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Mar. 20th, 2008 @ 01:01 am
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I think this is going to be my livejournal entry. I'm getting too old for it :(
Last week was great.
I passed my Japanese proficiency exam, which my graduation hinged on.
I was cast as Tommy in Tommy.
The dance piece I'm in went to ACDF and we won the nationals entry. We'll be performing it again in concert at nationals in NYC this summer.
I saw Bill Clinton give a speech.
...and some other things that make my life great. :)
I'm almost a full-blown adult! I can taste it.
Well, I guess that about sums up my life this past week. Bye livejournal! You lasted me all through college! I'll miss you!
xoxo,
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Dec. 2nd, 2007 @ 04:28 am
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-Update:
I think I'm going to be alone for the rest of my life.
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Oct. 28th, 2007 @ 11:25 pm
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I only need one more class to graduate but 4.5 more credits...so this is what I'm taking next spring:
Advanced Scene Study
Experiments in Acting
Nonfiction Writing
Advanced Jazz
Advanced Modern
Accelerated Intermediate Ballet OR Piano
Voice (audited)
Should be fun.
I can't wait to graduate. Can't...WAIT.
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Oct. 18th, 2007 @ 04:26 am
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Thought this was a funny excerpt from an lj entry I wrote in July of 2006.
"I have also come to the conclusion that I will most likely not date any Muhlenberg students during the second half of my college career, because the majority of gay people my age here haven't experimented (not happy with that exact descriptor but it'll have to do) enough to be involved in the kind of relationship I want to be in. I realize that makes me sound really high and mighty, but I think I have a pretty good track record to back it up. And if I end up being an old maid, then that's my fault."
...oops. Happy 13-month anniversary on Saturday, Joel. Haha.
Am I finished with college yet? Can I be an adult now? Six months to go...but I'm so sick of learning.
I started this journal the summer before I started college, and now it's four years later and I'm graduating...weird...
For an even weirder experience, check out the journal I had in high school: livejournal.com/users/singactdancer
I'm so different now. A lot less hyper.
"Sounds of laughter, shades of life are drifting through my open ears, exciting and inviting me. Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns. It calls me on and on across the universe. Jai guru deva om. Nothing's gonna change my world."</i?I'm feeling:  amused Stuck in my head: Across the Universe |
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Okay...testing to see if I can embed videos for my muhlenberg blog...
Oct. 4th, 2007 @ 09:05 pm
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So it's almost 8am and I haven't gone to bed yet. Good job, Kennedy. I'm all mopey now cause I've been watching David and Keith on Six Feet Under and wishing I had kids. I'm going to be the best dad ever.
Oct. 3rd, 2007 @ 07:46 am
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Update:
I'm really, really, really depressed. It's awful. I'm working on fixing it...but it's awful. I miss Joel a lot. And I'm nervous. History has proven that distance doesn't make for strong relationships. He's being great though...and helping me with this whole I-hate-everything-and-everyone-because-something-awful-happened-to-me-and-I-can't-deal-with-it-cerebrally crap. Oh, life. Hey, it's homecoming weekend.
Yay.
P.S. I can't believe I made this livejournal just after my senior year of high school. I'm looking at some of the early entries and it feels like a million years ago. Weird.
Sep. 28th, 2007 @ 12:39 am
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I don't know if I should be really happy or really sad... :-/
No one use the word hysteria anymore. It comes from the Latin root for woman/vagina/uterus (hence hysterectomy) which, if you think about it, kind of makes it misogynistic. So...yeah. Boo hysteria.
Don't you hate those days when you feel really ugly, stupid, untalented, and like, the biggest boob ever? Not like a breast...like a boob. Like, "oh you boob." It stinks. UGGGHHHH I JUST WANT TO GO BACK TO BED!!!!
Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
Sep. 12th, 2007 @ 02:20 pm
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So it's the second day of school. Senior year. Wow. This is the longest I've ever been at one school since Tokyo. Two years at Great Falls Elementary, two years of home-schooling, one year at Langley High School, two years at Potomac School, half a year at Waldorf School...then I came here. It's the place where I've been the most consistently around the same group of people since MTC, too. Anyway, here's my class schedule...
-Mind & Brain (neuroscience...it's a requirement.)
-Post-Independent African Theatre
-Shakespeare I (english, not theatre)
-Advanced Modern Dance
-Voice
So...yep. Auditions for the semester are tomorrow too...which is great. Not.
Joel just moved to Astoria, Queens this morning. He's been in Philly this past week at home packing. It's going to be awful being in a long-distance relationship, but we've decided to work through it...bleh. It just sucks.
Alright I have to go to my lab for Mind and Brain nowwww! :)
Aug. 28th, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
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So I'm in Japan and it's pretty amazing. Right now I'm in my old bunk bed in my dad's apartment and watching the sun rise...jet lag. Yesterday I went with my old nanny to the park she used to always take me to and we went to the giant tree that I always played under...but it was cut down. Symbolism? I think so. There are a ton of little things that I forgot about like the way the traffic lights are in a horizontal row, the ramen shops where you pay for your order at a vending machine and then give the ticket you receive to the waitress who brings out the food, the fact that Tokyo is so huge that it can take over 30 minutes to get partially across it by train. Joel is flying in this afternoon...but there's also a major hurricane due to hit today, so we'll have to see if he dies or not. I really hope there's an earthquake while we're here. Once he gets here, we're going to move into the apartment hostel we'll be staying in.
On an separate note, B.D. Wong called my house earlier this week before I had left, saying that he knew me through a director I had worked with when I was younger and wanted me to come audition for the show he was directing. If you don't know who he is, B.D. Wong won the Tony for "M. Butterfly", he was Linus in the revival of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", and if you watch Law & Order: SVU, he's the Asian psychologist. Anyway, after I shit my pants, I went up to audition. They gave me three songs to learn from the show and two scenes to read. After I sang one of the songs, B.D. actually cried and said that my old director would be proud of me!!! So the audition went pretty well, but yesterday I just got an email saying that they really liked me but couldn't use me cause my type was "too elegant and too graceful"...which I guess is a compliment. It was the greatest auditioning experience of my life, and having B.D. Wong as a contact is huge so I'm not really even that bummed about it.
My step-mother is turning out to be a bitch. I mean, I thought it was weird that she didn't want me and Joel to stay at Daddy's house because it would be too stressful, but I understood on a level. But yesterday while I was hanging out with Mercy (my nanny) all day, Mercy told me that the reason why she moved out of my Dad's house three years ago was because Kaori just stopped talking to her. She said she had no idea why (because she's the sweetest woman in the world), but she eventually felt so horrible about it, she had to leave. Now she's living in a building where she shares a single toilet and a single bath with sixteen people, and has one room to herself that is literally the size of a closet. I'm not joking. I could touch the walls with my arm span. It was really depressing.
Anyway, fuck you Kaori.
I had a dream last night that Joel and I broke up the first night he was here....pretty awful. But as much of a downer all of this has been, JAPAN IS AMAZING!!!!! I can't wait to show Joel everything I remember and find new things with him! Yaaay! If anyone wants me to bring them something back from Japan, let me know! :)
Jul. 15th, 2007 @ 06:40 am
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So I go to Japan with Joel in a month. I'm psyched beyond reason.
