Horrible Day at the Dentist.

Well, it would have been alright if the dentist had said there was nothing wrong with me. This is a new dentist that I am seeing. He's actually my boyfriend's dentist. Dr. Slobodski. Or is that Slobodsky? He's got great digital technology.

So I told him about this blister on a part of a my gums. The first time I appeared I went to a dentist -- Dr. Gerald Lenkowitz. Who took an x-ray and said there was nothing wrong. Well Dr. Slobodski thinks of him as an "idiot" because before he took the x-ray he felt the blister and automatically diagnosed it as a fistula. He said that there's something wrong with this tooth. Turned out the tooth had died. Yep. Died. Ceased to live - to exist. No wonder I was feeling this much pain when the swelling happened ON MY FUCKING CHEEK LAST YEAR! Suffice it to say -- this doctor is great so far. He has a great sense of humour and he prescribed me some Valium along with the antibiotics. I'm going to get gas on top of that Valium when I go in to get my root canal done on Tuesday, June 24th. Wish me loads of luck.

This is going to put me in the poor house. I hate the medical system in this country. I told my mother about it and she doesn't understand why there are specific doctors for extracting teeth other than your dentist. I told her blame the private practice that exists in this country. I'm about ready to migrate to England at this point. I'm really tired. I have soo much anxiety going to the dentist it's not even funny. I almost broke my mother's hand once. This probably wouldn't be such an issue if I had a dentist when I was a child that would administer some Numb medicine. But the Chinatown dentist I had a child didn't believe in painkillers. At this point I'm screaming to my parents "HOW COULD YOU!!!" Dentists have always been a problem for me and I guess it would just continue to be a problem. I'm sad...I'm only 25!!!.

AISG Reunion Dinner

I can't believe I made it to the reunion dinner. I haven't seen any of these guys for over 10 years! I thought it was going to be awkward, but it wasn't and I was very happy to have seen all of them. I couldn't believe all the people I knew.

Kate, Michael, Jeremy, Bob, Amy, and I met a few new people too. Jane, and Bob's girlfriend. We talked about the good times and memories and what we're doing right now and so on and so forth. It was a lot of fun seeing them again, and I hope that we'll all be able to meet up again soon.

I can't believe Jeremy's interning as a doctor here in New York. Apparently he wants to do his residency here. Maybe he can give me a check up for a low price. Bob's some important banker now who works like 17 hour days. I can't believe he can take this. Kate's majoring in music technology. Amy majored in Chemistry. And Mike...I forgot what he was doing. I think something in savings? Stock? Movies? Jane works at The Essex Hotel. I guess we aren't doing so bad after all.

We've all changed and grown up, but I can still see the "middle-high school" attitudes and antics. I wish I had my camera. I wish other people had brought their cameras. I'm sure no one else from Guangzhou would believe it.

Too many colds for one season

I caught yet another cold from Louis. :-( *sniff* Louis is having lots of stress and thus when I try to help him get better by giving him medicine and warm love, I catch the cold myself.

It's been busy on my end. Edward II has succumbed. It was a good run. Short but good. I wonder if I will work with anyone from that show again. If they call me for another production I would say yes of course.

I have contacted everyone that my friend Desi and James have given me about Electrics jobs in theatre. I shall be at the Bowery Hotel tonight at 2am to strike. It will be fun I think. I'm a night owl anyway. And it's good money.

I have an audition coming up also the same day as the strike. Then on Monday I will return to Hartman & Craven LLP to be the receptionist. I still haven't been called by the Extras agency for any work, but I did give them a call letting them know I am available.

Louis' room mates are all moving out. Louis will have the place to himself soon. In fact, soon he will be moving out too. He might be moving in with me for the time being. It's very stressful. He's got lots of stuff and I don't have lots of room for him.

Just thinking about the next few days makes me sick and tired. I have an AISG reunion dinner to attend this coming Friday. I'm glad for that. I haven't seen Michael, Bob, and the rest for years! A decade even! Wow...I can't believe it.

Then on February 22, I have an ISB dinner to attend at Ruby Foos. I have put Louis on the list as well as my guest. He has to come...hehehehehe...it will be a surprise when I say that he's my boyfriend/partner. Heads will turn.

Things are finally picking up and I'm happy because this winter was rough. But I finally got paid from The Guitar and I had 4 days at the law firm and a semi regular job working off-broadway. Good stuff come in chunks. Not to mention I have been able to plow through 6 books since I moved to Avenue U. Finally! What I wanted a lot of the times was the quietness to read and now I do. I read on the subway, I can read at Louis' place, I can read at my place without having loud music or people talking to me. Just quiet time in a chair reading. I can't read in bed because I'll fall asleep.

Oh, I also bought myself a USB Turntable!!! Brand new off of Ebay! for $60. After shipping costs, total $89! I'm soo glad. I'll be able to turn all the records that my father and I have into MP3s. I love listening to music with those pops. I'm soo annoyed that CDs don't have them anymore. They have been digitally rendered and fixed so that the sound is perfect. I think that's what Edward II needed during that first scene. Some pops coming from the music in the Victrola.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone who reads this.

