Got What it Takes?

Wanna save the world? Test how clever you really are? Or simply be ordered around by a beautiful young Welshmen?

Go here and start the missions: to borrow from Heroes: Save the Welshmen, Save the world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/sites/arg/pages/messages.shtml

RIP Toshiko Sato and Dr Owen Harper

I know, I know. Fictional, aren't they? Maybe to you.

I loved them (okay, Tosh more than Owen though he did mellow out once he was dead...the first time). They were brilliant characters, interesting and complex, with another surprising layer every time I thought I had them figured out. It's not just them, either. Naoko and Burn are now gone from the set of Torchwood. *flails* I wanted to see Burn beatbox, to flirt incessantly with Naoko. *crosses arms*

RTD, if you're reading this: please send me a spool of thread so I can stitch my HEART back together!

Fantasies Come True

So, I had my first time out with the Curtain Call gang (sans Dana, poor pet) outside of Curtain Call. And loved it! It was so great to be around them, as always. I really am going to miss them so much!

And Avenue Q was Legend-wait for it-ary! It was so rutting hilarious, I thought I would die of laughter. Though I worried more about Erin, who can't breath and laugh hysterically at the same time. I sat next to Craig (may have subtly orchestrated that), but that meant I was on the end and sadly not part of most of the comments made. But I got to sit next to Craig! And I kept sneaking glances at him, especially during "A Fine, Fine Line". I don't think he noticed. At least I hope not. No matter what I won't tell him I'm in love with him. It would fuck things up forever.

Also! I got applauded! All I did was give a dollar to the understudy begging for cash during "The Money Song", but I was the only one in my section to do so. When Christmas Eve announced the people were cheapskates, I pointed at my friends and blamed them through my laughter.

Best lines:
-Sarah: I don't want to be worried it will come out the other end. (Don't ask)
-Sarah: I want to be "come".
Beth: Don't we all?
-Beth: You're too tall, you hit your head on the branches.
Craig: You hit your head on lamps.
-Erin: I am the Slut!
Beth: No, you're a slut. You haven't earned my title yet.
-Sarah: You know the people who were collecting money, they were the understudies. I just figured that out.
And Beth feeling the urge to hit everyone for not knowing who COLE PORTER was! Seriousl, I'm bringing De-lovely on Thursday!

Cool Band Promo

Happy Birthday, Gareth David-Lloyd!

Geeky though it may be, I do want to take this opportunity to wish Gareth a very happy birthday indeed.

This time last year, I had no idea who he was and now I couldn't imagine a time before his brilliant little looks, spot-on delivery of one-liners, and passionate way of throwing himself into a scene. He's quite the inspiration to me.

Happy 27th birthday, Gareth! Have the best time of your life!

I Would Have Loved You Anyway

Last night I finally remembered to take my camera to Curtain Call so I could get pictures of my friends there to remember them by. That's when it hit me. I'm going to be gone soon and I'm going to miss these people. These five people are the friends I know I will see every week, the therapy group I'd be lost without. No matter how horrible a day has been, if I can go to Curtain Call and let the magic get me, it'll be all right. I always thought it was the magic of theatre, and of course that's a part of it too, but it's more the magic of having friends who love me and notice when I'm a little off one day.

I've faced a lot of hell this season, but they've seen me through all of it. I don't like to get emotional in the theatre because in the theatre it's a character, not you who gets the emotional journey. But when I just can't take it anymore, all five of them are there for me.

I have no idea what I'll do without them. It's funny. Four years ago, I didn't know a single one of them, but now my life would be so empty and incomplete and wrong without each of them. Funny that.

It's going to hurt like hell when I have to leave. I'm going to sob, it's going to break my heart, but so what? I've got them right now and I'm holding on for the time I have, no matter how much it will hurt later on. The good times with them now will outweigh the bad I'll feel when I leave.

What Have You Done Today to Make You Feel Proud?

Ellen Degeneres did something brilliant, brave, and heart-gripping today. She found a story about an 8th grade boy killed (that's right, KILLED) by another 8th grade boy, whom he had asked to be his Valentine. Ellen didn't let this story slip through the cracks, nor fade away. She talked about it on her daily afternoon talk show, sharing it with an audience that might not have heard about this tragedy otherwise. She said she wasn't a political person, but she made a plea for everyone to stop the hate and truthfully said that, even in this day and age, we are still not treating our fellow humans equally. "He was not a second class citizen, I am not a second class citizen," she said, doing something unusual for her and talking openly on her own show about her homosexuality. She refused to let this story pass by because it is terrible that one boy should be so horrified by being asked to be another boy's Valentine that he thinks the only thing to do is commit murder. My heart truly goes out to the families of both boys.

Even as horrible things happen, sometimes good things happen as well. Last night at my first P.R.I.D.E. meeting (I'm usually at Curtain Call), my mom came and spoke to the group about herself and how she deals with my bisexuality. By the end of the night, I think most of the kids who didn't have such supportive parents wanted her to adopt them. My mom came out as bisexual herself, something she only previously told my brother and myself. Yet another brave thing. She raised me to accept people, no matter what colour, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, age, or whatever else might be another stripe in the rainbow of human existence.