I Have Plans-

Posted September 4, 2010 // 12:22 pm // Comments (6)

As I mentioned in my last blog, my fifteenth birthday is on Monday. I actually have plans with my friends and family, so I am extremely excited. We are going to the city to shop, eat lunch at Chick-Fil-A, shop some more, go to the movies, then eat dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Charity, Guffey, and my French friend Elena are all coming with my family and I. It’s going to be an awesome day.

School has been extremely stressful. We had four tests yesterday. My teachers said they were going to work together so we didn’t have so many tests right on top of each other, but look what happened to that plan. I studied hard and I feel like I did well with all my tests except for biology. Honestly, I find science to be overcomplicated. I believe that scientists made up all the big names for things just to torment high school kids.

One of the tests I took yesterday was a grammar test. I didn’t realize how many ridiculous grammar rules the English language has. I’ve always thought that I should put a comma every time I paused, but I guess I was wrong. I’ve decided to write an article listing most of  grammar rules I’ve learned. I’ll probably break it up into several different parts just for simplicity’s sake. I’m hoping to have that finished before October.

I wasn’t just stressed because of all the tests we had. Auditions for my school’s musical and drama were this week. We are going to be performing The Rented Christmas, Pride & Prejudice, and Kiss Me Kate. I was planning on auditioning for Elizabeth in Pride & Prejudice until I found out that one of the extremely talented seniors was auditioning for that role and I knew I wouldn’t stand a chance against seniority. I decided to audition for the lead in Kiss Me Kate instead. Charity auditioned for the same role. I’m extremely proud of her; she did amazing.

The day of auditions I was a nervous wreck. It was my first time singing in front of the people at my school and I was terrified. I felt very confident about my acting, but while I was singing my voice wouldn’t stop shaking. I managed to stay on time the music and stay on key even though my voice was so unsteady.

My drama teacher posted the cast listing (I guess that’s what you would call it) on his door during second period. The whole thing was very theatrical. Everybody swamped his door, I shoved my way to the front and ran my finger down the list until it landed on “Lilli Vanessi.” I looked beside that name and saw “Abby Vickers.” Of course, my name was spelled wrong, but I got the part! I’m a fourteen year–old sophomore and I got the lead in my school’s musical. How exciting is that? Not only did I get a lead role, my best friends both got lead roles in the other plays. Charity is playing the lead in The Rented Christmas and Guffey is playing the lead in Pride & Prejudice. I’m so ridiculously proud of them both.

I’ve missed blogging everyday. Between school, auditions, friends, and family I haven’t had time to do anything with my website. Today I plan to return all of my comments. Hopefully I can get caught up with everything and start managing my time a little better. I don’t want to be so committed to my website that I have no life away from the computer, but I don’t want to see my favorite hobby go down the drain either. I want to have a few articles and Mission 365 completed before October. I might even take a huge step and try to code a new layout for this site. We’ll see. >.> For now I’ll just update my portfolio with my first essay of the school year, My Summer of 2010.