I'm really drunk. I'm at school which is great cause I'm making some money choreographing and seeing my friends before I fly halfway across the world for five months. Our A/C right now is illegal and has a water bucket that needs to conspicuously be dumped daily. It's sketchy. I don't even know why I'm writing in this, since I'm not really aware of anyone that still reads it. I think it's a good, healthy outlet of internal thought, though. I'm taking an environmental science class for the first few weeks of summer so I don't have to take it senior year, and it's surprisingly easy. I didn't think I'd actually like learning about science, but so far so good. Let's not jinx it. Sometimes I get this paranoid feeling that everyone hates me...or no one really likes me, if there's a difference. I've been so involved in directing and choreographing that I haven't realized how much I miss performing until now. I'm gonna do that next year I think. Why someone who wants to make a career out of using their voice would ever smoke is beyond me. It took me a few times before I realized what an idiot I was when I tried it. Blah...sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I travelled back in time four or five years and did things differently with my life...hm...
I love the song "Black Betty".
That is all.
Jun. 9th, 2007 @ 04:18 am
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Shh...want to know a secret? I arranged a version of "The Way You Look Tonight" for my a cappella group and they're going to sing it with me for Joel on Valentine's Day. I know. I'm a kickass boyfriend.
Anyway, this semester is going really well. I haven't been updating as much because now I'm getting PAID to write in a blog at Muhlenberg (muhlenberg.edu) for prospective students to read, and let's be honest. Money is way more important.
The show I'm directing goes into tech week in nine days. Haha...ack! I think it's going to be pretty damn cool, but of course I'm going to be nervous. I promise to take pictures and put them on facebook or in my Muhlenberg blog or something. Maybe not of Michael when he's playing Eros though...because he's naked in that scene. I also realized this semester that if I wanted to, I could graduate early. I've finished my major and only have two more required courses for my liberal arts degree, but obviously I'm staying the whole four years. Still, it's nice to know you're in a good place academically. I just ate a big three cheese calzone and am officially a tub o' lard. Yay.
Alright, I'm going to go have sex in a dressing room now. Peace.
Feb. 9th, 2007 @ 08:19 pm
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Okay...hearing from Joel that the Israeli army might force him to stay in Israel and serve in the army was terrifying to say the least. I mean, he has his exemption papers and assured me that it's a misunderstanding on their part, but everybody PLEASE send loving energy towards him and hope he gets home safely SOON.
...thanks.
Jan. 12th, 2007 @ 04:02 am
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Things I accomplished this semester:
-Pledged and became a brother of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity
-Was nominated for an Irene Ryan for ACTF from Weldon Rising
-Got an A in Directing (okay, an A-, but I won't complain)
-Acquired a boyfriend
-Began work on the Exec board of the Center for Multicultural Life
-Got an invitation for an apprenticeship all of next year with Charles Anderson's dance company, in conjunction with Japanese choreographer Kota Yamazaki
-Began work as a student blogger for the admissions dept. of Muhlenberg
-Choreographed a dance piece for the informal concert
-Didn't die and/or fail out of school
Woohoo! Hopefully now I can breathe...oh wait...no.
Spring 07, here I come. [insert image of maniacal scientist vigorously rubbing hands together here.]
