Hi, my name is Catie

Grade: 100
We did some stuff with the dancers... Helped them strike from their show, then we danced and learned how to do aerials. It was fun.

Love Always,
Catie Baker


And happy whatever the hell you celebrate to all.

Doing this blog totally isn't getting boring and repetitive

Movement: 30 minutes
I love running.

Vocal: 30 minutes
I'm noticing my articulation slowly getting better. Now I just need to work on how much I slobber when I talk.

Table Work: 20 minutes
Did the lines I needed to do for this week... yaaay.

Grade: 100
That movie shoot was really interesting. I actually started to forget that I was "acting" which is always a good sign. I also did all the BS for the movie... So, go me.

Daniel Baker,
Love Always

Forget December

Thursday:

Grade: 100
I deserve a 100 today for my participation in the table work. I took plenty of notes, tried out new things with Bottom and et cetera. After school I stayed and watched the dance show and took notes for my review.

Friday:
Grade: 100
Alyssa came and we did an improv workshop. I love improv, so I was pretty eager and participatory. I can't believe I just used the word participatory casually. I'm such a nerd.

Blahblahblah,
Blahblahblah

Natural life

Grade: 100
That play was amazing... I get a 100 for being a "young professional" and for participating in the discussion on the bus. By the way, I'm very inspired now. I'm starting to work with an idea for a play... Kinda a cross between two ideas I've already had. It's interesting. Byebye.

Moot

Movement: 30 minutes
I went running outside.

Voice: 40 minutes
I wrote a song today... I sang it. I did scales. I studied my articulation packet. Yay.

Reading: 20 minutes
Othello. Found it online... Interesting so far.

Grade: 100
I did some table work, started a prop list. I think I did well. We did my favorite monologue in the whole play... I was happy about that.

Love Always,
Bah, Who cares...?

What about bunna?

Grade: 100
Writing lecture today. Yay. It made me happy, even if it was just stuff that I already know. Helped me figure out a way to fix Blood/Carbon. My analysis for it was really depressing though... Like... Really, really depressing. Oh well. Effective... That's why I deserve a 100.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Ambitious Ambiguity

I stayed after for the dance show today. Does that count as staying after? Whatever, I did my stuff anyway.

Movement: 20 minutes
I didn't run again today. I really ought to tomorrow.

Voice: 20 minutes

Reading Out Loud: 20 minutes.
Midsummer. Why not, right? Now that I understand everything, I'm starting to memorize.

Grade: 100
I fenangled myself some rehearsal props today. Lots of rehearsal props. I'm Dan Baker. I do things.

Feel the music

Movement: 20 minutes
Nothing new... I didn't run today.

Voice: 20 minutes
Again, nothing new.

Table Work: 30 minutes
Finished the play... Yeah. I dunno. I don't feel the need to say anything else. (Bottom is great.)

Grade: 100
Today we worked on costume stuff. I found a lot of pictures of props for the Rude Mechs. And I found you speakers. Mhm! What a great day.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

A house divide cannot stand

Movement: 40 minutes (Wii Fit)
I ran 4.0 miles today in 30 minutes. What are the odds of that?

Voice: 20 minutes
The usual.

Table Work: 30 minutes
I'm on Act Four.

Grade: 100
I wrote the whole time. Finished a new draft of Blood/Carbon. I also threw around some ideas with Hope for the screenplay we're working on. We decided we're gonna write a script for it rather than improv the whole thing. It's pretty funny so far.

Love Always,
You Know Who

A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard

Movement: 30 minutes
Spent thirty minutes on Wii Fit. I did Yoga and ran for twenty minutes... 2.8 miles. Not very good.

Voice: 20 minutes
Singing and whatnot. I wasn't very tense today. I also worked on my problem with opening my mouth by talking into a mirror. Articulatory work as well... Recorded myself and listened for problems.

Table Work: 1 hour
I spent an hour working on my table work... Hopefully, this will put me ahead of the agenda.

Grade: 100
I filled in for Mike as stage manager and did an okay job. Made a contact sheet and a nice little rehearsal report. No, stage managing is not something I miss.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Baaaaaaaaaaaah!

