I started my second Spring semester this week and discovered that I cannot stand lectures with a ton of other students–especially students that aren’t on the same intellectual levels. D: And when I say that, I don’t mean it to say I’m super smart, because I’m not. I’m pretty average…but I’m really good at math and science. I find that it’s difficult for all when everyone is on a different level. Then, the professor has to either dumb things down leaving the students that know what they’re doing bored or makes it too difficult leaving those that don’t catch on as fast lost and confused. I would think that professors would just teach everything in the middle, but no one I’ve had has.

Then, there’s the professor that drones on and on and never has a sense of humor to break up the lecture making it less boring. I realize that, as a student, it is your job to focus and pay attention, but, for example, I have a 2.5 hour history lecture and I love history. However, I cannot stay focused on that lecture for that long. Luckily for me this time, the professor gives us a break halfway through and is really nice. She also breaks it up by walking around the room more to make us look in different places and is always looking to us to interject with things we know about the topic which makes the class more fun.

But I’ve had some classes, like my Algebra class last year, where the professor stays in one spot the entire class, ignores questions and interjections and drones the entire time. It’s exhausting. D:

I have had some that were really great–like my theatre classes. I had one that was basically just the history of the theatre, which wasn’t boring at all! The professor had a sense of humor easily keeping us on our toes and, from time to time, giggling in my seat. Some readers may be thinking, “Yes, Hannah, but you love theatre!” Granted, that’s true, but I also love history, science and math as much. Heck, I’d say that comparing the history of theatre and math, I love math more.

In the end, I always find myself disliking most lectures. I’ve only enjoyed my theatre lecture and semi-enjoyed my English lecture.

In other news, my ex boyfriend might be entering my life again. It’s complicated, as was anything with this boy, but he’s been friendly towards our group again, and I’m willing to welcome him with open arms. The only person I would never let back into my life: my father. But everything he’s done is totally unforgivable. There’s just no way that man can be in my life again. My ex boyfriend just had a small moment of being an ass and then we went our separate ways. Nothing unforgivable. (FYI, it takes a lot to do something I wouldn’t forgive.)

But I do have to drop my one science class. Online, it said there was a lab, but there isn’t and I need a science with a lab. I’m trying to get into this Biology class that Nicole is in, but it’s full. I’ve emailed the professor, but I really don’t think it’s going to happen. So I’ve got to find another lab. But all of that means that I’m only able to work Fridays, which kind of sucks as I’d like the money. However, I can’t do anything about it. School is always first and, honestly, my job is kind of last. As long as I’m able to work like 3 hours a week, I’m totally good in terms of what I need.

Speaking of that job, I need to head there now. I’m going to get another quick snack and head off. I told her I’d be there at 1:30 at the earliest, but there was no way. I didn’t even get home until after 1 and I still needed to eat, plus it takes 12-ish minutes to make it to work.

I have to say, it seemed almost wrong to not put Tess and Christina back to back. XD I mean, as Tess says, they are the same person, basically.

Christina is another person that I’ve only just gotten to know this past year, and I’m so glad I have!! She’s really funny and is always there for a hug. I can’t even count how many times she, like Tess, has made me burst into laughter on Twitter.

Not only is the amazing Christina an awesome person, but her graphics are freaking awesome and definitely worth being jealous of. ;D Her current collective layout is the style I would give anything to be able to do, but, sadly, suck at. XD

She is simply fabulous, to say the least. However, though she is very funny, she can be serious too, of course, but I think she’s happier talking about slash or non-canon relationships that make us sad because they aren’t canon or Merlin or Tess or Harry Potter. She was the first person I met that pretty much shipped everything I ship and that finds the same awesome slash relationships as awesome as I do. Draco, as I will always say, can pretty much go with anyone. So can Snape. o_o

But yes.

I highly recommend you know Christina and that you attack her with love. She deserves it.

I can honestly say that she has made me a different person, a more true person, online. Without she and Tess, I think I would still be shy online, but I’m not any more. XD Those two have brought my dirty minded side from offline to online! (Yes, that’s a great thing!) I love how comfortable these two make me feel. Like, it’s okay to think how I do some times, and that I should probably think this way more often. XD

But seriously, Christina is too awesome for words.

