The Fundamental Things Apply

I've got a theory...

2007-04-11T10:05:00.000-07:00

So, the art work for the next Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has been released and I am OBSESSED with examining it. I keep trying to figure out what is going to happen in the 7th book based on the art work. Here are my theories: The curtains on the sides suggest to me that Harry and Voldemort are in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic and that they have gone through that veil that "killed" Sirius. The sky's freaky orange color could be explained by the fact that they are in some sort of other dimension, where the people who are trapped inside will be able to fight with Harry (like Sirius). The fact that they are not facing each other and that they both have their hands up looks to me like they are doing a summoning spell, both waiting to catch something, "Accio horcrux" maybe. Harry is wearing the Slytherin locket, a horcrux, so that obviously means this is a picture of the big battle for the last horcrux or something. Also, it's not very clear in this picture but Harry's scar is not visible. That could be extremely significant because I think that Harry's scar is a horcrux or at least an important connection or a source of power for Voldemort if he can destroy Harry. That would make sense because if the scar has part of Voldemort's soul it would explain why Harry can know when Voldemort is feeling angry or when he is near, because part of Voldemort is always with him. Someone has said that J.K. Rowling said in an interview that the scar is not a horcrux but I will believe that when I read it for myself. Also, the last word of the seventh book is going to be "scar", I read that one in an interview, so it has to be significant. The title of the book suggests some interesting ideas about the events. Someone suggested that what the horcruxes are is not as important as where they are; Harry needs to figure out where they might be not what they might be. Like the locket, that was supposed to be in the cave where Voldemort killed those kids, Dumbledore knew something would be there and it didn't matter what it was, the significant thing was that the cave was a place of importance to Voldemort. So, the other horcruxes will likely be in places where a significant death took place, where Voldemort killed someone. This is where the title comes in to play for me: Deathly Hallows. Hallowed means holy, but the first thing I thought of was All Hallows' Eve (another name for Halloween). All Hallows' Eve is the night before All Saints' Day. The Eve celebration was a Pagan holiday, All Saints' Day was moved to November 1st to counter the Pagan celebration. So, there is a Pagan connection with Hallow, and sort of a mystical connection with Halloween that may or may not be relevant. The point is that if Hallows is from the word hallowed, meaning holy, it would make sense that it is connected with the word deathly in the the title. A place where Voldemort killed someone would be special to him, maybe even holy, and special enough to hide a horcrux there. The place became hallowed in death-so the places where the horcruxes are hidden are Deathly Hallows. Another connection is that the place where Harry's parents lived when they were murdered was called Godric's Hollow...significant? Harry is going to go back there so it could be a horcrux location because Voldemort went there to kill Harry, the person he believed was prophesied to destroy him, a very significant death indeed. I'm just spit balling here, and I'm probably wrong, but it is obvious that the 7th book is going to rock and I can't wait to read it!

Le Willi Waller

2007-03-22T21:04:00.000-07:00

Ok, so today in French my prof showed our class this French-Canadian web site that shows these really funny videos in the tradition of Potter Puppet Pals. It made me laugh SO hard!! The words are French but the images are what's really funny. Check out the video called Le Willi Waller, it's so funny. Also check out Halloween. French people are strange, especially French-Canadians.

What's new?

2007-03-15T18:57:00.000-07:00

New? Well, I am dating a fantastic guy named Kenny. He's so sweet and kind and supportive and he just makes me happy! And we have been spending tons of time together, hence the no new posts for over a month. Let me just say I can't wait until the summer so I can see him more. He lives in West Valley and I am in P-Town so it's a little hard to see each other as much as we want to.

Isn't that a cute picture of us? Yeah, he is 1/2 Chinese (which is SO hot!) so we will have way cute kids!

Boy, I sure love him!

Intern?

2007-02-08T22:19:00.000-08:00

I went to an internship workshop today to see what kind of internships are available to English majors. I had never really thought about an internship before but I got an e-mail from the College of Humanities telling me about this workshop so I decided I would go check it out. They talked about some generic internships that don't have any specific tie to English and one of them caught my attention. It is an internship with the Utah State Legislature where you are assigned as an assistant to a representative from the state legislature getting to help with research on legislation, preparing for hearings and meeting with constituents. It is also a PAID internship, you get $1800 for the semester. And it is only a 45 day internship because the legislature meets for 45 days at the beginning of the year. So, I am thinking about it. Does anybody have any thoughts??