Dec. 20th, 2006 @ 09:24 pm
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Whew! So...I when I accepted the blogger position for admissions...I didn't realize my face would be posted on the Muhlenberg homepage with a link saying "READ KENNEDY'S BLOG!" Kill me. Anyway, I'm getting paid so I guess it's worth it. I'm so sore from physical exertion that I had difficulty lifting my arms over my head. Ow. Joel and my three-month anniversary is on Monday, which should be nice. I got into Major Directors with Jim next semester! That means I'll be in my second directing class when I propose my mainstage. Plus, Jim talked to Linda Miller and they nixed the pre-requisite Dramatic Writing class and signed me into Playwriting next semester, which I am very excited for. What else...um...oh, I'm still sick. Like, this is what, the third month? I don't understand...I've seen like five different doctors and am STILL SICK. Anyway, this has been the most stressful semester of my life, but I think that when I step back and look at the big picture, I'm doing fairly well in everything. I am overbooked constantly though, and wish I wasn't half-assing things in order to make it to everything. By the by, TGIF's new potato skin chips in the vending machine are fab. Definitely try them. The first showing of my final directing scene, and I think it went really really well. I've got a lot to work on and Jim gave me a bunch of great feedback after class, so I'm excited and know where to go from here. Oh, the mainstages were cast and I'm REALLY excited for Monkey in the Middle...everyone's so great! And there were some really amazing people that didn't get into ANYTHING, but hey, maybe those amazing people will audition for my blackbox! Which is "Metamorphoses" by Mary Zimmerman by the way, in case anyone wants to come see it. Alright I'm rambling and just realized I'm late, but I love everyone! PEACE
Nov. 14th, 2006 @ 10:27 pm
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We opened! And I think it's going well! Last night all of my Phi Tau boys came to see me...they were scattered throughout the entire audience...it was very funny since, you know, I'm a transvestite prostitute in the show. In my monologue that I address to the audience, there's a specific audience chair in the front that I come up to and talk with for a while, and who should be sitting in that chair last night...but Chris May, my pledgemaster. It was more than a little amusing. Then I had to wake up eeeearly this morning to greet alumni, but only Tiki and Dunphy showed up, and this reeeally old partially senile guy that talked and talked and wouldn't leave (we later realized it was the same alumn that stood up on Founder's Day and gave an impromptu speech in the middle of one of the announcements- remember that Jon? HAH!). Danny Ryan was trying to be nice and was like "Well I certainly am sure we'll be seeing you again." To which the old man replied "No." ....how much more awkward can you get? Then Seigi, Matt, Danny, Mark, and I went over to the scarecrow our pledge class had made for the homecoming scarecrow contest, and we're pretty much positive we won the Scariest category. Pumpkin guts are spewing out of its mouth and a trident is pierced through the torso. A mother that passed told her child to "look away"...it was pretty funny. So here I am at my matinee, avoiding getting into makeup and updating this thing instead. The entire casts of Urinetown and Life's a Dream are coming tonight, plus my parents. Big audience, no pressure. Heh...heh.
Oct. 14th, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
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"Weldon Rising" by Phillis Nagys
October 12th-14th
Studio Theatre
Muhlenberg College
COME!
So Joel is my big, and Craig Porter is my grand-big. What a funny funny family.
I visited my bro at Boston College over the break, and he is of course wasted off his ass the whole time. It was kind of awkward at the ROTC party though. Didn't know anyone there and Kane's off doing keg stands, beer pong, and shots of Grey Goose. I basically had to carry him home. Sometimes I worry...
Oct. 3rd, 2006 @ 09:55 pm
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Dear world,
If you ever take shots of Vladi, using jungle juice as a chaser is not the greatest idea. Phi Tau date party was awesome! As was Shetler's and Gillian/Alex's! Love to all...I played Guitar Hero with Luca, Biren, and Alexis til 4:00 in the morning. God. Let's here it for rehearsal tomorrow!
P.S. My little hooked up with my roomie. Fun times...?
How am I coherent right now?!
Sep. 23rd, 2006 @ 04:29 am
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So things are really great right now. Classes have been in session for three weeks now, and I haven't had any nervous break downs yet. I'm choreographing a piece in the informal dance concert, I'm performing in my first straight play (ironic because I'm a transvestite), and I'm about to begin rush for Phi Tau. I do need to get some stuff off my chest that's kind of been bothering me...but there's NEVER a good time. Ugh. Nothing else, though. I wish my day didn't go until midnight for the better part of the week. The other day Joel posed the question "What if we didn't do theatre?" It made me realize how much easier my life would be. I'd be getting straight A's no doubt, and probably a lot more active in the areas I'd otherwise want to be active in but don't have time for. Wow. But, alas, we choose to do the things we love, not the things that make life easy.
In the words of Kane Wiltshire Koji Kanagawa, or KWKK the Younger: "Yeah, Mom's one crazy bitch."
Sep. 11th, 2006 @ 09:45 pm
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