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[Jan. 22nd, 2020|06:27 pm] |
 SPAM POST.
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[Mar. 15th, 2010|05:19 pm] |
So, Weston Hills, say hello to your new Cinderella-slash-Little Red Riding Hood! I can't believe that I got not only one, but BOTH of the roles I auditioned for! It's going to be a lot of work, but it'll be so worth it and I'm ready to go for it. I'm so glad I got up the nerve to audition! I've always been a big fan of fairy tales, and considering what James Lapine did with these characters? It's an amazing interpretation of the stories and I can't wait to start rehearsals!
Things in my life are definitely improving. April and I have gotten super close lately - like, to the point where I kind of consider Eph a part of the family. April's always been such a huge influence on my life, and now I think she's starting to see that I'm not a little girl anymore, that I'm growing up. I'll never be as super confident and wild as she is, but I'm okay with that now. I'm figuring out who I am, one step at a time, but I know that I'm not just baby Daly. I'm Hallie, someone who is completely separate from the rest of her family. Much as I love them, it's hard to try and stand out in a crowd with so many strong personalities in it. I think I'm managing, though.
And for those who may not know - which is probably nobody, but whatever - I'm in a new relationship now. It may seem kind of quick, but at the same time, Chance has been my best friend for years. He's really an amazing person, and I'm incredibly happy with him. Everything with us has just been great, and I can't wait to see where this goes. |
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[Jan. 18th, 2010|03:34 pm] |
ATTN: All Daly family members.
FUCK. OFF. All of you. |
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[Jan. 13th, 2010|03:09 am] |
Wow, it's been awhile since I've updated this thing. Since my last update, I've started dating Noah and have decided to try out for the school musical, so long as it's not something along the lines of High School Musical. I'm also nearly finished with my goal of completing all of the Wheel of Time books by my fifteenth birthday, which I think is pretty awesome, but I don't know if anyone else is going to even understand what I'm talking about.
I can't believe my freshman year is halfway done! Sometimes I feel like I've just started it, and at other points I almost want it to keep going. This could potentially have something to do with the fact that Noah graduates at the end of the year, though. I'm really proud of him for deciding to go to Juilliard, and New York's only five or six hours away from here, so visits aren't out of the question. My parents aren't going to be happy about the idea of letting me go down there on my own, so I'll have to figure something out with them, but I think we can keep this going. It's been hard lately, because my parents and a few of my family members don't like the fact that Noah is my boyfriend, but I'm dealing with it. At least they seem to be getting used to the idea, though.
I think that's really all from me right now. |
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| 01. I'm not that girl... |
[Dec. 3rd, 2009|06:10 pm] |
So I've been sitting here listening to showtunes for a couple of hours, and I have a request to make to the theater teachers here at WHHS: for next semester's musical, can we please do something that makes more of a statement than High School Musical does? It's nothing but another Disney moneymaker, churning out banal pop songs that tweens will buy up by the thousands because they do whatever Disney wants them to. That company should have just kept to the cartoons and not tried breaking into pre-teen and teen culture. I feel like our generation has been ruined because of the crap that keeps getting turned out. I mean really, Miley Cyrus? The Jonas Brothers? Where will it stop?
Anyway, anti-Disney rant aside, things are going pretty well right now, I guess. I'm buried under a mountain of homework right now, but one of the books I have to read for English is Pride and Prejudice, which I'm absolutely in love with. Elizabeth Bennet is such an awesome protagonist, and her romance with Darcy is absolutely incredible, because she's not some wilting-flower damsel in distress who'll fall all over herself the minute a man pays attention to her. Or maybe that's just me, because I'm a nerd and sometimes I wish my life would work out like a Jane Austen novel. But then again, I guess my parents would be more fond of my Jane Austen fantasy than they would be of me wanting to live in a twenty-first century romance novel.
Yes, my sister decided that it was time for me to learn a few things about the world, so she bought me a couple of romance novels. They're... well, frankly, the plots are pretty unbelievable and convoluted, but they are entertaining, in a way. Still, I never realized just how preoccupied with sex the characters in these books are. There's some kind of explicit scene like, every ten pages or so. It's crazy.
Private.
And reading those books just makes me realize how young I still am. I mean, I'm almost fifteen, but compared to Noah, I'm practically a baby. He took me on my first date, and I've never even kissed a boy before, let alone done anything else. I really, really like him, but at the same time, I know that he's graduating in June and going off to college in August. And then it's going to be three years until I graduate from high school, just when he's finishing with college. I just keep feeling like I'm never going to be old enough. He might think I'm cute now, but he's gotta be conscious of the difference in our ages. There are plenty of prettier girls in this school, girls who know more about what they're doing, who are older than I am. He won't have to wait for them to grow up.
Plus, there's Ava. They're just friends, I know that, but she's so pretty and popular and that intimidates me. How can he hang out with the both of us? Everyone knows who Ava is, and who am I, just some stupid little freshman girl. She's his best friend, and they're going to go to college together, far away from Maine. What guy in his right mind is going to keep dating a girl in high school when he's at a huge college with plenty of girls close at hand? I really should just give up now, but I can't help wanting something to happen, even if it won't last.
End Private. |
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[Nov. 20th, 2009|09:50 am] |
You know, I'm never going to understand this Twilight phenomena that's going on right now. Granted, it's an entertaining book series, but it's written on an average fourth-grade reading level. By comparison, Harry Potter is written on a seventh to eighth grade reading level on average. And the main characters are... ugh. Edward's a creepy undead stalker, Bella's got the personality of a doormat and about as much intellectual capacity, plus she apparently needs to be kept in one of those germophobic bubbles in order to keep her from injuring herself. She's just another idiot damsel in distress, not to mention a necrophiliac. I don't get why she's got three guys falling all over themselves to be with her; it's just stupid on so many levels. I don't want to 'find my Edward' - if I had to pick a Twilight guy, I'd go for Jacob, since he's at least got a pulse and a personality. Edward and Bella's relationship isn't romantic, it's codependent in the worst possible way. She can't function without him, she's needy and clingy, and he's just a whiny emo kid who's gotten way too good at that over the past century.
If I'm going to read about vampires, give me Anne Rice or Anita Blake - you know, vampires that haven't been practically de-fanged in order to appeal to a simpering teenage girl audience. |
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