10 days into rehearsal; 8 days into class.
First run through of the show? check
First English book read? check
First scene written? check
First all nighter? ain't happened yet, baby!
I will fill in the blanks sometime not tonight or I might have to change my last answer :)
As I saw on someone's facebook, "Today is the last first day of school." I overestimated my alarm (okay, I set my alarm for what it's going to be later in the semeseter when I need the snooze more) so I'm killing time before my first class, music appreciation. I have only two project based classes this semester and only one show, which is roughly a third of the schedule I'm used to keeping so I'm hopeful that I'll have a lot more time to go adventuring.
It's been the perfect lead-in to the year and it's been wonderful to see people. It feels so good to be back among the people that I have learned to love over the past three years, with voices that I can automatically recognize around the corner and jokes that we share so easily. I want to milk it this year more than any other and find a way to be with them more and more, to make the get togethers happen as opposed to just saying, "someday, we'll have a tea party..." "someday..." I also have a scheme in motion to get together with my few outside theatre friends. These plans are so much more difficult to achieve since we don't inherently know each other's schedules. With luck, our schedules will line up enough for once a week.
Anyway, the time went quickly and I have to move on. I hope you all have a wonderful day like any other while I go make the most of my last first day.
The concept entered my mind two or three years ago -- let's have a tea party so that we can get dolled up with sundress and ridiculous hats -- but the execution was always down the road for me. About a month ago, two of my friends excitedly told me about their recent purchase of antique hats and their desire to use them for a tea party. Finally, the right stimulus was provided for me to decide to put this thing into action! I also had a roll of 35mm black and white film that I wanted to use and had thought to take out a group of girls to Cameron Park, a lovely little pocket of Waco, to use up the film. Since tea party attire seemed appropriate for a black and white photo shoot, I decided to combine the two events into one grand adventure for this past Thursday.
The day was a tremendous success. My friend, Victoria, co-hosted and came over early. She miraculously put curls into my hair and helped me make sandwiches. The tea setting was a hodge-podge of dainty-ish cups and random serving pieces that somehow ended up in a relatively uniform blue and white theme, with a variety of interesting shapes and levels. We squeezed around my table and had ourselves a good time. The photo shoot also went very well. There were only five of us by that time, but we went to a random little piece of Cameron Park called "Miss Nellie's Pretty Place" which has a fountain and some steps and presumably in the spring a lot of flowers. We had a blast playing in the fountain, snapping pictures all the while. Afterward, we decided we were hungry for real(ish) food and went to Chick Fil A, still dolled up in our tea party best (but without the hats). All in all, I couldn't ask for a better way to start the school year, particularly my senior year. Here is a slideshow of some of my favorite pictures from the day. Enjoy!
While my sister-in-law mentored me in the creation of the meatballs, my brother called in from vacation. She kept mentioning that the meatballs were very big so I made a special meatball just for her:
Now I'm back home with a claustrophobic kitchen, but am armed with an arsenal of yummy new dishes...especially full-sized meatballs.
