I think I looked kinda hot in my casual dishevelledness today... I don't usually have that kind of self-confidence, particularly when I have no makeup on, so it's a shame it was so miserable outside and I was stuck at home alone all day. I at least did wash the dishes that were piling up...

Rearranged my bedroom the other day so my head is no longer towards the cold, outside wall with the window. Also have my windows sealed up for winter and the crap cleared away from around my heat vent. My room is actually comfortable now, it's wonderful. I still need more stuff on my walls, though.. Thinking of liberating my old posters from my mother's place.. I would love more pinuppy and old movie posters to go with what is already in here, but the old anime stuff will have to do.

Oooh, publicity for the film version of Nine has begun. Excited for that...

I have still been drawing... I had nothing to do in Spruce as I waited for Hamlet auditions to finish, so I brought paper/pencil/markers and arted (it's a verb, really). I am improving in both drawing men and drawing couples and different poses. I also did some costumey renderings for Triumph of Love..

Oh yeah, before auditions, Richard went in to Spruce early, and so took me with him, so we got some coffee and the girl at Starbucks recognized me from The Shape of Things. She told me how she loved the show and asked about upcoming projects. That was pretty cool, haven't had people recognize me for a show since The King and I. Hopefully will be an ongoing trend! Especially with starring in my next two shows.. I really need to do a musical soon, though, I haven't done one since Anne of Green Gables :/

Anyway, have been in a somewhat creative mood of late. Feeling the urge to draw and write stories... It's hard to figure out how to start in regards to writing, however... I have a few ideas, but need a starting off point :/

Grah, I am tired... I just really don't feel like sleeping.

I AM M.F-ING OPHELIA, BITCHES~


Okay, sorry, that was out of character, but really! Go me :DDDD

I am sick. My throat is on fire, my head hurts and my back is aching.
I am miserable. I really think I should just not be here anymore. I just don't have anywhere else to go that I can take all of my crap and my cat. But I am so sick of being treated like shit and like I am not even wanted.. I don't know what to do.
I am lonely. I have been 100% single for a few months now without the question of "are we, aren't we" hanging over my head. We aren't. I don't even want to be with her anymore, but I want somebody to hold me and take my mind off of hurling myself off of a building.. It's not that there aren't people interested, it's just that they're all 30+ year old, overweight anime geeks who remind me of someone I really don't want to think about as he makes me have panic attacks.

Kind of why I've gone and tried to lose myself in the Ric/Star stuff... living vicariously through comic book characters.. Kind of sad, I guess.. I just identify with Rictor a lot.. The depression and the suicidal tendencies and feeling like your whole world was ripped away from you... His first appearance ever was also the month/year I was born. Weird.

I am supposed to rehearse tonight. I don't have the energy, let alone the capacity to project, or even talk all that much. But we can't miss the rehearsal time... I also want to save my voice for my Hamlet audition this weekend and then karaoke. I haven't been to karaoke since before Vegas, and I've been working on songs ("Easy To Be Hard" (from Hair), "Somebody To Love" (Queen) and "Alone" (Heart)... yes, I did watch Glee last night, but I've been working on these since before that aired, shut up).

The Fringe applications are up now... I need a company name and to come up with the cash before November 20th.. it's bloody expensive. But I want to do my show, I need to show all of the people who doubt me that I can carry a show and show all of the people who believe in me that they're not wasting their time.

Went to Vegas to pet-sit for my aunt, and got back in early yesterday morning. It was lovely and warm, though I couldn't really go out to do anything. It was fun being mummy to three dogs, a parrot and a reclusive kitty. I also saw roadrunners outside, and had a run in with a scorpion one night!

Ran errands today, which involved picking up the new X-factor. *geeks* The guys working at Warp are pretty friendly and recognized me from the last time I was in. Great issue, read it in the car twice :P
My back issues also came this morning, so it has been a super good day.

We went to the Mall-That-Eats-People and Bebe has this gorgeous black and white dress that I love... I wish I had money.. I also saw the cutest little Toto in a basket plushy at this Halloween store and I wants it... Thinking now of wearing my Dorothy dress (even though it's purple) to karaoke for Halloween with dad.

