I was planning on updating my blog once a month, but that didn’t happen.
October was for Halloween, which was not what I’m used to. There was just something weird about trick or treating at people’s houses that you’ve seen, yet never talked to. (We trick or treat at faculty and staff houses.) You feel kind of bad taking their candy. Then there was the Halloween dance, which was just O.K. My night was really made when we went to a friend’s house and spent the night there. We didn’t go to sleep until almost 4 a.m. Oh, and by the way, none of this actually happened on Halloween. We celebrated Halloween the Sunday before.
Since then, we held an audition workshop for practicing auditions. A piece that I wrote was used for the workshop, and now the same piece was picked to be filmed by my production class. The casting for the scene went very well. I am quite happy with the actors. I just wish that I was directing the scene, but as I wrote it, that isn’t possible.
Instead, I have to direct, along with three other people, a scene from When Harry Met Sally for my Directing for the Camera class. I also have to act in a scene from Mystic River, and light a scene from Stranger Than Fiction. I’m only kind of looking forward to this.
Right now I’m on Thanksgiving break. While waiting for my connection to Lincoln from Minneapolis, I met up with my friend Jessica, and we went to the Mall of America for a little bit. We stopped and got something to eat at Caribou Coffee. They have these huge donuts appropriately called Paul Bunyan donuts. I got a (gigantic) Bavarian creme-filled long john, as always. I arrived in Lincoln on Sunday at around noon. I feel like I’ve been asleep the entire time I was at Interlochen. My life since September has been a dream, and I just woke up at home. It feels so weird.
I’m trying to see as many people as I can this week, and still get some work done for school. We’ll see how that goes. If anything, I won’t get any work done, and then I’ll be working all next week. I’m used to that, though, so that may be how it happens.
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Marcella // November 22, 2007 at 11:24 am
Happy Thanksgiving Diego!
The update is quite interesting.
From what I understand reading your notes, it’s true, your life at Interlochen sounds like a dream.
And by the way, very nice pictures!
Un abbraccio,
Marcella
David Carter // November 22, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Well, you better wake up man! A lot has happened since you went to sleep. For example, I have completely neglected to send you any mail.
I have a wonderful, yet charmingly mundane, gift for you that I mentioned at your going-away party. I hope you like it.
The pictures you post are excellent. All of your classmates look as though they are insane. But, that is good I guess.
You guys should do a scene from “It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world”. That would be classic. I have heard that, pound for pound, Mickey Rooney was the greatest actor of all time.
-Dave
Mr. Rousseau // November 22, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Diego, enjoy your time home, as I know you are. I am impressed with your time spent away from home, as I did not experience time away from home until after high school when I joined the Navy. As always, I admire your ability, maturity, and positive decision making.
Good to hear from you.
Take care,
Mr. Rousseau
robert // December 4, 2007 at 6:44 am
you are neat.
keep it up.
the end.
Jim Barstow // December 16, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Diego, What are you doing over Xmas break? The usual group needs to get together for coffee,so we can all get caught up. I have heard from JC for a while and it would be nice to see her sleepy, but smiling face. As for your reluctance to act, go for it, you have been hiding on the other side of the camera enough.
Great picts by the way, Friday the 21st is Focus Day – Hannah Breckbill is presenting on her adventures in Morocco and then the barely talented show will be in the afternoon. If you are in town drop by. Jim