Grade: 100
Today we barely did anything at all. But I deserve a 100 because I sat there and was a good little child while you worked with other people. Is that good enough? I hope.

Beep beep

Movement: 35 minutes
Running, yoga, strength with Wii Fit. I also did thirty pushups on my own.

Voice: 20 minutes
The usual dealings. I made up a catchy little melody today while doing warmups. I think I might make a full song out of it.

Script Work: 20 minutes
Given circumstances and began connotative analysis. Funderful.

Grade: 100
I deserve a 100 today because I was actually working the whole time with my group and I think we have the beginnings of a really nice costume design. I think the color palette that we came up with is going to look good.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Our true master... Magneto!

Movement: 20 minutes
Wii Fit... Yoga... strength... running... I think I pulled a muscle in my stomach. Ow.

Voice: 10 minutes
It hurts to sing. I definitely pulled a stomach muscle.

Denotative Analysis: 20 minutes
Finished up Act Four. Gonna work on Act Five tomorrow. Most of what Bottom says is pretty straightforward... I love this character. I'm not sure where to start on my given circumstances, so I haven't yet. But I've got bits and pieces of things that I know will be there.

Grade: 100
I hate it when they split us up. It's so annoying. I worked on some writing stuff... There wasn't much else to do.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Hey, you guys wanna hear a joke?

Grade: 100
We watched Waiting for Guffman today. It was a good movie. Eye-opening... Not an existential crisis. Just an existential brain aneurysm. Then we talked for forty minutes about how tough our lives are gonna be. Yay!

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

I can see Cologne, Germany from my house...

Movement: 25 minutes
I ran for ten minutes... 1.6 miles (ish) and fifteen minutes of yoga/strength. Uh... I don't know. I didn't feel too good today. Didn't want to run too much. But the yoga made me feel better.

Voice: 20 minutes.
Sing your heart out, boy. Nothing special to report...

Denotative Analysis: 20 minutes
Instead of doing my reading out loud, every other day I'm going to do my denotative work for Midsummer. I did a good portion of the script today. Got up to Act Three.

Grade: 100
I sat in CAD all day and worked on my script... Is that 100-worthy? I hope so, because that's all that I was able to do with them splitting us up into different shops... Such bullshit. Whatever. I will survive. I fixed the endings on my two current scripts, so that's good. Yay good.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Anderson Cooper is my hero

Movement: 40 minutes
I RAN OUTSIDE TODAY! :D I spent about ten minutes doing Wii Fit yoga and then 30 minutes running around town. I thought I got lost but then came to realize that I was simply on a different street... Shut up, I'm not a loser. Running really feels great. I just get to think about stuff while I do it. I was thinking about my play the whole time.. How I could make the ending bolder. Anyway, yeah. Running.

Voice: 30 minutes
God damned facial tension. I thought I had made progress. I worked on that a lot today. My face felt like rubber by the end of it. I hit a new high note... I'm not sure what it was though. I'm gonna try to figure that out tomorrow.

Reading: The Why - 20 minutes
Haha. Remember this play? I really want to redo my monologue from it. See if I can. To be honest, I was a moron and had never read the play before doing my monologue freshman year... So, a lot more stuff in it makes sense now.

Grade: 100
We did monologues today, I was finally out of my head, my face was tense. It's a double whammy... If I think, my face is less tense. If I don't think, my face is very tense. I have to be able to do both. We also read Blood/Carbon and everyone gave me some pretty good feedback. Yeah... I'm stumped. I think I'm gonna put it down for a few days and go back to it.

Oh, speaking of writing, I entered Travis Tribbins Learns to Be A Man in this:
www.spfnyc.com

I read over the terms and conditions... Seems legit. And it was free to enter, so I thought, why the hell not.

Love Always, Daniel Baker

The pain machine

Movement: 40 minutes
Yoga and balance for 10 minutes. Running for 30 minutes. Yay. 4.8 miles. Yay. Wii Fit. Yay. I miss running outside though. Once the weather gets warmer, I'll start doing it again... I hope. I don't know.

Voice: 20 minutes
Singing, warmups, facial tension... Story of my life.

Reading: Waiting for the Bus - 10 minutes
This is a play from that book... It's... okay. I think it may have gone over my head, so if that's true, it's probably a brilliant play. I'll try reading it again tomorrow.

