It's still amazing. Sometimes, I forget how amazing it is in the midst of the long hours, the lectures, the lack of sleep, the frustration. But then I'm backstage screaming the hokey pokey at the top of my lungs and feeling that unanticipated leap from the pit of my stomach and, for a moment, I remember why I do what I do ( Read more... )

You ever have the feeling that it's all about to topple over? I feel like Luke Skywalker in that garbage disposal: all the walls keep coming closer and closer. You can almost hear the bones begin to crunch. And there's this gross slug monster waiting at the bottom to top things off ( Read more... )

We had our first Thespian meeting today. It was so much more exhilarating then I expected. It's scary, but...I liked the power, the feeling of importance, everybody looking at me. Gasp. Amy is a power-hungry dictator! (Those of you in Theatre with me sophomore year should get the reference ( Read more... )

I'm not one to usually choke up over news stories. Attribute it to selfishness, but I'm normally very withdrawn from it all. This one hits home somehow ( Read more... )

There is one man I revile above all others. I hate him more than the whiny rich kids on Laguna Beach, more than the dancing idiots in the Old Navy commercials, more than Paris Hilton. Well, that might be taking it a bit too far, but I really despise this man. His name? Ernest Hemingway ( Read more... )

I love Alabama thunderstorms in the summer. It'll be a beautiful day: clear, blue skies. But you know its coming. You feel the mugginess weighing down the air, there's some tension, a heaviness about it. Then the clouds roll in, and it comes without warning. Big, fat droplets that fall down in sheets. So heavy that you look like you've jumped in ( Read more... )

I just met Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins and got pictures with them. Her son is in the program. Robin Williams sent his daughter too. Yes, be jealous of me ( Read more... )

I wrote out a long, beautiful entry that was deleted by the computer. Such are internet cafes. But I am having an amazing time here! I just spent two hours on the Pembroke College lawn reading John Donne and contemplating the transient nature of life. Absolutely lovely! (note my British vocabulary ( Read more... )

Hey guys, you may or may not have heard about the bombings in London, and I just wanted to check in and say that I am fine. Oxford is 55 miles from London, so we are fairly removed from all of it, but it is still scary here. I've been in contact w/ Chris and Lee and they're fine too, but they'll probably be stuck in London for a few days b/c people ( Read more... )

I'm sorry if I've been a little out of touch lately. I just got back from a mission trip in Pine Hill, Alabama. And I discovered that something is wrong with my friends page and it hasn't updated itself since June 8th ( Read more... )