Meridian 13 News

Yay! Cream of the Crap picked a real title that has something to do with what it actually is!! Meridian 13 News now exists, and I suggest you check out the blog! The first podcast should be up and running the first Saturday of February if not a little sooner. We chose character names at our meeting yesterday, and worked on different short songs and sketches for the first recording. Everything sounds so good!! I have to rewrite my piece a bit, but now that I get the characters a little better and realize how brutal we're getting it should be a breeze. It's so much fun to write stuff that you know will have an audience and that you enjoy writing. I knew there was a reason I was doing this whole graduate school thing. I'll give more details on this project as they come along. It's not through school, so I can actually blog about it!

School is busy. Lots of homework to do today, but that's not anything new. I'll just spend a lot of time writing, which is what I'm good at and how I should spend my weekends anyway, so no biggie.

Last night I had my annual Miss America viewing party. It was strange for several reasons. Most of my guests didn't really care about what happened, so I missed a lot of what was going on while I was playing hostess. However I did see that I was not as impressed with Miss Indiana as I was with Miss Georgia and Miss Michigan. Of course, I don't know how the interviews went, but I thought Georgia and Michigan were the most talented two on the stage last night in Las Vegas. At least Miss Georgia was first runner up. I was right in my prediction that Miss New York would be in the top five, but I have to say I was a little shocked that Miss Arkansas made top fifteen. Don't get me wrong, I think she's beautiful and talented, but she's a very young Miss Arkansas, and she's fairly new to the whole system. I'm proud of her and happy for her though. I think she represented my home state beautifully, and I'm glad somebody up there had bangs, because bangs are pretty awesome and downright bold in the world where the higher the hair, the closer to god is the mantra. Just based on their program information, I thought Miss Texas would be in the top five as well, but I don't think she made top fifteen even. A little disappointing there. Oh well.

Lots of people showed up, which was pleasant. I always worry that no one will come to anything I throw because my house is so far from everyone. That wasn't the case last night though! Stephanie and Elon were the first to arrive, and they brought a bottle of red wine and I served them chili. Then Matt got here, followed by David Heidelberger, Dan, Victoria, Paul, and Luke. It was a full house and we all ate, drank, and were merry. I had a good time, and the mess wasn't even all that bad. Just some bowls and glasses. We were having fun, so after the pageant ended, people stuck around and we watched Death Becomes Her, because why not watch a rather gay film on Miss America night? Matt wins for staying the latest. It was nice to visit with him and hear what he's been up to (which isn't much, but sometimes you need that). He and Hudson and I chatted it up until around 1 AM. Then I hopped on those dishes, played with the dogs for a bit, and hit the hay.

Today I'm hoping someone will show up for the first NYAS reading of this year, but everyone who was planning on coming seems to have grad acting program callbacks today, so it might just be me. If that's the case we'll just move this reading to a different weekend, which probably isn't a bad idea for me anyway, since I have so much homework to do today. I'm sure I could do both, but I'll be a little less stressed if it's just one or the other. I'm a not pleased with how NYAS has slowed to a halt. Grad school's kicking my tail, I guess. I think when Tom and I are less busy we can get it back to the pace it was moving at when we started.

I tell you what. The best thing about having a party last night was that I made sweet tea, and there's tons of it left, so I get to be Southern all day and chug sweet tea. How great is that? Bonus!

And to close, yoga month is a big failure. Big whopping failure. I like yoga. I feel like it was doing me good. Even so, I've not been to a class since before I had my flu, which was some 12 days ago. Eeek! I have this final week of January to try to fix things and actually follow through with yoga month. Wish me luck. It's a pretty busy week as is with tons of schoolwork and Meridian 13 News starting up.