so, like, epic.

So at my new data entry job my office bestie John (whose whole life is lit-worthy, btw, but that's another story)and I listen to One life to Live every day on his walkman. (OLTL is my soap =D It's my guilty pleasure and I loves it.) Today we were listening to the beginning of Llanview/Llantano/Pennsylvania/whatever versus Todd Manning, including Nora and Téa's opening statements for the prosecution and the defense, respectively, and it reminded me so much of Mock Trial. And since I was a defense attorney and John did say I would be Téa if I were an OLTL character, I wanted to dig up my old closings because I was an awesome closer and I wanted to read them again.

I found my closing for Ina Fectious v. Tagen Burgers, LLC, the People v. Nurse Ratched for Ms. Telmany's class and Metropolitan v. Avery Fisher. The last one, from 2008, was most def. my favorite, especially because it included the following paragraph, which, if I may say, is one of the most amazing paragraphs I have written ever:


Last and definitely least: the hasty, judgmental Detective Alex Santiago. Instead of employing a forensic lab, she relied on Dr. Everhart who isn’t trained for forensic work—being a cardiologist, going to a few get-togethers about blood doping isn’t enough to make a forensic authority. It’s common sense. But this detective has an uncommon sense—she determines things are fact with little to no proof—sometimes with just words or hunches. She thought the grieving Mr. Fisher was quote “taking his daughter’s death [well]”—clearly not true. Even after 7 or so years working for K.I.D.S., she doesn’t realize that people respond differently to grief. She then jumped on Mr. Richman’s words—Chris’s alleged drug use. After finding receipts from an online pharmacy and assuming that they sold illegal substances, she obtained a warrant. She would’ve executed it herself, but she was too exhausted from jumping…jumping to conclusions. She let other officers investigate then took their over-the-phone report as absolute fact. No concrete evidence was found, yet the detective was satisfied.


Clearly, the red portion is my favorite.

Also, I have written two chapters/episodes for a new story I am working on. This is the first time I have been able to set writing goals for myself and meet them. The story's working title is "Epic" (I know, I know, ambitious, right?) and it's basically about a girl who discovers she has super powers who accidentally gets sent back in time while training to control her powers. More details later. =)

My college situation is still not taken care of but I am more determined than ever to succeed as a writer. Hopefully, my next few projects will include more short plays (or maybe even a longer one!), more chapters for "Epic," and maybe even a couple profiles for people because I love doing those and I seem to be good at them. =) Ideally, I want to do another more official and well-done one for Joelle Zigman so she can use that promos, perhaps one on John because he's so interesting and I also want to do maybe someone from MAHS like Smith, Mallm or Felton (which I think would HAVE to be ridiculously good lol).

So I guess that would mean I would have to start working....now. =P


Una parte en español para puedo practicar--otras noticias: siento como estoy creciendo y llegando a ser un mujer en muchas maneras. Pienso más sobre la belleza, me porto mejor con más madurez, y estoy nerviosa menos veces como nunca antes. (I have no idea if that's right.) Sí, estoy felíz y contenta con mi decisión a defer-ar la universidad =)

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hard.

so lately, making money has been hard. i'm revising plays so i can submit them and hopefully if they get published and performed, it'll be a way to establish myself and get royalties. =)

i got a data entry job so i can do that during the week and just work at the shoe store on sundays but i really want to find a way to do what i love and make money. not necessarily as a full-time job, but just you know, i want to write for money. (that last sentence was terrible, i know, but stream of consciousness.)

i'm also rewriting my story and that needs a lot of help. =O so yeah, in a lot of ways, life sucks. but i have hope and i know God is behind me and He will show me His will and i will follow it. =)

in other news, i love david bowie. and while i'm at it, zachary quinto.

published articles! yay!

i've been published six times online in the past month! =D here are links to my work. i'm very pleased with a couple of the articles, especially the one about books i recommend and also the superpowers one. that was inspired by nbc's heroes and my friend mark deguzman. basically, what powers would certain famous people have if they had them?

17 Famous People Suspected of Having Superpowers
The Springs
The Us Survey: Get Closer to Friends, Learn About Yourself
Life-improving Ways to Save Gas and Money
Was Michael Phelps's SNL Performance Golden?
10 Books a Young Writer Should Read in High School

Adventures!

Mañana voy a hacer un picnic con mi heroe, mi Touchstone en el lugar de nuestras aventuras de nuevo! o...como el lugar original, anyway.

Luckily, I can come dressed as myself.


