Dana Beaton

Well I got a rejection letter from the UWC. I’m officially a failure. Not really, I just like to complain since I’m so annoyed about not getting in. Now I have to think about where I’m going to go next year.

Did I blog about my drama exam? I can’t remember and I’m too lazy to check, so if I did I’m just going to repeat myself. I got a merit for my Trinity Guildhall Grade 6 exam. 79 out of 100 and 85 was a distinction, so CLOSE! 65 was a merit. The examiner was really nice and I felt so confident during the discussion (which I got 19 out of 20 for) because the actual exam went so well.

So something good happened, followed by something bad. Damn… I guess that’s fair? What, no. It’s not fucking fair, it’s fucking annoying lol.

So I had my drama exam today! It went really well, I think. It helped that the examiner was so nice and we didn’t make any noticable mistakes. Actually…none I don’t think. I did stumble on my second last line on Wednesday night when we had to perform in front of the parents, but I don’t think I did in the exam =D That I can remember, anyway.

And we were actually so lucky, because we were given an improvisation (you get a prompt or theme twenty minutes before the exam to prepare) that was really similar to one we’d practiced with, so we just altered it and basically used the one we had practiced for three hours on the Sunday rehearsal.

Just for your information, we constitutes as my brother and I. I did it with him because I was a grade behind my friends (since I backed out of the Grade 5 exam last year) and didn’t want to do a monologue. I think I worked better with other people that acting by myself. I probably COULD have done some dramatic and sad scene, but… decided not to.

After swimming today, I’ve been so tired =( But I have noticed I’m getting slimmer! These weeks or exercising almost every day are finally paying off! Yay! Although I’m having to deal with my parents telling me if I get any skinnier, I’ll be invisible. It really pisses me off because I know I’m not skinny (and no I’m not one of those morons that is 10 year old girl skinny and denies it), I’m kind of slim but still classify as average. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I want to have the skinny androgynous sorta look. I LIKE that look. Then I can wear badass outfits and look GOOD =)

A lot of you are going to say I sound stupid, but whatthehell..

…learned to pronouce!

CLICK HERE

It’s awesome

Guess what I got again? Another spam comment!

I’ve been managing to go to the gym a lot this week and hoping to keep it up. Today I spent 25 minutes on the crosstrainer, 2000m on the rowing machine, 10 minutes on the squat chair thingie and then 5 minutes on the treadmill to cool off. I’d probably stay on longer, but the council gym has this weird thing where a session is an hour and if you ask for longer they have to get the manager involved, so there’s no bloody point. I had no problems at David Lloyd. You could just come and go as you please. And they actually had showers that WORKED. But it was expensive there… and we live too far away to use it regularly.

Have to go an do my English homework as well as finish my art pictures. If I leave it for the weekend (oh shit, it’s Saturday tomorrow!) then I’ll just be stressed out!

Take care!

I keep getting spam comments coming up on my page where I have comments waiting to be accepted. It’s so irritating. How’s this: PISS OFF.

On a lighter note… this week has gone by much quicker than I expected it to. I still have my English analysis to do as well as the pictures for my art project, that I’m planning to draw with my wacom tablet. I don’t know how my art teacher is going to feel about me using two different paints on my painting, but I need to. It looks better in oil, but the irises have to be acrylic so I can use the acrylic based transfer on it. Any advice on this?

Had my drama group again tonight. It’s totally weird being the new one… it’s not like starting at a new school. It’s going into an environment where everyone already knows each other and talks about people or teachers you don’t know (well those who go to the same school) and they all know each other. Then I come in and I know I can’t expect everyone to act neutral just for me. They should carry on as usual, but it’s just weird for me. I haven’t been the only new one in a group for so long.

So I went into town today with a couple of friends to hand out CVs. I meant to do so starting Christmas holidays but figured I should wait till I did my mock exams and got my predicted grades. So I handed out about 12 today and three places told me I’d be likely to get a position if I were to be here over the Summer holidays. It’s a while to go, but it’s a good offer.

I’m also thinking of starting a podcast, that is somewhat a blog but will revolve more around music (techno, trance, club, occasional rock). But because of licensing I will start out with more unsigned bands/artists and then try asking to use more well-known songs. They’ll probably be more likely to give me permission to use them once they see I have an audience of some sort. So I will be advertising here like crazy when I get started and hope you will all tell your friends =D haha.

I hate posting blog entries with no pictures or videos because it looks so plain, so here’s a song I like! It was between this video or one of gay men, so I figured this one would get less homophobic shit.

I’m trying to make some money by selling photographs. I owe money to my mum, my brother and possibly a friend too: I’ll explain later. And I really need to start saving for college, because I desperately want to study abroad and it’s pricey. I’m going in town tomorrow to hand CVs to various places, but I figured I should try this too. So if you like my prints, please consider ordering some as it will be helping me a lot. Frames are also available, just ask me!

Click here for print gallery

Sparkler fun! =)

So I finally got the FFG DVD! I was so friggin excited! =D My brother and I watched it together and thought it was really good. Even though it was an indie film, it didn’t really feel like it: it flowed well and seemed very well put together. I noticed a few things: in the background where there was a woman with an umbrella… it definitely looked like she kept keeping the umbrella in front of her face, which made it look like they were filming haha. But other than that, the acting was great, the story was great and it was damn brilliant for an indie film. I recommend it:

http://www.fallingforgrace.com

And the other awesome thing is… I got the DVD signed! A strip from the film reel and a personal message of thanks. Sorry for the crummy photos. I really need to keep my camera batteries charged. I’ll take new ones with my camera tomorrow and update them. I just can’t wait to post. I would have done it yesterday, but I was really tired and it was the last day of school so I just crashed xD

I put it in a frame and everything, I’m just that cool. I’m actually thinking of collecting these if I ever happen to get more.

It reads: “Dear Dana. Thank you so much for supporting Falling For Grace. It means the world to indie filmmakers like myself. I hope you enjoy the movie! x o Fay.”

How cool is THAT?! Haha xD

I found this video a couple of weeks ago and am amazed! Great song plus I so want to learn how to hula hoop properly now. I can’t find a hulahoop anywhere. I ended up fixing up my old one my tearing of the glittery material and wrapping it with bright orange duct tape. But it’s too small. You’re supposed to use one that is as tall as your belly button or something.

I don’t have time to write much, because I’m writing my application for a school at the moment. It’s due in four days (but there’s a Sunday, ya know) and my mum just realised that the school is supposed to send it, which ruins everything since she was going to send it special next day delivery or something. It’s going to Canada for crying out loud xD And now the fucking printer is going haywire since my dad tried to print something yesterday which resulted in blank sheets with stupid symbols on it AND IT WON’T FREAKING STOP!