhere and I never really wanted to so I didn’t. I also don’t let anyone drive my car, so they had to ask someone else. Believe me - you don’t want anyone else driving your car in college.

6) You will probably experience someone dying at your school in your first year. I experienced 2. Depending on the size of your school, it could be more. Just be ready for this - it’s a thing of life and it will happen. And if it does happen, stick to your friends and work it out. They will be there for you.

7) Find out how many classes you can miss before losing GPA points. Seriously - for my History class we were allowed to miss 5 classes before getting points taken away. You will want to take advantage of these when it gets really cold out and you don’ want to go to classes.

Go to concerts if your school has a music school. Or if there are regular concerts, go to them.

9) Explore the city that your school is in. Find out where all the restaurants are, the bowling alley is there is one, movie rentals, hair stylists, parks, etc. You will want to get out and it’s fun to be with your friends in the city.

10) Keep your dorm door open as much as you can. People will think you’re a more open and cool person if you keep your door open so people can stop by. ESPECIALLY DURING THE FIRST WEEK. You won’t know anyone on your floor, and keeping your door open will let people say Hi and introduce themselves. Don’t shut yourself out.

11) People will party every night. It’s a college thing, get used to it. So if it’s a Tuesday night and you’re studying and someone is blaring music or is loud out on the campus, you can’t do much about it.

12) Actually go to the library to study. Most college library’s allow you to have food and drinks, or even have cafe’s in them. It’s cool to go with your friends with your computers and study, or not.

13) Have a TV show that you can watch every week. Most shows come out in September, so watch them and find one you like. Believe me, you will want a night where you can just relax and watch a show. Because other than that, you probably won’t have much time to watch tv.

14) Keep your cell phone on you at all times. In this time, people will text or call you a lot because it’s basically the only way to get a hold of you. If you forget it, you might miss something important.

15) Also, don’t forget your campus card. Your meal card, your door opener, everything. It’s so important and it’ll cost you to get it replaced.

16) Learn to drink coffee or energy drinks. Enough said.

17) Watch lots of movies with friends. You’ll do it a lot.

18) Actually study. What is true about college is that the finals are harder and they will be harder than any test the teacher has given before. But most teachers will tell you exactly what is on the final, or even an outline on what to study. And if you skip your final, you might as well drop out.

19) It is okay to transfer if you don’t like your school. You need to find somewhere that feels right, and when it does feel right, you will know. Also, if college is for you, it’s okay to drop out, no matter what your parents say.

20) GO TO THE GYM. The Freshman 15 is now the Freshman 30, and it’s not a myth. If you don’t go to the gym, you will most likely gain at least 10 pounds. I am not kidding.

21) Call your parents at least twice a week. or they will star calling you non stop. Not kidding.

22) Buy more socks than you need. Because you will lose at least all of them.

23) Don’t lend people money, because most will not pay you back.

That’s all I got so far. But I will be adding more, you just wait.

Suede’s design:

Ursula from The Little Mermaid on Broadway:

In other news - I’m turning orange because I’ve been tanning like a fiend all this week. And using Bronzer. Talk about orangeeee.

And I’m leaving home on Friday to head back to school. I’m staying at my friend Sara’s house on Friday, and then her, her mom and I are caravanning at 5am back to school to move in at 10. I’m excited, but I’m also a little stressed as I don’t have my audition pieces for the opera prepared yet. I’m sure I’ll memorize them before we get there, but I hate waiting until the last second.

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I got a 2.7 in my online Biology class everyone! That is so much better then I thought I would do. And it’s surprising too, because I turned in my last paper 2 days late (making it out of 80 points instead of 100), and I still ended up getting a 85. Same with the one before, I turned in a day late and I still got a 95 on it. I was only hoping for a 2.0, because I only need a 1.7 to pass in the music school. But this is so much better - this won’t bring my GPA down much.

Days are counting down - I’m leaving next Friday to head back to school. I feel bad because I haven’t told anyone about my intentions to transfer, and when I get to school, I’m only going to confide in one person, as I KNOW she won’t tell anyone. I was buying my books today and talking to my roommate Sara, who suggested we use our other roommates book for one of our classes for this fall, because our class times are different. And then she said “and we can just buy our own when it comes to the Spring Semester”. And right away, I sort of felt guilty, as I may not be there in the Spring. This is my choice, and I’m definitely auditioning this fall. It’s just something I need to do. But I don’t intend on telling everyone until it’s a sure thing I’m going anywhere.

I said goodbye to my bestfriend today. She had to leave early because she’s got some court some to take care of (they’re suing a hotel), and she has a marching band camp that she is in (she’s a flute major). It’s so hard to say bye to here because our schedules almost never line up right - meaning when I’m home for my break, she’s leaving to go back to school. It’s only usually Thanksgiving that lines up and then Winter break, although she gets back and leaves before me. She may be transferring to the school I may transfer to, but if she does it won’t be until Fall ‘09. If she does, we’ll be getting an apartment together which would be amazing, but who knows if those plans will pull through.

And me and that guy are completely over, as of tonight. I haven’t talked to him since Saturday, and don’t really plan on it. He told me he still wants to hang out before I leave and whatever, but I haven’t seen any attempt at asking me to hang out. I really just can’t be a part of this right now with only having another week left. I can’t do that to myself.

Sorry I haven’t commented on anyones blogs in forever - I’m still doing that touring show, which ends tomorrow. I’ll be happy for it to be over because it’s cost me almost $100 for gas, but it’s been a good experience for me, playing the piano in a 3 person pit. But next week should be good - nothing but packing and relaxing.

Does anyone else get a crazy amount of spam on their blogs? I get like 100 comments a day from spam, and maybe only 95 of them get caught as spam. The rest gets posted.

RESULTING in me going through the regular comments and accidently deleting like 5 regular comments. Which now I’m pissed.

Dear Spam,

As nice as you may be, please stop commenting on my website.

Truely,

Jake

Friday Night Relax by ~ohjustjake on deviantART

I’ve been thinking lately. This domain doesn’t expire until February or so, I think, haha. Which is a while. But I’m not sure what I want to do after it expires. It’ll have to depend on prices, because I do live that typical “poor college student” life. I might just go back to blogspot or another free blog place, or try and get hosted somewhere I suppose. I dunno. I love having this domain but I feel bad when I don’t update lol.

So me and that boy barely talk anymore since Friday. I’m pissed about it. I hate that I wasted my time and energy on something that I just KNEW that I would get hurt by. And he doesn’t even know what he did. I texted him today and I was like “you probably don’t even care about what happened”. And he said “what?” and I said “about how you changed our plans so that you could hang out with your friends” and he’s like “I’m confused..wtf”. And that was it. I’m done. He can’t even take responsibility for what he did. And there’s nobody at school that I am slightly interested in, so I suppose that it just isn’t a necessity for me right now.

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