downs and ups and ups and downs

ladies and gentlemen, i present to you: "Up the Down Staircase"

we did it!! and made it to the front page of the Tribune this morning.

i don't think i've ever been so proud of anything. :)

dramadramadrama.

so i thought about it, and then i thought about it, and after that i thought about it some more, and ultimately came up with this conclusion: i have absolutely nothing to blog about.

my play, the one i'm directing, the one that's driving me totally and completely bonkers, goes up this week. friday, saturday, saturday. they are SO not ready. but, i suppose that's okay. after all, they're the ones onstage. not me. i just wish they'd have a little pride in themselves. i have pride in them! unfortunately, that doesn't always translate quite as you'd hoped.

my other play, the one i'm acting in, is a little scary. my character has this boyfriend, and he's possibly the creepiest-looking guy i've ever seen. i know we're not supposed to make hasty judgement or whatever, but you know how sometimes you look down the grocery isle, see someone, and decide to go to the next isle? that's something i would do upon seeing this guy. plus, he's like 6 inches shorter than i am and has hair about as long as mine. please, please spare me and don't come see this play. it is going to be very, very odd.

the miamaids sang this morning. they were fantastic! i was thrilled for them. i was even more thrilled with the enthusiasm from the YW about our new song. it even made up for the lack of enthusiasm from the leaders. :P

saipanisms

what can i say? tori inspired me. thanks tor! :D

You know you're on Saipan when:

• White people are called haolies (howl-ees)(Hawaiian for "without breath")
• When you order milk you are asked, "Do you want it warm, or cold?"
• "Plenty" means "a lot," as in, "Miss, I have plenty homework"
• Silver or gold teeth are a status symbol on adults. The kids have them until their permanent teeth come in
• Spam is not low class– it's a delicacy available in 10 varieties
• Saying a bar is a "karaoke club" is another way of saying it is a strip club or brothel
• The roads are: Beach Road, Middle Road and Airport Road– the rest have names, but no one cares what they are
• Your directions for the pizza guy sound something like this: "Go down Beach Road to Chalan Piao. Take the road that takes you behind the Mobil across from the Pacific Gardenia Hotel– it's the house right there, on the corner."
• You have a maid when you're making $16,000/year
• You have to sell your maid to be able to afford to eat KFC
• Skinny people are all Japanese tourists
• You can't buy alcohol (except in a bar) after 10pm– unless you sweet-talk the Korean shopkeeper
• Your children's school snack consists of a large bag of chips, eggs, or sashimi
• No one has a mailbox (or address, for that matter). Everyone has a P.O. Box.
• Someone says "A.C." and are looked at as though they're speaking Latin.
• Off and On are verbs (as in, "Can you off the air con?")
• The power goes out several times a week
• You're not late until next week
• TVs a week behind, which is good (then you'll know whether it's worth your time to catch the latest episode of grey's anatomy)
• Speed bumps outnumber traffic lights by the hundreds
• 40mph feels like 80mph
• You can walk just about anywhere, but you're crazy if you do. The sidewalks begin in a no particular spot and end randomly
• Kids of all ages can see any movie at any time
• Police officers give hitchhikers a lift
• When your name is "Miss" regardless
• When you can wear Birkenstocks to your real professional job
• When kids play with cinder blocks for fun (why not?)

I don't know who came up with this list, but I'm pretty sure it was some teacher from Kansas or something. All of it seems normal!
New people must be so puzzled.

the nanny diaries

it's saturday! and i'm dying to see this movie:

hmph.

taylor's greatest moment

this picture is entitled "taylor's greatest moment" on my hard drive for obvious reasons.

hahaha

imagine life without a best friend...then look at a picture like this and remember that there's a reason they're the best.

:)

josh lucas = :D

WOW!

henry saw josh lucas. that's incredible.

haha at first i thought he meant jennifer connelly, since he mentioned a beautiful mind and the hulk, and i nearly had a heart attack.

i wonder if i can apply my supernatural test-date-changing ability to get my mom to stay. lol.

doubtful.

heartbreaking fact.

yes, they actually divorced. why? because life is a mean, cruel thing.

beautiful people should stick together.

seriously, how pretty is she?

not to mention him...(words couldn't come close to an adequate description anyway)

nah-ting, par.

it became painfully clear today that ms mili really DOES know more about my life than i do. apparently my mom's leaving on monday. or at least that's what ms mili said. and she's usually right.

lol.

so i walk into physics this morning, after staying up until 2:00 (i know, small feat...4:00 is the new 2:00) studying for the "quiz", only to discover that the "quiz" had transformed into a chapter test. yipee. needless to say, i gave the teacher the blankest look i could muster (a potent and useful skill) and the chapter test was suddenly a quiz, then an assignment, and finally just some random problems that she "collected" but didn't put in the grade book.

oh. and henry, our teacher is ms. doculan. our first pinoy teacher in all of high school. we play this fun game of asking questions just to see how much of a strange, unrelated answer she'll give us. it's entertaining, to say the least.

i miss having ms. peterson. never thought i'd say that. :'(

one of the strange things about being the youth choir director is that i tend to burn CDs of accompaniments, which mixes random instrumental versions of church songs into the rest of my music. imagine my surprise when the "when we meet again" accompaniment ends and is promptly followed by a very loud "sexyback!".

i'm personally convinced that shia lebouf brought sexy back. just because he doesn't publicize it in the manner that JT is known for doesn't mean it ain't true.

beware of the ICN (ingur's coconut network). it spreads lies...:P

so tessen decided today that melissa should take the TOEFL. i gave him the patented "tessen. no." look. he didn't get it. i'm like, "man. seriously. the TOEFL?" he's like, "yeah! of course!"

no. LOL. can't wait to see her face.

i sure hope there's some career out there that requires and combines an in-depth knowledge of the prevalent themes of the scarlet letter, a thorough understanding of the complex principles of displacement in relation to acceleration and velocity, a complete comprehension of the rules involved in formal commands in the "tu" and "Ud." form, and the memorization of the dates and titles of the periods of ancient Egyptian history (the old kingdom, first intermediate period, middle kingdom, second intermediate period, and new kingdom, just in case you were wondering).

otherwise, i am just wasting incredible amounts of time.

fried...

here's an equation for you:

plenty physics homework = (taya brain for caroline)x(2a(∆x))

take that, ms. doculan.

labor day = the 8th wonder of the world

today is a wonderful day. it is Labor Day. i don't think that a better holiday has ever been invented, even if i don't work enough to deserve a holiday as a break from all of my non-labor. i'm sure the rest of the world does, so i'll just bum a holiday off of them. but at least it means that all homework can wait until monday night and that play rehearsal will take place at a normal time and the poor, unfortunate cast members and their stressed-out directors will not be at MHS until 6:00pm, as they are the rest of the week.

happy official birthday, tori! i'll find a replacement bracelet for you. ;)