The Holiday

2007-02-04T22:30:00.000-08:00

OK, so I am obsessed with the movie The Holiday. I've seen it only twice so far but once it hits the dollar theater I will see it like 17 times! It's so freakin' cute! Jude Law is so hot (of course) and his character has the cutest personality, Cameron Diaz is cute and pretty funny. The most surprising cast member is Jack Black who is funny but not too Jack-Black-y whose character is paired up with Kate Winslet! Weird I know, but it actually works. Kate Winslet totally steals the show though, she is adorable and hilarious and I loved seeing her in a romantic comedy because she's really good at it. Anyways- I recommend it. Look at the web site, it's really cute!!

The Art of Seat Selection

2007-01-30T20:47:00.000-08:00

I made an observation today that surprised me a bit. As I walked into the classroom for my modern and contemporary drama class I glanced around the room at the desks which had been assembled into a large circle, as usual. I saw an empty seat on the far side of the circle and headed toward it. I stopped suddenly and changed my mind, even now I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe I saw someone I didn't want to sit by or maybe the desks next to it were too close, but for whatever reason I walked to an empty desk on the opposite side of the circle. The seat to the right of mine had a back pack in it and I couldn't tell if it belonged to a boy or a girl. Though it didn't really matter I hoped it was a boy's bag and looked to see who occupied the seat to the left. It was a girl I had noticed in previous meetings of this class and had marked as my nemesis.

There is no logical reason for my marking her this way but my explanation is that on the second day of class she told the class that she was a dramaturgy major (a type of theater studies). This raised some sort of red flag in my brain. I LOVE theater. It is my passion and a large part of my soul wants to be a theater major myslef, so I have noticed a certain degree of jealousy and even resentment toward theater majors. I feel this way because I have been conditioned to believe being a theater major would not provide me with marketable career skils, so I am too afriad to be a theater major and it makes me sad sometimes. Once I noticed that I would be siting next to this girl my gut reaction was of course to choose another seat away from her, but I was too close. It would be obvious that I didn't want to sit next to her. So I pressed on and put my back pack on the desk, claiming the seat as mine.

As I took off my gloves, turned off my iPod, carefully wound the headphones around it and proceeded to unpack my things I thought about my choice of seat. It was a good decision to sit next to her, I concluded. Strategic really. It helped conceal my nemesitc feelings toward her, a sort of keep your enemies closer philosophy. Plus by sitting next to her I wouldn't be temped to shoot eye daggers at her accross the circle, in fact I wouldn't have to look at her at all. After analyzing my choice I came to the conclusion that I had made the perfect choice in seat selection. What an odd thing to think about! But seriously, how many of us do that all the time? There are a lot of politics involved in selecting a seat in a classroom, meeting room, or lunchroom. It's not just about avoiding the guy with B.O. or the leg twitcher who rests her foot on the leg of your desk; it can be a strategic choice for lulling your arch nemesis into a false sense of security.

A Poem, Because I'm Feeling Creative Writing-y

2007-01-17T19:24:00.000-08:00

Nothing to say. That is nothing of significance.
Ramblings, musings it's all the same.
Cold day from the inside out
Makes me feel...empty.
Loud surroundings, loud mind looking for peace.
The thought of you, a drop of honey in a frozen lake.
Everything is different, everything is better.
I don't worry. Peace has found me again.
It's the same, I remember. It's familliar
But exciting and new.
It's been a while since my last heart broke.
This new one is for you. Please take care of it.

'Tis the Season to Be Stressed Out

2006-12-19T13:49:00.000-08:00

Finals week blows. It just does. And the worst part is it's mostly your own fault that you've become as utterly stressed as you are because the "reading days" and the weekend before finals are spent partying, NOT studying. But on the bright side, it's almost over. Thursday cannot come too soon for me but the end is in sight and having my first final of the semester under my belt feels good.

So, I got Christmas present from one of my roomates: one part is the new Gwen Stefani CD (which is growing on me) and a plastic reindeer that you put brown jelly beans in and he poops them out. Eww, gross. But it's funny and I can appreciate that. She also let me download her Harry Potter book 6 on CD onto my iPod so, I am way excited about that.

