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Don’t let your parents force you into going to the barbershop.
Due to a slight miscommunication, I walked out of the shop looking like I just stepped out of the ’30s. Damn you, hairspray!
Top Tips are a new series for this blog: a collection of observations on life that I belive the world needs to know. As always, you are entitled to both my opinions and your opinions – however, if you ask me, these Top Tips are so blindingly obvious, if you don’t know them, you’re bloody pathetic.
Anyone who’s met me will agree: i’m one of the whitest people in the world. But just how white is that?
Let’s use the infamous blog Stuff White People Like as a white-o-meter.
Putting an X next to everything I agree with… (oo, it automatically made a bulleted list)
- #121 Funny or Ironic Tattoos
- #120 Taking a Year Off
- X119 Sea Salt
- X118 Ugly Sweater Parties
- #117 Political Prisoners
- X116 Black Music that Black People Don’t Listen to Anymore
- X115 Promising to Learn a New Language (hey wait, i’m actually learning one..)
- #114 America
- X113 Halloween
- X112 Hummus
- X111 Pea Coats (funny story about that..)
- #110 Frisbee Sports
- X109 The Onion
- X108 Appearing to Enjoy Classical Music (what about actually enjoying it?)
- #107 Self Aware Hip Hop References
- X106 Facebook
- #105 Unpaid Internships
- X104 Girls with Bangs
- X103 Sweaters
- #102 Children’s Games as Adults
- X101 Being Offended
- X100 Bumper Stickers
- X99 Grammar
- X98 The Ivy League
- X97 Scarves
- #96 New Balance Shoes
- X95 Rugby
- X94 Free Healthcare
- X93 Music Piracy
- X92 Book Deals
- X91 San Francisco
- #90 Dinner Parties
- X89 St. Patrick’s Day
- X88 Having Gay Friends (wait. does that include being the gay friend?)
- #87 Outdoor Performance Clothes
- #86 Shorts
- #85 The Wire
- X84 T-Shirts
- #83 Bad Memories of High School
- X82 Hating Corporations
- #81 Graduate School
- X80 The Idea of Soccer (oi. it’s football. bloody lunatics..)
- X79 Modern Furniture (IKEA!)
- #78 Multilingual Children
- 77 Musical Comedy
- X76 Bottles of Water
- X75 Threatening to Move to Canada (come on. everyone’s done it once)
- #74 Oscar Parties
- #73 Gentrification
- X72 Study Abroad
- #71 Being the only white person around
- #70 Difficult Breakups
- X69 Mos Def
- #68 Michel Gondry
- #67 Standing Still at Concerts
- #66 Divorce
- #65 Co-Ed Sports
- X64 Recycling
- X63 Expensive Sandwiches
- #62 Knowing What’s Best for Poor People
- X61 Bicycles
- #60 Toyota Prius (you know, i actually can’t stand the Prius anymore.)
- X59 Natural Medicine
- X58 Japan
- X57 Juno
- #56 Lawyers
- #55 Apologies
- X54 Kitchen Gadgets
- X53 Dogs
- X52 Sarah Silverman
- X51 Living by the Water
- X50 Irony
- X49 Vintage
- X48 Whole Foods and Grocery Co-ops
- X47 Arts Degrees
- X46 The Sunday New York Times
- X45 Asian Fusion Food
- X44 Public Radio
- X43 Plays
- X42 Sushi
- X41 Indie Music
- X40 Apple Products
- X39 Netflix
- X38 Arrested Development
- X37 Renovations (power tools!)
- X36 Breakfast Places
- X35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report
- X34 Architecture
- #33 Marijuana
- #32 Vegan/Vegetarianism
- #31 Snowboarding
- X30 Wrigley Field
- #29 80s Night
- #28 Not having a TV
- X27 Marathons
- X26 Manhattan (now Brooklyn too!)
- X25 David Sedaris
- #24 Wine
- #23 Microbreweries
- #22 Having Two Last Names
- X21 Writers Workshops
- X20 Being an expert on YOUR culture
- X19 Traveling
- #18 Awareness
- #17 Hating their Parents
- #16 Gifted Children
- #15 Yoga
- #14 Having Black Friends
- X13 Tea
- #12 Non-Profit Organizations
- #11 Asian Girls
- X10 Wes Anderson Movies
- #9 Making you feel bad about not going outside
- X8 Barack Obama
- X7 Diversity
- X6 Organic Food
- X5 Farmer’s Markets
- #4 Assists
- X3 Film Festivals
- #2 Religions their parents don’t belong to
- X1 Coffee
So, that’s 77 out of 121…which, by the Universal MySpace Bulletin Law of Cultural Composition, means I’m 63% white. Awesome. I’m going to go watch football.
Rehearsal this week is going well.
Set pieces are being built, things like that
In other news, I’ve got no social life outside of rehearsal. And we’re not even in Tech Week yet. Rather looking forward to it, actually.
-L
When’s the last time you heard one?
ANYWAY.
Happy Winter Break, to all who have one…and to all who don’t, well, piss off and bitch somewhere else. 
Don’t know what I’ll do with it yet. Planning is ridiculously over-rated.
It only really applies on weekdays. Whatevs. Don’t really care. Bloody grades.
This weekend’s looking really nice, though. Today – set construction:
- Put handles or eyehooks on…basically everything that moves
- Built a throne out of an armchair from IKEA
- Started building a ground-row to hide the lights hiding the cyc.
- In the process of accomplishing #3, the circular saw started acting weirdly.
- Nobody could fix it.
- As a result of #5, we sent everyone home and bought a new circular saw.
Tomorrow: no rehearsal. Thank god for that — apparently there’s some cheerleading competition, and the place will be swarming with cheerleaders tomorrow. Lucky break, by my standards.
-L
More college emails today – I really need to finish that post about the bullshit that’s in all of them.
I hate Mondays. Hate hate hate hate hate.
Monday morning, waking up, it has to be one of the worst feelings in the world. Weekends, even with rehearsal, I can wake up and feel like I’ve slept enough.
Nothing like the sinking feeling of staring at the clock on the ceiling and realising that it’s 6 AM, and you’re about to waste another day of your life.
That being said, today didn’t go too badly. Half asleep for most of it. Rehearsal – the new set pieces seem to work well. Orchestra – boring as usual.
Sometimes I feel like the weeks start to run together far too much.
No injuries, that’s always nice.
No set-construction-related ones anyway. I’d like to thank Courtney for scratching my arm. Punctured the skin a bit, too.
Construction went well, though. The smaller platforms are nearly complete, the fence is up, and the trapdoor platform is framed out. 
Went to the mall later with Molly, Laura, and Mia… Providence Place is so full of weird people. kind of ridiculous. I bought:
- Tonight: Franz Ferdinand – the new album..on vinyl!
- a Led Zeppelin greatest hits collection
- Ágætis Byrjun, my favourite CD from Icelandic band Sigur Rós
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- The Beatles – the biography by…someone. can’t remember who.
- A new journal
- Chinese food
All in all, a good weekend so far.
Being in musicals is a good way to save money.
You don’t have time to spend it, that’s why.
In other news, being sick is still boring.
Nearly as boring as not being sick, but still being at home.
Rehearsal all weekend. What fun. A late rehearsal on Friday too, bringing back memories of 42nd street: hastily consumed takeaway meals in the spine.
Here’s a tally of what medications I’ve taken today, and how i’ve felt afterwards.
6:00 AM
2 Tylenol
1 Vitamin C supplement
1 Mucinex tablet
Felt like crap.
Took a nap.
12:00 Noon
2 Tylenol
1 Mucinex tablet
Still felt like crap.
4:00 PM
2 Tylenol
1 Mucinex
1 granola bar
Still felt like crap.
9:00 PM
1 cup of Darjeeling tea
Feeling fantastic.
Take that, pharmecutical companies! India’s worked out a long time ago.
