April!?!

Okay, so I very clearly dropped the ball on this blog thing - but it's not my fault. Is anyone else SHOCKED that it is already the first week of April? It just dawned on me that these final papers that I feel like are a distant memory are, I realize they're due in just a month. WUT?!


Anyway, not too much has been happening here. Lots of work. Depression over Burger King discontinuing chicken fries. Scoping out the Gossip Girl set. I have been lucky enough to get pictures with Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester, and KayLee Derfer while picking the brains of production assistants on set to see how they got their jobs and how to get into that kind of business. I went to a Careers Outside of Academia panel and that was much less helpful than talking to these two guys for forty-five minutes.


I'm QUITE ready to be done with school. Anything I may have said about continuing on to get my Ph.D is a complete lie (at least for now). I want the hell out of school and to get working and make real money. Even if I'm at the bottom of the income bracket, at least it's more than a part-time, minimum-wage job, though it is going to hurt a little when I have to leave my BBW family.


I'm trying to find apartments for next year, but it is so hard to try and find a place to live, especially in the city. I wish I could just stumble across a great deal in Hell's Kitchen, because that would be my ideal situation. The  Village is nice and I'm really glad I had the opportunity to live here, but I don't like it. It's like living in a little mini-Pittsburgh, pretty much - people walk too slow, things are closed by like 10pm, only things are noisy so it's even worse because it's like living in the South Side on a Friday night every night. I'm looking at Craig's List and in general no-fee rental sites, so hopefully something comes up - but there's no point in really looking right now seeing as I don't want to move until August 1st.


My internship is good and super fun. I've made some great friends there and it's going to be a little sad when we all split up and go our separate ways at the end of the semester. I've learned so much and I'm really happy I got to intern with such a small and fun staff who seems to really care about teaching interns the ins and outs of their job. I also volunteered with the Tribeca Film Festival and that's starting soon, so I'm excited about that. I think it'll be a lot of fun and it'll be nice to see things from a film perspective to see if I'd rather stick around with television or flop to film and film festivals.


I FINALLY won the Wicked lottery, by the way!!! It was amazing. It's $26 for front row seats, which is a good deal. I think a few rows back would be better, but they were amazing and the cast was FANTASTIC. Chandra Lee Schwartz is the most AMAZING Glinda that I've seen (clearly Cheno doesn't count) and she's absolutely wonderful. She's so bubbly and has PIPES. She is absolutely hilarious. Jackie Burns was a GREAT Elphaba. I loved her Fiyero run in No Good Deed and her Defying Gravity. When she's just singing, I was not that impressed by her voice, but she can belt like no one's business and she was just adorable. I also loved Richard H. Blake as Fiyero. I was really excited to see him because I love him in Legally Blonde the Musical and he really shined as Fiyero. He was so adorable and I really loved the way he played him. He had a very good balance between being shallow and pretty for Glinda and secretly smart and caring for Elphaba. You should go see it immediately if you can.


I wish I had been able to get tickets for Seminar before Alan Rickman left :( I feel like that's my biggest NYC fail so far. However, on my bucket list of shows to see there is: The Columnist, The Book of Mormon, End of the Rainbow, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Newsies, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and A Streetcar Named Desire - yes, I just went through the list on Playbill.


Anyway, my last month here, I promise I'll get better with blogging. I'll even keep the periodic post while I'm home in Pittsburgh for the summer, with apartment news and whatnot. It's better, I swear.