I am 2 episodes away from being done with season 5 of Buffy. It's been an interesting season(Boo to Riley, cheers to Spike). I am also watching season 5 of Dawson's Creek but am only on the 3rd episode. Both of these shows have been given to me by people who love them so I am watching them, but I have to admit I went into both reluctantly. They are an interesting pairing of shows for me to be watching together because they are SO different. My honest opinion: Buffy is the better of the two shows from a writing perspective, and I like it more overall but I am not obsessed with either. It's funny because Buffy is a much better written show than Smallville but I AM obsessed with Smallville, although I suspect that is mostly due to Tom Welling's extreme hotness.

So, I should probably put something fun on here so that it is not just me venting frustration. While my friends and I were driving to Salt Lake last week we got into a discussion of the fictional characters we would most like to make out with. This is my list: Mr. Knightley from Jane Austen's Emma, Mulder from the X-Files, Clark Kent, Dimitry from Anastasia, Tony Almeda from 24, Wolverine from X-Men, Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, and Jack Shepherd from LOST. After looking over this list I see a few patterns: I like guys with medium to dark brown hair, apparently I like government guys, and rich guys, and British guys from the 18th century.

Random acts

2006-12-12T19:07:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!

So, it has been quite a while since I have posted anything. Life has been uber busy. My play is done, which is both a relief and a little sad because even though it was time consuming it was a blast. I really had fun with it. Mom and dad got it on video and I am going to post it over Christmas break so those who couldn't come can watch it, it's not very long don't worry.
And this is the last week of classes so school has been busy as well. But it's finally slowing down, so I can catch my breath.

Last night my friend Mary and I came up with a fun game to play when we are sick of studying and feel like getting off task. We made a Harry Potter alphabet, meaning we went through the alphabaet and asigned a Harry Potter character or otherwise related item to each letter. Here is our list:
A: Albus Dumbledore
B: Broomstick
C: Cho Chang
D: Dobby
E: Erised (as in the mirror of erised)
F: Fleur DeLacour
G: Gryffindor
H: Hermione Granger
I: Igor Karkaroff
J: Justin Flinchfletchly
K: Kreacher
L: Luna Lovegood
M: Minerva McGonagall
N: Neville Longbottom
O: Occlumency
P: Peter Pettigrew
Q: Quidditch
R: Ravenclaw
S: Severus Snape
T: Tonks
U: Umbridge
V: Voldemort
W: Weasley
X: (X)pelliarmus- a spell
Y: Ye Olde Hat Shoppe
Z: Zonko's

Well, that's all the nerdiness for now. Peace out!

Too much time on your hands Frenchie?

2006-11-20T13:05:00.000-08:00

We watched this video in my French class, it's pretty dang funny! This guy plays calssical music on horns all over his body. Just watch it, it can't be explaned!

Here is another funny video we watched in French, my professor said she did this same thing once when she was 14.

This video is dedicated to Richelle, it's a really funny 3D cartoon called "The Last Knit". It's about obsession.

Pictures of life in Provo

2006-11-15T16:02:00.000-08:00

Me and some of my best friends here getting ready to go to the corn maze at Thanksgiving Point.

Left to right: Amanda, Jared, Mary, me, Ava, Tiffany

Me and Ava in our Halloween costumes, a flapper and a gypsy.

Tiffany and me just lookin' good.

Tiffany, me, and Mary up to something fishy.

Kelvin and Brian going psycho!

Kelvin and me at the SDS football game!

Professor Trew...

2006-11-13T22:03:00.000-08:00

Emma Thompson was on Ellen Thursday talking about Harry Potter, it was HILARIOUS! Click on Harry to see it!

Seeing triple?

2006-11-13T13:34:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I noticed something strange (I just wanted to see if anyone agrees with my observation). I noticed that these 3 famous women look an awful lot alike: Stephanie J. Block, Maura Tierney, and Amy Grant. Now, hear me out before you make an Amy Grant comment (Bear!)- look at these pictures and tell me I'm wrong!

Do you see it!? They could be sisters right? I think this "coincidence" points to one explanation: cloning. The funny thing is: two of them can sing and one can't, and two of them can act and one can't. That leads me to conclude that Stephanie Block must be the original because she can do both. FREAKY! I am going to search for more evidence of celebrity cloning, I will post my findings here. Any observations you have made would help with my research.

