My mother and I have tickets to go see the Dora Mavor Moore awards on June 25th. We felt we had to, because of these notable nominations:

OUTSTANDING NEW MUSICAL
The Story of My Life

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
Here Lies Henry

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICALThe Story of My Life ( Read more... )

I found out today that I am related to a homophobic woman. She is my dad's sister-in-law, and has always seemed like a perfectly nice person to me (though uber-Catholic and occasionally rather harsh on her kids). In reference to one of her daughter's gay male friends, she said, "He'll grow out of it ( Read more... )

Recipe For A Delicious De-Phlegmifying Fizzy Blueberry Beverage For Hot Summer Days1. Steep a bag of blueberry herbal tea in a glass of cold water for about 10 minutes ( Read more... )

Top 3 musical pet peeves:
1. People who are clearly not sopranos but are convinced otherwise.
2. People who don't have a clue how to play the piano but are convinced otherwise.
3. People who not only sing the wrong thing, but sing it loudlyToday was the dress rehearsal for music night on Thursday. Mishi and I sing, "We're just two friends." "Two ( Read more... )

That annoying feeling of "goddammit, why am I still so alone and have no one? - my bed is so empty and cold - this is so disgustingly sad" is 12 times stronger when applied to girls ( Read more... )

Pride is in the last week of June.
If I can get someone (Chloe, probably - NOT my mom, not Mishi, unless she confesses to liking girls - unlikely) to go with me, I'm really interested in attending both the Dyke March and the main Pride Parade ( Read more... )

There's a voice exercise I have to do at my lessons that involves "hooting" in head voice, and it always makes me extremely light-headed. I'm still stumbling around like a drunken idiot. Argh.

( The speech I'll be delivering to accompany my English project on UNREQUITED LOVE )

Rant ahead. I'm putting it behind a cut because it's giant.

( Basically, my mom is weird )

I have to go to school only 14 more times, total. And only 2 of them are Mondays. This is fantastical ( Read more... )

Just finished reading The Rules For Hearts (sequel to Empress of the World that I wrote about yesterday and bought today). It was so brilliant. I may cry. Sara Ryan is the most honest writer. Every character just rings true completely.
No one will know what I'm talking about when I say this unless they've read the books, but: as much as I loved ( Read more... )