Denby also found on me........ a grey hair. Holy shit.
It's not a huge deal, since I dye my hair all the time anyway, but man.. I'm 22! Seriously!
I called my mom and told her and she laughed at me T_T

So, was not cast in Annie and am none-too heartbroken. The lady who caused all the trouble for my on Charlie Brown is maybe assistant directing? So I don't know if I'm being bad-mouthed or what. But I am auditioning for Hamlet this weekend, and ELOPE's musical is going to be fantastic and I don't know if I'm allowed to say what it is, but I'm excited. So there we are.

Well, suppose I ought to make some dinner and head over to rehearsal here... I am still exhausted from the trip and being woken up super early by hungry puppies.

Yay, new X-factor today. Boo, lack of Ric/Shatty until the end, but I'm seeeriously hoping they won't leave them out too much again next issue.. Going mildly crazy here, but at least it's only a couple weeks away.
I also bought #46 and #47 (Warp actually had them in stock, I think I got the last ones) so as long as I win this auction tomorrow (thanks to a late birthday present of cash from brother-dearest), I will have every issue up to the current one.

So yeah, went for a good walk around Whyte ave to get my comic and get my headshot printed. It ended up being a 45 minute wait (for one 8x10 photo.. seriously) so we bummed around window shopping a bit. Found an awesome pair of purple pumps.. I need more shoes like I need a hole in the head, though, so I resisted. Then when we got back to get my picture, the photo guy was on break and no one knew where the envelopes for 8x10 pics were... And I definitely could have gotten it for free as the lady would have believed my if I told her I'd already paid, but I am a good person.

It got up to 32 C today, though! That's nuts, considering most of our summer was so cold and dreary.

So I am auditioning for Annie tonight after rehearsal, hence the headshot. Going for Grace Farrel or Lily St. Regis and not expecting to really get anything other than chorus, which I will not be taking, but it's always good to practice up. Hamlet auditions are early next month and in hindsight, I probably should have gotten two headshots done while I was there, but oh well. Richard knows what I look like.

Mom is going to take me shopping tomorrow to buy me fabric to occupy my time while I'm in Vegas. I have three outfits I'm wanting to make right now, so I guess I have to choose one..

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I am officially going to Vegas on the 18th. I hope I can actually get out and do a bit of window shopping.

Meanwhile, trying to rehearse a play in a church (noise travels really well) while Sweeney Todd is rehearsing over your head is more than mildly distracting.

I did some art... and shared it. I am a bundle of nerves every time I look at it, though I did get a really nice comment on it. The more I look at my piece, though, the more I hate it and find things wrong with it. Aw, well.. Practice, practice..

Karaoke with Dad and Linda tomorrow. Yays.

Oh, and I finally had my hair trimmed. Not a tonne, of course, but enough that it's not all scraggly. It still feels kinda short to me when I look at it, but it really does look much better. I wish I could change the colour, though, I've been a brunette since March and I'm bored. Thank god for my army of wigs.

I know I don't have much of any major relevance to say, but whatever.

Well, then..

I've started up Oleanna rehearsals. They're going quite well, nice being told that "it's all there, we already have a show... you just need to be off book." Mine is a strange character, so many layers to her, I'm finding it quite the challenge, but in a good way.

My mother called me yesterday and said my aunt (who lives in Vegas) is going away and will pay for me to come out there and take care of her dogs. This is still in the maybe stage as I'm going to miss rehearsals and need to have that organized before I can commit, but it's exciting. Unfortunately, I still don't drive (I could conceivably get my license now, but I don't think I'd pass my road test yet... and I still depend on whoever I'm driving with to tell me where the hell I'm going and what lane to be in when), so I will be in Vegas without being able to go out and do anything.. So, any friends with a driver's license interested in going to Vegas with me September 18th-28th (or some shorter time period in there)? I can't get plane tickets or anything paid for for you, but you will have somewhere to stay.

