William, Wolfgang, August, and Me

Well, it's time for another celebratory Broadway gif because... I've turned in my second grad school application! General light at the end of the tunnel news: The papers I need to finish in order  to apply to grad schools are both started.  Homework seems sort of under control? It at least magically gets mostly done every night. 2 of my 7 applications are in.  All of my applications are at least started.  Ui is going well. We're off book and the bones are there to all come together. All in all, things are going okay. Maybe not a lot of sleep, but I'm getting places and, like the songs says, I'm on the right track.  

Here we are, first day back to school and, I have to say, despite my worries, I actually finished out my fall break pretty strong. Some small (but huge) steps were made this weekend. First, I am proud to announce that I have turned in my very first graduate school application! I turned in my application to Brooklyn College this weekend. I also have finished my research and outline for the 15 page paper that I am using for grad school applications and applying to present at the Mid America Theatre Conference as an emerging scholar, and I wrote the opening paragraph just this morning. On top of all of that, I have contacted multiple theatre historians and asked to interview them about their work, and they've all said yes! My first meeting is this Saturday with a lovely old man who wears bow ties in all of his pictures. We also had our first off book rehearsal for Ui last night and I did a lot better than I expected, and my translation work I'm doing for the show is coming al...

Welcome everyone to the Friday of Fall Break, aka the day you ask yourself, "What have I done all week?" During the week, you decide to take naps, you watch Gilmore Girls, you tell yourself that you have a whole week to get ahead on your work, and then it's Friday. So what did I do this week? I baked a an apple cake, I made soup, I watched a lot of Gilmore Girls, I had my sister over, we went antiques shopping, I watched several Harry Potter movies, and I ate a lot and slept a lot. But, I also finished my research and began an outline of a big paper, I wrote an outline for a second big paper, I wrote one page of another big paper, and I finished all of my readings for next week. So I guess it's not all for nothing. But time to buckle down. Let's see what I can get done this weekend.

Fall Break is off to a terrific starts. Sweaters and I are the only ones in the apartment for the next couple days, so we decided to use our time to be highly domestic and adult in very kitcheny ways. Yesterday we made potato soup, homemade bread, and a caramel apple cake. All three were divine and I ended up taking a three hour nap on the couch after the feast, because that's what adults do on a Sunday afternoon, right? (Sweaters played video games for those three hours. A slightly less adulty use of the afternoon, but to each their own.) To complete my feelings of kitchen adultness, I share with you the caramel apple cake recipe, which is, in fact, a Betty Crocker recipe, but spruced up a little by yours truly. To find the starting Betty Crocker recipe click  here. But then here's my secrets that will make this recipe even better. 1. Double or triple the amount of apples it calls for. I doubled and it was delightfully appley, but it definitely wasn't a super stron...

The flip side to coffee is, of course, sleep deprivation, and our apartment is definitely feeling it this midterm season. As I write, Indiana Jane is asleep in the chair next to me in the living room, murmuring something about how she'll go to the library in 5 more minutes. Flower Child has been a walking zombie for the past two days, especially since Sweaters keeps stealing the blankets from her (he's tired too.) And as for me? Three days ago, I took a nap on the couch at work. Two nights ago, I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and couldn't find the bathroom for 5 minutes. (It's the door directly next to my bedroom.) Last night I fell asleep while in the Vom at rehearsal. And this morning I, for the first time in my college career, slept through my morning class. With that momentum completely shattered, I skipped my second class as well and just studied for the midterm exam in my third class. I'm tired, and Fall Break is a whole 3 days away. Yo...

Senior year midterms have turned me into a statistical anomaly. According to Flower Child (who is usually right about these things) studies have shown that if you do not form a coffee addiction by the end of your Sophomore year of college (or around the age of 19) you are statistically very unlikely to ever do so. Well, my friends, I'm apparently very good at being the exception to the rules. Freshman and Sophomore year, I did not like and would not drink coffee. When I did try it, I didn't like the way I felt on it. Junior year, I got to the point that I would drink some sort of sugary coffee beverage, like a frappe, if I was in some sort of desperate need, such as Tech Week, but over the course of the year I had maybe ten cups of coffee. But Midterms broke me and now I, at the ripe old age of 23 and in my Senior year of college, had my first coffee craving today. It was so bad that I had to ask Flower Child and Sweaters to bring me some at work. And they did. And they're ...

One paper down and two extensions given. I'm still typing away and I've had more caffeine in my system over the past two days than the entire previous month. Blog posts will be back to normal after I've finished midterm paper. 

Life is crazy busy right now and everything seems to be piling on at once, so here's just a brief update on my life and my graduate school pursuits. 1. I took the GRE last last Saturday and I'm now just waiting for my final results. 2. I have paid my application fee to Florida State, my very first graduate school application fee! 3. Ui is going well and I will be back with more German theatre knowledge when I have the time time. 4. I have 3 papers due tomorrow with not a word on the page yet. Life's a little crazy right now, but sometimes you just have to breathe and take it one day at a time. Plus, take little breaks  here and there for ice cream or blogging. Have a great weekend everyone!