Grade: 100
I deserve a 100 because I worked my monologue today and I felt really, really vulnerable while working Ari. It felt good but at the same time it felt horrible. It felt interesting, to say the least. But I think there was a pretty significant moment that improved the entire monologue. And I hope I can do that again.

Love Always,
Leinad Rekab

Keekeekeekeekee

Movement: 30 minutes
I ran 3.004 miles in twenty minutes today! My first mile only took seven minutes. I'm very happy with that. The other ten minutes were occupied by nine minutes of yoga and one minute of a game that tests my balance and reflexes. Like I said, quite specific. I set a new goal today to run five miles in twenty minutes by November 30th. I wonder if I can do it.

Voice: 20 minutes
I hit a pretty low note today. I wish I had had a piano to see what note it was... Lower than I can recall ever going. I hate my facial tension. Raaaah. I wonder if it's getting any better. Still can't do lip trills... God damnit.

Reading Out Loud: The Bear by Anton Chekov - 20 minutes
Chekov is beautiful. That's all I have to say about that.

Grade: 100
Not much happened today. I helped some people with their trouble spots in their monologues, but I didn't work on mine since all the paper work is done and I didn't get to work it today. But I deserve a 100 for being a good little student and helping out. I also graded papers! Yay!

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

The wholesome snack that smiles back

Movement: 32 minutes
Ran twenty minutes in Wii Fit again and did some yoga. I don't remember exactly how many miles I ran... 2.4 something. Pretty much the same drill as yesterday. I was gonna go running outside today but it was too cold.

Voice: 20 minutes
More singing, more vocal warmups. I still can't do lip trills... God damned facial tension. I did those jaw stretches today. They felt weird, but they loosened me up a little bit.

Reading: 20 minutes
Monologue work. I think my diction is pretty good now. I'm also pretty well memorized... I can rattle it off pretty fast now. Yay.

Grade: 100.
We took a test and I stayed quiet the whole time. Do I need another reason?

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Ask me for a fabulous makeover

Movement: 33 minutes.
Today, I played Wii Fit for movement, like always. It's really the only way I have of working out at all. I did 13 minutes of Yoga and then I ran for 20 minutes, running 2.464 miles. The game keeps pretty detailed records of everything. That's about a seven and half minute mile. That's the best I've ever done. I think tomorrow I might go running outside.

Voice: 20 minutes
I love singing. Today, I did some scales and then sang for a while while I played my guitar.

Reading Out Loud: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 20 minutes
I technically didn't read the play today. Rather, I worked my monologue for twenty minutes, specifically on the diction, since I think that's my main problem right now.

Grade: 100
I deserve a 100 today because in our acting widget, I think I did well. The rest of the class I sat and observed monologue work with the others. I think I had one of my "this is why I do what I do" sort of moments today. I know that I haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg on the hardships that I'm going to face, but moments like today's are gonna be the moments that I remember when I'm facing those hardships.

Watching Matt and Monica today doing their respective monologues made me realize that the amount of change that a piece of theatre can undergo in a split second and how beautiful it can be. I mean, the monologues themselves still need work, but if you compare them from point a to point b today, it's amazing how quickly they changed.

Yeah... Yay.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Hands up now hands down

Movement: 30 minutes (Wii Fit!)
Voice: 20 minutes
Reading: Midsummer 20 minutes
Grade: 100

I swear, I'm gonna know this play like the back of my hand. I'm being so meticulous with the reading this time around. To think this play seemed so difficult when I first read it.

Our discussion today about theatre's relevance and everything made me sad... But I'm hopeful that I can do my tiniest bit to help change the state of things. As microscopic as my role will be, I'll contribute.

Wii Fit tells me that my balance has gotten better since yesterday... That's good. I think it's mainly just because the game actually made me aware of my balance.

