Zen Crib Notes

So now I've returned to livejournal in an attempt to keep regular postings. Most likely I won't have many comments, but I might as well write because writing my thoughts and feelings down regularly might help me mentally and practically. For practical reasons, writing everyday might improve my writing techinique, which would be great for my future and for life in general. And for SATs.

I'm also doing the SAT test on March 10, 2007. Fun.... Granted, I'm a junior, so I have plenty of time to take the SAT as many times as I want before I'm satisfied. Still, I feel like I should study for it, even though...I don't really want to. Call me lazy, call me stupid, but I'm a procrastinator and well, it's pretty hard to change. Don't feel up to changing right now.

I realized looking back on my past journal entries that the last bit of news was when I was called back for the Asian bit for Auntie Mame. Didn't get it. Lost it to caucasian girl who is, apparently, funnier than I am and that's the reason why she was chosen and not me. Granted, I like her very much and enjoy her company, and I agree that she is funnier than me in many ways. But....

I still hold a grudge to the director for his decision. For a while I held some resentment to the girl who got in, but I let it go for her. She performed well, and whether or not the audience understands that she's playing a Japanese maid and not some weird maid who's probably foreign doesn't really matter. Much. It's interesting anyway.

Anyway, back to today. I and two other fellow Jounalism students and my Journalism teacher were interviewed by our local news network for our opinion on Youtube and how it shapes our culture and how we feel about it, especially when held in dispute about some girl ganging up on another girl and "hopping" her, or fought her like the bullies they are, and someone shot a video of that and posted it up on the website. It was pretty fun chatting with the reporter while the camerawoman rolls away, and it was great that I get to share my opinion on TV, which will show up on monday. I wish I wore nicer clothes, though, but I just found out today and decided to come and be interviewed. It was only a selection of three students, and I volunteered to go.

Also, a couple of nights ago, I saw the musical production of Rent at the Arlington theatre in Santa Barbara. I received it as a free ticket from a friend who was too busy to go, and I must say, I was very happy to accept. It was on the night it was performing, too, so I had to hurry to get my affairs done before the performance. The musical was simply magnificent. I was eight rows away from the stage, which is the closest I've been in any performance I've seen in the Arlington, and I was stoked. The musical was, I think from the top of my head, made as a "rock opera" so there were many huge black stereos stacked on top of each other on either side of the stage to give the appearance of a rock concert (I wouldn't know, as I've never been to a rock concert, but I imagine that's how they did it). Heh, and Rent is based off a French Opera by Puccini called La boheme, so it feels very fitting. All in all, an amazing experience.

I think I witnessed a few Rentheads, but I there's a pretty big crowd there.

~Zen