I Enjoy Being a Girl Vol 2!- Page 130

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 2:58pm

Kels, your grandma sounds awesome!

I find it hilarious that Weez is British, yet still uses the term "y'all"

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 5:34pm

Weez, how about the Stepsisters' Lament from Rogers and Hammerstein Cinderella? It's funny and works taken out of context.

I just auditioned for "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" at my school. This is my final play at my high school, so I hope I get a good role, since I've gotten good roles in my freshman, sophomore, and junior plays. I really want to be Mrs. Beaver, but basically any role would be cool with me, so long as it's not Susan or Father Christmas.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 6:44pm

I'm not a girl...but I feel like posting on this thread, because I need to vent.

Does anyone else loathe 75% of all High School boys? I AM a High School boy and 3/4 of all the boys in my school make me want to pull my hair out. Why are 18 year olds getting on top of lunch tables flapping their 'wings' like pterodactyls? Why do Sophomores and Juniors throw pencils and tennis balls at other students (usually aiming for the genital area) during my chemistry class and draw penises all over the back of my t-shirt? I seriously do not like being associated with them. It's hard to believe I come from the same species. Now there are some really nice boys at my school that are good friends of mine, but seriously...most of them are major douche bags. Major major major immature douche bags.

The life of the average American HS boy (at least in my area) consists of:

Big Boobs

Sports

Girl on Girl Kissing

Guys to talk about big boobs, sports, and girl on girl kissing with.

Jesus

The moment you are not into any of those things, you are not a true guy. You are gay. If you have feelings...you are gay. If you have self respect....gay. It's so obnoxious. I have guy friends who are totally 100% straight (guys who have hot girlfriends and everything) and they STILL get made fun of by the other guys for not being douche bags and having respect for themselves and the people around them.

Sorry for threadjacking,
I'm just venting.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 6:53pm

Jazzy-- don't worry, you're perfectly welcome here. Heck, Pianolin started this second incarnation of the thread, and he's a guy.

Anyway, it sounds like you're surrounded by idiots, and that's got to be horrible. We've got a pretty fair number of jerkbag 'future fratboy idiots of America' type guys at my school, but it doesn't sound like it's anywhere near as bad as your school. I hate how homophobic EVERYTHING guys talk about is, though. It's like every single sentence is, "Let's see how I can make it clear that I'm a straight guy in this sentence!" Those guys all look and sound exactly the same anyway... I'm not really sure why girls would want to date them, because they have no distinguishable personality and most of them aren't even cute anyway.

Most of my friends are geeky guys or theatre guys or theatre geek guys, and while they're still super-pervy and horny all the time, they're also intelligent and funny and genuinely nice enough to make me forget most of the time how many really stupid guys are out there. But then homecoming court was announced today, and all of the boys were mainstream jocks and ALL of the girls are the same cheerleaders who have held the same SGA offices every year since seventh grade. Not that I mind because I'd rather eat a live cat than be on homecoming court, but it's just that I live in my own 'theatre bubble' so much that I forget that our school really DOES have the same clique structure that seems like the kind of thing that only happens in fiction.

I LOOOVE your avatar, by the way. First You Dream was magnificent, and then I saw Heidi and Julia at a local high school for ArtSpeak this week, and they were fabulous!

[Select a Member Name]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 6:57pm

Weez, you could possibly use Someone Else's Story from Chess or Once Upon a Time from Jekyll & Hyde. Those are the only two coming to mind at the moment.

AndAllThatJazz, I KNOW, RIGHT?! Oy! That and they think they're so hilarious when they say "Fail." or "I lost the game." Really? REALLY?! Is it an attempt to be funny? Because it's just a bit sad. The maturity level of most high school guys makes me want to strangle them.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 7:26pm

Well, I guess I'm the newest BWW 'girl' now!

It's like every single sentence is, "Let's see how I can make it clear that I'm a straight guy in this sentence!"

Bahaha, that pretty much sums up the speech of most HS guys.

I live in a small, VERY sports oriented city... so that probably explains the high amount of dBags roaming the hallways of my school. Overall, I LOVE my school so much. I went to a middle school on the other side town...and it was awful. I left middle school with no self confidence and when I moved across town and started HS... I started making a lot of really good friends and I became a lot happier. I just try my best not to associate myself with dBag guys. I do theatre (I'm horrible at it...but it's so much fun!) and orchestra (that's my passion) so I mainly hang out with theatre-dorks and orch-dorks. Even though other guys make fun of me for participating in the school musicals and playing the violin, I just ignore them and continue doing what I love to do. Music is my life. It's everything to me... it's entertainment, it's my way of relaxing, it's my therapist (no joke). Even on the rare occasion that these guys ACTUALLY get to me...I turn to the two things that always lift me up:
Music and my friends.

My weakness is.. no matter how mean these high school boys are, I'm still respectful to them. I won't go out of my way to be their friend, but I still do my best to treat them with the respect that I want to be treated with. Sometimes I think that I should fight back and get angry...but I just remember that by doing that, I'm no better than they are.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 8:43pm

welcome! yeah, I'm not a girl either lol so don't worry about posting here, and heck, my friend (who is not a girl either lol) stalks this thread lol

"orch-dorks. Even though other guys make fun of me for participating in the school musicals and playing the violin, I just ignore them and continue doing what I love to do."

*high five* yes yes, I am, well, was an orch-dork in hs
And it sucks for you. I know that there are a lot of people like that, but at my hs a lot of people were nice and didn't act like HUGE a-holes, just small ones lol

And Schmerg! You don't want to be the ice-princess?! I saw a version and I think you'd be great as her! Plus, she has one of the only memorable songs in the whole show (Deep Magic)

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:29pm

Ahhh, we're not doing the musical version of Narnia; it's a stage show. But honestly, I'd love to be the White Witch more than anything, but let's just say I ain't Tilda Swinton. I have a round, cheerful face and I'm neither tall nor pointy. And there's this girl who I know is going to get it (and everyone else agrees).

Her English accent is not very good and I'm not a big fan of her acting (she impersonates Nicole Kidman vocally and physically), but she always gets cast in this type of role. I don't say this to be catty, because I do like her and she's been REALLY, REALLY good in several of our shows where casting was dead on. But I realize that the Witch would be an unrealistic aspiration for me! ^_^

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:53pm

rats! well, it happens, unfortunately. good luck either way!

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 9/24/09 at 3:53pm

I'm going to a party tonight! I never go out, but I got invited to a surprise party for one of the awesome girls at my local Starbucks (where I might be getting a job, but more on that later). I see these people everyday, but I have never hung out with them before... but I need to meet new people and break out of my eat, sleep, work, find something to be pissed/depressed about cycle!

So about my job.... *sigh* My hours keep getting cut (like today I was suppose to work but they told me not to come in.) and two of the girls have told me that after xmas they will only be giving hours to the asst manager and maybe one other person. If I get into AMDA the semester starts in February.... so pretty much I would be employed with no hours for two months! Oh, hell no! That is so not going to happen... I refuse to be effed over by these people! I am going to straight up ask them if I will have any hours after xmas and if I sense anything close to no, then I will find another downtown job! I might go with Starbucks because the people are super nice and barista is a nice skill to have :-P

[Weez]

Posted: 9/24/09 at 4:42pm

Take any job that'll have you and isn't crewed solely by asshats. Can I get demanding and insist y'all give me kind words re: my plan to quit my job unceremoniously at some point? Even though it's technically dumb, I'd like at least a couple of friendly faces to say "you should definitely do it, you'll be fine, go you!".

So anyway, I've started jogging, a la the "newbie jogger" thread. I'm using the couch-to-5k plan someone posted a link to, and it's quite amusing. It suggests you run by either distance (200m, say) or time (60 seconds or whatever), and because I have no sense of distance, I'm going with time. Which means I've dug out all the up-tempo tracks on my iPod that are useful lengths and have been creating jogging playlists. It's like "run for the length of 'Didn't I See This Movie', walk for the length of '30/90 Playout'". Turns out Next to Normal is pretty good for 90 second up-tempo tracks, so I'm beginning to associate Alice Ripley with pain. But I'm noticeably - if only a little bit - fitter than when I started, so it's going well!

Also I think I have problems. I'm going to London for theatre this weekend, and I booked Love's Labour's Lost and The New World at the Globe on Saturday followed by Mother Courage and her Children on Sunday. And then I discovered I can squeeze in a second trip to Love's Labour's Lost on Sunday, so I have done so. Is that bad? O_O

Bartlet for America!