I deserve a 100 today because I think my monologue is improving gradually. I think I understand grounding things a lot better, with the concept of changing what you ground with when it's no longer effective. I dunno. It's so interesting... The whole concept of acting. Yeah. Okay.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Circle of chains

Movement: 30 minutes
Voice: 15 minutes
Reading: Midsummer 10 minutes
Grade: 100

Today was a pretty interesting day. I deserve a 100 because I think I've finally gotten the hang of IPA. All my stuff for my monologue is done and now all I need to do is continue working it. I hope I do well. I think too much... Bahbahbah. Whatever. I'll do my best.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Beauty

Movement - 25 minutes
Voice - 10 minutes
Reading - A Midsummer Night's Dream - 20 minutes
Grade - 100

Figured I should brush up some more on Midsummer. Today I did my movement by doing yoga on Wii Fit and yes, it DOES count. I also ran a quarter mile in it. It's a pretty nifty little game. It's a great way to target multiple audiences.

"Hey, Tony, wanna get some exercise?"
"Nah, man, I'm too busy playing video games."
"But with Wii Fit, we can do both!"
"Alright!"

I deserve a 100 today because I was one of the Meisner veterans and I showed the youngin's th ropes with Katelin, Javi and Hope. Lots of fun. I really enjoy Meisner. I really enjoy acting. I'm glad I decided to train as an actor this year.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Let's just rest our eyes for a few minutes...

Movement - 15 minutes
Voice - 20 minutes
Reading Out Loud - Three Sisters 10 minutes
Grade - 100

I found Three Sisters online here. Figured it'd be worth another read, see if I catch anything I missed the first time I read it.

We worked on our monologues today after declaring a temporary state of tech abstinence. Worked on denotative analysis and objective stuff... Interesting. I want to see if I can strip away my mannerism for Lysander.

I think I wrote a concise denotative analysis and I worked quickly. Thus, a 100 is in order.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

It's just one of those days

Movement - 20 minutes
Voice - 25 minutes
Reading Out Loud - Taming of the Shrew - 20 minutes
Grade: 100

Almost done with Taming of the Shrew. I like Midsummer better.

I deserve a 100 today because the filming was the only reason I showed up to school. I did not feel good, but I put forth my best performance anyway. It was also cold. But it's okay. Once I was under the lights, I got warm. :D

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

On the banana boat

Movement: 10 minutes
Voice: 20 minutes
Reading Out Loud: Taming of the Shrew - 10 minutes
Grade: 100

We worked on monologue stuff today... Woohoo? I have my audition pretty much memorized. Now I just need to print it out and finish the mount. Yay, poetry.

I helped out the youngin's with scansion and got my audition completely memorized, so I think that's 100-worthy work. I also think that I put a lot of energy into the widget today. I started it two times because nobody else would... Whatever. It was a really interesting way to convey rhythm and out-of-head-ness.... Yeah. That's a word.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Break stuff

Movement: 10 minutes
Voice: 15 minutes
Reading: Taming of the Shrew - 15 minutes
Grade: 100

And now I return to doing normal journal entries. What a day today was. A run and a performance of Teen Safety and then a 2 1/2 hour PSAT. I was on fire today. It's gonna feel weird returning to the life of a (semi) normal high school student tomorrow.

I started reading Taming of the Shrew over from the beginning because I couldn't even remember where I left off, having not read it since before Sandman. I do enjoy this play though.

Teen safety was today... Finally. Apparently, I did great. I'm glad. I say apparently not because I'm an attention whore or I'm fishing for compliments by saying "I SUCK", but because I honestly didn't know whether I did good or bad. I do know that I wish Monica had hit me when she wanted to. But whatever, it's fine. I enjoyed it. It was fun. Thank god it's over. That is why I deserve a 100.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Ow

Grade: 100

I'm so tired. I deserve a 100 because I worked my keister off all day... It was weird not being a tech person majigger... Tired...

Oh! The dialogue snippet I came up with...

Playwright: Without the playwright, the director has nothing to direct!
Director: Oh? Then what's a playwright without a director?
Playwright: A novelist.

Badumtish.

I'm sleepy.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

I hate people

Grade: 100

I'm sitting in the library doing my journal because I finished my work in ten minutes and all the annoying freshmen kids are asking me how I was able to answer twenty questions in ten minutes. Wooooow.

Anyway, today I deserve a 100 because I gave everybody some pretty good notes for their scenes in Stick River. I felt like a lil director boy. Yes, lil director boy. I also think that I did a pretty good job of putting together my costume and whatnot... Overall, I think I was pretty productive today.

