Year in Review 2006 Part Duex

-As the school year came to a close, I put together the menu for the theater club's end-of-the-year banquet. Not only was the menu great, everything about the banquet was spectacular. As we looked back on the year as a group, I realized how much I personal had changed over the year...which of course, would be outlined better if you'd watched from the beginning. I also realized how much I was going to continue changing....

-I came home from school for the summer and had a pretty uneventful, kinda blah 19th birthday. It marked a second year of being fairly disappointed in my birthday, so I decided that to make up for two years of shizz birthdays I was going to make certain that my 20th birthday was going to be the best one I would ever have. We'll see.
(That's a picture from my 16th birthday.)

-The brakes failed on my piece of shit car. (Actually that was before my birthday but whatever. :-P) I ended up slamming into another car, and totalling the crappy thing. It was '95 (I think?) Toyota Carolla. Too old for the insurance company to care, the DMV didn't investigate my car at all and decided the brakes worked fine. (They got in it, didn't turn it on, pushed the brake peddle, and that was it, according to the guy who's lot had my car.)

-I jumped at the opportunity to be an extra in the movie Normal Adolescent Behavior (which should be coming out soon). I also met Emerson doing this, and we would spend most of the rest of the summer attached at the hips.

-My church had a Vacation Bible School, and my family hosted some of the counsellors who came in from Camp Calumet. I helped out at the camp, and became super popular with a bunch of those kids. The counsellors were amazing, but I haven't seen them since that week.

-Emerson and I started going to the clubs in Providence, where we made tons of awesome friends. It wasn't long before we were both dancing at a club with a bunch of the people we were hanging out with.

-The return to school was bittersweet, only because it seemed like I had just made all of these friends. Shortly after my return to school though, things began falling apart for all of them. I, on the other hand, had a brilliant beginning of the semester. I reunited with my friends, though it wasn't quite the same (for one, the Quad had all but disintegrated) and made plenty of new ones. I fell in love (not the romantic kind) with most of the guys living on my floor, most of whom I didn't really know (or know at all) beforehand.

-Almost immediately, there was some classic gay drama going on over the Mr. Shimmer 2006 pageant, and it looked like I was going to get the title after all. Right when I didn't want.

-I started a blog on this crazy website called Blogger or something. :-P

-Oh yeah, I dated this guy for about two weeks. That makes three boyfriends for those of you keeping track at home. Three ex-boyfriends too. *shrugs* Can you tell I wasn't particularly invested in this one?

-The theater department also changed with the introduction of a new tech professor. The students united in the hatred of him. But somehow, despite the tension and stress there, Arcadia went off perfectly.
(Picture of me as Jellaby from Arcadia.)

-I began directing a one act play for the Fall 2006 One Act Festival. It was dark, not funny like most of them, but people loved it. Which, pretty much, I owe to my actors and my stage manager. :-P

-I began working at Abercrombie and began go-go dancing again at about the same time. The two jobs took over the free time I had allowed myself during the day and on weekend nights. I shifted my partying to the occasional weeknights. As stressed as I became, I was really really happy with having an income.

-Mostly due to my new jobs, I have made tons of friends in the last few months of the year. :)

(Can you tell I'm tired, from that half-assed end of the entry? :-P)