SORRY! TTATT Well, to those who actually care that I was away for a few weeks. >.>
Mmkay, so yeah. I have been very busy. Ya know with school and real life and such. Mainly I was busy with drama. Well, State Drama to be precise. Ya see?
About 1 month and 1/2 ago my drama teacher Mr. Stedillie saw one of my sketches of a genie in my notebook and put me down on the list to participate in State Drama without even asking me if I wanted to enter or not. And for those who don't know what state drama is, it's a GIANT competition with students from different schools all over (whatever state you live in, in my case, Wyoming) and they all enter in different categories (monologues, duets, one act play, costume design, stage craft, etc.) and compete with the others that entered in the same category. What was I entered in? 1st year costume design. Oh yah, and State Drama this year was actually held up at the college in my town, was there from 8 am to 10 pm for 3 days pretty much. =A=
But yeah, I didn't want to enter because I'm not good under pressure and stress and such. I was freaking out because when I told him I no longer wanted to be in it he said that he'd already payed for my entries and such so I was screwed. So I went ahead and did my 3 designs. (For those who have no idea, 1st year costume design you have to design 3 costumes for a play of your choice and they can be for different characters or just 1 and you have to write down why you made them the way you did, have the drawings inked and colored and matted and NOT to draw the faces and you have to have a swatch of each different fabric on the outfits) And I decided to do all 3 of my outfits for Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd. It was stressful. TTATT
Well, I was working on those designs the whole time I've been away. ANYWAYS, fast forward to state drama which was Dec 3-5. IT WAS AMAZING! O_O There were so many different talented high school students from all over Wyoming. I LOVED IT! =w= I met so many talented artists and actors/actresses there, made some new friends, and just overall enjoyed myself. It was different than I had expected seeing as how I didn't know what to expect. I saw some funny monologues and duets and plays (and some bad ones >_>

and I even got to see one of the girls from my school, Paulina do her own makeup as the Queen of Hearts.

And with the costume designs, there were a LOT. O_O Most of the designs were for 1st year costume design (68 people entered for 1st year =_=

and then there were a bunch for 2nd year and some for 3rd and 4th year. Well, a lot of the designs, honestly, looked like they were drawn by preschoolers. e_e No joke. If I were these kid's drama teacher and they said, "Teacher, I want to enter in costume design at State Drama! DERP! 8D" I'd reply, "LEARN TO DRAW FIRST! D< RAWR!" And then they'd run away and cry. Seriously, a bunch of them were BAD. Of course, there were some really amazing ones though that I was in utter awe over. O_O They were gorgeous. Except for one entry for 2nd year costume design.........
Remember how I said that the designs are supposed to be for a PLAY? Well, this stupid hoar....*cough*..... I mean, stupid female, did her designs for Romeo x Juliet. No, not Romeo AND Juliet. Romeo x Juliet. AN ANIME. Oh, and she drew the EXACT OUTFITS FROM THE ANIME! D< All she did was change the colors of the pants and shirt on one and the other 5 just changed the colors of a couple of articles of clothing. Not to mention she even had a folder with pictures from the damn anime! D< The nerve!
(This is going to be a long journal entry. >_> lawlz)
Oh yes, before continuing on that, I forgot to mention about the 2 amazing girls I met who take part in this!

Alissa and Ameena. =w= Well, Alissa is the one who caught my attention and I actually stalked her a bit on the first day of State Drama trying to find an appropriate moment to go up and talk to her. xD lol She is ADORABLE and has blue, white and blonde hair and dresses sooo kyute and had a red bow in her hair. x3 When I finally talked to her, we hit it off PERFECTLY. Like me,she LOVES anime and yaoi and she teaches herself Japanese (though her Japanese needs some work. >_> I take it at my high school and sensei is old and she was born and raised in Japan, so I can say that. xD lol) And she is just amazing. =w= Then she introduced me to her friend Ameena who is okay, but is a bit more quiet and always had a fierce looking expression on her face. o.o She was pretty though and was also nice.
OKAY, Well Alissa is the one who showed me the Romeo . Juliet designs and we were standing in front of the drawings and say how they were stolen from the anime and such and how we tried to get her disqualified by telling the judges, but apparently it was too late to do that because she had already been judged and critiqued. -_- As we were talking about all of this I suddenly noticed a very pissed off looking chick who looked like The Ring girl standing on the other side of Alissa. Guess who it was? 8D Yes, the girl who drew the pictures. XDDD LMFAO She started talking and being a bitch to us, raising her voice trying to defend herself and saying she didn't steal them and blah blah blah while Alissa argued with her and I just stood there and snickered. This girl just made me snicker, though she looked older than me. She was acting very immature and had no valid argument. So yes, she was just a sad little girl who can't come up with anything herself. I told Alissa that it's pointless to fight when she was merely going to deny her lack of originality and dragged away leaving behind a pissed The Ring girl. It was rather amusing actually. =w= (Don't worry, she didn't win anything for 2nd year costume design 8D)
My fingers are getting tired from soooooo much typing so I'll skip to the last day of State drama. @_@
At the awards banquet on the last day, there were only medals for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place of each category. They announced the top 3 winners of each category and that person went up and got there medal. There were a LOT of people. And guess what? I got 3rd place for 1st year costume design! x3 And that was out of 68 people and there were only 3 medals! 8D WEEHEEHEE!!! I was ecstatic. =w= My friend Serena got 1st place for 1st year costume design and she deserved it! Her designs for Moulin Rouge were beautiful. I was so happy for her!

And not to mention my friend Anna won 1st place for 2nd year costume design with her outfits for Hamlet! They were STUNNING! @w@ I was soooooooo happy for her and she was so happy that she was crying. >w< And then Emma won 2nd place in stage design for her stage designs for Wizard of Oz!

They were pretty. x3 And some other kids from my school got honorable mentions or got a medal for making the State Drama cast, (such as I!

). It was a lot of fun though. I can't wait til I'm a senior next year because I'll enter again, this time of my own free will. ^_^
Oh, and thank goodness I got Alissa and Ameena's myspace accounts and also got Alissa's phone number!

Too bad they live about 4 hours away from me though. D: Oh well. These past few weeks were stressful, but worth it in the end. ^_^ Weeheehee! I'll scan my designs and post them up when ever I stop being lazy. XD lol