August 12, 2000
Time Passes By
Oh children. I've been so incredibly useless today. I was up too late last night, after being tired already, so naturally today I slept until about 1 pm. Then I sort of wandered into the living room and looked through old videotapes. I found several of me in high school and spent the afternoon pleasantly reminiscent.
Case in point: the picture to the right is me at sixteen. (I took a picture of the TV, which explains the weirdness.) It was a choir concert, and I was singing "Goin' to the Chapel" with an 8-member all-girl vocal group. Watching that concert, which I hadn't looked at for years, was just... neat. I saw people I haven't seen in well over ten years. Of course, most of them I wouldn't especially want to see again, but hey.
Do you know I thought I was fat when I was sixteen? I was convinced I was huge. I was painfully self-conscious and thought I was the geekiest, funniest-looking thing in my senior class. And, aside from the late-80s hair, I was damn cute! (I'm still damn cute, but that's beside the point.)
Maybe I'm biased, but one thing those tapes showed me is that I was a pretty interesting performer. I mean, I got into it, as evidenced by the picture.
Then happily, when I got online, I found the website for my old community theatre group, and found this. Yeah. That's me behind the cream pie. It was my last play with them, The Canterville Ghost. I was playing a medium a la Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost. I remember that pie. We had to find something that wouldn't melt under the lights in the heat of summer. I think we ended up using frozen Cool Whip -- by the time the ghost (played by Eric Cruzen -- Eric if you read this, email me!) splatted me with it, it was still vaguely whipped-cream-ish.
Ah... those were the days.
That does it. I'm auditioning for the Choral Union.
Posted by Lisa at August 12, 2000 10:23 PM
