1. Learned a basic understanding of Mandarin from my boyfriend's mother
2. Taught her some English grammar lessons in return
3. Spent a night on the streets in freezing weather, using my backpack as a pillow
4. Auditioned for a national tour the morning after said night of camping out on the street
5. Got a callback for said audition
6. Wrote what seems like zillions of papers...
Ok, now I'm going to go work out. Inspired by the sudden drive to succeed (and comparing myself to Asian girl bands, which is a toxic idea but I do it anyway)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
100 Days
I follow a blog called Lessons from the Monk I Married, and one of the recent posts suggests that we all try to do something for 100 days in a row.
We do a lot of things like brush our teeth, shower, get out of the house... these are things we do every day but they don't count. What she means in the entry is that we try something for the better, and stick to it for a hundred days.
So I'm going to write every day. Where? Here! What will I write about, you ask? (Well, you don't ask, but I'm writing it anyway)
I'm going to do something for a hundred days. I'm going to eat healthy for one hundred days. Yes, that's what I'm going to do. Hell, if I can do it for a week I'll be proud of myself. This means no more pork buns for a long time. God, Chinese homemade food. Mmm. Goodbye dear friends...
So I'm going to try and start this. Let's get the ball rolling. I'm going to work really hard.
Peace love and cupcakes,
-Kate
We do a lot of things like brush our teeth, shower, get out of the house... these are things we do every day but they don't count. What she means in the entry is that we try something for the better, and stick to it for a hundred days.
So I'm going to write every day. Where? Here! What will I write about, you ask? (Well, you don't ask, but I'm writing it anyway)
I'm going to do something for a hundred days. I'm going to eat healthy for one hundred days. Yes, that's what I'm going to do. Hell, if I can do it for a week I'll be proud of myself. This means no more pork buns for a long time. God, Chinese homemade food. Mmm. Goodbye dear friends...
So I'm going to try and start this. Let's get the ball rolling. I'm going to work really hard.
Peace love and cupcakes,
-Kate
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Limerick Life Update
My thoughts are quite shapeless in form
While sitting up here in this dorm.
Though it's break, so they say,
I'm still busy today
And my laziness now is the norm.
Tomorrow I've got an audition
So I've stockpiles of rabid ambition
I've something to wear
(given up on my hair)
To get summerstock work is my mission.
The life of an actor is hard,
and worse in this single regard:
Chinese families will sneer
at my chosen career
so his parents think I'm a retard.
While sitting up here in this dorm.
Though it's break, so they say,
I'm still busy today
And my laziness now is the norm.
Tomorrow I've got an audition
So I've stockpiles of rabid ambition
I've something to wear
(given up on my hair)
To get summerstock work is my mission.
The life of an actor is hard,
and worse in this single regard:
Chinese families will sneer
at my chosen career
so his parents think I'm a retard.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
JAPANESE 102: Revenge of the Grammar (a.k.a. Fuck Babelfish)
こんばんは！
私はケイトちゃんですよ。
今、私は勉強します。ときどきちょっと難しいですよ。
私の生活はとてもたのしいです、でも 忙しいも。
I wish I knew how to write "I miss," because I would write how much I miss my best friends Lauren Bird and Kelly Weaver, who are each, separately, an equally absurd distance away from me... which is not okay.
In other news, all of the above grammar was written entirely by me with no help from an external translator! All from my head. So, because of this, I certainly hope the kanji is correct, otherwise who knows what on earth I've written.
(Kanji = Chinese characters. The Japanese language is made up of three different alphabets, two of which are phonetic [ひらがな and カタカナ] and the last of which is the entire Chinese character list, which amounts to a ridiculous amount of incoherent shapes that all mean something different. Needless to say, it's insane. The end.)
I am writing this at three in the morning. It's sleepy time. ところで、ウィンストンさんが大好きだよ。（ウィンストンさんは私のボイフレンドです)
私はケイトちゃんですよ。
今、私は勉強します。ときどきちょっと難しいですよ。
私の生活はとてもたのしいです、でも 忙しいも。
I wish I knew how to write "I miss," because I would write how much I miss my best friends Lauren Bird and Kelly Weaver, who are each, separately, an equally absurd distance away from me... which is not okay.
In other news, all of the above grammar was written entirely by me with no help from an external translator! All from my head. So, because of this, I certainly hope the kanji is correct, otherwise who knows what on earth I've written.
(Kanji = Chinese characters. The Japanese language is made up of three different alphabets, two of which are phonetic [ひらがな and カタカナ] and the last of which is the entire Chinese character list, which amounts to a ridiculous amount of incoherent shapes that all mean something different. Needless to say, it's insane. The end.)
I am writing this at three in the morning. It's sleepy time. ところで、ウィンストンさんが大好きだよ。（ウィンストンさんは私のボイフレンドです)
Monday, March 15, 2010
Well this is fun
http://www.formspring.me/Katethemusical
You go and you can ask me any random ass question and I'll answer it! Super fun!
You go and you can ask me any random ass question and I'll answer it! Super fun!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
...but obviously not too busy for a video game break
Ok: so the game "Portal" is an epic, epic piece of beauty and genius that deserves to be played by everyone.
It is, at once, scientific, genius, and makes you feel like you're in a first-person shooter even though it's actually just a huge puzzle where you never hurt anyone (except for small, apologetic robots)
It is from this game that the world derives the wonderful phrase:
"The cake is a lie."
Furthermore, once you beat the game, the woman robot voice (who you're trying to obey/discover/destroy for the entire game) sings you a little song at the end.
Note: Before the ending credits, you've just beaten the main robot lady computer thing. But seriously, the game SINGS to you! And it's ADORABLE!
But there's no sense crying over every mistake,
you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake!
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun,
for the people who are still alive.
It is, at once, scientific, genius, and makes you feel like you're in a first-person shooter even though it's actually just a huge puzzle where you never hurt anyone (except for small, apologetic robots)
It is from this game that the world derives the wonderful phrase:
"The cake is a lie."
Furthermore, once you beat the game, the woman robot voice (who you're trying to obey/discover/destroy for the entire game) sings you a little song at the end.
Note: Before the ending credits, you've just beaten the main robot lady computer thing. But seriously, the game SINGS to you! And it's ADORABLE!
But there's no sense crying over every mistake,
you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake!
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun,
for the people who are still alive.
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