Pumpkin Time!

2006-11-08T12:53:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of my family home evening group and our awesome, contest winning pumpkins.
Pictured from left to right: (front)My roomate Ava, Jared, Adrian. (back) Michelle, Jeremy, my roomate Nicole, and me.

Pirates and Witches

2006-11-06T12:17:00.000-08:00

Today I am experiencing what is called post-vacation let down. It occurs most often when a person has recently gone on an awesome vacation where they had tons of fun and then is faced with the reality of returning to their semi-boring life. It usually sets in during the flight home. My symptoms include: the need for more sleep than usual, the aversion to any food that has not been prepared in a restaurant or purchased from a vending machine/gift shop, phantom map-hand pains (when you can feel a map in your hand when not holding one), and the almost overwhelming urge to sing "Defying Gravity" very loudly in public (because I haven't been able to get it out of my head since I saw Wicked on Friday).

That is a good segue into my review of Wicked! So, as I mentioned before, this was my third time seeing the phenomenon that is Wicked and I honestly loved it as much as the first time. I felt like a little kid seeing Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, I literally sat on the edge of my seat the entire performance with a huge grin on my face (until it got sad, then I got all teary). But that's the point, even though I know the story inside out I still go on the emotional ride every time, all the way. The cast was wonderful, most of them I had seen before except for Elphaba and Glinda.

We didn't get to see Kristy Kates who is the normal Elphaba of the Chicago cast, so we had her understudy; intially that makes me nervous because the understudy is the understudy for a reason. But, as my sister pointed out, the understudy has everything to prove. And she was great, I thought she did a fabulous job. I really like the actress who played Glinda too, she might be my favorite Glinda I've seen. She was really funny and sung "Popular" better than enyone I've heard next to Kristin Chenoweth. All around, it was a great production; I can't say enough about how GOOD this show is. It is a solid show, the music is wonderful, the characters are well dveloped and compeling, the set and lighting is stellar and the costumes are fun and interesting. My dad and I say that Wicked is the show we compare everything to now, which means a lot of shows fall short and fail to satisfy because Wicked sets a wickedly high standard. But that's the magic of it, there is just something special about this show that's all I can say.

The second big event, and really the whole reason we went to Chicago in the first place, was to see the pre-Broadway preview of the new Musical The Pirate Queen. This show caught our attention because the actress who was cast to play The Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley, Stephanie J. Block, played Elphaba the first time we saw Wicked. She was really impressive so we knew she wouldn't disapoint. The other draws to this show were: the writers, Boublil and Schonberg, who wrote the music for Les Miserables, and the production company, Riverdream, who produced Riverdance. Needless to say this show has the pedigree of a box office smash and we wanted to get in on the ground floor.

My opinion of this show: I liked it a lot and it has a lot of potential. There were some really great things happening, the story is wonderful, Stephanie J.Block was flawless (I see a Tony for her, she was really THAT good), and some of the songs were fantastic, but they still have some work to do before it is ready for Broadway. I can tell that when it is more polished and trimmed it is going to be really good, maybe not the phenomenon Les Miserables has come to be but I have a lot of hope for it. My dad and I waited at the stage door to meet the cast and were able to get the autograph of the actress who plays Queen Elizabeth I, but missed Stephanie which was a bummer.

Overall, it was a great trip. Seriously I love seeing shows so much! I couldn't have picked a more perfect trip for myself.

To learn more about The Pirate Queen the show, and about Grace O'Malley (who was a real woman) click on this link. There is also a link from the show's page to the cast's blog (called castcom) which has a bunch of really cool videos from the cast and crew, check it out.
http://www.thepiratequeen.com/

Wanna' hop on board the Wicked train? The web site is a good place to start, they have a Wicked trailer with clips of performances and interviews with the cast and creative team and a good synopsis of the plot. (Incidently, Stephanie J. Block is Elphaba in the video!) http://www.wickedthemusical.com/chicago/