I've started drawing and writing again... Actual pictures and not just costume renderings..

Also thinking I want to dress as the Black Cat from Spiderman for Halloween. Been semi-planning that for a while, just not sure I have the body to quite pull that off :/ We'll see. The other thought was Rogue from the 90s x-men cartoon, but that will require buying and adding wefts to a wig, and I just don't have the cash for that.

Heard from Brian again about doing some work at Vic. Not sure how that will work if I'm out of the country for 10 days... But we'll see... I honestly just want a desk job that is steady 9-5 work...

Still not sleeping either. Sucks, big time... and some wrong number decided to call me *twice* at 8 this morning before leaving a message canceling his appointment with "Angus". Gah.

Okay, so I felt kind of self-conscious and moved the SYTYCD posts to my blogspot account. http://katoru.blogspot.com for anyone who is actually interested.

Karaoke on Saturday was great, I did some new songs and gained more fans, as well as a drunken suitor who kept going on to me about working as a sign girl (he would pay for the course for my training!) and a ship up in the Yukon, WWII and "VD-day" (that one actually made me laugh at him... I don't think that means what you think it means, buddy...).

Sunday was lazing around at Dad's, being a nerd and watching X-men 2. Then came home and got into a fight with Denby :/ Did not fall asleep at all until noon-ish on Monday, and slept until about 8pm. *sigh* Day wasted..

My brother came over today to look for fabric for his Jubilations costume. He's a character server and they're doing a disco show right now. I am to add flares to his awful mustard yellow suit. It's horrifically fabulous.

Came to mom's tonight for dinner and am staying over a couple of days to have a Greek cooking day Thursday. Will probably hang out in the hot tub tomorrow, and then work on Sean's suit (payed gig :P).

The last time I was over here, there was a bat flying around and freaking me out. I'm praying I don't have a repeat situation. Bats are cool when they're not flying at your head...

The green mile episode aired on Sunday. I missed it as I was visiting family, so I am just getting to watch it now. First performance episode airs tonight, and I am visiting family again, but will hopefully get the chance to watch.

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So, a fairly even distribution of styles, with contemporary (naturally) dominating. Who do we like so far? Any obvious cannon-fodder? We will find out tonight!

That was a lot of list and not so much content, but tonight will be better :P

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So.. as I mentioned last post, I'm kind of hooked on So You Think You Can Dance. There are a tonne of blogs out there recapping and commenting on the American version, but not so much for ours.

Having a sort of personal connection to the show (Stacey Tookey - fab contemporary choreographer who did work on last season and this season's US version is the daughter of a director/choreographer I've done a handful of shows with) and being the nerd that I am who gets rather excited of stupid things, I figured why the hell not? The only one I get to share my enthusiasm with is my mom and that's not so frequent.

Everything will be LJ cut for those who really can't be bothered to care, but if anyone reeeeeally doesn't want to even bother scrolling past an entry, I can put you on a custom filter. Just let me know.

I'm going to try to get back into life updates on a more regular basis.. I just don't have much to report at the moment. Gearing up to go to karaoke tomorrow evening with Dad/Linda/Seanny... Sean and I will duet the hell out of Suddenly Seymour :P I guess I should brush up on some other stuff as well.. I loves my showtunes, but I get the feeling that most people in the bar don't appreciate them so much.

I went to the petstore with Denby today to get crickets for the critters.. I guess I did not mention that Denby now has a green anole and two fire bellied toads now. She'll be getting a four foot long corn snake at the end of the month as well. They're cute, but as reptiles/amphibians in cages do, they don't do a heck of a lot. Anyway, I was of course entirely enamoured by all of the cute, fuzzy, tiny guys in the store.. I would love another cat, but mine would not appreciate that in the least and I love her too much to stress her out like that (she's about 14 years old now!). I am also not allowed to have a dog in here.. But OMG I so want a puppy...

Also want to copy my friend Shawn from Calgary's idea to have a bunch of Sailormoon marathon get-togethers so I can actually pretend I still have friends and hang out with some people..

