Mask & Hammer Weekend '07

Let's start from the beginning, shall we?

Friday:
Dinner. A casual dinner with the club/theatre department. Fun


Of course we had to be obnoxious.


Very irritated with him right now, but it's a good picture of me so oh well.
(After the dinner a few others and I set up the Hamblin theatre for the following night. We were there for a very long time.)

Saturday:
The Teddy Awards. Formal event where awards are given. I didn't win any. Senior spotlights also happen at this event.



Lacking in photos of this night.
(Afterwards the same people who built stayed to tear it all down. End time: 3am-ish)

Sunday:
The Blowout. The most fun day of the weekend. Sunny, but windy, cold for a while. Lots of food, music, and friends. Many of us were thrown into Gilbert Lake. I now have hypothermia.








We followed this up by a trip to Pie In The Sky.
Homemade ice cream. Delicious.



After that we had about an hour to shower and such before a Ghostbusters movie night. Yes, we watched both. Diana brought the dog that she found on the way back from the lake. He's adorable. His name is Gilbert. Everyone calls him Underbite.

Monday:
Back to reality. I thought I was dying. At one point I did. The last meeting of the year happened, and lasted about 8 years. The result:
President: Sam (again).
VP: Antonia (again).
Secretary: Pam (yay).
Treasurer: Me (woot).
PR: Sarah Lynn (holla).
Box Office: Beth (again).

Then we had a cookout. Free food. Yum.
The End

End of the Year Stuff

I only have one more wwek of classes left, then another week of finals and then SUMMER VACATION!! (I'm only a little excited lol). There is so much that needs to be done before the semester ends, I have two finals papers, a tap performance, a 1/4 scale model of a set to build, and two written finals. Plus I have to finish altering a dress for my costuming final. That one doubles in purpose though. I have to have it finished by saturday night for our awards show. I'm altering a dress I got when I was in 11th grade (the one Aunt Cindy bought me) and somehow am too small for it now. It's a long black gown with white beading at the bottom, it very nice and I was hoping to get another use out of it.
The awards show is not the only thing going on this weekend. Friday night we are having a Mask & Hammer dinner at the conference center grill/restaurant place on campus. Saturday night is the Teddy Awards (the awards are teddy bears) which is like our version of the Oscars and that type of thing--basically we get to dress up and win things. Then Sunday is the Blowout, which is a picnic at a nearby lake. This is the big weekend everyone looks forward to all year. We get T-shirts and free food and we have lots of fun...then we get thrown in the lake. Good times. However, this is also going to be a very sad weekend. At the Teddys, we also have "senior spotlights" --basically a goodbye to each senior and telling them how awesome they are. We're losing a lot of seniors this year, we actually had to change the format of the night so the spotlights wouldn't go on until 4am like they used to. Either way, i will be a bitter-sweet weekend with lots of laughter and tears.
On a more pleasant note, I may be getting a paid internship at Captial Repertory Theatre this summer. I'm applying for the assistant stage manager position and crossing my fingers that I get it. It will be a fantastic experience! It's 40 hours a week, minimum wage (good for an internship as most are not paid, or poorly paid), they provide housing for a very minimal amount, and it's a theatre I've seen shows at a million times. One of the professors here has been in contact with the theatre and has dropped my name for the position, so my fingers are crossed. Hopefully I will hear back by early next week, possibly this weekend. If I get this internship, it will make me the happiest person alive! (For the moment at least). A few of my friends in the department are also applying for internships there, though in different positions. I'm hoping at least me and Sara get in...it would just be Baldwintastic (she's a Baldwin too) and she would definately make the summer more fun!
Well I think it's time for bed, I have a long day of sewing and decorating for the Teddys ahead of me...maybe a little shopping for the dinner too :-)