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Ahhh. The show, it is open.

(And I'm not watching it tonight; I'll see it on either Monday or Tuesday next week, and also on Saturday.)

Also, as small-town-paper as it is, we've got some press coverage. There are a few mistakes--for instance, Maureen (the director) is in fact a student. This show is her thesis. Also, I'm not the assistant producer, nor am I a curator for this production. That would be the Coffeehouse. Things like that. However, it's a story, which is cool. It's publicity for the show, which is nice but not completely necessary, as we're already almost full, and it's more fodder for my portfolio.

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I got a full set of acrylic nails for the run. I'm not impressed. The girl who did them did a shoddy job, and they don't look that great. I really don't want to have them re-done elsewhere (and pay for a second set), but these ones look really crappy, so I might have to. We'll see.

I like getting a manicure like this, that doesn't bite the dust as quickly as a regular nail-polish-only one, but it always kind of makes me sad to be able to have these longer nails for a while. It means that I'm not playing the piano regularly, which was always the reason that I kept my nails short. I keep my natural nails short these days because I really hate their shape, and the less I can draw attention to them, the better, but fake ones are different.

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Here, have a few pictures of me all gussied up. This isn't the greatest picture of this dress, which was borrowed from Mariah's closet and is a lovely deep purple. It also has the tendency to make my legs look about 3 inches long, which is why I have to wear 4" heels with it for it to look in any way flattering to the lower half of my body.

Also, please ignore the mess in my room, so thoroughly reflected in my full-length mirror. Usually it's not that bad, I promise.

( All dressed up and somewhere to go, but my date won't be here for another week )

Anyway, I'm home now. I don't have to be anywhere until the box office opens for tomorrow night's show. (Yay! No matinee! I hate matinees.) I'm going to clean, since Dad will want to sleep on my couch on Monday night, and I'm going to sleep in. Especially since it's almost 2:30 a.m. now.

I have much to do this evening, and instead, I'm watching the Emmys red carpet coverage and wishing I was taking a nap instead.

So, let's see. This afternoon's plan? I'm planning to get a first draft of the narration for Colin's cantata written, since I've got a pretty solid idea of where it's going now. This should give him enough time to give me edit requests and tweak it all, and still have time to properly rehearse and integrate the narration into the program.

(Also, we got our cantata music yesterday, and I'm kind of disappointed. It's a weak-ish program, in my opinion--I like the Foothills Lutheran program better, although I may be kind of biased, and I wish I was singing in that one instead. So, I need to work on it and remind myself that I'm still involved in it, even though I'm not singing in it.)

I want to get around to burning DVDs of seasons 2-4 of Everwood. It's not crucial or critical, but it's something I want to get around to.

I also have to run to Target at some point this evening, but that'll be a pretty quick trip.

I think I'm going to order a workbook compatible with RCM's Grade 3 Harmony. I never did finish all my history and harmony, and even though I'm not looking to actually get my grade 10 certificate, since by this point, I'd need to retake my practical exam, which would be at least 2 years of work, in addition to doing the grade 3, 4, and 5 history, harmony, counterpoint, and analysis. That's a lot of work and a lot of exams, but I want to brush up on my theory. Even though I don't have a piano and I'm not really working on any pieces (although if I'm going to really work on my theory, I really do need to at least have a keyboard), I still want to keep my skills much sharper than they've been lately. Because, you know, I have so much extra time on my hands

Now I'm looking at keyboards on craigslist, and I just found an 88-key, weighted, almost-new keyboard for $225, which is a great price, but which we still can't really afford. Boo. It's not as nice as what we'll want someday, and it's not a real piano, which we'll also want someday, but for now, it'd be perfect for me to have something at home. Right now, I need a keyboard, rather than a piano, because of the whole apartment-living (and space, and cost of piano movers and tuners) thing. For the moment, a digital piano that's as real as possible is what I need. Eventually, we'll need to get a better one so that Colin has the tools to record soundtracks and so on, and we'll definitely want to have a real piano, as well, but right now, this would be so perfect, and I wish I could get away with not paying this month's tuition payment so I had the money for a keyboard instead. ;)

And, of course, there's always reading to be done. Nothing due for tomorrow, thankfully, but hopefully I'm going to have dinner with Jenny tomorrow evening, so I don't want to leave too much to do afterward.