#the cool part abt teacher college is that i get to do activities for elementary schoolers during finals

[icarrymany]

sack

[unproduciblesmackdown]

i can remember going to like five bday parties

1. kid in preschool who invited pretty much everyone. all i remember was going up the driveway

2. kid in elementary school named tommy who didn't have hardly any friends, same. we went to the bowling alley and i'm sure that was great. i'm cool with bowling.

just remembered i had a kinda friend named sophia for a few years cuz our moms worked together or smthing. she was fun we just didnt see each other that much. also had a friend in early elementary school named michael who i enjoyed being around, which was rare i actively wanted to be friends with someone, he was cool too. i think he went to a different school after a couple of grades tho. another rare friend i wanted to be friends with was the one where we were both so quiet that im not even sure we spoke the same language, in a literal sense. but that was the one where one day i guess the teacher wanted to make an example out of a couple quiet kids who never did anything coz we were getting a kick out of looking at each other thru the holes in our folders and it wasnt even a lesson but i had to carry my assigned desk across the room and for someone who interprets attention as dangerous it was a trial for me though i pretended it was fine coz i have had a stubborn streak since old enough to have like any traits at all. other people i wanted to be friends with pre-college: josh, who i was friends with, but after we went to different schools and i found him on facebook he refused to talk to me coz he was going through a hardcore late emo phase i guess and i hope that part of his life has settled; emily, who was cute and friendly and we were acquaintances who shared classes but i never spoke to anyone and we never got a friendship going thru coincidence, saw her years later at my summer job and she seemed alive; arissa, who i was friends with and could goof around with but then we went to different schools and never had any contact since

3. a sorta friend from since-preschool, this one was pretty fun, it was a smallish sleepover and we watched a movie and did the thing where you pour some colors into a mold and bake ur own custom superball, there were fireflies too, her parents were nice.

4. a friend who had a pool party which was great b/c i like pools. accidentally gave her a present meant for my dad because they were the same size and i wrapped them together coz their birthdays are close together and i didnt even realize it until my dad opened the one meant for her a few days later. classic

5. a friend who went to a concert kind of but it was like a mom concert especially since her mom took us and it was fine but i dont count it as my first concert which was me sneaking off to see kesha. it was good except she hadnt ever said it was a birthday thing so i hadnt brought a gift and there was only one other person invited, who totally had. Classic

6. just remembered another one which was a elementary school friend for a couple years, all i remember really happening was using coloring books and she got really stressed about finding a marker she'd just gotten as a gift because her parents would be mad. also got stressed when something spilled i think. i recognized that pretty easily so im really assuming her parents were abusive too. she wasnt always that great a friend though and it made me mad, like one time in art class she asked my advice on how to fix flower stems she'd painted too wide and i said well all i could really think to do was use some white paint on it, and when she did that and the paint didnt opaquely cover up what she'd painted she got mad at me and for some reason stole my scissors to get even with me for ruining her painting. third grade me didnt think that was cool. plus she always took half my sandwich at lunch, like, bro. but that wasnt as annoying as the time a friend in middle school who was one of the only people to actually hang out with me was not only going thru a period of not hanging out with me but also only talking to me to get my math homework to copy from during lunch. and then one day she didnt even give it back before lunch and our next period was math and anyways i was upset about getting a zero but then i didnt care pretty quickly. she was pretty nice anyway. and i came to give like rock bottom amt of shits abt school within time so looking back im definitely not even mad. that scissors thing was still out of line tho by contrast

thrillingly i thought of that topic coz once i tagged along to a bday party of one of my sister's friends, my sister being a person who actually has friends. it was pretty fun and it was just backyard running around and one of them let me race them around in circles on a bike, which i recognized as gracious from a kid three years older. i think that was where my sister got a plastic cup that looked like a coconut that my mom took and threw away later to punish her for whatever and i remember coz my sister cared enough about it to ask her not to throw it away but of course that doesnt work

i had a bday party once? in elementary school. i guess we saw a movie but im not sure what it was. and it was a sleepover so apparently i couldnt invite my friends who were boys, which was at least half of the precious few of them, which i thought was dumbassed as hell, on account of it was. plus for like weeks in advance my mom threatened to cancel it for whatever thing of the day was pissing her off. probably not playing piano for thirty minutes a day which i never wanted to do but for some reason had to do for years because i made the mistake of wanting to do the thing my sister was when i was like five and a clueless fucko. and we owned a piano. idk why my mom gave a shit that if we showed any interest in learning we Had to, for 30 min a Day which is an eternity in kid time, and also we couldnt stop. that was a weird thing that i forget about. i forget about 86% of my life and 93% of the first third or two because there is not much worth remembering as you can imagine. i mean, its mostly there in my memory, its just hard to pull up anything unless i have a specific reminder of a certain memory or else just try really hard i guess. i'm just out here, who knows what was going on back then. besides bs

