Saturday, April 22, 2006
Lots of good stuff in the past few days.
I went to see Enloe's production of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" on Thursday. I seriously think that was the most fun night I've had in months. Dave, Jill, and I went out for dinner at Salem Street, ate an amazing brownie sundae, and went to pick up Ashley, who lives way out in Holly Springs. On the way there, we started talking about this brown recluse spider Dave had found a few days before in his car, which had then hidden so that it couldn't be killed. So Jill and I were slightly paranoid about spiders crawling on us lol considering both of us are extremely afraid of them. Then we picked up Ashley and headed off to Enloe where we met up with a bunch of other Apex people who came to see the show too. The play was awesome. The play itself is hillarious, the acting was pretty good, guy singers for the most part were pretty good, girl singers were kinda weak except for the lead, who was very good, and the dancing was pretty cool, especially the guys...but the set was absolutely incredible. Enloe's tech guy works at Meredith so they have acess to Meredith's tech materials too and wow they made good use of them. The fireplace seriously looked like it was made out of stone and they even made it snow during one scene, very softly and slowly and swirling around, and it was really really neat. We hung out for a few minutes afterwards, talked to some people, including a girl I haven't seen since elementary school, and then headed out. Then the real adventure began lol. We were just talking and laughing and such when all of the sudden Ashley pulled me closer to her and was like "Jen...don't look at the window." So naturally I cowered, thinking it was the brown recluse. It wasn't, but it was still a big yucky spider, and it was on the inside of the window right next to my head. Dave found a place to pull over and saved me from the spider lol. Then we took Ash home and headed to Jill's house. We were almost there when Dave pulled over again...for no apparent reason...and said very calmly "don't panic" lol. So Jill and I jumped out of the car knowing that there was another spider...which then escaped into the depths of his car. So we got back in, very freaked out because Jill and I were afraid it was going to come back out...Then we got to Jill's, and not one, but two spiders came out. And dissappeared. And came out again. And dissappeared. Over and over. Jill got a flashlight from her house and she and I cowered while dave searched for the spiders, one of which really was the brown recluse. He finally got one of them onto a sheet of paper and was going to kill it...and then realized it was pregnant. And when you kill pregnant spiders, the babies spew out, alive. Ugh. So he took it away from the car to kill it, and then went back to hunt for the brown recluse. Now, if you don't know exactly what a brown recluse is and what it does to a person...go look at this website, but be warned it's gross.
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Anyway, Jill and I went inside to get away from the spider and after a while, Dave decided the spider wasn't coming back out of the dashboard, the last place it had apparently crawled. So he took me home...which was creepy...I was terrified that the spider was going to come out. I even sat in the back seat. I was quite creeped out.
And you know what?
That was still one of the most amazingly wonderfuly fun nights I've had in a long time. That's got to say something lol. I need to hang out with drama people more often.
Friday night, Marc, Brian, Richie, Matt, and I went to the movies. We tried to go see the french movie that means "Merry Christmas" at Galaxy, but the website had the times wrong, so we went to Crossroads and saw V for Vendetta instead. It was really good, which somewhat surprised me. I hadn't really seen previews for it, but the first few minutes it felt like some kind of bizzare batman movie. But then things started to fall into place and it was really interesting and cool with a meaningful plot and enough violence to entertain everyone lol. If Zach saw it, he would probably call a few of the people "bleeders" if he wasn't so obsessed with swords and thus paying more attention to them lol. Anyway, it was really good so go see it.
Matt took me home after the movie and we ended up just standing out in my driveway until after 1 AM, talking. It was nice...I love the energetic side of the drama kids, and the easy going feel of the broughton crowd, but it's nice to still have a few friends-usually Matt, Dave, Rachel, Steven, and occasionally Marc-that I can have long conversations with, meaningful or pointless, and never get tired of them.
This morning I went to school with Rachel for a chance to look over AP Stat tests before the exam. We stayed for half an hour or so and then went out for Chinese food for lunch, which was fun. Then this afternoon I went to Olive Chapel Elementary for a few hours to help out with their...I don't know if you'd call it a fair or a fundraiser or what exactly, but I got to paint faces. It was so much better than doing it last summer for band...mostly because there was a sheet of simple designs that the kids could choose from, which gave me something to use as a guidline of how to paint them, but I let them tell me other things if they didn't want something from the sheet. There was one little boy that stands out most in my mind...he was soooo adorable....really little, must've been a younger sibling or something, but he wanted his face painted. He and his mom came over to me and I asked him what he wanted painted on his face. "Black! I like black!" he said. His mom was like, "a black what though? What do you want on your face?" And he didn't really get it so he pointed and said "Black paint!" His mom tried to get him interested in the sheet of designs, but he wasn't paying attention so I said, "Do you like cats?" And he said "Yes." In a really excited voice, I said "Well since you like black so much, I can paint your nose black and give you black wiskers to look like a cat! Would you like that?" His jaw dropped and his eyes got wide. "YEAAAAAAH!" It amused me greatly, and though he kept squirming around so much that his whiskers weren't quite straight, he absolutely loved it and that made me smile a lot.
