It's raining it's pouring....

I cannot even describe the freakin' difficulty this semester brings me, course-ly speaking. (Ha.) So a little rant is in order.

-Ballet:

I'm struggling. My friend asked me how I was doing in there and the only thing I could attribute my dancing and leaping skills to was a flying pork chop. I'm surrounded by 18 year old dance majors with size 0 waists and perfectly arched feet every Monday and Wednesday for an hour. I watch them quickly absorb the new choreography with ease as the professor excitedly rushes over to them to correct their minute mistake, pride glowing from her face as her brain imagines them as future professional dancers that she helped mold. Then there's me. We (about 20 of us)  have been in this class for six weeks and she still doesn't even know my name. I'm just "eyes up" and "listen to the rhythm" and "no you may not bring a bottle vodka in here to cry into". Okay that last one isn't true, but you get my drift. Though I can actually say I've learned some things, for the most part I'm just kind of a nuisance. And a frustrated one, at that.

-Physical Science

I don't go to that class. So I don't know. 

-Physical Science Lab

Okay. So even IF my "professor" (I think he's a graduate student who wants to exact his revenge on all the poor science-stupid souls in the world)  wasn't horrible and I didn't kind of loathe my lab partner (he's just a brat that doesn't really seem to know the definition of personal space)....I would still probably dread this class. The fact that the aforementioned aspects are very, very true makes this class my most hated.  Possibly in all of my years at UCO. THAT BAD, Y'ALL. I could rant forever about it, but I don't think my hands are quite ready for the amount of early onset carpal tunnel that would provide. So we'll move on.

-Math

What sucks is for the first time since like...middle school...I really like my professor. She's kind and smart and doesn't make anybody feel stupid. However, math is like a foreign language to me. No, that isn't accurate enough to truly describe the relationship math and I share. Math is from Mars and I am from Venus.....? No. Still not quite there. Math is like those commercials that have cartoons that  look JUST LIKE human beings. Like....why didn't you just use the actor that's doing the voice for the cartoon?! Surely it would have been cheaper? And why would you want a cartoon when you could just have a real person? Like if you wanted a tiger, then I get it...a cartoon makes perfect sense. Everybody knows tigers are divas that never learn their lines. BUT A CARTOON THAT IS DRAWN TO LOOK EXACTLY LIKE A REAL PERSON MAKES NO SENSE EVER WHAT?!?!?!??!?!?!!? 

That is what math is to me. Something that fills me with confusion and rage and hatred. Like those commercials that have cartoons that look like human beings. See also: PIXAR.

-Stagecraft

I suck at math (remember?), I'm scared of tools, and I wear too much black to be around that much sawdust. Enough said.

-Stage Management

Me and this class have no beef. I love the professor and the classmates. And the material isn't headache inducing or rage producing. My only complaint is that it's at ten am. Theatre shouldn't happen before noon, yah dig?

See...If I were a sun-shiney person, I would look at this semester as one big challenge. An opportunity to expand my mind in subjects I would never choose to take of my own accord. But since I'm a pouty little snark, I'm just ready for it to be done. And praying that I pass them all. Fingers crossed. And toes. And legs. And eyes. 

Crankily yours,

Kelsey 

The "Unexpected Trees" phenomenon

Sometimes life really picks up the pace, doesn't it? All of the sudden you realize a lot has happened and you didn't even notice all the commotion while it was commotioning.  Like if you're speeding down a highway surrounded by nothing but flat plain all around you and somewhere along the ticking clock of road you find yourself encompassed by woods. You're like..."where the hell did those trees come from?" Y'know? Even if y'dont, act like y'do.

That's been my life lately. Today I got up and just sort of wandered around my house. I ended up in my office. I had a plan to do something but then I forgot the plan I planned. So I sat at my desk and fired up my laptop. As I waited for my computer to unfreeze (still hasn't. This is being written from a phone. Shout out to Tyler for dropping my computer on concrete! 😘) I realized that half of this semester is now over. In the two and a half months school has been back in session I have

-assistant stage managed a show

-am now halfway through rehearsals for my own show that goes up in a couple of weeks

-started my application process for SETC

AND

-was maid of honor to my best friend, Mutz (She may officially be Mrs. Buchner to the world, but to me she'll always be Mutz-like-Boots)

Say what?! All that has happened?!

Unexpected trees, man. 

I have a long road ahead of me this year...so it's kind of nice to look back on the little mound of accomplishments I've racked up so far. 

-Kelsey

Hello, Nobody. It seems we meet again.

Okay. So truth be told I kind of forgot about this blog. And I'd first like to apologize to the millions of readers that have been hanging upon the cliffs of anticipation pondering the goings on of my neglected bloggy life. 

What? Just kidding. Nobody reads this but my dog. And really I think he just stares at the computer I sit in front of him wondering if it's a really horrible toy that he's supposed to play with. I've never asked him. I don't think my heart could handle the truth.

What really brings me back to my little secret corner of the internet is because I've been seeing some of my friends starting their own lovely blogs and I thought "huh, I have one of those!". 

So here I am again. 

Many things have happened since my last entry. Too many things to write about in their full, detailed glory. So here's a list.

-that play I told you about, the one I wrote, was actually "produced"! What was once only a thought in my bun-ridden head became a real live play that actors performed and audiences watched. Cool, huh?

-I became engaged to the love of my life, Tyler Waits. I cannot wait to spend the rest of my days with that weirdo.

-I may actually graduate this year! What?! 

And a whole bunch more. But those are the highlights.

Well that's all for now, Nobody. It was good to see you again! By the way, did you change your hair? Looks nice.

-Kelsey