Monday, February 16, 2004
family time
i find these days that i really love living at home. no, not just cuz of the free rent. but really cuz i get to spend time with my family. i get to help raise my brother and get to know him, especially during these times when he's starting to crush on girls (17 year old ones, mind you. he's only 13!). i'm glad i'm here to motivate him and help explain things when my parents are freaking out. and it's nice to get to know my parents more. kind of a funny concept, because i've known them my whole life. but you go through different stages in your relationship with your parents, right? when i was a kid, they were my whole world, especially cuz i was an only child for 6 years. then as a teenager, they were my inhibitants. no, not inhabitants, but people who inhibited me. even for most of my college years that's how i saw them. but slowly, especially nowadays, i listen to them more, listen to them laugh, have arguments, work together, comfort each other, love each other. and i try to pay attention to everything i overhear, cuz i know it's gonna be a learning experience. i used to eavesdrop to figure out if they're talking about me (to find out if i'm in trouble again). these days, i listen more to appreciate their relationship and to hope and wish that i will have a similar love with my future husband.
oh, and what spurred on this thought? it was valentine's day this weekend, of course. it's also a huge family weekend, as it's my parent's anniversary-28 years this year. and on the 15th was my dad's 55th birthday. all the relatives came over for my dad's party. i always end up hanging out with the parents and not really the cousins. i'm so much older than the cousins and it's hard for me to just hang out with them. half the time, i just wanna slap 'em around cuz they're acting dumb. but i'm sure i acted that way too at that age.
oh and it was quite a lovely valentine's evening. glenn suprised me with a play over at the pasadena playhouse called talley's folly. i really loved it. it was very different, cuz we usually see musicals and this one was with just two characters. but it was very well-written, with a progression between very defensive people with their own emotional baggage finally letting their guard down and letting the other person in. they were two eggs who finally let their shells be cracked. but the story was beautiful and it was truly a waltz... a one, two, three, a one, two, three... thanx verwin for the tickets!
"Talley's Folly is a charmer, filled to the brim with hope, humor, and chutzpah. This is a treasure." - Walter Kerr, New York Times
One of America's most gifted playwrights brings his brilliant and poetic masterpiece to Pasadena. In the early 1980's Wilson, along with his long-time collaborator Marshall Mason, created a buzz first Off-Broadway, at New York's Circle Repertory Company, and later on Broadway with what came to be known as the Talley Trilogy - a series of plays which provide a vivid portrait of America in the 20th century through the lives of the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri. Talley's Folly received the most critical attention of these plays, receiving numerous awards and nominations including the New York Drama Critics Circle, five Tony Award nominations and the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
In Talley's Folly, we are introduced to Sally Talley, a young woman who is enmeshed in a duet of yearning, loneliness and triumphant love found in the most unlikely of places. It is the Fourth of July and 41 year-old Matt (originally played by Judd Hirsch, for whom Wilson wrote the play), must confront his illusions as he pleads his love to young Sally. Unaccepted by her family and separated by class, they share a love at first improbable but quite possibly redeeming. This play became an instant classic of the Broadway stage. A Co-Production with the Arizona Theatre Company.
the gres, however, were not as glorious. had them sunday morning and though it wasn't that long, it was not painless either. i guess i had higher expectations and i just was not happy with my score. i was pretty much in a crappy mood the rest of the day even though i felt better after talking to jei about what a "good" score is to compensate the bad (bad, not in quotations, for it is literally bad) gpa on applications for grad school programs. good thing the program i'm applying for finds leadership skills and experience an important part of their applicants. that's gonna have to weigh out the not-so-good numbers. i was thinking of retaking the exam, but after speaking to the student coordinator, it doesn't even matter so much during the application process. so i just have to settle for the fact that i did my best at that time and they'll have to recognize my worth not through my numbers, but by my letters of recommendation and personal statement. well, we'll see what He has planned for me. all i can do is go through the process and do my best, right?
oh, and what spurred on this thought? it was valentine's day this weekend, of course. it's also a huge family weekend, as it's my parent's anniversary-28 years this year. and on the 15th was my dad's 55th birthday. all the relatives came over for my dad's party. i always end up hanging out with the parents and not really the cousins. i'm so much older than the cousins and it's hard for me to just hang out with them. half the time, i just wanna slap 'em around cuz they're acting dumb. but i'm sure i acted that way too at that age.
oh and it was quite a lovely valentine's evening. glenn suprised me with a play over at the pasadena playhouse called talley's folly. i really loved it. it was very different, cuz we usually see musicals and this one was with just two characters. but it was very well-written, with a progression between very defensive people with their own emotional baggage finally letting their guard down and letting the other person in. they were two eggs who finally let their shells be cracked. but the story was beautiful and it was truly a waltz... a one, two, three, a one, two, three... thanx verwin for the tickets!
"Talley's Folly is a charmer, filled to the brim with hope, humor, and chutzpah. This is a treasure." - Walter Kerr, New York Times
One of America's most gifted playwrights brings his brilliant and poetic masterpiece to Pasadena. In the early 1980's Wilson, along with his long-time collaborator Marshall Mason, created a buzz first Off-Broadway, at New York's Circle Repertory Company, and later on Broadway with what came to be known as the Talley Trilogy - a series of plays which provide a vivid portrait of America in the 20th century through the lives of the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri. Talley's Folly received the most critical attention of these plays, receiving numerous awards and nominations including the New York Drama Critics Circle, five Tony Award nominations and the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
In Talley's Folly, we are introduced to Sally Talley, a young woman who is enmeshed in a duet of yearning, loneliness and triumphant love found in the most unlikely of places. It is the Fourth of July and 41 year-old Matt (originally played by Judd Hirsch, for whom Wilson wrote the play), must confront his illusions as he pleads his love to young Sally. Unaccepted by her family and separated by class, they share a love at first improbable but quite possibly redeeming. This play became an instant classic of the Broadway stage. A Co-Production with the Arizona Theatre Company.
the gres, however, were not as glorious. had them sunday morning and though it wasn't that long, it was not painless either. i guess i had higher expectations and i just was not happy with my score. i was pretty much in a crappy mood the rest of the day even though i felt better after talking to jei about what a "good" score is to compensate the bad (bad, not in quotations, for it is literally bad) gpa on applications for grad school programs. good thing the program i'm applying for finds leadership skills and experience an important part of their applicants. that's gonna have to weigh out the not-so-good numbers. i was thinking of retaking the exam, but after speaking to the student coordinator, it doesn't even matter so much during the application process. so i just have to settle for the fact that i did my best at that time and they'll have to recognize my worth not through my numbers, but by my letters of recommendation and personal statement. well, we'll see what He has planned for me. all i can do is go through the process and do my best, right?
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greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
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~ Abraham Lincoln
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~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
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"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
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