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I spent all of last night working on my prompts for TMA 395 and my extra credit assignments for TMA 201.

More importantly I filled out my resume and emailed it off to a few more job openings around campus. I even got really fancy and created myself some business cards for myself and created a website to advertise myself in my field. I have high hopes that I will be able to get a job or at the very least showcase my talents and abilities to the world.

Here is the URL: http://web.me.com/pjhayes/CobaltCatalyst/Welcome.html

Testing the waters

This weekend has been an interesting one. I finally manned up and asked Anna out on a date. We went to Divine Comedy’s best of show. It was amazing! Their inception parody was unbelievable, however their Sound of music parody in my opinion was left lacking. After the date we went back to my apartment and had ice cream and cookies. I really like Anna and we seem to hit it off rather well so I’ll see where things go the next couple of dates. My concerns are what to do with our relationship since she will be graduating in two weeks, if we have a relationship in two weeks.

Saturday morning I went to the play card party… everyone in class didn’t really know what to do to fill them out so it will be interesting to see Stephanie’s feedback on them.

Sunday morning was a typical day in the neighborhood. Got up, showered, and went to church. Madelyn was happy to see me finally at church. Unfortunately, this Sunday was my final Sunday in the ward; everyone was sorta sorry to see me go. After speaking with Bishop ______ I’m not sorry to be leaving the ward. I’ not really bitter I just don’t feel the love in the ward, nor do I think he is a good bishop. Although I probably should mention some of the redeeming qualities of the ward, like it’s baking abilities.

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Tattoo party at Kat's house at 1am Sunday morning is never a good idea. Although it was interesting to see people's reactions at church.

All the Worlds a Stage

After two months worth of hard work, Jenny’s MASK club opens. We’ve been preparing for this day for a week now with tech rehearsals and learning new techniques for the dance number.

UPDATE: The MASK Club was a major success, the crowd loved us! We even got a standing ovation during our third performance.

I loved the opportunity I had to work on this project. It was nice to finally work behind the scenes as well as act in the play. My servant character even got to be in an extend role as the servant who helps Colonel Williams carries Mrs. Charming off the stage. I also stored up the knowledge I learned from Jenny and Ali in hopes of applying in when I stage Manage next semester.

It was nice seeing Jenny's concept of Chocolate being represented in the play, through the costumes and on the stage in it's design.

Everyone's a Critic

Partner Evaluation.

I believe that Petra and I worked well with each other. We both put worth effort and tried to understand our scene from each other's respective. This was hard for me since neither Petra nor I have had any training in acting; nor have we acted in anything before this class. Luckily, Petra was really chill with my lack of acting and was able to help me when I struggled with Proof. I'd give Petra full marks for being willing to act and take direction from others.

I felt it a pleasure to work with Paul. He truly is a nice man and a talented actor in training. Like Petra, Paul has not had any formal training so it made it rather difficult to act out our scene. We both struggled with the comedy monologue not really understanding what to do with the direction we were given. It would have been nice to act alongside someone who had had formal training but I am glad for getting to know Paul better; and sometimes not knowing anything about acting allowed for Paul and I to react better to each other’s tactics. However for the record I would like to state that I am frustrated with this class in the area of not being clear enough in the directions that are given. On several occasion I has graded or instructed to correct something in a scene because I had failed at something, like objectives or a tactic. However I was unsure as to why I failed in this area. In the future I would like to see the class build around theory instead of practicum, this might help to eliminate several problem I found in acting. Knowing the theory might help me to act better instead of taking the headfirst approach to acting.

Mov'n On Up to the East Side

I’m love being in my apartment however I dislike my ward. After being in it for almost two full schools years I have grown apart from it in several areas most notable in the area of the leadership and dating pool. Therefore I have come to the decision that I need to relocate to a new apartment complex and thereby will be rolled in to a new ward.

The answer to my prayer came by way of Facebook posting from Andy. Andy’s roommate Andrew is moving out and needs to sell his contract. Robert is looking for a place to live since he is coming to school soon. I sold him my contract and purchased Andrews. Soon I’ll move out and Robert will move in. Problem Solved. Andy tells me that we have church in the CB (Clyde Building) and that our bishop is the church’s top Public Affairs representative; so, he is always jet sitting around the world deal with matters for the church.