a year in review

Lets take a look at the year that was.

It all started like this…

its not suppose to do that.

well, technically this happenned in 2007 but in the last few days and it set the path for 08. I fell off the back of my friends truck and broke my front tooth and broke my arm. A re-break of an arm I had broken 8 years before and had metal plates and screws which I ripped out. This resulted in my needing surgery.

They perscribed me alot of pain killers… which will be a theme with this year.

Friends visited me in the hospital.

ew, I look terrible in that picture.

Anyways. So that was the set up. I have never been more low physically and emotionally, Sydney ditched me also. It was not a good time.

but the year must go on..

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Then I soldiered on and went to school, mistake generally. Except for my theatre classes. I ended up having to drop my academic classes because I couldn’t write or concentrate. And in February I went to the American College Theatre Festival in LA.

Jenna Faeth and Andy Hoover died. Jenna was the lead in the play, an extraordinary actress, beautiful inside and out, and one of the nicest people I have ever met. Andy… oh Andy was an adventure. A staple in our theatre, smart, so much fun, a great techie, and a fellow Eagle Scout.

This devastated our theatre and shook it to its core. It showed peoples true colors, and we all banded together.

Yeah, this year isn’t going so well…

But we must go on. We celebrated Andy, I made some new friends, learned some things, was NOT getting cast in plays, teched a lot of plays, improved, partied, and took quite a bit of pain pills… heres a montage

So that was a lot, but you get the idea right??

I played the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland over the summer.

I for some reason did a production of A Chorus Line too… No pics… the costumes were awful…

Any a more positive note, my school did Jekyll and Hyde the musical and I was in the ensemble…

yeah, that was rad. Great show.

I went to Vegas with my family and my besties for my 21st birthday.

Best weekend ever. no question. Drank the entire time and I am REAL GOOD at gambling.

Then I stage managed my first play. Before Amelia the true story of Bessie Coleman. It was awesome, the play went great. I got an ACTF nomination for my stage managing. Go me. Funny thing about being behind the scenes, there no pictures of you.

There was halloween…

riddle me that bitches.

I performed in Winnie the Pooh as the narrator

A had a lot of stupid youth fun this year, I was reckless, I experimented, I danced, I popped pills, and I draaank. As long as I know my limit I guess. I think I do.

This has been an enlightening and confusing year.

Thats the low and the high of it. 2008 in a nut shell, some good things happened.

but, generally it mostly sucked. I was knocked down completely and totally. I had every intention of making this post the best and worst year of my life, but it wasnt, by far. I learned, I toughened up, became jaded…

Graduated from ARC with three Associate in Arts Degrees!

and have a general plan for at least the next year. woot, lets do it. This year will be good. And even when its done, I’m not gonna stop trying to make it good.

peace out 2008.

2009, lets do it.

-dev