Love Always,

Daniel Baker

What's in your head?

Grade: 100

I think I'm having some moments where I'm out of my head. I hope I didn't scare Scarlett into thinking I'm a rapist. Etc. etc. I kinda like acting. I don't know. I don't think I have enough passion for it though. But I enjoy it and I think it'll benefit my writing in the long run.

Today I deserve a 100 because I'm pushing myself a lot harder with this teen safety thing than I was expecting to. I dunno. I was expecting it to be easy, I guess. It is not. Whatever. I can't really think of any other reason other than the fact that I'm determined to do this character well. Can't wait for mainstage... Ha.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Man up, Travis...

Grade: 100

I'm rewriting Travis Tribbins into the format for this competition and I'm making some changes... I'm into it... I wonder what the final product will be like.

I deserve a 100 today because I did some pretty drastic improvements on my part for the teen safety thing. I think there was a huge difference between my morning performance and my afternoon performance. And I'm pretty happy about that. I'm also quite excited about wearing a guinea tee.

Now back to Travis. Almost done converting...

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Granola

Grade: 100

Why do I deserve a 100 today?


That's why I deserve a 100 for today. What a beautiful photo.

Also, I DID HAVE MY LINES MEMORIZED IN THE MORNING... I started messing them up in the afternoon. :(

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

98776210

Grade: 100

Yay for not having to do a full journal the days we stay after. Funny, I was at school for twelve hours and I'm only getting tired now, after I've been home for three. I usually pass out on my couch when I get home on tech days. It's an oddity.

My grade is a 100 today because I'm finally getting the hang of the IPA, I think I chose a good monologue (which I'm already doing analysis of) and because of all the work I did while staying after. I smell like the catwalk. It's pretty gross. But a heartwarming kind of gross.

It's good to be back.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Note to self

Movement: 20 minutes
Voice: 20 minutes
Reading Out Loud: The Taming of the Shrew - 20 minutes
Grade: 100

This is a silly play. Shakespeare was such a rascal. Hehe. Rascal. I'm really glad that I've gained a better understanding of his work. I feel enlightened, like I've discovered some big secret that everybody's been keeping from me all of my life.

Today we didn't do much because of the half day. We took headshots, did our yearly goals, etc. etc. I don't remember how my headshot came out. Whatever. I deserve a 100 today because I finished everything I had to do.

I really like post-it notes.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Dance the dance of the fallen lovers

Movement: 20 minutes
Voice: 20 minutes
Reading Out Loud: The Taming of the Shrew - 30 minutes
Grade: 100

So, I didn't make it to the library this weekend. But, turns out that I had a copy of Taming of the Shrew lying around. That's pretty sweet. I still really want to read Comedy of Errors though. I don't even know what it's about. I just like things with eye catching titles. And for some reason, that title appeals to me.

Today I deserve a 100 because I crawled around on the floor and got one of my favorite shirts dirty for those drawings on the drop. It's looking so vicious so far. I love it. Sandman is going to be really interesting.

I need to get my portfolio stuff together... Aaaaah.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Elephantitis

Grade: 100

I believe today was a good day. I don't remember.

I deserve a 100 because my people and I cleaned up the wing very well and I think I did a good job leading them. There was such a difference between the cluttered mess and the final product that we got. I was actually quite proud of that. The paint cabinet, however, is an entirely separate matter to be dealt with at an entirely separate time.

That's all she wrote. See you next week, folks!

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Put your hands up

Movement: 20 minutes
Voice: 10 minutes
Reading: Midsummer - 10 minutes
Grade: 100

Goin' to the library this weekend. Yay. Not in the mood to be witty today... I'll keep this short.

Today I deserve a 100 for my table work contributions for Dvorak's drunk driving thing. Put my two cents in a lot, sometimes it helped us with the script. I get to play a Latino, somehow. Interesting... Today's acting widget was pretty easy though. God damned facial tension. I feel it shall forever haunt me. Oh well, at least that's the only place I've got problems.

