What a lovely little update this is.

I haven't been on in a while, and so here's some random thoughts I've had recently, that I frequently save in my phone's Drafts when I want to remember them.

>To read: James Joyce love letters to his mistress.
>"Pressing dimples into my pillow..."
>A sign on the road boarded up-- all you can see is the bottom, which says, "It's the law".
>A sex shop on Middlesex Rd.
>"I shine my lights and the fog glows back in response."
>"Smiling out loud."


That's pretty much it, except plot ideas I want to keep secret... :3

And now for some pictures on my hard drive.

Bears

Tuesday and Wednesday were amazing.

Allow me to catch you up.

I attended the Ursinus Orientation Overnight, meeting a surprising number of new friends, including a roommate-to-be! Her name's Grace, she shares my love of Saiyuki, and is insanely cool.


We were all put into groups, and we played some rather interesting games to get to know people. "Honey I Love You"... This past year's Theatre III/IV class should know this one. XD


After much Wii and intense volleyball, we made our way back to the dorm to sleep. Neither I nor Grace brought sleeping materials, so we both experienced the joy of sleeping on a bare bunk mattress... (Luckily we'd scored a corner room, as you can see!)


The next day we went to various meetings and seminars on campus life and programs and classes and such... What's exciting is I have a proposed schedule!

Common Intellectual Experience (CIE): Tu Th 1:30-2:45
Introduction to Creative Writing (ENG106): M W F 1:30-2:20
Elementary Japanese I (JPN101): M Tu Th 12:30-1:20
Introduction to Psychology (PSYC100): M W F 11:00-11:50
Psychology Lab: Tu 7:00-7:50

If you paid attention, you'd know that this means I don't have to be in class until 11AM! (12:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. :3)

I have to say, the theatre program at Ursinus is more than impressive! I can't wait to get into it. Auditions, crew, even student directed shows are open to all students! :O

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Now I can't let this post pass me by without mentioning my... interesting first day at the CATF apprenticeship. Now, originally I was assigned as a helper for the costume department, but Props was so understaffed that I may be helping them out for the next couple weeks while the costume department works out the design plans.

And so my day consisted of painting stripper silhouettes on matchboxes, filling garbage bags with pillows and creepy-looking teddy bears, labeling EVERYTHING (I think they know what a spoon looks like), and three whole trips to the outrageously distant "Prop Barn". Literally, the Prop Barn is a worn-out white barn with countless years' worth of dust and random knick-knacks inside. You guys thought the HHS costume loft was bad...? Ughh...

Well, needless to say it was a very tiring 9 to 5. I can see now that my summer is going to be veeery busy. Or at the very least, sweaty. Ah well. Even if I don't get any money or college credits for this, at least I'm getting some experience. And some connections; ya know, in case I need to drop some names to make it big in the contemporary theatre world or something. ;)

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And as for learning the song... I have 20 days left and I've made zero progress... looks like this song will have to be EXTREMELY simple. "Lotion" only has four repeating chords the whole time... hmmm...



Wow, what a long post! o_o Hope you guys actually read it... Well, either way, that's it for now. :)


Sleepily,
Rachel

I'm a lesbian! I'm a lesbian!

...This title, of course, means that I have beaten Persona 4. It will be a loooonnnggg time til I have to hear that battle music again. I got the true ending and everything, with much assistance from Chao Min Wu's game guide. :)
My next task is to beat Persona 3 with completely maxed Social Links, and then P4 with the same goal. We'll see how much time I have for that during college... ehehehe.

In other news, today I was accepted into an apprenticeship for the Contemporary American Theatre Festival! Kinda freakin awesome! I'll be in the costume department, sewing up costumes and assisting with quick-changes backstage. This will take up a lot of my summer, but there's still enough of Rachel to go around. :)
I start next Thursday and go alllll the way to July 25th, upon which I will jet off to Switzerland with my good buddy Cassie to take Europe by storm! Then... college. Oh my... o_o

Finally, I picked the challenge cuz I was getting impatient. :O I'm going with my lovely Zack's challenge:

"ummmm... you shoulddddd....learn a simple song on guitar. maybe three or more chords (maybe SA?) and then keep playing until you can sing and play"

And so, by June 30th, I will complete this challenge! Thanks so much Zee. :)

Well that's pretty much it for the day. Thanks for reading!

Yours,
Rachel

Well gosh I'm behind... [CHALLENGE TIEM!!]

Okay well, I've been kinda busy lately, what with graduation. Ahhh my aunt and grandmom came over and we had some fun! :)

Sorry I'm late on the challenge. I was at Cassie's for the past 3 days or so. :P

IT'S (past) JUNE FIRST!!
TIME FOR A CHALLENGE!!
WOOOOOOO!!!

For more info on this whole challenge thing, check out the first blog post I made.

So you guys all post some challenges that you want me to complete this month. Then...
Uh...
I guess I'll draw one out of a hat?
Unless I can figure out some kind of voting system, that's what's gonna happen!

Lovingly (and begging for mercy),
Rachel