Enough for tonight...leave me some love in the comments^^
I went to see Enloe's production of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" on Thursday. I seriously think that was the most fun night I've had in months. Dave, Jill, and I went out for dinner at Salem Street, ate an amazing brownie sundae, and went to pick up Ashley, who lives way out in Holly Springs. On the way there, we started talking about this brown recluse spider Dave had found a few days before in his car, which had then hidden so that it couldn't be killed. So Jill and I were slightly paranoid about spiders crawling on us lol considering both of us are extremely afraid of them. Then we picked up Ashley and headed off to Enloe where we met up with a bunch of other Apex people who came to see the show too. The play was awesome. The play itself is hillarious, the acting was pretty good, guy singers for the most part were pretty good, girl singers were kinda weak except for the lead, who was very good, and the dancing was pretty cool, especially the guys...but the set was absolutely incredible. Enloe's tech guy works at Meredith so they have acess to Meredith's tech materials too and wow they made good use of them. The fireplace seriously looked like it was made out of stone and they even made it snow during one scene, very softly and slowly and swirling around, and it was really really neat. We hung out for a few minutes afterwards, talked to some people, including a girl I haven't seen since elementary school, and then headed out. Then the real adventure began lol. We were just talking and laughing and such when all of the sudden Ashley pulled me closer to her and was like "Jen...don't look at the window." So naturally I cowered, thinking it was the brown recluse. It wasn't, but it was still a big yucky spider, and it was on the inside of the window right next to my head. Dave found a place to pull over and saved me from the spider lol. Then we took Ash home and headed to Jill's house. We were almost there when Dave pulled over again...for no apparent reason...and said very calmly "don't panic" lol. So Jill and I jumped out of the car knowing that there was another spider...which then escaped into the depths of his car. So we got back in, very freaked out because Jill and I were afraid it was going to come back out...Then we got to Jill's, and not one, but two spiders came out. And dissappeared. And came out again. And dissappeared. Over and over. Jill got a flashlight from her house and she and I cowered while dave searched for the spiders, one of which really was the brown recluse. He finally got one of them onto a sheet of paper and was going to kill it...and then realized it was pregnant. And when you kill pregnant spiders, the babies spew out, alive. Ugh. So he took it away from the car to kill it, and then went back to hunt for the brown recluse. Now, if you don't know exactly what a brown recluse is and what it does to a person...go look at this website, but be warned it's gross.
click
Anyway, Jill and I went inside to get away from the spider and after a while, Dave decided the spider wasn't coming back out of the dashboard, the last place it had apparently crawled. So he took me home...which was creepy...I was terrified that the spider was going to come out. I even sat in the back seat. I was quite creeped out.
And you know what?
That was still one of the most amazingly wonderfuly fun nights I've had in a long time. That's got to say something lol. I need to hang out with drama people more often.
Friday night, Marc, Brian, Richie, Matt, and I went to the movies. We tried to go see the french movie that means "Merry Christmas" at Galaxy, but the website had the times wrong, so we went to Crossroads and saw V for Vendetta instead. It was really good, which somewhat surprised me. I hadn't really seen previews for it, but the first few minutes it felt like some kind of bizzare batman movie. But then things started to fall into place and it was really interesting and cool with a meaningful plot and enough violence to entertain everyone lol. If Zach saw it, he would probably call a few of the people "bleeders" if he wasn't so obsessed with swords and thus paying more attention to them lol. Anyway, it was really good so go see it.
Matt took me home after the movie and we ended up just standing out in my driveway until after 1 AM, talking. It was nice...I love the energetic side of the drama kids, and the easy going feel of the broughton crowd, but it's nice to still have a few friends-usually Matt, Dave, Rachel, Steven, and occasionally Marc-that I can have long conversations with, meaningful or pointless, and never get tired of them.
This morning I went to school with Rachel for a chance to look over AP Stat tests before the exam. We stayed for half an hour or so and then went out for Chinese food for lunch, which was fun. Then this afternoon I went to Olive Chapel Elementary for a few hours to help out with their...I don't know if you'd call it a fair or a fundraiser or what exactly, but I got to paint faces. It was so much better than doing it last summer for band...mostly because there was a sheet of simple designs that the kids could choose from, which gave me something to use as a guidline of how to paint them, but I let them tell me other things if they didn't want something from the sheet. There was one little boy that stands out most in my mind...he was soooo adorable....really little, must've been a younger sibling or something, but he wanted his face painted. He and his mom came over to me and I asked him what he wanted painted on his face. "Black! I like black!" he said. His mom was like, "a black what though? What do you want on your face?" And he didn't really get it so he pointed and said "Black paint!" His mom tried to get him interested in the sheet of designs, but he wasn't paying attention so I said, "Do you like cats?" And he said "Yes." In a really excited voice, I said "Well since you like black so much, I can paint your nose black and give you black wiskers to look like a cat! Would you like that?" His jaw dropped and his eyes got wide. "YEAAAAAAH!" It amused me greatly, and though he kept squirming around so much that his whiskers weren't quite straight, he absolutely loved it and that made me smile a lot.
Enough for tonight...leave me some love in the comments^^