[prynnehesters]

why i hate college theatre majors, an essay perhaps

ok, so i was in theatre in high school. heck, i was in theatre when i was in 4th grade, but in high school and elementary school, i was an actor, whereas in college i was a techie, so mayhaps that is why my experience is terrible. but here we go:

elementary school was a local theatre which focused on getting children into acting coming to various schools in our district and directing like, 1 show a year. it lasted for a few months and gave 50 kids grades 4-6 (although it changed to 3-5 probably years after i left because our district changed) something to do after school. i never got big parts, but i always ended up hating the director because they sounded fake or were a bitch or whatever and i never got big roles but i mean, whatever. i was honestly in it for the cast parties, but those were regulated too and i couldn’t have all the pizza i wanted (disappointing). idk but like, all i remember from elementary school was kids being mean to me, but me still going back to do theatre, like an abusive relationship

in junior high, my cousin scared me out of doing theatre, so i didn’t do it until 9th grade when i needed more electives since i hated choir and only had sports

in high school, our drama club was majority student run. in previous years (like when i was in grade 7) it was run by an art teacher and there was this amazing student director but they graduated, so then drama club was in a rut, but it got fished out after a year of dealing w this shitty history teacher, and then we had some amazing student directors, but then right before i left drama sunk back into the hole and then got fished out again. idk, we��ve had different periods. i just hated musicals because i never had fun during them and the songs were annoying. also as an actor i hated getting small parts but i loved drama club so much but my parents were discouraging when it came to it and it fell apart my senior year so i decided to study science and went to college w that mindset

i didn’t really interact w theatre kids my first 2 years of college...it was bits and pieces of occasional thtr ppl, and most of the ppl i met were tech ppl and they were chill. i met one actor guy, he was an RA and an asshole

it wasn’t really until my 3rd year at the end of it in thtr 101 but everyone was chill and the proff was chill and i got involved in a big musical and worked backstage w some chill ppl and this one chick who ended up being really bad. her name was a slur and she was just...that annoying cute girl who knows she’s cute so she’ll use it to be annoying to guys...i hate ppl like that. at the time she was a thtr minor, but she changed to major shortly afterwards and i think she’s one of those ppl who wants to be an actor but isn’t good enough imo. idk, she’s a tryhard

and then i jumped full into the world of thtr at my uni after that class

i auditioned for the big musical and i went in there anxious as hell and ran out sobbing because i flubbed my audition. the teacher didn’t even remember me and i had to reintroduce myself 

i worked on a production as a run crew member and that production was awful. like, 2 of the ppl i worked with were ok, but almost all of the actors were trash, the director was trash, and the freshmen backstage workers sucked ass. also the stage manager was an asshole. the only cool ppl were the lead female and one of the freshmen backstage, but i worry about him. one of the freshmen girls backstage gave me the wrong vibes and i think 1 of the guys faded into the void and so did she. 

i took an acting class for funzies and it was fun but so many of the ppl in the class rang fake to me so i couldn’t take it seriously. also there were a lot of assholes. idk i just remember i told a girl i was autistic, but in super vague terms and she just stared at me for what seemed like an hour and then left. i later found out she lived in a single room so...ooop

and because i talked abt shitty thtr kids it made ppl seem to think i was a thtr kid....what the fuck!?!?!?! like, my stem major breatheren are boring af!!! there’s nothing to talk abt there. they’re boring and basic and like beer. that’s it!!!! thtr ppl are drama on wheels...

idk...just actors seem like ass and i felt like i was both butting into their conversations and being actively ignored

a lot of actors were total dicks to me

they just talk like twitter is real life and real life is twitter

what else....????? um, since they’re in college they can’t just enjoy popular theatre, they have to like weird edgy bullshit and the only ppl who come to see shows at uni are ppl who have to and their friends and family

also while working on a show i had to deal w actors who were fake deep and they acted like being an actor was so hard and whatever...like literally so many actors just get plucked off the streets nowadays

the worst theatre kids are the ones who hate movies tbh. like the movie stans are annoying...but those who actively hate movies are on another level 

also i managed to piss off a property designer one time because i was disappointed that she used axe as a lesbian and i think she forgot about the encounter but she was probably the worst techie i met 

actors hate it when they have to act as techies because they’re better than it, or so they think

most techies are fine, but there are those techies

most actors are awful, but then there are some genuine ppl who are alright

i was a prop assistant on a play and their team was too big and they were unorganized and the playwright was an asshole. she’s still writing shitty plays and having them produced by local theatres and i think she sucks and she was one of the most awful ppl who thinks she’s hot shit bcuz she made it to 400 level acting 

just....actors in general because our program is catered to them because they level up essentially every year and techies take like, 1 class, and boom, they’re a stage manager

a lot of the writing they write is “fake deep”. like, i remember one guy was sharing his piece on these research scientists and one of them gets naked for no reason whatsoever and then ppl were talking about how “deep” it was and i was disgusted because the guy who wrote it was like “huh, i haven’t thought of it in that way...but i totally meant it like that”

my playwrighting class in general was a nightmare. so many of those plays were shite. i apparently was one of the best playwrights and the other ones who were “the best” were the girl who basically wrote wolf 359 but in a submarine, some guy who wrote a play about grindr, and a girl who just wrote random shit

i worked in a professional theatre and they were so much nicer...like my tech bros were chill and we got good ass cheese

in conclusion, theatre majors suck. they’re cliquey, they’re stuck up, and they think they’re better than you. im staying away from theatre for a while. i might go and work in event planning and tech stuff, but idk

fuck. college. theatre. majors.

end rant