Falling in Love Should be like Polaroids...

Saturday, August 16, 2008

08.08.08 In Pictures

8 roses from Jen and Justin

Watching/playing Wii soccer

More of that. Look how much fun they're having!

Video game= perfect girl talk time

Britt gets her new camera = I get to be in pictures now!

Like this one!

Ryan was so awesome to let us borrow his Wii.

So, this isn't the best picture, but man. It just sums up the spirit of competition, doesn't it?

Alicia, me, and Jen

Bustin' out of the Smash Brothers

Rabbids! It'll make your arm muscles ache for a week.

Game glaze.

New Ryan's birthday card:

Hello, 24. So far, I think we're getting along excellently.

All in all the party was great fun. Thanks to Ryan and Jared for supplying the games/running home for lost parts and everyone who came to have fun with us!

Okay, forgot to post the video from our O.B. on set experience. Not terribly great quality, but what can you expect from a phone? At this point, all us background are lounging on the beach getting a tan while they spend an hour filming a scene that only requires the main actors. Sonia took the opportunity to catch up on the hours of sleep we missed because of pillow talk with Jenna until midnight and then getting up at 4am.

Next up was the world premiere of Alice! Some CCT guys put together a brand new rock high school version of Alice in Wonderland, and the premiere ran only two weekends. It was a decent musical, but could definitely use some work livening up the middle, which was looooong and uneventful. Act two picked up almost immediately with the appearance of Ryan Hansen (roommates past and present, you may remember him as Dick Casablancas on Veronica Mars) in a hilarious number that was a cross somewhere between Robin Hood Men in Tights and what I can only imagine would be the actual Dick Casablancas' experience in musical theater.

Almost done with the updates now! Just got to post the birthday pics and we're good to go for a review on our Ex List experience last night.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Next up: Hollywood

There's a new show in town (RIP Veronica Mars), and the Monday after ComicCon, Brittany, Sonia, my sister, and I headed down to O.B. for filming of the second episode of the Ex List (does it sound stupid to you? It sounds stupid to me). Justin had called us a couple nights before for the roles of runner, race volunteer, pedestrian, and race volunteer, respectively.

After the 27th lap around Newport, Brittany was really regretting her agreement to be in the race. Sonia, Britt, and I, however, were sitting pretty. Well, Britt was sitting pretty. They stuck her in the bar window, and I told her she could totally sneak her book in between filming. Which she did. The only person on the entire street who couldn't care less that B-list Hollywood stars were filming a scene six feet in front of her. Sonia and I, the good race volunteers that we were, got stuck standing in the street for a couple of hours while they went through all the shots. There was very little structure going on where background was concerned; everyone else kept disappearing, either back in the bar or around the corner to base camp.

The bar thing: before base camp was set up, we got to hang out in the Irish pub they were using for the exterior of the cafe. My little just-turned-18 sister's first time in a bar. I was so proud. I took pictures. And then sent them to Mom and Dad.

Here's us in the pub! (Darn backlighting ruins pictures.)

More info later. Brittany, Ryan, and I are going up tonight to be on the new sets for the first time. (I seriously might cry if I see how they've torn down the VM cafteria and dorm room and made it into the new show's sets, but Andy assures me we won't be on that part of set.) More pics and details to come!

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Back the Truck Up: Comic Con

Okay, so I see what's addicting about watching the Olympics. It was a good night. Not for the Americans so much. Even the Canadians were whipping our tails in the diving competitions. And those Chinese synchronized high divers are something else. They totally deserved the medal.

But, on to other things. Like going back in time.

Comic Con!

Impressions:
It's nice to have hobbies. However, some people are just too into some things.
Comic Con is not a place for children.
We should have gone on Saturday.

Highlights:
The chance to see Neil! Patrick! Harris! From our fave show, How I Met Your Mother!

Disappointments:
Neil! Patrick! Harris! not being on the panel after all. Some last minute cancellation. Boo, NPH. Boo.
No Heroes panel. No Office panel. They were all the day before.

All in all, it was fun because of who was there: me, Jen, Justin, and Justin's cousin Brandon. We're a fun group to do stuff like this... probably because we all know we're geeks... just not the extreme of those around us. It was like we were the cool kids.We had a game going of who could find the most geeked out person. Justin won.

Yes, that is Justin's nerd shirt.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Pop Culturally Correct

Man. A lot of people love the Olympics. I've kind of never really gotten into it. I think we watched some of the preliminary swim tournaments a couple months ago. That's about it.

But everyone's been talking about it, and I'm starting to feel a little culturally ignorant. Today the forty-something-year-old guy who works at our copy place was bubbling over with Chinese gymnasts this, American gymnasts that, and I was all, "Um, Germany's not playing in the soccer tournament. That's about the extent of my knowledge on the subject. Oh, and I heard that Phelps guy's doing pretty good."

So, in my attempt to know more things, and since the start of my 24th year marked the start of the 25th summer Olympics, I have set up camp in front of the TV tonight, tuned into NBC (I had to ask my copy guy what channel to check out), and ready to watch me some Olympians.

So far... water polo? Please.

Where are my cute futbol players?

Sunday, August 10, 2008

The Haircut

So I have been a slacker blogger lately. I know.

In an attempt to redeem myself, I will now go back through the last two weeks or so and address anything I forgot to write about/didn't have time for/didn't have pictures to tell the story/glossed over. This will not all happen tonight. We'll call this more of a progressive project strung out over this week. Hey, I've got other things to do (read: finish my novel asap).

We kick off with one of the glossed over subjects: the haircut.

So I went in fully thinking I was NOT going to cut my hair. I wanted to hang on one last time. Then I was in the chair and I decided to let Jenafer decide. Her vote was snip, snip. Complete with scissors for embellishment. So I did it, and I'm glad I did it. It was the best choice and fortunately Jenafer was the one to realize that and tell me.

And since it's been nearly a month since the cut I actually have pictures of all the different ways I can now "style" my hair. Style, of course, being a loose term for the word... it's more like, I can manage it in a way to not look completely idiotic.

(Please dismiss the complete candid-nicity of all featured photos. No time to throw them in PS and make them awesome. (Did I mention I should be typing fiction right now? And not wasting time here?))

1) Down/slightly curly

2) The short ponytail! I've always wanted one of those!

3) The headband (that suprisingly stays on my head)

4) The pigtails

Hmmmm. I'm missing 'pulled back with bobby pins' and 'down, completely straight, no waves whatsoever' (also known as 'normal').

And that, my friends, is the story of the haircut. Browsing through my 'what I've done recently' list, I figured the next thing that I glossed over is the cam... then I realized from all the blogs posted about said subject, it probably wasn't so glossed over as I thought. (Then why do I feel like I've hardly begun to even tell you all about it's amazingness?... Oh, yes, because I'm IN LOVE WITH IT.)

Next up: Comic Con!