So today I took part in the Education Rally sponsored by sds (students for a democratic society). It was based aroudn the concept that the money spent on the occupation in Afghanistan could have been much better spent on education. I gave an impromptu speech about my mom losing her job due to budget cuts. It was intense. Then we marched around campus and shouted the education related slogans.
Sidbar: I was super nervous the whole time because I left my backpack (and my $350 cell phone) in the blatant open and was seriously hoping that no one was going to be an asshole and steal my stuff.
The head of the club asked if I'd like to be put on their special 'discussion' email list; it's for people who want to help organize everything. I said yes, of course.
There is a little bit of activist in everyone I think.
Mine got sparked today. I like giving speeches about things like that, instead of a speech about a book I read or explaining facets of fascism in front of the class. I'd much rather talk about emotions...
This blog post serves two purposes:
Noting my participation in a rally, which is a new thing.
Procrastinating the chemistry work I have open in a different tab.
Curtis OUT.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The quick update
I think the last actual post was in March... or May, one of those M months. I actually had my old blog posts exported and imported onto this account (the url username being brittanyanncurtis now as opposed to the old brittanycurtis username, now associated with my gmail account instead of yahoo). So I'm doing ANOTHER 7 month update.
I finished second semester at Catawba College, made the Dean's List. Said tearful goodbyes and watched my good friend John (among others) graduate. I went home to our rental house in downtown Brevard and started working at Rockbrook Camp for my second summer. A kitten adopted me as her mommy, and I'm the proud parent of Delano (aka Della since she is a girl). In July, we moved back to the house we own on Island Ford. Stressful but necessary. Wrapped things up at work, moved to an apartment in Asheville less than a mile from campus. Now attending UNC-Asheville. I am taking 5 classes with a total of 18 hours.
The classes are:
General Chemistry (3 credit hours)
Gen Chem lab (1 credit hour)
Ecology and Evolution (3 credit hours)
Eco and Evo lab (1 credit hour)
Intro to Education (3 credit hours)
Intro to Educ. technology lab (1 credit hour)
Costume Construction (3 credit hours)
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini (3 credit hours)
I also work at the student calling center on campus about six hours a week in the evenings, three hour shifts. Basically, I call alumni and friends of the college and ask them for money. Difficult on the self-confidence but usually rewarding.
Still lacking in the close friends department. I have my boyfriend, Nick, and my best friend, Madeline, but other than that... just people I see in class and occasionally have conversations with.
I am also volunteering at Mission Hospital (St. Joseph campus) on Fridays for three and a half hours.
Well, time for chemistry lab. IGKM.
Next post will detail some possible acutal plans for this blog.
Huzzah!
Curtis OUT.
I finished second semester at Catawba College, made the Dean's List. Said tearful goodbyes and watched my good friend John (among others) graduate. I went home to our rental house in downtown Brevard and started working at Rockbrook Camp for my second summer. A kitten adopted me as her mommy, and I'm the proud parent of Delano (aka Della since she is a girl). In July, we moved back to the house we own on Island Ford. Stressful but necessary. Wrapped things up at work, moved to an apartment in Asheville less than a mile from campus. Now attending UNC-Asheville. I am taking 5 classes with a total of 18 hours.
The classes are:
General Chemistry (3 credit hours)
Gen Chem lab (1 credit hour)
Ecology and Evolution (3 credit hours)
Eco and Evo lab (1 credit hour)
Intro to Education (3 credit hours)
Intro to Educ. technology lab (1 credit hour)
Costume Construction (3 credit hours)
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini (3 credit hours)
I also work at the student calling center on campus about six hours a week in the evenings, three hour shifts. Basically, I call alumni and friends of the college and ask them for money. Difficult on the self-confidence but usually rewarding.
Still lacking in the close friends department. I have my boyfriend, Nick, and my best friend, Madeline, but other than that... just people I see in class and occasionally have conversations with.
I am also volunteering at Mission Hospital (St. Joseph campus) on Fridays for three and a half hours.
Well, time for chemistry lab. IGKM.
Next post will detail some possible acutal plans for this blog.
Huzzah!
Curtis OUT.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
A 7-Month Catch Up
Of course, I haven't been keeping up with this blog. I have trouble keeping up with pretty much anything over an extended period of time. A horrible personality flaw. Oh well.
So- since July...
I started school at Catawba College, my roommate's name was Laura, she was an undecided major. I took part in the First-Year show, and that was pretty fun. Nutella was involved. I did fairly well in my classes; A's and B's in "Analysis of Dramatic Literature", "First year seminar: Performing all our lives", "French I", and "Social Problems". But a D+ in "Calculus... oops.
First semester wasn't very good to me. I hated living in the dorms partially because it generally sucks and I also had pranks pulled on me and money stolen from my room. Lame.
Christmas break was awesome. I got to go to Washington state and visit a lot of family and friends. I even got to go to the Science Fiction Museum and Experience Music Project. Cool stuff.
I decided that I no longer wanted to be a Theater major and started investigating therapies; physical, occupational, and speech. I was able to shadow my friend's mother, who is a PTA. It opened my eyes to an entirely new world of satisfying job options.
