Triple Rainbow Awesome!!!!!11!!!1

It's Friday afternoon, so it must be time for Madeline to write a blog post. I'm not going home this weekend (for once, it seems), so I actually have a big chunk of time to do things.

School continues to just be school: fairly interesting and super stressful. I'm now working on my second Collaborative project. This one has been more interesting to think about than the previous one, even though I don't really like the play, because it's a comedy so it has more dimension than a farce. The play is The House of Blue Leaves, and it's about a bunch of people who think their lives are completely falling apart and they're all pursuing these really unrealistic fantasies: "If only [such and such] would happen, my life would be perfect!" My team has decided to use reality TV for our concept, because of course reality shows (at least in the Real World/Survivor/Big Brother sense) are completely unrealistic, and I think a lot of people watch them to feel better about their own lives. It's a schadenfreude thing, almost. Because of our concept, we have to move the time period of the show from 1965 to 1995, so it's been kind of fun updating the dialogue. For example, any reference to Jackie Kennedy is changed to Madonna, and one character's "transistors" are now hearing aids. I'm doing scenic design for this show, which is definitely not my forte, but at least I'll have costume design for the final show of the semester. I'm going to try to incorporate reality TV into the set design by having boom mics and TV cameras visible in the scene.

Have you ever been in a library with only one other person? It's awesome! (Sorry for the random topic change.) I was in the library from 11:30 to midnight last night with my friend Annika, doing Collaborative research (we're in the same group this time), and no one else was in there!! So we got to talk to each other from across the room and be really goofy and it was so much fun! It felt like we were being really rebellious or something.

The reason we were in the library so late was that last night Annika and I drove to Cuyahoga Falls, about 45 minutes away, to see the Triple Rainbow Awesome Tour!!! 3RA, as it's been dubbed on Twitter, was the fall tour for ALL CAPS, Alex Carpenter, Skyway Flyer, and Mike Lombardo, all of whom (except maybe Alex?) are DFTBA Records artists. Annika and I hung around at the end of the concert and waited for all the high schoolers and their parents to leave, and then we got to really talk to everyone!! While we were waiting, we met another girl who goes to B-W! Her name is Jessica, she lives in the dorm across the street from mine, and she knows another Nerdfighter on campus, so now there are at least four of us!! I got the chance to ask Alex and Kristina if I could use a couple of their wizard rock songs in a school project, and Alex convinced Annika to get a Twitter account. I bought a poster, which everyone signed, and everyone also signed Annika's DFTBA shirt. We also got to watch Hayley, Mike's girlfriend, film her entire 5 Awesome Girls video, and then Annika asked Mike about learning to play one of his songs, and Hayley and Mike took us upstairs to use the piano in the sanctuary to show Annika the chords! (The show was in the cafe at Hayley's church.) It was really a completely fantastic night, and definitely the most fun I've had since the HP-Ohio Crystal Ball in January.

I recorded the last part of "Don't Unplug Me" by ALL CAPS, so I'll put that below. Now I'm going to go back to rocking out to my new Skyway Flyer album and wondering why there are two pairs of sunglasses on my desk and to whom the extraneous pair belongs. My life is unpredictable, if nothing else...