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You’d better like it…. he’s one of my best friends :)

Well, I don’t like feeling like poop. But I am loving Harry Potter! Can’t put it down!

I am very sick.

And I feel like a big pile of poop.

At least I’ve got Harry Potter!

My HP virginity has now been taken, and it feels damn good. Can’t wait to read all of them!

Sooo happy! (for the most part)

*SPOILERS AND OPINIONS*

I think Ted is being really dumb by helping Victoria ditch her wedding. I love them together, and I can tell they really care about each other, but he knows how much he was hurt being left at the alter. And why would Victoria stay with Klauss that far if she didn’t even love him? I think she was just having cold feet, and Ted is doing the wrong thing by running of with her. I know it doesn’t matter though because she is just a stepping stone to The Mother. He needs to get some real closure with Victoria before he can be ready to truly get married and start a family. He closed the door to Robin, and once he closes the door to Victoria he will be ready for the one.

I thought all the Barney and Quinn plots in the finale were great. It was really sweet of her to quit stripping for him, and his proposal was adorable. They really were a great couple and I can tell they love each other, but I knew they couldn’t be end-game. Him and Robin had a different kind of chemistry, and there was so much left unsaid between them. I was so excited to see she was his bride at the end. I’m really excited to see how Season 8 shows their journeys back to each other.

I’ve always loved Marshall and Lill’y relationship. It hasn’t always been easy for them, but they’ve stuck it out since college, and now they had their son. It was a really precious moment, and I loved that they managed to still work in comedy to it all, with all the mini stories from the past, and with Marvin’s middle name being “Waitforit”. This a new step in their future, but I know they’ll still stay close with the gang. It was all just wonderful.

These A Chorus Line rehearsals are exhausting! I didn’t realize how fast and intense all the dance routines were ‘till we started rehearsing last week. I’m quickly learning it all and it’s all very exciting! I feel like a real dancer! I can feel myself getting stronger and quicker already!

But it really bums me out when we get into the acting sections and I have to sit on the sidelines and watch.. I like acting a thousand times more than dancing, but I’m not the best dancer so there was no way of me playing a lead in this kind of show. I know it’s part of the process of being a performer. Everyone has to start somewhere and being in the ensemble is a big part of that.. Just kinda sucks sitting there.

At least I get to understudy for Judy and Kristine who are crazy and super fun to play! I know the odds of me playing either for an actual performance are very slim to none.. But it gives me a little bit of happiness. 

I’m just happy to be in a show again. :)

I’ve finished my first year of college, made it through VCU’s art foundations, got accepted into the graphic design department, signed a lease with Mike Todd for an apartment next year, got a job as a summer theatre camp counselor at Imagination Stage, and got cast in A Chorus Line at RMT.

2012 is good. :)

I can’t believe I’m going home so soon..

I’m so excited to be in the same state as my boyfriend for a few months, and to be working with children again, and to be making my own money, and to go exploring in places the opposite of a city, and to be doing theatre again! So much to look forward to over summer vacation.

But it just feels so weird.

It doesn’t feel like I’ve completed my first year of college..

and that I’ve made it through all the Art Foundations stress.

But I did. And it’s all real. And this is all happening.

Wow. 

So. This was all work I did back in high school and was the meat of my portfolio for my application to VCUarts last year. I submitted these 9 as well as a few drawings I did, which I will not post here. I have improved soooo much in every aspect related to art. VCU’s AFO (art foundations) program taught me so much. It was tough as hell, but I’m sure glad I did it. I’ve come such a long way from these art pieces here.

I just signed out of the huge art building clean-up, which was the last thing I had to do!!!

Now I just have to take one non-art related exam tomorrow, and then I am on summer break! :D

Can’t wait to see everyone back home!  

Head-shots taken by the incredible and amazing Laura Nixon!