Monday ie. my saturday

Because I have school on Saturdays I don't have it on Mondays...


So much has gone on since last week and I do not have the energy to tell much about it......


I am working on the set of a student film doing hair and make-up, long hours with a lot of sitting around waiting for when the actors need a touch up.
It is a short film only around 10-15 minutes when it's done...


I have a long few weeks ahead, long hours at school, no money and my Beacon application is due Sunday and I will have to bust my butt to get finished in time.

A Change of Scene

So tomorrow I will get to school at 8:50 like everyday... I will stay there all through Day School and into Night School, just like everyday

But unlike every other day, I will be leaving school at 6:30pm to go on scene of some movie set or another.
We don't know the plot, we don't know how many people there will be, only that we will be doing the hair and the make-up for them.

I will be on set from 7:00pm to 3:00 am, that is eight hours... I will get five and a half extra hours for school (I would be at school from 6:30-10 regardless)

Then on Saturday I will be going from 7:00am to 7:00pm, twelve hours on set... I would be at school for seven hours anyway, that means that I will rack up an additional five hours.


TEN FREAKING HOURS!
I will graduate 10 hours sooner

With these extra hours factored in I have calculated, that my estimated graduation date, the time I will be finished with all my 2,000 hours required by the state of Utah will be March freaking 26th





oh, and I hate Valentines Day...

pictures worth 1000 words?

if that is true than putting up a few pictures a week would fulfil my resolution of blogging weekly

what I really want is to put a picture slide show of some sort on the top... I'll have to look for one

Bummer

I have been doing Day and Night school (50 hour weeks) for two weeks now... only now am I finding out that upon doing this my hours speed up, but my theory hours stay the same
this means that once my 2000 clock hours are completed I will still owe 20 theory hours!

When enrolled and getting clock hours you get 4 theory hours a week, after you "graduate" and complete your clock hours you can go to both creative and adaptive and night school theory, giving you 9 theory hours a week.

I have to stay in Provo for two and a half weeks longer than planned...

three weeks after my parents come down to Utah for spring break, making the getting of me and all my stuff back to Washington a bit more difficult.


In school there are two tests you have to pass before taking the official State Board written test, I took the first one today and I'll take the second on Thursday.... I'm not sure how good I did, you have to get 70%+ to pass hopefully I did... They offer the tests once a month, you can take them as many times as you need but because I finish so soon I will only have one more opportunity to take both tests. *knocks on wood*

As of last Monday I have 1,576 hours and I get 50 hours a week. March 10th I will take "Final Phase" which is a week long class which preps you for the State Board Practical Exam.
My friend Kayce and I will take it together, then on the Monday following (March 16th) we will drive to Odgen and take the test.... EEEee! That is soo soon! I'm almost done, it's scary but I know that I'm ready.

They have a graduation ceremony every three months, the next one is sometime in March. It is really a formality mostly for the family of students because you graduate once you have 2000 hours, not whenever the graduation ceremony rolls around.

Some random thoughts

Today is February 2nd, my birthday is on March 30th. That is not very far away.

I will be turning 20 years old.... gross, that's old.

Not really OLD but it's not little, I'm not a kid anymore. I have mere weeks left of being a teenager. Soon I will no longer be able to blame my mistakes and blunders on my naivety, ignorance and youth.
Lauri was born when my mom was 20...

Things to do before I'm 30: (things in bold I've done already)

• see a show on Broadway
  

• keep a journal or blog (doing good so far)
  

• touch an iceberg
  

• hug a tree

• sleep under the stars
  

• ride a hot air balloon
  

• change a babies diaper

• watch a meteor shower

• look at the night sky through a telescope

• food fight

• hold a lamb

• visit all 50 states (about 7 down)
  

• steal a sign

• midnight walk on the beach

• visit Ireland
  

• milk a cow

• scuba diving

• be in a movie

• get back on stage

• fire a gun

• go back to London and run into the wall at platform nine and three quarters (I was there once but we were on the other side of the tracks)
  

• pay off my student loans

• get my own place

• collect every Dr. Seuss book (only about 10 to go!)
  

• learn to sing harmony better

• see a show in the Globe Theatre in London (been there, took an acting class but didn't see a show)
  

• take a dance class

• get a job in a high end salon as a stylist and slowly raise my prices as I built a steady clientele
  

I found these on a list of "Things to do before you die"
"grow a beard and keep it for at least a month"
"take a year off and live in the woods"

• send a message in a bottle

• plant a tree

• have my name in the beginning of the tech credits of a movie

• be head make-up artist, and/or hairstylist in a major stage production

• write a children's book

• learn how to say hello and I love you in 50 languages (three down)
  

• see Stonehenge
  

• finish my quilt

• be one of CNN's Heroes

Bucket List of Sorts, things I would like to do before I die...:

• take a ferrari for a test drive

• visit paris

• stay up all night and watch the sun rise with someone special

• see the northern lights

• lol, be on television news program as an "expert"

• eat shark

• touch a sting ray

• See Norbert Leo Buttz perform live (in anything)

• See Fantasticks live

• learn Gaelic
  

• read "Can't Stop Won't Stop" the authoritative history of hip-hop

• be out of debt

• get jury duty

• swim with a dolphin

• have grand kids
  

• have my portrait painted

• be a member of the audience in a TV show

• Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.

• shower in a waterfall

• experience weightlessness

• learn to juggle

• donate money and put your name on something, a bench in the park

• scrapbook the rest of the family pictures

• Read then SEE the complete works of Shakespeare
  

• Make a list of 100 books to read, read and buy them all

• own more books than movies or mp3s

• do hair or make-up for someone on the red carpet

• be interviewed by Larry king

• have a street named after me

• donate lots of money to a community theatre

• sleep in a castle
  
  
• get married in the Columbia River Washington Temple
  

• have kids (Kaedence, Joy, Jeremy, Donovan)

• collect all Disney Animated Classics on DVD

• see a platypus
  

• watch turtles hatch and run for the ocean

• have a house with a room for every one of my kids in a place between city and country
  * real wood fireplace
  * large kitchen with big stove top and real tile floors
  * A room just for books
  * a nice piano
  * a french widow in front
  * sliding glass doors in back leading to back deck
  * skylight somewhere
  

• see an opera in Russia or another hug opera house

• have a "photography" bucket list, 12 things to photograph before I die

• have a HUGE collection of something seemingly mundane, door knobs, light bulbs, pencils, things that glow in the dark
  

• send parents on dream vaca