Man, we were the freaking first show today. I don't ever want to perform that early again. I'd almost forgotten how horrible it was.

But we did pretty good. Aside from the random losing of fake nails. And my bra riding up and cutting my boobs in half (to quote Emily: "I'll never be able to breast feed." LoL. I don't think it was quite that bad, but coming from Emily it was funny). And the vial falling through my bra. AND MY MIC PACK FALLING OFF!!!

I forget when exactly it happened. At some point during the fight, I believe. But my mic pack fell off and proceded to hit me on the back of my legs the rest of the scene. Until I died, when it got tangled around my leg and I had to pray that all eyes were on Lyndon when we were raised from the dead so I could rearrange the mic and my skirt so I wouldn't die. But during that the clip holding the actual mic onto my dress fell apart, so it was dragging behind me. I thought I was going to die. So I laughed extra big and evil to distract everyone. Thank god for strobe lights.

Saw some really good shows today. And realized that Lyndon and I are way too much in character: when we were watching an especialy hilarious show (Sandbox. It's an absurdist show, in every sense of the word) we were laughing rather evilly. ~shakes head~

I didn't win any awards ~sigh~ But now I'm just gonna work twice as hard for Regionals and try to break the vicious pattern that says if you don't win at Districts, you won't win at Regionals. I'm going to win an award this year, dammit! Even if we can't beat Holland (they came in first, Sandbox came second, we came third with a one) I can still get an award. I deserve it!

Okay. Bitchy prima donna hissy fit has ended.

In other news... Lain apparently doesn't give a damn any more who knows that she likes me. And doesn't seem to remember the whole "wait till after MIFA" speach I gave her. But I can't say I mind that much.... After all, it's racking me up points ;-)

Had to miss Holland's show today to go to solo and ensemble. I felt I did really well, and got to sing in a kick ass recital hall, but I only got a 2. ~shrug~ Oh well. I was more focused on MIFA anyway. So woo hoo for that.

The high light of the day was when Jen showed up randomly when we were all waiting around for the judges to give us awards. I was sitting there talking with...people (I don't remember, that was about six hours ago!) and I heard my name, looked over, and squealed "Jen!" really high and squeaky, lol. So we hung out for awhile, I introduced her to the people who were there that she reads about in my diary. And then some of us wanted to go out after the awards, so I invited Jen to Applebees with us. So she went out with Jake, April, Laura, Rebecca and I. And we had an incredible time. Sat around for several hours, just talkin'. At one point I had to take Rebecca home and when I came back I found out that it was the night of my bar mitzvah. ~shrugs~ I think it was a 'had to be there' thing.

Jen filled me in on what happened out at Steak 'n' Shake last night. This morning. Whatever. Apparently Dan confessed to still liking me, especially with my hair this color (you'll have to head over to Jen's diary to see the actual quote). I can only shake my head at him. I personally don't understand the attraction at all...but I'm not exactly one that can talk about pathetic crushes, lol. I like Dan, but as Jen said, not nearly as much as he likes me. Heh.

We kept talking about leaving around ten. And I think we finally were all gone by 10:30. But not before I gave some women in the bathroom tips on hair dye, lol. So I took Jake home (and he's an amazingly cool guy. I would have had fun with him as Scrounge. But I'm having fun with sweetie-Lyndon as well, so I can't really complain) and then went home myself, got on here, talked to Jen (got more "details" about last night and confirmed her suspicions about Lain's identity (if you want to know...well, I guess you should have been at MIFA today, shouldn't you? I don't need advice anymore since she's making it pretty clear the whole "waiting" thing doesn't apply to completely blatant flirting. Not much I can do there, lol)) and...now I'm about to fall asleep.

Except talking to Jen is more fun than sleep, lol. She had as much fun tonight as I did, which was cool. She's so similar to so many of my friends that I figured they'd all hit it off right away. Besides, they've all been reading about each other in here for months, lol! She thinks she was infringing on my 'hanging out space,' but she wasn't. Trust me. We all had fun. Absolutely no awkward moments like there usually is when you have a new person coming in to a group of people that already know each other. Unless something happened while I was gone and they were deciding that I was having a bar mitzvah....

The villain is the hero of her own story.

--Angela

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