Happy Halloween

Ended up at Smiths market at 2am in the morning with Shilo, Kat, Dana, Lisa, and Lexi looking for hot cocoa mix. After parties are always better with hot cocoa of course. After shopping we ended up at Kat’s apartment and crashed ther till 4am… big mistake, I found out that I need my eight hours of sleep. I awoke Sunday morning at 11am and proceeded to dress for church. Upon arrival at church I discovered that I had missed church! Apparently our church meeting was stake conference and I had forgotten that it was at 10am instead of its normal time of noon. I was pretty bummed by this revelation because Elder Hales, one of the twelve apostles was the keynote speaker. In repentance for missing church I spent the afternoon in the clerks office working on scheduling and record upkeep.

Twas the Night before...

Spent the majority of the day working on homework in order to free up my evening. Tonight’s the night for Dracula at the castle theater and, of course, Halloween parties. I decided to recycle last year’s Halloween costume; I’m going to go as a catholic priest! I received several negative reviews about it last year however I have high hopes this year will be better. I’m avoiding all LDS dances because of bad experiences last year… should have know better and am sticking to local Halloween parties only. Around 7:30pm Zack, my old mission friend, called me asking for tickets and a ride to the show. I felt troubled since tickets had sold out and my car was already full of people but after some planning we were able to work something out. I pat myself on the back with how well I’m able to organize and plan things out. Basically the new plan was to pick Zack and his friends up at his place at around 10pm and drive them up to the theater so they could get in the standby line and wait for tickets and then I would proceed to head back down the hill and pick up the rest of friends. Good disaster struck half and hour before the show started when Lexi called me asking for a ticket and a ride… luckily enough after picking up Kat and Dana we were able to swing by Lexi’s apartment and drive her up to the castle.

Dracula was an amazing performance. The actors knew it was their last show and have it their all. The vocal output and facial expressions were astounding and added a much needed effect to the show. As always David Morgan did a wonderful job and so did his wife. Because it was the venues last show they packed extra people into the tiny little castle room which although made it cramped added out the thematic element that when one person got scared or startled the rest of the line of people would jump with that person. Being next to Lisa Stoffer made for some interesting encounters.

Paul and I have been working our scene for about a week now and it is progressing rather well. I still need to read the play, Paul says its over at the library so I’ll have to go over there and check it out. For our scene I’ve been working on trying to let my primary object show through my actions instead of having my secondary object overwrite my scene. Unfortunately for me, this is more often the case then not. Gabby had us run through the scene while I picked objects up and rushed around the room preparing for my date which would inevitability not happen over the course of the play from what Paul has told me about it. This exercise worked but yet again I focused too much on the objects instead of having the lines roll fluidly.

This morning also marked the Department’s Conference on depression and suicide as well as how to cope with it. The address was given by Rodger Sorenson and a councilor form the Wilkinson center. Despite the man having good information I felt that the conference missed the real point of why were where all there and that the department was just holding a conference to cover their ass so to speak. It was very impersonal and seemed to reflect an attitude directed to a broad audience. I really should get upset about it since that is what the department is supposed to do—reach as many people as possible instead of focusing on the one but maybe focusing on the needs of all is what got ‘us’ overlooking the problems of the few in the first spot.

On a side note, Stephanie’s play opens tonight. Stage Door!!!! Should be fun fun fun!

bitter sweet

Today was a very hard day. Lelagi’s funeral was this morning. A quarter of the HFAC turned out for it. Never have I had to experience something like that. A funeral for a class mate, never do you think you will ever experience that when you go to college. The numbing feeling never goes away, it sticks to my bones as cold that can never be urged out. Despite my feelings I was happy to see Stephanie, Wade, and Rodger in attendance. My emotions ran high for the rest of the day and still into when I type this. Her ceremony was beautiful and I’m sure she would have loved it. This is really hard to write down. On a lighter note they served funeral potatoes at the funeral.

Passing the Cup

Wade honored Lalegi with the whole class period being a sorta wake in her honor. It was nice, we as students need someone to sit us (students) down and explain to us what happened. Some classmates couldn’t handle the news and removed themselves from the room, others cried and shared their stories about Lalegi.

Found out some of the saddest news I’ve ever heard in my life. A dear friend of mine, a classmate, and fellow student took her life yesterday, Lalegi Klean. She sat behind me in 395. Never again will I see her face and share light conversation with her. Later that day I had class with Stephanie, my appreciation for her knows no bounds, I have never met such a gospel in tuned teacher on campus. She gave a very inspiring and moving speech about what kind of actor you need to be; one that choose to skirt the line, or be a zealot of following the church’s rules while acting. I think I’ll try and ride the line between the two although that is a dangerous path the travel from what Rodger has told me.

I was impressed because her speech was from the heart and you could really feel the weight behind her words. Stephanie is the director for Stage Door and Lalegi was the shows Dramaturge, her and Stephanie where close and her death, you could tell, had impacted her.

My brother’s birthday is today, he is 24 and soon I’ll be 23 and still unmarried. It is odd that both of us are still unmarried at least I’m dating someone. Albeit for how much longer is unknown…