Here in the Second City

2006-11-03T15:59:00.000-08:00

It's 5:52 pm Chicago time and I am sitting on my bed in the Allegro Hotel in downtown Chicago! In just 92 minutes I will be at the Oriental Theatre seeing Wicked! Holy crap I'm excited. This will be my third time seeing it but I am just as excited as the first time. What a fun weekend I am having. So, we got into O'Hare this morning and took a 40 minute train ride from the airport to downtown Chicago with these two teenage boys who were making up raps filled with coloful language the entire time! I thought my sister was going to punch one of them, and I really wouldn't have been able to blame her because they were SO loud. But we finally got to our hotel, which is this cool, old art-deco hotel, and ventured out on the streets to find some sustinance. We made our way to a Diner called Ed Dibevick's which came reccomended by two different people. The thing about Ed's is that their whole shtick is to be rude to you, seriously. The employees are all theater students so they get a nice, paying acting gig but I kinda hated it. It was just sort of weird! Anyways- we wandered around for a little while more and then came back to the hotel for a "rest", well everyone slept but me cause I was busy blogging and such. My sister just called herself "Drooly Andrews" by the way! So, I am going to get ready for the show so I will be sure to post my review later, and my review of The Pirate Queen which we are seeing tomorrow. Two huge musicals in, in Chicago in one weekend? Pretty much the best weekend ever!

Princess Quizness

2006-10-27T12:58:00.000-07:00

I took a Disney Princess quiz and I am most like Jasmine:

Independent and adventurous. You don't want much; just to break out of the guilded cage society has put you in and experience life to the fullest. Following orders isn't really one of your strong points, and you would rather live a life of poverty than being forced into something that you hate.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

Jail House Rock

2006-10-23T21:04:00.000-07:00

So, last Friday I decided to audition for BYU's "New Play Project" which is about 8, 10-minute plays written by BYU students and then completely student produced. They had a mass audition where I read scenes from 4 different plays. And tonight I checked my e-mail just to see if they had cast the plays and they did... I got a part! It's a play called "A New Toaster", it's about 2 sisters (Erica and Joanna) Erica (me) has just broken up with her boyfriend and is taking out her frustration on the broken toaster. She spends the play trying to fix it, the toaster is a metaphor for her relationship that she can't fix. It's a good meaty role with lots of emotion. I'm SO excited!! It's December 1st at 7:30 pm and December 2nd at 2pm and 7:30pm. Please come, it will be awesome!

[Sigh] Anyway...what else is happening? My ward had a pumkin carving contest tonight, and my group won best theme, we did a pumkins-of-the-world theme. We had an Eifel tower pumpkin, a Statue of Liberty pumpkin, a leaning tower of Piza pumpkin, and a Tahj Mahal pumpkin. They looked cool, I took pictures and will post them soon.

Ok, so Gilmore Girls was awesome last week! Lorelai and Christopher's barn side drive in movie date was adorable, but the best part was Emily Gilmore being pulled over and put in Jail for...well I'm not sure why, I guess it was a DUI and for refusing to comply with the officer. But holy cow was it hilarious or what?! It pretty much ruled.

Well, hope everyone is doing well. Thanks for stopping by! Mahalo.

Shama-shama el-mel kamama!

2006-10-11T18:33:00.000-07:00

Wow, what a week this has been already! I had a French test on Monday, new Gilmore Girls last night, tons of reading to do, and other crazy stuff.

So, in my theater class this week we are talking about acting and my professor gave us the chance to do a fake audition for her in front of the class . It could be a musical audition or a straight audition, whatever we wanted, and she would give us feedback. When you audition for real you don't get feedback from the director, you just either get the part or you don't so this was a unique opportunity, plus my professor is like this AMAZING actress who teaches at the best university in the state (a little dig at the U!) so her advice is very valuable. So, I decided I should do it. I chose a monologue from Barefoot in the Park when Corie is calling Paul a stuffed shirt. I didn't decide on this monologue until yesterday so I had to memorize it fast, but I was really brave and did it today. It went pretty well until about half way through when I spaced out and forgot my lines, so I just pretended that that was where I meant to end it. I got some good feedback and felt like I really learned something about myself, and how I can improve. I'm really glad I did it.

