Spring Break 2010

Well, Spring Break has once again come and gone, and I should probably comment on it a bit. I didn't go to Cabo, or Tiajuana, or even Miami, but I had a blast. On Friday night Dave drove down from Biddeford (amazingly, our breaks coincided, so we actually got to spend it together) and we spent the first weekend in Syracuse. Sunday saw the Syracuse St. Patrick's Day parade, which was not very large - the highlight was watching bagpipers sidestep a pile of horse dung in the middle of the road - but still fun.

Pipe Band

Sunday night we drove to Allentown and spent the week there. St. Paddy's was celebrated with a pub crawl, during which we got a normally sober friend of ours hysterically drunk. After four car bombs, he was whining for piggyback rides to the next bar, demanding money from people, and, when he didn't get money, demanding a cat. Conversations that night determined that 'girls on the rag love pickles' (this from the cat man), 'gorillas are the bears of Africa', and 'a rat king could not beat an alligator in a fight'. A rat king, incidentally, is formed when a bunch of rats are kept in a cage, and their tails fuse together, creating a multi-headed monstrosity. The things you learn with the help of alcohol.
The rest of break was nice and relaxing, which was much needed, although it means that I now only have 7 weeks of school left, and I still have to finish a screenplay, find a place to live after May 16th, and, miracle of miracles, get a job.

Also, watched Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer. Best movie I've seen since District 9.

Lists

I like writing lists. They are nice and organized and keep my thoughts in order.

Things Keeping Me from Going Insane Before Graduation (in no particular order)

• Quite Interesting (a British quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry)
• Jocelyn (my roommate and best friend)
• Talking to Dave every day
• The Tudors
• Filming a friend's thesis project
• Writing

Things Making Me Want to Go Crazy (in a particular order)

• My unbelievably filthy, smelly, mean, pain-in-the-butt roommate (not Jocelyn)
• Ridiculous amounts of Spanish homework
• Job searching

Things I am Looking Forward to

• Spring Break/spending more than 48 hours with Dave
• Hearing back from a job I applied to
• GRADUATION!
• Moving out of Syracuse

I have no lists left at the moment. More later.

The Show

Our last performance of The Vagina Monologues was far and away the best - the audience was huge and vocal, we knew our lines perfectly, and there was a ton of energy. I am sad to see it end, but I think the last performance was recorded, so maybe we will get copies to one day traumatize our children with. A bunch of my friends, in addition to my sister and father and Dave were in attendance, and it was a lot of fun to see them all laughing while I stood on stage shouting out euphemisms for vagina.

I will really miss all of the women in the show - a few of them I already knew through classes, but most of them I never would have met if I hadn't been a part of this amazing show. In addition to being incredibly empowering,

How could you not feel powerful when standing on stage in a church, dressed in a corset and shouting 'cunt'?

I became friends with a diverse group of women, who all have their own reasons for being a part of the show, and who all have their own stories to tell. I feel very lucky to have been a part of it, and I only regret that I waited until my last year to participate. Hopefully in the future I will get the chance to do this again.

Also, Saturday was Dave's 23rd birthday, so I made him an awesome cake in addition to shouting 'vagina' in a church in front of a crowd.

Amazing UNE birthday cake

Opening Night

The first show of the Vagina Monologues was last night and it was fantastic. A lot more people than we had expected and everyone sounded good, even though we had no mic system.

Tonight and tomorrow we will be in an even larger venue with a good sound system, and our nerves should be gone, so it will be awesome. Also, Saturday is my fiancé's birthday, so his present will be me on stage talking about women's "down theres".

Hopefully I will have some pictures to post after the show is over.

Allison, Queen of Procrastination

I feel like I have been productive enough today that I shouldn't do anything else - so here I sit, adding post from other blogs to this one.

I had class, tabled (yes, that is a verb) at Schine for The Vagina Monologues and sold vagina shaped, chocolate lollipops. Then I came back home and finished a job application, which I am eagerly awaiting a reply from. As of tomorrow I have three months until graduation, a very exciting bit of knowledge.

The combination of writing styles on this blog, having been drawn from many years and with varying degrees of seriousness, will be interesting to any readers I might have. So enjoy, ye masses. This is what I am going to school for - you better like it.

A shameless, but hopefully fruitful, plug

Housewife for a day

Today I:
Folded and put away clean clothes
Tidied the room and made the bed
Reorganized the study and put away books
Ironed Dave's dress shirts
Made a number of phone calls and emails
Made gumbo for dinner

I am a stack of bills and one toddler away from being a full blown stay at home mother.