[Edit] Haha…yes, Abby, different county! I just realized I said country once, but I meant county.[/Edit]

It really bothers me when people don’t update their blogs. Like, a lot. Why do I have to be such a hypocrite?

Hypocrite or not, I should continue my story from last…uh, month. As it turns out, they did have a role picked out for me. I got “Old Woman”. Not an old woman, the old woman. The one and only. In other words, the woman who buys Fantine’s hair. If you haven’t seen the show, Fantine becomes a prostitute to save her daughter, and sells her hair for 10 francs. So I do have a little solo part. And I have another solo in “Look Down” (the beggars’ version). It’s so hard though. I’m in a different county for this show and than I’ve been in before, and so I hardly know anyone. It’s especially hard because CYT is where all my friends are, and where I really bond and feel at home. So when I’m in CYT, but a different county with different people, different places, and different everything, it’s so hard. My friend Kaylie was in this county, and then moved, so she had to join the county where I normally go. (I’m in this different county now because I really wanted to be in Les Misérables.) So she sort of went through the same thing as me. She said she had to write a paper for school on an adventure, and she chose changing counties as the topic, since it was a narative. She said an analogy she used was going to your home, but finding different people there, and then having to live with them. That’s exactly how it feels. So compound that on top of feeling sort of not measuring up (not getting called back, ect.), and it’s really hard. Not to mention Les Misérables isn’t really a happy, upbeat show. In fact, it’s quite dreary. So rehersals aren’t really “WOOOHOOO!! Happy show, yay!!”…that doesn’t mean I don’t like the show, in fact, it’s one of my absolute favorites. But it just doesn’t help the feeling you can just sort of feel in the air, you know?

Apart from that, life is pretty good. I finally finished Chemistry from last year!! I’m so excited. I was going to take Advanced Chemistry this year (I had my choice), but then we realized another year of a science isn’t required, and I don’t have very much time to fit it in anyways, so I should focus on what really needs to get done. Such as Worldviews of the Western World. I’m still in that from last year…not good. Not horrendible (haha Wicked word) though, because I really just need to finish that this year and that’s fine as it is.

I love this time of year. When the leaves are golden and red and nothing’s green anymore. Except for evergeens, of course. I’m so sick of green by now. It’s supposed to freeze tonight; the first good freeze. And then snow tomorrow. Isn’t that exciting? I think it is. Except for the fact that it totally skipped fall and jumped right to winter. You never know though, in the midwest. It won’t snow next week and we’ll be back to beautiful autumn once again. I’m fine with that.

I’ve been taking a lot of pictures lately, but I wish I would upload more of them. The majority of my photography stays on my computer, unfortunately, and never makes it online. I’m going to try to upload more of it though. I’d like to know what other people think. So just check those images in my sidebar once in a while, and maybe there’ll be some new ones…just maybe.

I’m going to put dates on my calendar in my phone when I should update, that way, I truly can’t forget. Then I won’t be a hypocrite anymore, hopefully.

Until next time,
Elisabeth

Hey guys!

Sorry about that error that kept coming up. After my host changed servers, some things seem to be screwed up. My MySQL databases kept resetting their passwords, and then Wordpress couldn’t connect. So I had to go back in there and change them. Then it would keep changing them back! I hope it stays fixed this time, for now anyway.

As you all know, summer’s ending. It might have offically ended for some of you already, but I start school tomorrow. Or, I know some of you aren’t in school anymore. If that’s the case, then I don’t know how you determine the start of fall. Maybe the “First Day of Fall” on the calendar?

My schoolwork shouldn’t be all that bad, considering I’m a senior this year. I need to finish up my Chemistry from last year though…I’m almost done!

I’m just realizing I haven’t really blogged much about my summer (we didn’t go anywhere, so maybe that would be part of the reason why). More about my thoughts. Which is interesting, because I wanted to focus more on my thoughts this summer. I guess I did that. But I know sometimes it can get annoying when you read about someone’s thoughts and know nothing about their life. So…today, my friend and I went to the mall. I really wanted to get some new clothes, especially jeans, but unfortunately I’ve only been completely satisfied with Gap’s jeans. Which is really annoying, considering Gap is extremely expensive. For me it is, anyway. But I didn’t go there today because I don’t think my friend likes Gap. I don’t want to drag someone into a store and have them bored out of their mind…so we went to Aeropostale, which we both like. I ended up getting a shirt and two tanks with sequins and beads to go under things, and earrings. Then we went to Claire’s and I got a neckalce and a cell phone charm thingy. My mom and I have the same cell phone, and sometimes it gets confusing. So I decided to make it easier to distinguish between the two.