Anyway, since this is my art blog, I just wanted to say happy birthday in advance (his real b-day is november 13) to el actor más talentoso del siglo xix, quizás el mejor hamlet! Creo que sí! I would NEVER lie! =D

updates as needed

i haven't written in a long time. i'm just keeping this blog because it's nice to be able to look back and remember how i was at certain times in my life.

anyhow, i've graduated and i completed the year with quite a few interesting artistic experiences.

As You Like It
- the performance was awesome and we did very well. i managed to help krystle and aaron increase their chemistry and they even got a "woo!" from the audience when they had a moment.
- hira was amazing, as usual and got so many laughs. the best part as someone who really knew the play was seeing how she thought out her jokes and actions so they weren't just ways to make the audience laugh, but were well-thought out.
- everything pretty much worked out except they started the deer dance scene before the forest was transformed and karen and i had to do some improv to set up the forest correctly. =/ it was pretty obvious ("say, touchstone, let's set up a tree, shall we?") but we did what needed to be done.
- everyone did a great job. =)

Newspaper/Newsletter
- i'm quite glad that amanda and i were selected to do an edition of the newsletter which featured my dr.s recommendation on the front but it was even lovelier when oshaugh asked us to assist aaron with the last edition of the newspaper as well. unfortunately, i don't have a copy of it. =( it's one of the only copies of the cougar news i'm missing! i have almost all the issues that were distributed during my time at McNair so i'm upset that i don't have it. actually, i mgiht. i just can't find it.

Open Mic
- i felt like a jerk with three open mic performances, but i did it anyway. i performed "love ridden" with joelle zigman on piano , "the way i am" with marton to duet with me while joelle accompanied us, and "someone to watch over me" a cappella as the very last act (not counting jason guerette's encore performance)
- mr. delo loved my "someone to watch over me" and i'm glad i started my open mic career with an a cappella piece ("unconditional love" by cyndi lauper, shiina ringo's version) and ended it with one, both successful. he even encouraged mr. oshaugh to ask me to sing it for one of his classes. when i sang it for mr. o'shaughnessy, he liked it as well. =) so i am quite pleased.

Other News
- i had to sing "endless love" with mark at richard's b-day/graduation party, which i didn't have the most fun singing. it wasn't as bad as the "you'll be in my heart" incident, though, so it's okay. (sorry, mohindra, i love you, but it hurts to hear that song now.)
- i finally finished watching battle royale and kimi wa petto! i loved them both and i hope they can help inspire me someday (hopefully, sometime soon.)

i updated my deviantart with some of my photography so yay. =D


i've been having writer's block lately and it's so painful because i'm exploring all my options in life right now (my deferrment, urgent need for money, entire future, etc.) and i'm re-examining past relationships, current relationships, things i've done, etc., and i feel things...but can't write about them. i was trying to write a play based on my film noir (ish) art history short story, but that didn't work out.

oh well. but i'm working on a song and a t-shirt design. =D


speaking of art history, i got 5s on all my aps this year, so yay! art history, english lit, and...(surprise coming)...SPANISH all conquered! i was in total shock about the last one so when duke told me i had credit for spanish, i was ridiculously shocked.

anyway, i'm praying for inspiration and a job. well, i have a job. i guess i'm praying for a better job or at least more money.

MS#4 performance

the performance was on thursday. =O we did really well, especially considering we didn't really get to know the space or run through the play properly. the music actually fit in neatly even though we didn't really rehearse those scenes and the curtains/lights/sounds worked out well. =)

i know that this was probably the first time most of the cast has done a whole play and everyone did really well. heefa and maria pulled through and even with a few emergencies and missing props, we figured things out and made up for what needed making up.

some people were outstanding--karen, mingo, alexis, david, gina, elysse, alberto, just to name a few. the singers were also really good and even though hira got nervous and forgot a few lines, she didn't let it stop her and made sure she said something to finish her scenes and she really is an excellent rosalind. everything hira does is hilarious.

krystle and aaron pretty much knew their stuff but the chemistry still isn't there. =/ dr. s suggested rushing the first act (we have to cut things anyway) but i do still want to try improving their scenes. i'm glad heefa was in their scenes because she helped liven things up when the chemistry was most obviously dry. it's not so much about their acting as their chemistry, although krystle could be more forward and aaron could be more responsive. oh well. they have improved so much and i have hope that they will be even better.

our final is on thursday. ahhh. we still have to figure out the staging for the third floor library. i think i'll do that now. =O

oh, and just because every grown-up i've heard try to quote it misquotes it:

"if this were played upon a stage now, i could condemn it as an improbable fiction." - fabian, twelfth night.