Funnier than a cup of sand.
R.I.P. SUMMER 2009!
Dear iTunes,
I bought a song for $1.29 and still had $1.04 from an old gift card. Was it absolutely necessary to bill my credit card $0.25? Could we have just waited until I bought another song and then billed it all together? That would have made more sense.
Sincerely,
Danny
Wow, has it really been five years? I first started blogging on August 22, 2004. How time flies!
Ashley and I made our “The Secret” boards tonight. I sort of made one last year when I hung a picture of an iPhone on my wall but I decided to update it for this summer. Here is my new board:
The contents of my board, in no particular order: 2009 Jeep Compass (driving my parents’ 2004 Liberty right now, need my own wheels!), MacBook Pro (my mother just got one for work – it is amazing!), the Eiffel tower as a symbol for a European vacation and learning French, and money…it makes the world go ’round! Also pictured is an iPhone 3G (put it on the board last July and guess what I got on August 21, 2008!), my Kathy Griffin shrine to the left, and a coupon to California Tortilla.
It feels the same as 16!
I had a pretty mellow birthday. I was kind of disappointed because I feel like I didn’t really do anything special to celebrate. Was it a good birthday? Of course! But would I do things differently if I had the chance do it over again? Definitely.
The next time that I post about my birthday, I’ll be 18. Is that crazy or what?
They only slept with eachother, you’d think they’d have better chemistry onstage!
I’ve been sort of struggling with my French studies for the past month but I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of it. Whilst studying, I have noticed that I’m getting hung up on a lot of the things that I gave me trouble when I started studying Spanish, too; the alphabet, numbers, etc. Somehow I managed to skate through Spanish for the past five years without knowing the alphabet (eventually, I picked up numbers) but I am determined to not make the same mistake in French.
That being said, I finally started conjugating verbs today. I learned how to conjugate parler in the present tense and it’s basically the same as verb conjugation in Spanish – there’s the je (yo), tu (tú), il/elle (él/ella), nous (nosotros), vous (vosotros), and ils/elles (ellos/ellas) forms and all that’s really different is the endings (which happen to be the same in both languages for the il/elle and él/ella forms). Il n’est pas trés dul!
So from now on I’ll get to start doing less rote memorization of words and phrases and more learning different verbs and forming sentences and adding the vocabulary from each unit that I study. It’s a very frightening prospect but it’s also very empowering and exciting. I love languages. :)
J’aime parler le francais, l’espagnol, et le anglais.
How true!
It’s August already? Where did July go?!
Footloose opened last night and it was spectacular! We were sold out by 7 and we played to a packed house. The audience was fantastic and very receptive to everything. I didn’t miss any light or sound cues and there were no other major show-related crisis. All in all, it was a wonderful evening.
The only problem was that I fell down the steps and broke my flip flop when I was rushing to call places. I felt fine last night (except for, of course, my broken shoe) but this morning my ankle is killing me. I do realize that I should have been waring closed-toe shoes and not flip flops and so therefore this was totally preventable and completely my fault. Hopefully the swelling will go down before tonight’s show.
We also were featured in the Howard County Times! Our review from the Times and from BroadwayWorld.com are still pending but I’ll be sure to post links when they’re published.
I love my cast & crew. This is probably one of my favorite shows that I’ve ever worked on and I’m going to be pretty sad when it’s over.