Second semester has been fine so far- started playing ultimate frisbee, joined women's chorale, have some challenging courses in biology and anatomy & physiology. My roommate left before school started, so I have my room to myself. It's been nice.
I'm currently at home on my spring break. I have to write a paper and catch up on some studying but I'm glad to be home.
About to run off and meet up with some friends for dinner in Brevard. Maybe I'll find some time to update pictures and this post with a bit more detail.
<3 ~B
So- since July...
I started school at Catawba College, my roommate's name was Laura, she was an undecided major. I took part in the First-Year show, and that was pretty fun. Nutella was involved. I did fairly well in my classes; A's and B's in "Analysis of Dramatic Literature", "First year seminar: Performing all our lives", "French I", and "Social Problems". But a D+ in "Calculus... oops.
First semester wasn't very good to me. I hated living in the dorms partially because it generally sucks and I also had pranks pulled on me and money stolen from my room. Lame.
Christmas break was awesome. I got to go to Washington state and visit a lot of family and friends. I even got to go to the Science Fiction Museum and Experience Music Project. Cool stuff.
I decided that I no longer wanted to be a Theater major and started investigating therapies; physical, occupational, and speech. I was able to shadow my friend's mother, who is a PTA. It opened my eyes to an entirely new world of satisfying job options.
Second semester has been fine so far- started playing ultimate frisbee, joined women's chorale, have some challenging courses in biology and anatomy & physiology. My roommate left before school started, so I have my room to myself. It's been nice.
I'm currently at home on my spring break. I have to write a paper and catch up on some studying but I'm glad to be home.
About to run off and meet up with some friends for dinner in Brevard. Maybe I'll find some time to update pictures and this post with a bit more detail.
<3 ~B
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Summer 2009
I am an official graduate of the University of North Carolina, with a high school diploma with a concentration in Drama.
I am officially attending Catawba College in the fall.
I work at Rockbrook Camp as an Office Assistant 30-40 hours a week, I'm doing a one-act play called "Graceland" and taking part in Brevard Little Theatre's Broadway Revue. Here are the dates for those:
GRACELAND
July 17, 18, 19 and July 24, 25, 26
BROADWAY REVUE
July 31st and August 1st at 8pm
Check out www.brevardlittletheatre.com for more info...
I just took a super awesome trip to Washington D.C. for the Fourth of July weekend- I stayed with my best friend Madeline. It was epic amounts of fun! Also, on my way up, I got to see Connie, Uncle Philip, Mike, Jaclyn, and Greta (who was visiting at the time). On my way home I visited at School of the Arts and got to see some of my ensemble members (Cameron, Fola, Zoey) and stopped in Arden to have dinner with Eric.
Just working, saving money, and procrastinating packing. Yeah, then packing thing is about college, but also in general. My parents are building a smaller house and want to sell the one we have. It'll all probably go down while I'm at school. But I still have to pack all my crap. Haha.
That's about it.
Curtis OUT!
I am officially attending Catawba College in the fall.
I work at Rockbrook Camp as an Office Assistant 30-40 hours a week, I'm doing a one-act play called "Graceland" and taking part in Brevard Little Theatre's Broadway Revue. Here are the dates for those:
GRACELAND
July 17, 18, 19 and July 24, 25, 26
BROADWAY REVUE
July 31st and August 1st at 8pm
Check out www.brevardlittletheatre.com for more info...
I just took a super awesome trip to Washington D.C. for the Fourth of July weekend- I stayed with my best friend Madeline. It was epic amounts of fun! Also, on my way up, I got to see Connie, Uncle Philip, Mike, Jaclyn, and Greta (who was visiting at the time). On my way home I visited at School of the Arts and got to see some of my ensemble members (Cameron, Fola, Zoey) and stopped in Arden to have dinner with Eric.
Just working, saving money, and procrastinating packing. Yeah, then packing thing is about college, but also in general. My parents are building a smaller house and want to sell the one we have. It'll all probably go down while I'm at school. But I still have to pack all my crap. Haha.
That's about it.
Curtis OUT!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Senior 09
It's been a while, as usual. I get so consumed with life I forget to update.
I've heard back from all of the schools I applied to. I was accepted to UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-G, and Catawba College. I was waitlisted for Elon University.
As of now, I've settled on going to Catawba. I've got to look at the financial package information for UNC-G before a final decision, but I really enjoyed the campus of Catawba and Salisbury itself. College, here I come!
The week before last was Spring Break. I went to Tampa, Florida, with my roomate and two other girls at my school. We went to the beach, hung out by the bay, and made a trip to Ybor. Lots of fun in the sun!
This last Friday we did our performance of "Mary's Wedding." We had been given the script back in fall, worked on lines, then came back from Chicago in February and got to work on it. It was a successful show, the ending causing sniffles in the audience. haha... Plus, there is a part where I kiss my partner, Ray, and my sister was at the show and giggled. It was adorable. My mom, sister, and grandparents came. It was nice to see them all.
This last week was kind of hard. Coming back from a relaxing spring break and being forced back into the routine of school work was difficult. Also, I had to school rejections while also finding out that my dad was losing his job. My mother has also been laid off. Crazy stuff when the economy falls apart...