Short journal entry. Sorry.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Gotta have faith

Movement: 10 minutes
Voice: 10 minutes
Reading Out Loud: 10 minutes (Midsummer)
Grade: 100

Rope burn makes typing a very ambitious endeavor. I've got Seasame Street and Barbie band-aids though! That's life, for you. Get burned? Here, have a pretty band-aid. If only Elmo and Barbie's dream van could patch all wounds.

So as I sit here and eat my chicken panini, I must wonder what kind of heavenly occurrence it was to have writing and tech on the same day. My two favorite aspects of theatre (with acting at a close third) mashed into one super happy funtime. According to FireFox's spellcheck feature, funtime is an actual word... Cool!

I feel silly today.

I deserve a 100 because I did one hella awesome analysis of Cinderella with Katelin, Matt and Monica. I also led the youngins in taking down the cyc... Maybe I didn't think things through as clearly as I should've (yay rope burn!) but I think I did a fine job. I must make my parents proud. In fact, I know I do. When I got home, the first thing my father said to me was "what the hell is with the band-aids?" and I smiled and said "I got rope burn working to make you proud, dad!"

Actually, I'm lying that didn't happen.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

It's hard to remember

Movement: 15 minutes
Voice: 30 minutes (I sure do love singing)
Reading: Midsummer - 10 minutes
Grade: 100

I need a new play. I'm gonna go to the library and look at some other Shakespeare stuff. I dunno why, but I'm really interested in Comedy of Errors right now, so I'm going to check that out. I definitely want to read his more obscure works first... So for now I want to avoid Hamlet, Macbeth and whatnot. I'll definitely read them, but I want to read the less popular ones first.

In other news, I've got a stomach ache.

Today I deserve a 100 because I think my Globe Theatre model was awesome. I also participated in the history discussion a lot. Then again, I always do that. You know, a stranger reading this might think I have self-esteem issues, since I always shut down compliments to myself... But I really don't. I think my self-esteem is rather high. Anyway, my stomach hurts. Did I say that already?

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Pulling a fast one

Movement: 20 minutes
Voice: 20 minutes
Reading Out Loud: Midsummer Night's Dream - 20 minutes
Grade: 100

Finished up Midsummer the third time through today. I really, really like this play now. At first I didn't, but it's grown on me. And lord, I love Shakespearean text. It's so beautifully written. As a writer I aspire to be able to write in a way that makes people think or that inspires beauty in people... I know I'm not at that point yet and I probably won't be for a long time, but I'm determined to make it there someday.

Anyway, not much else happened today... Ran the mile in gym, got a personal best of eight-thirty-something. Well, I think. As you can see, I'm not really one for remembering times I get on the mile run. But I think that's the best I've ever done.

Alrighty. Today I think I've earned a 100 because I was my usual laid-back self (yeah. ha-freakin'-ha.) and I'm trying my hardest to wrap my head around the phonetic alphabet. I feel like an airhead, but I really don't remember most of what we were taught today. I took notes and everything, but they just... Don't make any sense to me now. I'm gonna do some research before I do my homework tonight though, so all is grand. I also think I did an okay audition for Dvorak's teen safety play. I'm pretty excited to start acting again, so I'm actually kinda excited for it.

Off to do the rest of my homework. Peace and love.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker
(no, I didn't steal this signature from The Perks of Being A Wallflower)

poo

Grade: 100

I deserve a 100 today because today we did writing and I was all "woohoo writing!" like I always am. I gave the others advice on their plays and screenplays and whatnot and took advice for my own... I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote my plot, but whatever. I like the turkey farm. Anyway, that's it. Have fun, don't die.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Vaccination

Movement: 10 minutes
Voice: 30 minutes (singing)
Reading Out Loud: Midsummer's Night Dream - 20 minutes
Grade: 100

My computer hath been fixed. Thank you Norton Antivirus. All my stuff is saved.

Anyway, today was a pretty standard day... We did yoga in school with the dance class, which was pretty nice. I like yoga. My balance is still a bit iffy. But it's gotten better. So yay? Then we did really basic Meisner with the dancers... that was okay, I guess.

I deserve a 100 for the day because I was very into the yoga and was a good "team leader." Team leader for acting. Yes. I seem to be a team leader for everything now, don't I? Haha. Whatever, I'm not complaining. I feel weird knowing that the majority of the other theatre kids look at me and see an older, more experienced student... It doesn't feel like that long ago that I was a freshman.

