Auditions

I am pretty much scared witless. I just got an e-mail that there are auditions for the Utah Shakespearian Festival. Well, actually they're auditions for auditions. But I'm gonna do it. I need a resume, and a head shot by this Friday. That's the easy part. The hard part is this. I don't have any Shakespeare monologues memorized. Ha ha. It's funny, because I didn't even know about this and I had the actors nightmare about it. Really.

You've heard about the actor's nightmare. You're on stage and you don't know any of your lines. Well, that's what happened. I was on stage for a Shakespeare thing in my dream and I did well, but then I realized that I had two more monologues to memorize but I didn't have any idea what to say. Really, I had this dream. And then, the next day I found out about these auditions.

Well, I wasn't planning on auditioning, but since I already had the terror that is the actor's nightmare for it I might as well finish the rest of it. Now I need to go practice saying, "To be or not to be..." without looking like a fool. Oh, yeah, and if you have any ideas for monologues, please let me know.

New posts are fun.

The title to this post, as you english majors may note, is a full and complete sentence. I can even break it down.

Noun = Posts
Adjective = New
Verb = are

And what is fun? Fun is a direct object. That's right, Fun. I don't care what you say, it is. Or maybe it's a subject compliment. In that case are would be a linking verb and ....Oh man. Now I remeber why I never liked English in school. For that matter, I didn't like German either and for the same reason. Man, that grammar stuff is killer.

By the by, I was wondering the other day. No, really I was.

So about grammar, I just realized last night that I don't really know what an adjective is. In my writing group we tried to describe people without using adjectives. (Speaking of my writing group, I just made a website that puts up a little bit of my work. I can't let you see theirs though, because they don't want it up for everyone to see so you need a password.) I couldn't believe how difficult it was to write a description sans adjective.

For example, if you say, "His hair burst from his head full of fire." Well, I guess that works, but ,"The monitor glowed ominously." Dang, that's fine too. I mean it has an adverb, but no adjectives. How about, "The blood red blood pumped through her veins like a bloody mass of nutrients and oxygen carrying oxygen and nutrients to the various parts of her body that needed nutrients and oxygen." Now that's just silly and redundant. Not to mention reduntant too.

So, that's all for today. I hope you learned a little something (Little is an adjective) from my grammar lesson. As for me, I've got to go look up some more grammar sites so that I don't tell anyone else something unintelligent...like you or like that one guy who...I guess I should stop now.

Well Duh...

You know, one thing that really turns people off reading your blog? Really long posts. Yeah, long posts like my last one. It was really long. And there weren't even any pictures. Heck, I didn't even read it. But I left it up there because I wanted those people who I tagged to be able to see why they were tagged because I made this link instead of this one. Can you imagine the frustration slash confusion (yeah, i just wrote out the word slash) of the poor soul who came to my site and didn't see anything about tagging? Well, to all of them, I am sorry but I can't leave that old LONG blog up anymore. I just have too much to do to leave my blog in such a bad state.

And that may sound contradictory...well it is.