FYI, Christina + Tess (+ Tess’s sister) = Love (Triangle)

I get asked a lot what my job is. Where it is. Random questions about it. And I never really know how to respond because my job is so complicated! I usually end up saying, “I work for a small business owned by my mother’s friend that makes wooden dollhouses. I’m kind of her assistant.” Yea, that’s true. And luckily for me, they rarely ask questions after that. haha

But I’ve been wanting to explain my job a bit thoroughly, at least to my internet friends. After all, to be honest, you guys know more about me than most of my offline friends. I’m just too shy to tell most about me.

I suppose we’ll start from the beginning!

My mother and my boss (and I, actually) were members of a miniature club, or a group of middle aged and old ladies that make dollhouses and items for inside a dollhouse. It’s quite fun, actually. I made everything back then from chairs and tables to bedroom mirrors and television sets. Mother and I have always been crafty.

I met my boss there, Boss Lady we’ll call her, and we hit it off. She and I were both goofballs and all was well. At some point, she left the club and bought a business that was closing that made all of these wonderful things, only made them like a billion times nicer.

A few years later, I was needing a job so my mother made a call to Boss Lady who was happy to have me help her work. I started off working two days, five hours each, and I shingled dollhouses. I mean, like, massive dollhouses. Think Barbie Dream Home’s big sister. Insane! haha It literally took me a month to do one house.

My boss let me bring my iPod and lunch and let me listen to music and such while getting the shingles laid. After a while, I learned how to make stair railings, doors, windows and even how to paint tiny little bricks. I love my job!

It’s funny because I used to need her to teach me something every day, basically. I was learning something new, but now, I go in, look around at where I left off on a previous project (a lot of times, I start something, stop halfway through and do something else for an order needed sooner), tell Boss Lady what I want to do and I just do it.

I’ve also upgraded my tunes to movies and TV shows that I have on my iPod. I clip Hagrid to an old coffee can that my glue sits in and watch while I work. haha Pretty sweet set up, right?

That’s what I do. And I love it.

Now, Boss Lady brought her elderly cat to live there, as her husband doesn’t want it around, so that makes things fun. Every once in a while, she brings her dog, who is freaking adorable, and some times I get to simply cut up old cardboard boxes all day. It’s definitely a great job.

I mean, heck, I get to pick my work schedule and change it whenever I want. She writes down the hours I work, and pays me when she remembers her check book. It’s awesome.

The best part? I get a bonus every once in a while for really working hard on a house. It makes me laugh because I’m such a workoholic that I don’t even notice how much work I’ve done at times.

And now, I’m off to relax for a bit. I have rehearsal tonight for a musical revue that opens next Friday. Yay?

Until later, lovelies!

I had fears. I had crazy trepidation about doing Bye Bye Birdie and a musical revue and Dracula.

Now? I’ve not only come to terms with it, but I got a sign today that I’m doing what I should. Everyone kept telling me, “Hannah, you’re insane for doing all of this!” “Hannah, how can you handle all of these shows, school and work?!” Very few people were supportive, but I knew I had to. As I was telling my mother, I think it’s my “year” (theatre year, which, here, is similar to our “school year”) to break out. I’m no longer a little kid. I’m no longer a chorus girl. I can handle bigger and better roles and I can do them well.

So, when Dracula came, I knew I had to take the audition offered to me and just go for it. I owe a lot to my, now, dear theatre friend J (we’ll call him that) for getting me that audition and for, basically, getting me the role. Yes, I’m simply the maid, but, as every actor knows, no part is a small part and I’m making the absolute best of it. I have a few lines that I think will get laughs, and, considering this is a super ultra mega drama, that’s going to stand out.

I was, honestly, petrified to get my Dracula calendar for fear of just being insanely busy. I was wrong. My Dracula calendar almost seems under rehearsed, to be honest, but I know it’ll be just what we need, as the show is so short.

