Recklessness

Here are the highlights of my past few weeks.

1. Spring Awakening: I saw the show at Birmingham Southern University and it was amazing. They did a great job.

2. S’mores: Who knew you could make s’mores in the oven?

3. Sam’s Toe Socks (That’s Helen.)

4. The Midnight Premier of Breaking Dawn: Kristin Stewart’s acting is terrible and I kind of want to be a vampire so I don’t have to sleep.

5. Watching Fired Up with Lauren

6. A Little Night Music Casting

7. Working on “Sure Thing” for the Ten Minute Play Festival

8. Bart and Euripides

9. My Big (She’s the blonde one.)

10. Girls’ Night with Christy, Rachel, and Shelbi: I actually wore makeup. 

11. My Roommate writes nice things (I know it’s backwards. Calm down.)

These photos are long overdue.

Lions are my favorite animals. I secretly want to raise a baby lion in my dorm room.

Giraffes are my roommate’s favorite animal. She’s six feet tall.

The Birmingham Zoo is great. That is all.

I’m sitting alone in the third floor lobby of Vail, and the ice machine is rumbling nearby. Those soft sounds of the nighttime are present in the empty hallways extending to my left and right as I’m leaning over my Macbook, making revisions to my Cultural Perspectives term paper. 

My alarm blared at five this morning. Registration began at six, although I didn’t complete my registration until three this afternoon. Not only did the portal overload, but music theory lab conflicts with ballet. 

I still need to run downtown to the Greek Orthodox Church tomorrow afternoon to flip through their hymnal for my term paper. My presentation for the Red Mountain Theatre Company is on Thursday. 

Thanksgiving break is next week. Hallelujah.

Here’s the cold-read we were given in an audition the other night. I was cast as Betty in Sure Thing by David Ives. Betty is reading in a cafe when Bill approaches. Each time their conversation goes awry, the section starts over.

Bill: You weren’t waiting for somebody when I came in, were you?

Betty: Actually, I was.

Bill: Boyfriend?

Betty: Sort of.

Bill: What’s a “sort of boyfriend”?

Betty: My husband.

Bill: Ah.

(Bell)

Bill: You weren’t waiting for somebody when I came in, were you?

Betty: Actually, I was.

Bill: Boyfriend?

Betty: Sort of.

Bill: What’s a “sort of boyfriend”?

Betty: We were meeting here to break up.

Bill: Mhm.

(Bell)

Bill: What’s a “sort of boyfriend”?

Betty: My lover. Here she comes right now!

(Bell)

Bill: You weren’t waiting for somebody when I came in, were you?

Betty: No, just reading.

Bill: Sort of a sad occupation for a Friday night, isn’t it? Reading here all by yourself?

Betty: Do you think so?

Bill: Well sure. I mean, what’s a good-looking woman like you doing alone on a Friday night?

Betty: Trying to stay away from lines like that.

Bill: No, listen - 

(Bell)

Start by cutting up eight cups of apples into small 1/2in bits. 

Mix the apples with:
12 tablespoons of flour
1 1/2c of sugar
4 heaping teaspoons of cinnamon
1/4-1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg (depending on how much you like nutmeg…you could also leave it out)

You will also need: 
4 tablespoons of chilled butter cut into 24 equal portions.  
two boxes of pilsbury pie crusts (four chilled NOT frozen crusts)

 Make sure you stir everything around getting the apples nice and coated. 

Unroll your first pie crust and cut several circles out.   Continue this until you have enough crusts.I found that a wide mouth mason jar ring worked perfectly.

Line each cup of your muffin tin with a tiny pie crust. 
I found that pinching the edge of the dough around the top edge of the tin and making a hammock of sorts worked really well.  You can then gently fill the crusts with your apple mixture and push the crusts down the rest of the way. 

 You should be able to fill until slightly mounded. 

 Then take your equally divided butter…

 and put a dab on each pie. 

 Cover as desired with left over dough.  Brush with melted butter and bake at 400 for 18 to 22 minutes.  I started checking in on mine at 10 minutes and checked every two until they were perfect. 

And YUM!
They are the perfect size and I am looking forward to having the extras with my coffee in the morning.

1. No one else takes twenty-three credit hours.

2. Food is expensive. Books are expensive. Laundry detergent is expensive.

3. Professors are interesting people.

4. Krispy Kreme is open twenty-four hours. 

5. Decent showers should never be taken for granted.

6. The music department is a scene from Fame. 

7. Starbucks is a wonderful place to study.

8. A sleep mask and ear plugs are a necessity. 

9. No one else likes horror movies.

10. My big is great.

I am full of contrast, exhausted by sickness by energized by spirit.

I want pumpkin cheesecake.

I have a role in A Little Night Music. 

I fear romantic movies, deep water, and tomatoes.

I hear the soundtrack of 500 Days of Summer.

I love my hermit crab, Euripides. 

I need calmness.

I should sleep.

Put your iPod on shuffle. Click “next” to get each answer.

1. Describe yourself.

“Jersey”, Mayday Parade

2. What best describes your personality?

“Hurricane”, Sequoyah Prep School

3. What do you look for in a man?

“Funny Honey”, Chicago

4. How do you feel today?

“Non-Dairy Creamer”, Third Eye Blind

5. What is your motto?

“Coast of Maine”, Ivory

6. What do your friends think of you?

“I Must Be Dreaming”, The Maine

7. What do you most often think about?

“Kings and Queens”, Thirty Seconds to Mars

8. What do you think of your best friend?

“Mind Reader”, Versa Emerge

9. What is your life story?

“Love You Madly”, Cake

10. What is your dream career?

“Someone to Watch Over Me”, Asher Book, Fame

11. What song will you dance to at your wedding?

“Bound to You”, Burlesque

12. What are you most interested in?

“Theatrics”, Versa Emerge

13. What is your biggest secret?

“Remembering Sunday”, All Time Low

14. What do you think of your friends?

“Johanna”, Sweeney Todd 

15. What is the worst thing that could happen right now?

“Pas de Cheval”, Panic! At the Disco

16. What is your biggest regret?

“Jar of Hearts”, Boyce Avenue

17. What is your biggest fear?

“Since You’re Gone”, The Pretty Reckless

18. If you could go back in time, what would you change?

“Mythology”, Versa Emerge

19. What hurts right now?

“African Child”, Infant Sorrow

20. What is your favorite song?

“My Beautiful Rescue”, This Providence

Since my iPod answered these questions for me, I’ll write something insightful tomorrow.