Thursday Thirteen: About Me

Thirteen Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Cosmic Kid

1. I Skateboard
I may not skateboard well, but I do skate. I learned this summer and absolutely love it. I especially like riding through the theatre building since it has all concrete floors!

2. I have 5 roommates
Luckily we live in a 6 bedroom house, or we'd probably hate eachother. I love them all!

3. I have the same job now that I had in High School
In high school I started music ministering in Freshman year. By the end of Sophomore Year I'd taken over the Music Ministry and was running it by myself. My friend Chris was the campus minister and he coordinated all of the other complicated aspects of the mass. Today, I work as a music minister for a church in Plymouth, MI, and Chris is an Associate Youth Minister........AT THE SAME CHURCH! Kind of funny how that works out, eh?

4. I hate Keanu Reeves
I would rather watch paint dry than Keanu Reeves act in a movie. I have never seen any of the Matrix movies because of this.

5. I have a paranoid hamster
I've had this hamster for a few months, and he refuses to be handled. He's warming up to me, since I give him treats and let him run in his hamster ball, so I'm hoping he'll let me hold him soon. However, the other day he barricaded himself inside of the "cool petting zone" portion of his cage by filling the tube that connects it to the main chamber with bedding. The next morning it was all gone, but I can't help but worry that he thinks someone's out to get him....

6. I went to my first concert at age 5
Maybe I was 4, but I'm positive it was before my sister was born when I was six. I went and saw Fred Penner LIVE with my too-cool-for-school parents. I'm pretty sure it was at the Fox in detroit too....very classy.

7. I adore Hockey
I love hockey and I love living in hockeytown! If there hadn't been a 2.5 year waiting list for the girl's league near my house I probably would have played. GO WINGS!

8. I listen to the Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys is the only kind of rap that I can stand, mostly because they don't take themselves too seriously, and they have fun with their music. I honestly couldn't care how many chains and "b*tches" the dime-a-dozen rap stars have today. Give me some Beastie rhythms and I'll be a happy camper.

9. I am addicted to Podcasts
Now that I've discovered that NPR podcasts Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and This American Life I've found even more addicting podcasts and listen to them religiously!

10. I have only pulled one full all-nighter in college
I don't know how I've managed it, but I've only had to have one full-on all nighter after 2.5 years at the University of Michigan. Sure, I've gone to class on 4 hours of sleep, but that's not a huge deal. After my all-nighter, I seriously wanted to die. I'd stayed up to finish my History of Dress source book on the 1970s. Not only that, but I then had to DRIVE on the freeway, in rush hour morning traffic to get to class on time! I was the most dangerous person on the road that day. I got a B+ on the project though, which is outstanding since the prof never gives good grades to non-costume design students.

11. I don't drink
As a 20 year-old Junior in college, I have participated in some crazy things, but I am proud to say that drinking isn't one of them. I have nothing against drinking--legally, and in moderation. The main reason I don't drink is because it seems like such a hassle, to have to worry about geting a MIP (Minor in Posession), or worrying about what I did last night. I have plenty of fun perfectly sober. Oh, and have I meantioned I hate drunk people? I do. I can't stand to be around them at parties, at concerts, at sporting events...they ruin my night if they're really bad. I just don't want to be that person. So, I can honestly say that the only alcohol I've ever had has only come after the word "Amen"

12. I greatly dislike Steve Angrisano
Angrisano is a christian music artist, who is used by a lot of churches who have bought into his "Youth Oriented" music. I don't like Angrisano, mostly because his music is really boring and overdone and his lyrics are lame. I honestly thing that Angrisano sits down with the task to write a song that youth will like, but it doesn't work like that, because if you write that way then it comes off as forced. There are plenty of musicians who are making christian music that youth really respond to, without being boring. If you set out to make good music for God first, and then look for your audience, then you won't be shoving a square peg in a round hole all the time.

13. I've been entered in a National Contest
I've been entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Stage Management contest. I get to spend a week in Wisconsin participating in the contest in January. I have to make a display for the Pajama Game, which I SM'ed in October, and then have a panel interview about the show and my experience as a stage manager. I'm also entering a set design in the "paper project" contest (which means the design never actually happened). It's going to be pretty exciting.