"In a phrase to cut these lips, I love you." Coheed and Cambria

There's something about you that I'm drawn to. You have a kind of melancholy understanding about you. Like a lost boy from Neverland. Like Tootles.

It's your eyes. There's a remarkably beautiful sadness in them. Like you're separated from life. The world is passing you by, and no matter how hard you try, you just can't seem to reach it. Your fingertips brush the surface, and no one seems to notice the distance. I did.

I don't want to go to our ward thing tonight. Or I do, but I don't want to go play football, so I won't. I'll sing to the Sptifire Grill and then change and go up and eat some food. Whoo hoo. I'm reading Watership Down right now, hence the picture of the Black Rabbit of Inle.

I had a really really cool experience visiting teaching yesterday. I was alone, because Jenny's in Florida, but it turned out amazing. It's so cool that you can get revelation and give people what they need most of all. I had the coolest time with Jackie and we talked for more than an hour, and it was what we both needed. It was so cool. I'm singing in the Messiah choir too, and so rehearsals for that are always fun. It's really great music, and I feel so blessed that I get to sing it again. The first time I did so wasn't as fun. Last week I went to the Jazz Combos concert because Jenny sings in a jazz combo, and she was really good, besides the fact that the microphone wasn't working. So what we could hear of her was really good. And all of the combos were so good. It was so nice to be able to just sit back and not think about anything but the amazing talent that I was listening to and let the music move me. It was wonderful. I'm excited for Christmas Carol to open, and for everyone to come see it. It's going to be so cool. We're just waiting for the set to be done, so we can actually rehearse with it all. The whole show is just amazing, we have a great cast, the costumes are beautiful, the set is going to be spectacular. It's going to be great. I also can't wait for next semester, to get Crazy For You all together. The tapping is hard, but I'm learning and having so much fun doing so. Next semester's schedule is a little disappointing, but I'm not going to regret it. I finally get to take an English class, I'm taking second semester Russian, Book of Mormon, and Reader's Theatre, where we put on children's productions. But because of the way my schedule works out, I can't fit in any more GE, major, or theatre classes, so I'm taking two dance classes: beginning jazz, and beginning tap. I'll have a head start on that, but I'm excited. I haven't taken a dance class in about three years and I miss it. I want to take ballroom, but they all fill really fast, and I'm not so excited about the attitude that a lot of people have when they sign up that class, that you never know who you'll meet. Ugh. Oh well. It's a good schedule, not too hard but academically satisfying. I can't wait to start writing again. I've been thinking lately, and I think I want to go into editing. It's something I'm really good at, and I enjoy it. Like work for a publishing company or something. That would be great fun. I don't know if I'd like the reporting deal. We'll see. I have a little while. I'm going to audition for the House of Bernarda Alba next semester, and I'm thinking of auditioning for Comic Frenzy, and seeing how that might turn out. I don't know if I could handle all the load that I had this semester though. I'm so ready for Thanksgiving, you don't even know.

Eileen is going to curl my hair for my class tomorrow, because I have a scene for Song Interp that I'm going to be a cheerleader for. Isn't that exciting? I'm in two scenes, and one I'm a cheerleader, and the next I'm in I'm a white pregnant rapper. It's going to be amazing. I'm really excited. I like that class, except for the fact that Hyrum is getting really frustrated because we don't really know what to focus on, because we have to do our scenes, and it gets in the way of our learning the actual music for the show. I'm so excited for the show though, it's going to be so much fun. Yay for Follies. I really should go and get ready, everyone's in a rush to get the food ready and I'm sitting here doing nothing. So love to all, and I'll see you guys over Christmas break. All remember to thank your Heavenly Father for all that He has given you, and for the situations and blessings and challenges that He has the faith in you to give you. Shalom!