Well, we are now starting on doing a performance of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree." It's a movement based show in honor of the volunteers of the Special Children's School (a school for children with special needs) and we will use children from the school in the show. That goes up April 30th at 8 pm, Thursday night. Free Admission.
Our next show after that, which I am most excited about, is MACBETH! I am stage manager and totally stoked. It isn't going to be a typical version of Macbeth... Our intro is to a Rage Against the Machine song. Need I say more?
The performance weekend is May 15 and 16.
I graduate May 30th. Hooray!
That's all for now. <3
I've heard back from all of the schools I applied to. I was accepted to UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-G, and Catawba College. I was waitlisted for Elon University.
As of now, I've settled on going to Catawba. I've got to look at the financial package information for UNC-G before a final decision, but I really enjoyed the campus of Catawba and Salisbury itself. College, here I come!
The week before last was Spring Break. I went to Tampa, Florida, with my roomate and two other girls at my school. We went to the beach, hung out by the bay, and made a trip to Ybor. Lots of fun in the sun!
This last Friday we did our performance of "Mary's Wedding." We had been given the script back in fall, worked on lines, then came back from Chicago in February and got to work on it. It was a successful show, the ending causing sniffles in the audience. haha... Plus, there is a part where I kiss my partner, Ray, and my sister was at the show and giggled. It was adorable. My mom, sister, and grandparents came. It was nice to see them all.
This last week was kind of hard. Coming back from a relaxing spring break and being forced back into the routine of school work was difficult. Also, I had to school rejections while also finding out that my dad was losing his job. My mother has also been laid off. Crazy stuff when the economy falls apart...
Well, we are now starting on doing a performance of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree." It's a movement based show in honor of the volunteers of the Special Children's School (a school for children with special needs) and we will use children from the school in the show. That goes up April 30th at 8 pm, Thursday night. Free Admission.
Our next show after that, which I am most excited about, is MACBETH! I am stage manager and totally stoked. It isn't going to be a typical version of Macbeth... Our intro is to a Rage Against the Machine song. Need I say more?
The performance weekend is May 15 and 16.
I graduate May 30th. Hooray!
That's all for now. <3
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Winter Break + Acceptance in 2009
So Winter Break was nice; I was able to drive my car, sleep in my own bed, and eat at whatever time I wanted without having to make sure the caf was open. I did some catching up with my pals and had an overall good time. It was almost torture coming back to school... Some people find more freedom at school, but I find much less.
Coming back wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it was still a little sad. I feel more grounded in my art and purpose here now, especially with auditions for college coming up.
But some exciting news already- I've been accepted into UNC-Chapel Hill!
It's the first college I've heard from, which is encouraging because it's a prettttttty awesome school.
Other than that, we'll be going to Chicago the first week of February for Unified Auditions. Wish me luck!
Coming back wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it was still a little sad. I feel more grounded in my art and purpose here now, especially with auditions for college coming up.
But some exciting news already- I've been accepted into UNC-Chapel Hill!
It's the first college I've heard from, which is encouraging because it's a prettttttty awesome school.
Other than that, we'll be going to Chicago the first week of February for Unified Auditions. Wish me luck!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Three Months
So it has been three months since my last post! That testifies to the craziness of being at art school.
A general overview:
My classes included Yoga, Dance, Voice, Singing, College Seminar, and Acting Fundamentals. We have worked on improv, monologues and songs for auditions, basic dance technique, college applications, circus skills, and one act plays.
My academics were (and will be for the rest of the year) AP Literature and AP Calculus.
It's been really hard being away from home; such as not having a car/being able to do whatever you want/not having a job therefore a general lack of money/missing my bed/wanting to hang out with my friends from home/kind of actually missing my family, etc. But I got home this past Friday for break, and I am home until January 4th. School starts on the 5th.
Other general life things...
I have been looking into stage management and broadcast journalism, alongside acting.
The schools I am applying to include: NYU, Emerson College, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-School of the Arts, UNC-Greensboro, Elon University and maybe Catawba.
I'm so grateful to be on break! Hooray. I get to catch up with everyone and see people I've missed a lot.
Happy Holidays!
<3 ~Britt~
A general overview:
My classes included Yoga, Dance, Voice, Singing, College Seminar, and Acting Fundamentals. We have worked on improv, monologues and songs for auditions, basic dance technique, college applications, circus skills, and one act plays.
My academics were (and will be for the rest of the year) AP Literature and AP Calculus.
It's been really hard being away from home; such as not having a car/being able to do whatever you want/not having a job therefore a general lack of money/missing my bed/wanting to hang out with my friends from home/kind of actually missing my family, etc. But I got home this past Friday for break, and I am home until January 4th. School starts on the 5th.
Other general life things...
I have been looking into stage management and broadcast journalism, alongside acting.
The schools I am applying to include: NYU, Emerson College, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-School of the Arts, UNC-Greensboro, Elon University and maybe Catawba.
I'm so grateful to be on break! Hooray. I get to catch up with everyone and see people I've missed a lot.
Happy Holidays!
<3 ~Britt~
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