Maybe someday soon I'll do a proper entry.

[fancycwabs]

• The little cwab has Governor's School auditions in band and drama this weekend in Murfreesboro, four hours away, so Mrs. Cwabs is driving her there tomorrow night and hanging out while she auditions. I'm concerned that the little cwab may have but all her eggs in the "drama" basket, neglecting the instrumental skills (five years of playing the clarinet every single day kinda trump doing a play every now and again over the last two years as training) that would likely guarantee her a spot. Of course, like the fathers of all sixteen-year-olds, her father is an idiot who has no idea what he's talking about, so I can only hope for the best, and that she's adequately prepared.


• I was reminded today of a 1992 memory where someone had mentioned a (thankfully false) rumor that Eric Clapton, of all people, would be composing the music for Alien³, which led to a spontaneous outburst of singing:

  Alien,
  You got me on my knees
  Alien,
  I'm begging darling please
  Alien,
  Darling won't you ease
  My worried mind.



• Character and style discussions for The Underpants are underway. I may have already gotten myself in trouble by suggesting that the intersection of impressionism and expressionism, Victorian modesty and Edwardian opulence, conceivably found itself in the character of Lili von Schtupp.


• After not playing in over a month, I've cancelled my World of Warcraft account. Naturally, I immediately want to play again--I'm paid up until Jan 26 if someone feels like a last hurrah.

Comments

[grendelyn.livejournal.com]

Does governor's school mean she'd have to board?

Good luck to her anyway.

It's too bad she has a middle-agedish dad who knows NOTHING about girls!!! I'm sure she'll do well anyway!! I had one and I turned out ok, after all. :P

:)

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Governor's school is something like five-weeks of boarding and specialized education that (hopefully) she'll be in this summer.

I don't actually claim to know anything about girls--for what little I miraculously get right every now and then I get ten times as much wrong. I do know a thing or two about getting ready for auditions and interviews, however, and I don't think she's ready for hers.

[grendelyn.livejournal.com]

oh, that sounds way more reasonable.

(wanna hear a sad story? The first time I auditioned for, and got into, this ZOMG scary audition good kid music camp that I'd begged to go to and cost a bajillion dollars and I practiced for the audition for months and months and months??

I got the freakin' chicken pox 2 days in and was sent home.

Was never allowed to go to camp again.)