Whatever, I'm rambling. I don't like to ramble. Now I'm gonna go play guitar and be a hippie. Byebye.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

It's viral

Movement: 20 minutes
Voice: 10 minutes
Reading Out Loud: Midsummer Night's Dream - 20 minutes
Grade: 100

My computer has a god damned virus. Just great. If I have to wipe that computer, I'm going to lose everything I have. My scripts, my portfolio stuff, everything... Fucking virus programmers who have nothing to do with their time but make my life miserable.

Anyway, I'm lucky to even be able to on here right now, so this post has to be short. I give myself a 100 today because it was tech day and I did fine work. I was one of the leaders and I delegated to my three people just fine and made sure they were doing stuff and didn't just give them busy work in order to get them out of my hair. Then again, I also had three people who wanted to work. Anyway, that's all for now. Stupid computer.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

I'm pleasant

Movement: 15 minutes
Vocal: 15 minutes
Reading Out Loud: Midsummer Night's Dream 20 minutes
Grade: 100

Today was history day... Somewhat exciting. I'm iffy with history. Sometimes I love it, other times it bores the hell out of me. Today was pretty interesting though. The medieval times were terrible... Certainly not as fun as Monty Python and Medieval Times made them look.

We also did table work for Midsummer and I understood most of the language before it was analyzed! Yay. I'm proud of myself when I do stuff. Especially stuff that's actually important/stuff that will actually be relevant to me in ten years. My nose is stuffy.

Anyway, today I believe I've earned a 100 because my history outline was pretty good and I participated quite a lot in the discussion and the table work. I think that's a pretty good asset that I can participate in a discussion even when it doesn't particularly interest me.

On another note, I started writing something interesting recently and I've been working on it for a few weeks... It's about a poet trying to meet a deadline... And well, it's a bit complex. But I don't want to talk about it, I want to keep working on it. So I shall.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Articulatory Agility and Other Semi-Interesting Thoughts

Movement: 15 minutes
Vocal Work: 15 minutes
Reading Out Loud: Midsummer's Night Dream - 15 minutes
Grade: 100

Kinky cookie, giggle-gaggle...

I'm really proud of myself. Today we were doing articulation exercises in class and my articulation has gotten so much better since freshman year. I used to have "s" problems like nobody's business, but now it seems like those are gone. I still have a bit of a vowel slurring problem though, which is odd, since I'm the only one in the class who has them. But whatever, one problem is not very much to complain about.

Shakespeare is beautiful. Really. I never realized how insanely well-written Hamlet's "to be or not to be" monologue is. Crazy, man. Crazy. It puts doing Midsummer into both a better and a worse place now. Better because I understand the levels of insight and beauty in his work, worse because I don't wanna bleep it up. Oi.

Anyway, today, I've earned a 100 because I participated in the exercises we did, participated in the discussion about Shakespeare and whatnot. I also helped my partner, who is new to the school, with any questions that she had and to understand the exercises better while we were doing them.

Now to continue working on my vowels... And dance the night away. Good day.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Hurrah?

Okay, so... This is an awesome way of doing journal entries, legit. Way to go Aladren. Now, if you're just a random person surfing Blogspot, that statement probably confused you a bit, so allow me to explain to you.

I'm Daniel Baker, sixteen years old and a junior in high school. I'm enrolled in a theatre conservatory at my high school and each week, we're expected to do journals that analyze ourselves and our growth as artists and whatnot. My teacher's name is Maria Aladren and she's come up with the idea this year of doing the journals electronically, to save paper and be eco-friendly. She's a proud tree hugger and I suppose I am too, considering I'm actually doing this blog. It's a pretty neat idea and since I seem to spend a lot of my spare time on the computer, so if it'll probably also help me to remember to do them everyday, unlike the past two years...

I suppose this might get kind of interesting. Or maybe it'll just get boring, mundane and repetitive... Either way, it's a great concept and I'm going to enjoy it.

The real posts won't start 'til Monday though... We only went back to school today and the assignment doesn't start until then.

Tata for now.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker