SOOOO, my life lately...uh, just finishing up my senior year of high school, excited to start at American University, and I just took five AP tests and finished the wonderful musical "Fiddler on the Roof," the show that got me into theatre, playing the marvelous role of Fruma-Sarah, a part I've wanted for over ten years.
Two rather major things have happened lately, one fun, one scary, so I guess I'll tell them in a really long post.
This past fall, my best guy friend and I played two evil wolves in a stage play of the Chronicles of Narnia, I as Fenris Ulf, the Captain of the Secret Police and he as my lackey. We even won a Critic's Choice for Best Ensemble. So I decided to ask him to Prom dressed up as Fenris Ulf (he's a sophomore). I dressed up in full costume (furry trench coat, leggings, high boots, scary grey fright wig, gloves, full face makeup) and BURST into his chorus class unexpected, screaming "SILENCE!" The chorus teacher screamed and no one knew what was going on. I yelled at the teacher, making her turn off the backing track for the song, and then announced, "As many of you know, I am Fenris Ulf, Captain of the Narnia Secret Police, and I have received reports that there is a traitor in our midst!"
I went around the room sniffing creepily and doing my scary wolf walk, then stopped dead in front of my friend, pointed at him, and yelled, "You sir, here!" I forced the two guys next to him to restrain him. He was laughing nervously and VERY confused, having no idea what I was doing, and kept asking, "Why are you in your costume from Narnia?" I just stared at him and said, "Did you know that the White Witch has a warrant out for your arrest?"
I pulled a giant scroll out of my coat and read, "By the Order of the White Witch, Deputy [His Name] is hereby charged with high treason, insubordination, and willful disobedience of his superiors (aka, me). As punishment for his egregious crimes, the White Witch sentences Deputy [His Name] to escort one [My Name] to prom on the evening of June 11, 2010... under penalty of death if he fails to comply with the above demands." I shoved the scroll into his head, whispered, "You are now scarred for life," and stalked out. The class burst into cheers and applause, so I ran back and took a bow. He told me later it was the best thing ever and the greatest way to ask someone to prom... I'm excited. It's going to be the most fun dance ever.
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On a less happy note... craziness went down at my school the other day. This girl in my chorus who is probably the most academically gifted girl in the school but prone to making dumb choices told people in my class about this drug called JWH awhile ago. It's a synthetic thing made FROM marijuana, but it doesn't show up on drug tests, and it gets you MUCH higher than pot... it's more like acid from what I hear. Anyway, all of these kids from my chorus REALLY got into JWH and have been doing it a lot. It's not technically 'illegal' because the US government doesn't really know about it, but it's still STUPID. They did it on chorus trip, between shows of the musical, before taking AP tests... this is the majority of the class. Even the nicest, smartest kids were doing it, everyone but me and four others.
Yesterday, I saw ambulances outside the chorus room. I thought it was because of my teacher, who is pregnant with twins, but then someone told me that a student in show choir had a massive seizure and passed out. I thought it might be this one girl who is epileptic and has had them before, but someone told me it was this guy I know, "Robbie" (not his real name). I heard he was flailing widly, dove into a table, screamed and twitched, bit off part of his tongue, blood going everywhere, banging his head... everyone said it was the worst grand mal seizure they'd seen, worse than anything on TV. I was terrified, having known this guy for years. I worried maybe he had a brain tumor or something.
THEN, I heard that three other kids in the room at the time, "Jake" "Dennis," and "David" also got taken to the hospital along with "Robbie." I thought there might've been a gas leak or something. But then I heard that the four of them had smoked JWH at school and apparently overdosed or took a bad batch... Robbie had the horrible seizure, Jake and Dennis were throwing up, and David, who actually brought the JWH to school and distributed it, was fine but went to the hospital as a precaution. Now they're in HUGE trouble. Jake and Dennis are underclassmen, but Robbie and David are seniors and probably won't graduate and all that... and even worse, both had huge scholarships to prestigious universities.
David's situation is the worst, because he is eighteen (Robbie's still seventeen), so he got ARRESTED and taken into a police car in handcuffs, and will be tried as an adult for distribution and possession. David is an incredibly brilliant guy, outrageously musically talented and a wonderfully smart person, and he's intended to become a music teacher for his entire life, like his dad. There is no way he'll be a teacher now. This is SO upsetting, that these guys would do something so stupid, but at least now no one else in my chorus is doing JWH.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
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