While many of you probably think I’ve fallen off of the face of the planet, I’m here to assure you that I am still alive! Our show opened and closed this past weekend, and the past 2 weeks were horribly chaotic - I didn’t sleep for most of them, didn’t go to classes, barely ate . . . blogging was the thing furthest from my mind!

The show was AMAZINGLY well! We had a near sellout audience for 3 of our 4 performances, and that fourth show had a great turnout as well. We have heard so many wonderful things about the show - we are super pumped for the next step!

For those who may not be aware, I am a part of a production company called MagicMouth Productions - we are a production company that was formed by a group of senior theatre majors at Wake Forest University (people are calling us the three amigos, haha), and we have just completed a full scale production that was written by my two partners (Matt and Ben) that couples grand illusions (think David Copperfield) with a theatrical play. It’s a genre of theatre that we’re kind of inventing here.

Our first show, Awakening, was met with great enthusiasm by the Winston-Salem community (as well as some industry people from out of town - yay future venues!). We hope to perform the show again in the next couple of months here in Winston-Salem at Stevens Center for Performing Arts (the larger theatre in town). This show was a HUGE challenge, but we loved every single minute of it, and where usually people are sad when a run is over, we’re just more excited. This has put us in an excellent position for our company to start off in the professional world. The three of us are hoping to make this company our careers.

So where does that put me personally? Incredibly exhausted and behind in my schoolwork. As exciting as all this is, I still want to graduate, so I’m not out of the rough spot yet. Also, catching up on my sleep is a goal at the moment. However, I am back online, back to the blogging world, and you WILL be seeing a Thursday Thirteen out of me this week :)! (I feel horrible, I begin hosting it and we immediately move into working our show, so I had to bail . . . but I’m back now)

Thanks for being patient with me, I can’t wait to read all my regular reads and see how everyone is doing!

Thirteen Things about LINDSEY!

1. I’m going insane lately - life is so incredibly busy that I haven’t had any time to post here on my blog, and that makes me sad at myself :(. But, I’m gonna do my Thirteen this week! I apologize for not doing it last week!

2. One reason I’m super psycho busy is because of the show, which is going FABULOUSLY. It is in intense crazy hard amount of work, but we’re loving every single minute of it. If you’re within a three hour radius of Winston-Salem, NC, I HIGHLY recommend you consider coming to see the show. We were just published on the cover of ArtView Magazine, and we have 2 more magazine covers coming out in the next week or so! Tickets can be bought at our website.

3. The other main reason that I’m going crazy is because my work from the classes that I took incompletes in last semester is due on Monday, and I have a ton left. I have a make up exam on Friday, so I’m nervous about that. The rest is due by email on Monday . . . lots of prayers are what I need.

4. This weekend we’re going to Charleston, SC to see a magic show. It’s by some 18 year old kid, and while it’s not similar in concept to what we’re doing (we’re taking “magic show” a step further and creating theatre from it), we are curious to see what someone else relatively close to us in age is doing. So, that should be interesting - especially since I’ve never been to Charleston! I’m excited :).

5. Also, my best friend Stephanie came to visit this past weekend. Technically she was here for a recruiting visit for Teach for America, but she stayed at my apartment, so we got to visit some. Not as much as we wanted to, because we were both incredibly busy, but it was the first time I’d seen her since August, so that was really awesome. I miss her tons.

6. A few friends and I started a NASCAR Fantasy League on the NASCAR website. We’re so ridiculous (especially since about half of us have no clue what we’re doing, and the other half are RIDICULOUSLY intense about the whole thing . . . they REALLY know what they’re doing). It makes us smile, and that’s what’s important ;).

7. I’m not having a hard time with getting ideas for posts and things at Reading Red Letters . . . I just have NO TIME to post there. I’m barely posting here, and when I am posting, it’s little quizzes and things. I want to spend my time writing those posts, and that’s something that I haven’t had time for. If you’ve been checking over there, please don’t get discouraged - as soon as this show is over on the 26th and my midterms are over on the 27th, I’m going to start some hardcore blogging over there. Watch out ;).

8. Does anyone have any fun new recipes to share? I have a few recipes that I use over and over again because they’re quick, and I realized that I’d like some variety if anyone would like to offer me some, haha! If you send me your recipes, I’ll post them on here with a link to your site!

9. I enjoyed answering your questions before, so send me more! What do you want to know about me? What do you want to hear me talk about?

10. I auditioned for a show yesterday and got called back! It’s a great Woody Allen play called Old Saybrook. Callbacks were today, and I think they went well, so fingers crossed! The cast list is supposed to be posted by Friday night!

11. We found out our lighting designer (an off-Broadway lighting designer, so a big deal!) will be coming in half a week earlier than we thought he would. YAY!!!

12. We’re going to be the morning segment in the news in a week and a half for the local Fox News affiliate. We’re going to be doing some smaller sleight of hand tricks as well as one of our grand illusions. So watch for us if you’re local!

13. Matt and Ben almost got ticketed for hanging up flyers tonight . . . hehehehe. A cop saw them putting them up and said they were hanging them against the ordinance, but he was just going to give them a warning. Check out our blog, Ben said he was gonna post about it.

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1. Nicole

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Thirteen Things about Lindsey! 1. I switched everything over to Microsoft Money 2006! Now my messy check register can stay confined to my drawer - woo hoo! Scratch off #30 on my 101 in 1001! 2. Here’s an interesting tidbit about the animal situation down in New Orleans! 3. I’m back at school, and I’m still homesick. Someone make it better . . . 4. I’m now a contributing member of the group weight loss support blog Pounds2Go! I’m really excited about this - go take a look! 5. I’m currently working on the show that I’m stage managing this semester, Awakening. It’s a theatre performance with grand illusion - a play and a magic show at the same time! It’s being put on by Magic Mouth Productions, and I’m excited that we’re finally getting everything together! 6. Because I am doing this show, I have to miss rush for my sorority . . . which makes me sad :(. I wanted to talk to all the cool freshmen I’ve met this year! Plus, I won’t get to see my sorority sisters until rush is over probably. 7. I finally finished putting together my books and movies lists for my 101 in 1001 . . . part of the lists were here at my school apartment, so I couldn’t finish them when I was at home! 8. I’m still not unpacked, it’s kinnda messy over here. I’ve been too sad to unpack. 9. I also haven’t heard from the dean yet. The meeting was supposed to be yesterday to decide if I can keep being a student, and I haven’t heard yet. I hope no news is good news. 10. Reading Red Letters will be ready very soon . . . keep looking for an announcement ;)! 11. For some reason this week I’m having a hard time coming up with 13 things . . . hmm . . . 12. I got a new desk chair! Unfortunately, it doesn’t work as well as the demo in the store. Gonna have to play with it today to see if I can get it working right. 13. Now I’m gonna take a quick shower with my new iPod shower thingy! It pretty much rocks ;)! Links to Thursday Thirteens I have read! (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!) 1. Leanne 2. Lisa 3. Runnning2Ks

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