I’m so excited, and nervous. I’m auditiong for “Les Miserables” on Friday…and I have a cold. I really, really hope I get over it by then. Well, before Friday would be good, since I’d like to practice. So that’s mostly why I’m nervous, although I’m sure just auditioning has something to do with that. I’d really like to be Cosette, but you never know.

Well, I that’s all I have time for tonight…I have to go to bed so that I can get up for school. Thanks for reading!

So I decided to password protect that previous post because my opinions are rather strong and I don’t want people getting the wrong ideas. Email me and I’ll send you the password. That’s the same password for any other protected posts I’ll be writing in the future too, unless noted otherwise.

Speaking of password protection, I said maybe would post one about what I was alluding to before. Well I guess there’s no need to after all. What I meant was, I was having a hard time because I liked someone, but he likes someone else. Nothing suprising, the usual. I don’t think she likes him anyway, despite what others think…coughkelseycough. I don’t really care now though. This might sound odd to some of you guys, but I’ve decided not to worry about anything like that. It’s not going to get me anywhere if I dwell on it anyway. That’s God’s job, not mine. Why worry about something when you can let God handle it? I mean really, He already knows what’s going to happen! If He takes care of it, then it’s completly out of my hands…what a relief. It’s not easy to let go though, don’t get me wrong.

In other respects, life has been continuing as usual. Everyone around me is graduating/finishing up the school year, but I’m going to have to go all the way through summer. Thanks in part to my lethargy earlier this year, thanks in other part to our move to Seattle that never happened. I became the second parent while my dad was living across the country, and thus my school year suffered. Oh well…I won’t die. I don’t think I’ve had the summer completely off for three years now anyway, it’s nothing new to me. I’m actually somewhat enjoying Chemistry. I thought I would hate it, but I actually find it quite fasinating. God is so amazing to have created everything so…I don’t want to say perfectly, since sin has corrupted this world, but everything fits together so amazingly it just dumbfounds me to think someone could believe this world was created by accident and coincidence. Evolutionary brainwashing bothers me so much. I don’t mean to offend anyone, these are my opinions though. I’m still friends with you if you don’t agree with me! Anyway, the amazing organization and layout of the Periodic Table of Elements never ceases to amaze me either. I’m not being sarcastic, it’s seriously thrilling the way someone actually thought of a way to lay out all those elements in such a way that they mean so much. I probably sound like such a nerd! It just especially striked me today after doing two weeks’ worth of Chemistry.

Also…Geometry is pretty amazing too. The fact that someone found out all these postulates and reasons and worked them into puzzles is so…freakishly awesome. I’m not saying I’m good at Geometry (haha yeah right), but I minorly understand it and appreciate the fact that someone devoted a lot of time to coming up with all these rules and stuff.

Old literature is pretty interesting also. I just finished Dante’s Divine Comedy and actually semi-liked it. Of course, it did get annoying sometimes when he wanted to repeat himself like 10 times in a row (memories of Plato’s Republic, anyone?) before moving on. Not my idea of light reading, but the story was really quite interesting. It might have taken me months to get through, but I don’t regret reading it. Next is John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, which I don’t think will be quite as engaging…oh well, school doesn’t have to all be interesting!

So now I’ve established myself as the local school freak/over-achiever…don’t worry, I don’t always think of school as engaging. There’s many days when I just want to be done and over with. But I am definately not ready to graduate. I still feel like I’m a freshman with a lot ahead of me! In reality, I do; college and life. But I’m not ready to leave and everything. I’ll probably go to a junior college first, so I really don’t have to worry anyway.

Wow, it feels nice to just talk about whatever I want and not wonder what people are thinking. Even if I just talk about boring stuff. Thanks for reading, guys.