It's time to talk about the newest episode of GG's ! Last night's episode was not incredibly full of improtant events but did move some of the story lines along. Lane told Zack about the baby, which was pretty funny because they both concealed and then revealed their anxieties about it, Rory and Logan, unfortunately, made some improvements to their cross-Atlantic relationship (gag!), and Christopher expressed his feelings to Lorelai telling her that he loves her and wants to commit! I have nothing against Chris, in fact I think he is a nice guy and that he and Lorelai complement each other well, but when she called him back after he told her how he felt she just didn't seem like her heart was in it. I just don't think she really wants that, she wanted to be with Luke! Grrrrr... I have no clue what is going to happen but I can't wait to find out. The writing seemed better this week, had me laughing out loud a few times. What do you think?

Okay, there is another show I want to talk about- it's a new show on Wednesday nights at nine called The Nine. When I saw the first previews for this show I thought it looked really good and I thought I'd like it so I watched the season premiere last week. I was really excited to see some awesome people in the cast like Scott Wolf and 24's Kim Raver (who I think is the best actress in the cast of this show) and that one girl from that Disney movie Gotta Kick it Up! (did you notice her Bear?) I liked it, it was different from what I thought it would be but I thought it was good and I am going to watch it again tonight. BUT did anyone else feel like it was like LOST re-tooled? The same basic plot elements were there: strangers go through a crisis together, then we watch as their back stories unfold and relationships develop. I don't know, it just struck me as really similar.

Anyways, I have to go practice singing with some girls in my ward (we're singing in sacrament together soon) but thanks for stopping by again! Catch ya later!

Chels

P.S. The YouTube obsession continues, check out this awesome clip of Sutton Foster singing "On My Way" from the musical Violet. It's great! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8GpMTH0zTQ

Wicked Colds!

2006-10-03T21:55:00.000-07:00

Aloha!
I hope everyone is doing well. I am doing ok. My roomate Nicole got a nasty cold last week(which I tried to avoid catching) but despite my best efforts I have become aflicted with it as well. And so have my other two rommates. So, we are just the apartment of gross, diseased girls. But it's getting a little better and I am hopeful that it will be gone by the end of the week.

So, it has been a whole week since the season premiere of Gilmore Girls!Let me just say that even though Lorelai made a mistake in running to Christopher the night she and Luke broke off their engagement, Luke is really the one who messed everything up between them. He kept pushing Lorelai away while he was trying to sort things out with his newly found daughter and expected her to wait forever. Yes he's to be applauded for being a dad to April but he has been waiting for Lorelai for like 10 years and he finally had her, she even proposed to him for crying out loud! So I was totally with her on telling him, "It's now or never!"
Now, as far as Christopher goes, I don't think they should be together. It's never been right between them and I don't think it ever can be- PLUS she still loves Luke! Oh, the drama! It's wonderful. Two other storylines that must be commented on: Rory and Logan- I am the president of the "I hate Logan" Club, so I can't wait until Rory figures out he's nothing but trouble and dumps him, I'm glad he's in London. And then there's Lane-Pregnant Lane? No, no, no, it was hard enough to get used to the idea that Lane is married but pregnant too?! Too much.

As you may have heard Amy Sherman-Paladino and her husband (the show's creators and main writers) are no longer with the show. I don't know about you but I have notice a difference in the dialogue, it's not nearly as fast and is missing the obscure references which gave the show so much of it's charm. Plus tonight's episode was loaded with too many lame Hollywood references that seemed out of the norm, for example: 2 Gweneth Paltrow references in 5 min. Weird. They also had Rory talking like a high school valley girl, "Like... You know...and I was like..."Hated that! Does anyone agree with me? Have the Gilmores gone down hill?

A few last things before I go to bed: The BYU game on Thursday.... AWESOME!! That was a great game and a big win for the Cougars. They played really well and proved that they are a solid team. Bronco, you're doing a great job. My pick for player of the game: #12 John Beck-Quarter Back. He played with two sprained ankles and ruled the field!

In exactly one month from today I will be in Chicago with my parents and my sister seeing Wicked!! I am so excited I can hardly satnd it. And the next ngiht we are going to see a pre-Broadway production of The Pirate Queen! Yea.

Also I wanted to say a big "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" to my awesome sister Ro, love you pal!

One last thing, I found the coolest video on YouTube that you must check out!! It's a video of Kristin Chenoweth singing on the set of The West Wing. She's freakin' awesome. You'll love it! Here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjgizIAcHMU

Anyways- thanks for stopping by. Please leave comments!