I guess I should go tackle sorting out the trim/crap in my sewing room... been meaning to do that for a very long time, but I'd like to actually be able to do some work on my drafting table... Drafting patterns and cutting fabric on my floor is less than kind on my back/neck. :/

mood: weird music: Bitter-sweet (The Venus In Furs f. Thom Yorke) tags: animals, karaoke, sailormoon, sytycd

Mmhm.. so, haven't posted in.. 45 weeks, according to LJ. Awesome.

Life has sucked royally almost consistantly for the past year. Whoo. Won't get into that too much. Things between Denby and I are rocky at best and I have spent the past week mostly confined to my bedroom in an effort to not rock the boat.

Animethon was fun, and validated that I am indeed actually good at what I do (costumes). Now, someone needs to pay me to do it.

Currently obsessed with X-factor. Americancomicswhat?

Did not get my dream role of Johanna in Sweeney Todd. Was crushed. Offered chorus, but dropped out due to being offered the lead in Oleanna for Festival Place in November. Those in the area should check it out, it's an intense play.

Have not been sleeping well. Still. Sleeping alone sucks, and when you can't sleep, all you are is alone. Boo.

Mom got sick last spring, but is doing better. She scared me today as she called me at noon and said she was going to visit and was only a few minutes away. The last time she did that, it was to tell me the bad news. But no, she was just dropping things off: My aunt sent me a yukata with geta and a cheater obi (the bow is a separate entity unto itself :P). We just sat around and talked about So You Think You Can Dance and how tacky Blake McGrath is. My mother and I bond over reality shows...

While I was staying with her to help her out during her recovery, we both got very invested in American Idol and were cheering on Adam Lambert. He's fab, everyone should check out his stuff and buy his album in the fall.

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown came and went. Turned into a giant headache at the end between people who promised to help out and then did not pull their weight and the hair and makeup person overstepping me as the designer and changing wigs out without telling me (as well as giving me snark for saying "Do not cut this wig, it is mine and I own it"). I sent an email through the proper channels expressing my extreme offense to this and subsequently made her quit the show. Community theatre seems to not have a grasp of the wardrobe chain of command... I am designer. I am God and I only answer to God-prime (director). Of course, I was not privy to this whole wig-gate thing being a giant conspiracy and everyone knew about it but me. My original wig was not restored to the production, I am guessing to try and appease said hair/makeup person and make them return to the show. She did not. Anyhoo...

I need a job like.. two months ago. I have little drive and zero confidence, however, and it's worrying me a lot. So... any friends who want to commission me, please do. I can't pay my half of the rent this month.

Ummm.. yeah.. Crap, that turned into more of a pity party than I had intended.

I am itching to do Triumph of Love and Ernest in Love (both musicals). Trying to decide if I want to do the latter as an all female troupe a la Takarazuka, though my brother would make a fine Algernon (although creepy since I want to play Cecily... I can be Gwendolyn and be at peace with it). The former I don't think would work as such, nor would it work outside of a Fringe setting (no one knows it). I don't even have a name for my production company yet :/ I built websites for both shows, though, because I am a dork...

Uh..? I dunno.. Can a person be restless and lethargic at the same time?

Just a test thing... opinions please. Other than the fact that I'm sharp on the first bar or two :/ Any subsequent recordings where I stayed on pitch weren't as good as a whole..

http://d-jorgensen.com/linked/thatllshowhim_KSera.mp3

edit: forgot to add... Philia is really beautiful, but really stupid. Hero is in love with her, but she's supposed to get married to this big scary war captain. This is her "brilliant" plan.

Well, I did an experiment in harmony... Don't judge vocal quality as I haven't warmed up or anything and it was morning. But I hit the notes correctly, so there.
http://d-jorgensen.com/linked/Madrigal.mp3

West Side Story was last night, and it was great. Sad that my high school shows were never so huge, though I am grateful for getting the chance to perform and learn some more obscure material, like She Loves Me.

Getting ready for Halifax, drafting my pretty pretty dress. I'm sure I will have photos to post after I get back.