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 9/24/09 at 4:50pm

Weez, I am all for the quitting of the job.... I refuse to stay at jobs that make me seriously unhappy because I believe that it is the universes way of saying get the eff out of there!

[danmag]

Posted: 9/24/09 at 5:22pm

Yay for you Weez with the running!!! I'm telling you, it's the best excercise. And even though it kind of sucks while your doing it, you always feel great when your done!! I never run more than 5K. That is just a perfect amount of running...Any more would just be sheer torture. Trust me. My hubby is training for a half marathon. Ugh.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/24/09 at 5:26pm

AllThatJazz, you are more than welcome here with us anytime you want to stop in! And good on you for being so mature. I taught HS for many years and yeah, alot of the boys were ridonkulously immature.

[clever name]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 9:20am

Good Morning Ladies and Piano and Jazz!

ok, that greeting is getting way too long... I have wanted to learn how to run for so long now. I need to just get off my ass and do it.

My friend sent me a recipe for Candy Corn Martinis. I think we're gonna try them!

[danmag]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 10:15am

Clever, if they are good give me the recipe!! That sounds very yummy!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 11:40am

In one breath, she's talking about running. In the next.......drinking.

[clever name]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 11:53am

LOL!..snd you KNOW that running thing will never pan out.

..the drinking, however...

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 11:54am

This is why we all get along so well!

[danmag]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 12:20pm

HEY! I've BEEN running for years! In fact, the reason I run is to be able to drink more and not have a beer gut!!!

I DO have my priorities straight.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 12:37pm

Yes. You actually do have your priorities straight:

1) Drink
2) Drink
3) Run
4) Humiliate the dog
5) FB/BWW
6) Drink
7) Take care of your kids

LOL :P

[clever name]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 12:59pm

hey, if Take Care of your Kids is anywhere near the top 10 you're in pretty good shape.

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 1:58pm

Hey All,

Sorry I've been MIA. I've been lurking a bit, but in Hell Week for my latest show, so haven't really had time to write. We open tonight!

It's so cute and I think it's going to be really well received. A great way to start the theatre's 60th season. Check out the commercial and the marketing items here: (pictures will be up soon) www.romorassociates.com/dominion/glorious

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 2:48pm

That show looks great! I hope I can make it!

This really creepy kid has been following me around, and he won't take a hint. He literally is intentionally late to all of his classes so he can follow me to mine, and is always at the door waiting for me when I come out of my class. I keep saying in a joking tone things like 'hey, if I wanted a bodyguard, I'd hire one,' or 'whoa, where'd you come from, you're like the Phantom of the Opera." He keeps saying things like, "You look sexy in a labcoat," and "you look hot with pigtails," but not even in a joking way, just in this creepy intense socially inept way.

He sends me at least twenty facebook messages a day and always asks me exactly what my plans are and everything I've been doing. If I say something like 'watching a movie' or 'mini golfing with friends,' he acts like it's the coolest thing he's ever heard, because he HAS NO FRIENDS. At all. And he acts like all he ever does is homework and nothing else, but I know he has a 1.5 average because he shoved a transcript in my face and pointed to every class he's ever had with me.

I am the closest thing he has to friends, and I usually completely ignore him, except for when he asks me a direct question, when I answer in monosyllables without looking at him. Today, he asked me where my house was so he could walk there after school and wait for me so he could talk to me when I left the house. I'm not actually kidding. I told him that would be a bad idea and when he persisted, I told him I live too far away to walk.

Why do I ALWAYS have these creepy stalkers? It almost makes me feel like I have more creepy stalkers than real friends, just because I don't insult every strange person I meet to their faces. As soon as I got away from him by telling him I rode a different bus than I do, I got on the bus and was accosted by another primary creepy stalker (this one female). It just makes me want to pull my face off and give it to someone else.

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 9/25/09 at 3:48pm

Schmerg! I would LOVE for you to come see this show and to meet you finally!

As for the stalker, that's definitely creepy. I get the creepy stalkers, too. And it is because we're both caring, compassionate and not intentionally mean. It sucks that you have to actually be mean to get someone to leave you alone sometimes. I'm not sure if that guy would even get it then. Does anybody else know about this? You definitely need to make sure some teachers or other adults know...just in case he gets any more wacko than he already is.