Chels

Gilmore, is that you?

2006-09-20T22:49:00.000-07:00

Bonjour tout le monde!
So, as you can tell French has been on my mind a lot lately. My first test is this Friday and will hopefully end with good results; send me some good thoughts on Friday.

One of my favorite parts of fall is new T.V. (I know, maybe not the most posh thing to say but its true) I am especially excited because my favorite show Gilmore Girls is starting new next week and I'm totally jazzed about it! I plan on having a post after each new episode to discuss it, for all the other devoted fans and to hook some new ones. GG's is an awesome show worth a chance; the writing is incredibly witty and touching, and the dialogue moves at a pace that warrants watching it at least once to hear it for yourself.

I am really excited to see that a few more people have started blogs, it's pretty fun to hear what everyone is up to. I wanted to make note of one new blog in particular: Vic Groves has started a blog with info about the SFP and all the happenings there, be sure to check it out for the scoop on all things SFP @ http://www.vicnmic.blogspot.com/ Also a shout out to Jen and her Crabby blog-love it, love you!

Last Saturday was a very rough day. My dear Cougars lost in double overtime to Boston College. But it was not a total loss, some good things happened and they will learn to improve from the loss. My pick for player of the game is wide reciever #10 Matt Allen. He made some great catches and really stepped up last week.
Be sure to catch the football game this Saturday @ 1:00 on MTN BYU vs. Utah State! And if you go to the game it's an all white out game so wear as much white as you can!! Go Cougars!

~Mahalo

Sutton, Cougars, and Robin-Oh My!

2006-09-16T22:40:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Cougartown!
It's that time of year again, when the leaves start to turn and so does the weather. When Tom Hanks tells Meg Ryan he wishes he could send her a boquet of newly sharpened pencils. And I head back down to Provo for another semester of...well we'll see what BYU has in store for me this semester.

So far it has been good, good roomates, good classes (except French) and good times. I am taking a tap class which I am really excited about. I took tap for about 9 years and have been on hiatus for about 6 and I decided that I wanted to take it up again-and I'm loving it! As I was leaving class yesterday there were 3 girls walking behind me who started talking and I happened to hear their conversation: two of them were talking to the other and asked her when she was leaving for some exciting trip she was going to be taking, syaing that they were really jealous of her. She told them that she was leaving that night. Then one of them said, "Who's getting married again?", to which she casually replied, "Oh, Sutton Foster."!!!!! Well my ears perked right up! Someone else behind me, who had heard this too, gasped and said, "How do you know her? I can't believe you're going to her wedding!" She informed us all that Sutton is a "friend of the family"....LUCKY!

For those who don't know, Sutton Foster is the Tony award winning actress from Thouroughly Modern Millie, Little Women, and The Drowsy Chaperone (nominated for best actress in all 3, she won for Millie), and is one of my current favorites.

Last night I went up to Salt Lake to see Robin Hood The Legendary Comedy at the Sugar Factory Playhouse, written and directed by the hilarious Bob Bedore. Bob starred as the villanous Sheriff of Nottingham along with other friends of mine from this June's production of Once Upon A Mattress also at the SFP: Mike Dodge as Friar Tuck, Corey Brandenberger as Sir Guy, Jen Crabb as Lady Clydesdale, Kate Brenchley (soon to be Bedore!) as the assortment, Natalie Easter as Maid Marion, and Carlie Brockbank as ensemble. Also fabulous performances from Michael Bobo as the Sheik, Andrew Jensen as Robin Hood, and Brian Brady as Little John. It was a blast! I enjoyed every minute of it, especially the chance to cheer the heros and boo the villians. It was a really good production: fun, well acted, polished and fresh. Get on over to the SFP and catch it while you can, it will only be there until September 23rd!

A couple of congratulations are in order, lot's of stuff happening for people:
Stephanie and Darin Rowe welcomed their first baby this past week, Charlotte Rowe 7lbs.14 oz. 21 in long!
My roomate Christina and her boyfriend Dan have set a date for Decmber 22nd to get married!
Congratulations to you guys!

That's all for now, but let me leave you with this thought from Neil Simon, my favorite playwright:
“I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.”-Neil Simon

~Mahalo