Board meeting tonight, to discuss Fringe and pick our mainstage show. Exciting!

Then Amber comes over tomorrow for a photo shoot in my kitchen. And we have to pick up my brother in the evening.

Friday is Nightwish!

Then Saturday is packing. We decided it would be too much to go to Otafest for the day, and with West Side Story, and then getting called back into work last week, I haven't had time to do our costumes. They will be for Animethon.

Then we head off to the airport for an 8am flight! Busy busy busy...

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Wow, so the touring season coming here looks pretty good! Spamalot, Hairspray, CATS, and Annie. Hopefully I'll have the cash to see them (though I could probably do without Annie... and I have seen CATS from the wings :D)

Also good news is that the performance rights for The Light In The Piazza are now available. I'm wondering who of my director friends I can propose it to... I can even cast almost the whole thing with the actors I know. Clara is really one of my dream roles. Considering starting up a production company myself just to do it and play her.

So my hair is red again. I'm not sure if I like it, but it's starting to grow on me. It's not as deep a red as I wanted.. I think if I get my eyebrows done, it will look better.

Going to start on my commission for Martin's show right away here!

Heh, so I spent most of the day in boy-drag.

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I also spent the day cleaning out my costume room. And by cleaning out, I mean taking everything out and putting it in my living room. I will now commence sorting my trims and some fabric that didn't make it into bins. It's going to be quite the task. But once it's done, I can get started on our costumes.

So Man of La Mancha is up and running now. It's pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. Horizon board members were telling me it's the best costume show that Horizon has done. Made me pretty happy.
Richard also asked if I would be interested in doing a one-act for him, since as much as he loves my work in costumes, he loves my work on stage, too. So hopefully that will come to fruition (and pretty soon!).

I was also asked to oversee the costumes for West Side Story at Strathcona Christian Academy. I'm not building anything!! But I will use my wardrobe management training *nodnod* Because I intend to start working on cosplay for Otafest for Denby and I. We'll probably only go on Saturday as we have tickets to Nightwish on the Friday and will be heading off to Halifax on the Sunday.

We're cosplaying as Eternal Sailor Neptune and Uranus :) I have wigs already (I have to colour my Neptune one, though) and I'm pretty excited since I haven't done costumes for myself or cosplay in a long time.

SO busy.. still alive, though.

Ive been madly working on costumes for Man of La Mancha (opens next week! April 3-5, and 10-12!) and watching my newly acquired Seramyu tapes (originals :D). I have Sailor Stars, Sailor Stars Kaiteban, Eien Densetsu, Shin Kaguyashima Densetsu, and Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu here now, and four more coming (I can't remember which at the moment... I think the two Fumina ones and a couple of SuperS ones..)

Been buying far too much on Ebay lately, but some of it is show related... It's nice to have money, but I shouldn't spend so much. I won't be at the Citadel all summer, but it sounds like Patsy will call me in for the beginning of next season, so yay. They're going to do Wizard of Oz ^^;;;

I got a new cellphone, too. The number will stay the same, but I'm switching to Rogers when my contract with Telus is up. It's very pretty, and gold :)

Hmm... so yeah, Mikado came and went and it was fun. I ended up playing Peep-bo, not sure if I posted saying that. I like doing rented costumes much better than pulling costumes from thin air...

But anyway, I need to get back to work.

Holy crow, it's the upperclass twit of the year! For real!





I don't know when I posted last, but I've been super busy. I've been working at the Citadel. It started as a few days of helping out with stitching on Beauty and the Beast (they were desperate) and then I was asked to come in the following week to help with finishing details and odd jobs. And then again for another couple weeks. Then I was asked to do wardrobe maintenance on Macbeth which is what I'm doing now, and it's awesome because I'm not working as long during the day so I'm not exhausted when it comes time to do all of my volunteer projects afterward.

I'm getting sick, though, which is bad. It's just my throat (which is the most important part! ;_; ) but it might escalate... as long as I'm over it by opening for Mikado, I'm fine..

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