I also thought that, for sure, I’d need to cut a day of work out, which scared me even more as I need to work to pay for gas to drive to rehearsals (Dracula is about a half an hour away and the other two are twenty minutes away). I just feel like everything has fallen perfectly into place.

I do rehearse almost every day of the week for something, but that’s it. I don’t have any double rehearsals, though, on Sundays, I do perform Birdie the next two and head to revue directly after, but I’m kind of used to that now. Class? A piece of cake. I just realized over the last weekend that the class eating up my time, actually, only has an assignment every two weeks instead of one, and, as I took the class before and had to drop, I already have three assignments done (6 weeks!). My other class for this half of the semester is just a weekly discussion where I have to answer three opinion questions. The timing for everything could not be better.

As for work, I’m incredibly excited to say that I have next week off entirely! My boss let me know today that she’d be going on vacation for a week. That is absolutely perfect because, after next week, Birdie is over and I will be able to work full hours again. Also, it means only rushing one more day to get ready for the show. Lovely. Absolutely lovely.

Who knew this would happen? I most certainly didn’t, and I couldn’t be happier right now.

Life is good and I’m eating up every moment of it. ^_^ My life had been so depressed for a while, it’s just lovely to be happy for a chance.

Today turned out to be so much more fabulous than anything, and I attribute a lot of it to the Juno soundtrack. I’m sure that sounds insane or whatever, but it inspired me and kept my mind off of stressful things and on to more fun and interesting things. If you haven’t heard the soundtrack, I highly recommend it. It’s my favorite ever, even over the Lion King. The greatest part about mine is that it was burned by my very dear friend, Heather.

As it is a Tuesday, I had work, and I was fully expecting to want to fall asleep the entire time and be bored. To my surprise, I wasn’t at all. I made a few sets of dollhouse stairs, shaved down the bad edges of tiny floor tiles and then cut boxes down to be burned. My personal favorite thing to do was cut the boxes. I’ve always enjoyed stuff like that for some very strange reason. I think it’s the letting the blade kind of guide itself while you cut. It makes neat curves in the cardboard.

In the middle of tearing the cardboard apart, my boss came up to me smiling and said, “Oh, by the way, I forgot. My husband and I will be going away for a month this weekend.” I was like, “Oh. Okay! Not a problem at all, I could really use the break.” While I could really use the money, I’m so excited for my break that I already want to skip to Thursday night to start my vacation. Turns out she’ll only be gone two weeks, but I’m definitely not complaining.

On that note, I have a lot I want to get done on my break. Mostly, writing! As I’ve mentioned before, I have a few projects I’ve been wanting to start and I actually came up with a totally new one today that I’ve decided to work on over everything else. I don’t really want to reveal anything about it right now, as I’m not too sure if it’ll end up being anything, but I was listening to Tree Hugger by Kimya Dawson and Antsy Pants and this sentence popped into my head. It’s already turned into a few paragraphs and plot ideas, so we’ll see.

So aside from that, I have something else to work on during my break: planning a Harry Potter party! As Heather will be making the trip here the week of the Harry Potter movie (WHOO!!!), we have decided to throw a movie bash complete with games, costumes and cosplaying at the movie. We’re going to the midnight showing (unless they don’t do one, which would be odd and wrong) and making a huge deal out of it. I’m dressing like Hermione, unless I end up cutting my hair and dying it red. Then, I’ll be forced to do Ginny, though I’m not a big fan of hers. Heather is going as Bellatrix, and she’ll be perfect as she has almost the exact hair as Bella. I’ve got plans to order myself a proper robe this week from Alivan’s and possibly a sweater as well. Then, I’ll simply be missing the skirt, which I’ll be buying next week from JC Penney.

*dances* If you can’t tell, I’m a little excited. But! I must be off to bed. It’ll be too cold to go running tomorrow morning, as I had anticipated, so I’ll be waking up relatively early to start working on various web related projects. I’m trying to get as much done this week so I can spend my vacation reading some novels I’ve been meaning to for a while, as well as get to my writing.

Until later, lovelies!

1 Month and 10 Days Until Heather Comes to Ohio!