I spent my New Year with my favourite person, Louis, who has also been taking care of me because my cold/flu is now a sinus infection. I'm in bed most of the time recuperating. I'm positive that the cold turned to a sinus infection either on Thursday, December 27, or Friday, December 28th because I started blowing out bright yellow thick sticky snot.

This morning I woke up to find myself blowing out orange snot. Or snot mixed with blood. I'm drinking more hot beverages and steaming myself in the bathroom. I'm hoping that will help. I'm also going to drape a hot towel over my face. Eugh...

I'm hoping that everyone is having a better New Year than I am. You do not want to be in my position. Trust me.

dead tired

today is the day that i break all the grammar rules. or as much as possible because i'm just too tired to capitalize and whatnot.

for the last 2 days i have been running on 5 hours of sleep. i guess it's my bad because i conditioned myself to have theatrical hours and it's not doing so well for me when i agree to take on working as a temp at a law firm. so i'm up at something like 3am in the morning trying to get some sleep. i get up at 7am to get to the office by 9. i get off at 6 to rush over to the theatre and run sound for 1 show and my day ends at something like 10:45 each night. the ride home from the subway is 1 hour. i usually fall asleep there and then drag my sorry ass up the stairs and to bed.

last night i saw a huge roach in my kitchen. i tried to kill it but was unsuccessful. i need a raid spray! i also need to buy more of that expanding foam sealant and pull out the fridge and find out where that hole is. keeping all the bugs out is not only tough, but almost a full time job. my brother was of no use last night. he just stood there watching the damned bug. i can't have a garbage bin in there for more than 1 day or else roaches would come in. cooking is fine. i just leave the window open and all the smell airs out. this sucks.

i'm tired and hungry at the same time. not to mention my day won't end today until late at night. how am i to survive? help!!

Sweeney Todd

My brother and I went to see Sweeney Todd yesterday for Christmas. It was lovely. Very bloody like the actual musical. I remember watching the version with Angela Lansbury as the Meat Pie lady. She had a wonderful accent and singing voice. It wasn't a very good filmed version, but then again I never enjoyed watching plays or musicals on the television. It seems empty. Like it is missing hundreds of pieces of furniture or props or people.

Tim Burton's style has always been to use the colours of black and white excessively and bringing high contrasting colours into that bleak world. Oh and pale characters. Johnny Depp is always soo pale in Burton's movies. I caught glimpses of Edward Scissorhands during one of the song montages. I like how bright and unrealistic the blood was as everyone's necks were being cut open. Everything else was pale blues, blacks, whites, etc.

The singing was very very nice. I had no idea all these actors can sing and sing well! Especially Johnny Depp. I had to constantly remind myself that he actually sang in a film musical when he was very young. Does anyone remember Cry Baby? Those tears and that voice. He has kept it well. Helena Bonham Carter surprised me because I had never heard her sing before. She seemed like the type of person who would sing punk music. I think her disturbing personas in Burton's movies have skewed my point of view of her. She's soo good at what she does --I just wish I could see her in more contrasting roles. The voice that surprised me the most? Alan Rickman. He had very few singing lines, but my god, the smoothness of his voice. I thought his speaking voice was good, because of not only the accent, but the way his voice reverberates. Bubbly comes to mind when I think of Alan Rickman's voice. It can be menacing or it can be extremely soothing. It's the way he slows down his speech and focuses on the endings of each word that gives me chills. Maybe his teeth scare me too. Then again, everyone's teeth in this movie scares me.

The movie itself is 2 hours long, but I did not look at my watch at all during the entire performance. That's a good thing with me. I normally look at my watch thinking when is this movie over or when will we get to the good part. I originally wanted to go watch Alvin and the Chipmunks because I grew up watching the cartoon. They introduced me to music. I used to listen to them sing Achy Breaky Heart and Beat It or The Purple People Eater. I think I made the right choice in going to watch Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber on Fleet Street.

(Afterwards, in the subway station, I was standing at the DeKalb station and there was a sign that said "Fleet Street" and right underneath it was "Albee Square". I wonder if there is any relation to musicals and theatre right there.)

I have been looking for the lyrics to the movie soundtrack, but to no avail. Someone on IMDB said to buy the 80 page deluxe Soundtrack. I'll have to take a look into it.

Sick, sick, sick...

I am soo sick. For the last week I have been battling this cold/flu/head infection that I caught from Louis. He got it first, I was looking after him and in the midst, I caught it too. I guess it might as well be. Howie has it too now it seems. It's going around. During the Sunday performance I found out that another crew member was sick as well as one of our actor's. Anyway, it's progressing well. The cold started out slow.

It began in the throat for about 3 days. Then it progressed to the nose and I've been clogged since. My ears are constantly off and it's now moving south to my chest. I'm getting the feeling of drowning in my own phlegm. It's not fun because it wakes me up in the middle of the night constantly. I sit up, cough up a lung, and then get back to sleep. I just hope it didn't bother Louis last night. I tried not coughing much or only when needed. I remember it being 3 times. I wish I could spit the phlegm out, but every time I try, I vomit a little. I've had this trouble since I was a kid. Louis says I'm getting better faster than he is considering that mine is already a chest cold.

I heal faster than normal. It's my auto-immune disease that I have. Psoriasis. The first sign of unbalance, my immune system goes into overdrive to battle the bad.