Tonight, my friends, is the night.

CINDERELLA. TONIGHT AT 7:30 IN MANDEL HALL
$5 Student Tickets

It, I'm pretty sure, will be awesome. Check out my new facebook picture. It pretty much sums up the ballet.

Everything has come together. I think? Let the show be functional. Let the music play properly. Let people hit their entrances. Let me not fall on my face.

Let my mom and dad be proud. :)

...Everything is ok.

Labels: cinderella

Midterm arrived in my inbox this morning as I was looking over some stuff to help me do my ling homework. Now I'm paranoid that my professor will see that I was on Chalk and will assume I was cheating. Then again, when he grades my exam I think it will be pretty obvious that I didn't cheat, since all I've got going for me is a little bit of rote memorization and a lot of hopeful guesses.

Now, to work on that or my civ final paper...

I think I've decided not to take civ again next quarter. I can fulfill the same requirement with a fine arts or art history class. I think I am going to take an intro art class. I hear it's a crazy amount of work, but not really that stressful. I mean, you get to draw and paint, so it can't be that bad.

I can't believe I'm thinking about next quarter already. That means it's eigth week. That means my civ paper and ling midterm are due Monday, my ling problem set that was due last Thursday really needs to get turned in Tuesday, my ling paper is due a week from Tuesday, my oral exam in Japanese has to happen in the next two weeks, and oh yeah, Cinderella is in less than a week!!

The stresssssssssssssssssss.

Labels: cinderella, linguistics, school, stressed out

My linguistics midterm was stolen. Forty-three students, six stolen midterms, mine one of them. Lame. Seriously lame. Really it sucks more for my TA, whose apartment was broken into. But still, sucks a little for me, too.

Now I have to take the damn thing again. Good, because it didn't suck enough the first time. And I am faced with a moral dilemma. He's giving us the retest on the honor system. As in take it home for the weekend and do it in an hour and a half without looking up answers. Also it's the same test I already took. I want to be a good person, I think.

Ah, damn.

Labels: linguistics, moral dilemmas, school

A first draft of clearly my most elegant paintings to date:

The story behind this being that in Cinderella there is a giant portrait of the stepmother hanging up which at one point the lovely Cinderella gets rather upset over. Lauren (who describes herself as 4'11" on a good day) is our stepmother, and I decided a rather fantastic caricature would be, well, rather fantastic. It is currently propped up on our mantel and constantly making me laugh. Of course, it's not done, but I can't help showing the world now because I'm just laughing so hard.

Labels: cinderella, Lauren, painting

I have not blogged in a long time. That is a true statement. Good job, Natalie.

Sometimes I get in moods where I want to limit my blog to things completely impersonal, and typically at those times my personal life gets explosive and squeezes out anything bloggable.

1. I'm quitting ballet. I can't do it anymore. It makes me hate myself. I look shitty, I feel shitty, and that sort of just makes me shitty. So I'm performing in Cinderella and then I won't dance anymore. It used to be fun. Now it's only hurtful. It also makes other dancers who were close friends lose respect for me, and that isn't worth it.

2. Japanese is hard.

3. I don't understand anything in my linguistics class. I find this to be a pretty big problem since I'm just in an intro course, and it's my damn major.

4. I have a hell of a lot of Japanese homework due and a civ presentation today. I have a Japanese midterm and a linguistics (impossible) problem due tomorrow. I have a linguistics midterm on Thursday.

5. I was in the hospital on Wednesday unable to stand up or see straight and no one can tell me what was wrong. In a 48 hour period this weekend I slept for 40 hours.

6. Japanese is hard.

7. I think I'm losing my grip.

Labels: ballet, japanese, linguistics, lists, school