Please!

I'm writing a Shakespeare paper right now. Please pray for me whoever's reading this. I need it!

Thank you

-SteRoCo

February 14th

"Valentine's Day....bummer."

-Peter Venkman

If Shakespreare were alive today.....

... I would punch him in the stomach and then take his wallet. Don't get me wrong, his work is unparalleled and I've enjoyed everything of his that I've read so far (Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest are two real good ones). My problem right now is that it's SO FREAKING HARD TO PERFORM! At least at Ball State University it is. Perhaps it's just my Voice and Movement class, but we just got done performing our final scenes for our proffesors on friday, and we didn't meet their expectations. This resulted in them adding three more weeks of Shakspeare. We're now performing scenes from the SAME PLAY we just did (Two Gentleman of Verona, a piece widely regarded by experts, aficionados, and pretentious know-it-alls as one of the Bards lesser plays) and becuase of this, we don't get to work on dialects this year, which was one of the aspects of this class that I was most looking forward to. So Shakespeare, if you can here me, I just want you to know that you are a jerk-off, even if you are a genius.

Ok, so now that I've gotten that off my chest I'd like to say that I 've been stripped of my life. It belongs to the Ball State Theatre department. In exchange for it, I've recived a character analysis paper, hours of scene work, A play that I'm in called "Recent Tragic Events" in which I play a nice, nebbish, guy who falls in love( just like every other play i've ever been in), rehearsals for Reflex (the Improv comedy group I am in), and a breakfast burrito. Actually I bought the burrito myself. It wasn't very good. Anyway, to make a long story even longer, I am sort of busy. Blogging is not a priorty, hence my absence. But I was on somebody elses blogger earlier so I figured I'd update and gripe to America. Because America reads this blog religiously. So does Canada. Mexico stops by when he can. I keep buging Russia to take a look but apparently he's got his own problems. It's okay though.

Oh, I'm also apart of a new comedy group, only this one isn't improv. It's video sketches. Were gonna have our first show in April, I think. We've got three sketches we're going to film and I wrote one of them. Apparently, I'm also going to direct it, which is quite scary and cool at the same time. I'll give you the premise some other time, but lets just say that if you took The Godfather and combined it 2001: A space Odyssey, it wouldn't even be 1/4 of how good this masterpiece shall be. Mark my words! Mark them with a dark blue pen!

In other news, this spring break I will be going to Gatlinburg Tennesse. Me and a gaggle of fellow theatre majors will be staying in a very nice cabin/hotel (in other words, it's not a cabin in a "traditional" sense, it's for of a luxiours pad) and we might do some hiking and one not. Only thing is, I know what's gonna happen. There will be drinking most likely. Drinking that will not be had by me, no sir, but rather by my colleagues. It will make me frightened. I will curl up and hide beneath the foos-ball table for protection.
In all honesty it's not that big of a problem, as I do not doubt my abilities to overcome temptaions. But oh what harrowing temptations they be! The temptations of alcohol! The temptation of making a fool out of myself, and then not remembering any of it. The enticing allure of vomiting all over myself and embracing a slab of cold porcelain for the rest of the night. I don't know if I'll be able to resist the oppurtunity to wake up in the morning feeling like there are tiny little men with jack-hammers in my brain. How can a person bear to not start each day with a head-ache that makes you want to strangle a baby calf? Yep, somehow, I'll over come this temptation.
Now, for a change in pace, I will make a list of movies everyone should see:

Minority Report
Crash
Million Dollar Baby
Shaun of the Dead

Thank you for listening.

Let's see. Anything else interesting to tell you?....is there?... no, I'm seriously asking you, is there anything else?... I suppose not. I guess a lot has happened since I last updated, but the last time I updated was a long time ago, and I can't remember everything. It'd just be, "college this, Sleep-in that." It'd be the online form of Nyquil. I could bottle my blogger and sell it at wallgreens and then I'd be rich and I wouldn't be writing this blogger, because than I'd have a T.V. show and I could just sit there in front of a camera and tell you the types of things I write on this blog and you could fall asleep in front of the Television.

In all seriousness I can't think of anything else that would tantalize your web-surfing taste-buds.

But I will try, and update mor.... I'm sorry I couldn't even finish that statement without laughing.

To all who know me, I say " Auf wiedersehen!"

To all who don't, Never come back here again... or I'll find you.

-Sincerely,
SteRoCo