Saturday, November 15, 2008

Funny story...

Remember when I considered doing NaBloPoMo?

That was funny.

I really should update this, more. Not that anyone reads it. But I'd like to get in the habit of writing in it once a week, for myself if nothing else. Oh, this narcissistic age we live in!

Today is my day off, and it is/will be amazing for many reasons. First of all, it started raining right after I woke up this morning. It hasn't rained in AGES, and it was such a nice, peaceful, lazy way to wake up. The theme of laziness continued until I finally got my butt out of the house about an hour ago and I walked to the post office and chatted with my awesome sister on the phone (until it died. sorry.) and went to Whole Foods. I should have gone to Publix, but I'm weak. And now there's a new season of Top Chef, so I'm probably going to spend all of my money on food more than usual. Sigh.

As soon as I finish this, I'm going to run to the beach! I've run over the big bridge that leads to the beach before, but I've never actually run *to* the beach. So that should be exciting. At 6:00 I'm going to go see our Cabaret show again, because I'm desperately in love with the actors and the stage manager, who is my amazing roommate. Then it's off to the beach again with my wonderful friend Patrick, who is leaving us soon to go home to New York and needs to get in some last minute beach time. Then Andy Paterson, who is an actor in our mainstage production and one of the nicest people I have ever met in my life, is throwing a party for the interns tonight.

So...that was an exciting paragraph. I hope it at least made you jealous.

Finally, here are some of my FST BFF's. Enjoy. If you're reading this and you're not in Sarasota right now, chances are, I miss you terribly. So you should call me. Or at least comment on my sweet pictures. Especially because I forgot what a pain in the ass it is to upload pictures onto blogger. Good lord!



My amazing friend Timmy, who's in North Carolina for a couple weeks. We miss him and want him back!


One of my two bosses, Rob Thomas (yes, that's his real name). He is amazing and the sweetest guy ever!


The aforementioned Cabaret actors that I'm in love with, Alison Foster (long lost sister) and Ryan Flanigan. This was taken on one of our bowling nights!



Me with darling Patrick Pizzolorusso. Also known as Patty Pizza.

Emily, my phenomenal roommate, came up with that little nickname. I don't think he likes it.

Emily!!! BFF.


The cool kids.

Interns gotta stick together.

Fosters enjoy chocolate covered strawberries. Thank you, Rob.


Ryan's a sweetheart.


REJECTED!


Halloween! Alison was Your Mom, Ryan was Borat, I was a slutty ballerina (god help me), Timmy was a gay barfly, Emily went as Ryan, who is a Phillies fan to say the least, the lovely blonde is Aimee, who was a desperate housewife, DPotts behind her was a pirate, and Patty Pizza was Aldous Snow. Good times.

I love Emily/Ryan.



Oh, and finally...Yay for President Elect Obama!!! :) Virginia, Florida, and North Carolina did me so proud.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Election jitters

I'm really starting to feel anxiety about the election.

Not necessarily in a bad way!  I think I've had my guard up, partly because I was terrified I wouldn't be able to vote.

The City of Newport News and I have been having some major issues about me getting my absentee ballot.  It was getting seriously down to the wire, and so because I was repressing my deep dark fears about "What if I don't get to vote in the most important election of my life?"I was also slightly emotionally removing myself from the election itself.

But today...FINALLY...at the last possible second...my absentee ballot arrived in the mail.

I promptly cast my vote for Barack as well as the other fine Democrats on the ballot for District 1 of Virginia and overnighted it like it was my job back to good ol' VA.

So now that I've cast my vote and done everything I can and it's out of my hands...

I'm a nervous wreck.

I believe we're going to win.  But I don't want to jinx it.  (I'm very irrationally paranoid that way)  I'm excited, I'm hopeful, and I'm a nervous wreck.

Also, hello!  I have been absolutely HORRIBLE about updating this thing.  However, ironically, the day I finally decide to update again, what do I realize?  It's November...aka NaBloPoMo!

I'm really tempted to set the goal of writing a post for every day of November.  I just think it would be hilarious considering I haven't updated in months.

Let's see if this goes anywhere!


Oh, and one last thing...a very happy birthday to my wonderful brother-in-law Joe and my dear Granddaddy, who would be 93 today.  Wow.