The Philadelphia Story

Friday, October 12th 2007, Wake up time: 6:45am 


I headed to school, and my first lesson was drama. We were doing Ryan's scene that he'd directed, and it was actually quite an interesting scene... I just wish I could remember what actually happened in it :/ I then headed to algebra, where I found I was working at an F! It was rather worrying...I'm bad at maths, but not that bad! In English, we had a vocab quiz. It wasn't too bad but it wasn't as good as my last one. My next lesson of the day was history, in which we studied the Chinese immigration law that America imposed, or the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923, controversial stuff! 


Lunch was a brownie and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I then headed to my film class. We had been watching The Philadelphia Story. It's what's known as a 'screwball comedy'. This means that the lines are delivered quickly, and the jokes fly by you at a fast rate. It starred some of the finest actors of the generation, James Stewart, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. It has one highly amusing scene involving a 'drunk' James Stewart talking loudly with Cary Grant... I would share it with you, but it's the best part of the film and I wouldn't want to have you watch it and not enjoy the rest in comparison! I will say it's made even funnier because there is a small mistake in the lines and both actors grin and cover it up well, but not enough that you don't notice it. I assume it was kept in to exaggerate the incoherence of a drunk person. 


For my study period, I went with David and Hannah, two seniors I knew to a pizza place. I met Jimmy and we hung out until I had to go to a rehearsal to sort out my costume. We found my character a very royal looking costume, which I really liked. From what I remember, it was black with a gold collar and stripes. I sorted it out and then headed home. I popped in Sweet Sues as I had noticed Talia, and I met Greg. Greg became someone I was close with, and learnt he also lived right near by. He also had a very good taste in music! When I got my Zune, he was the one who loaded up all the music on to it, so I had something to start with! 


I had to go back as I'd forgotten my script! I finally got home and washed the kitchen and the kitchen floor for extra allowance. There was a school football game on, so I headed to that. I hung out with Amanda, a girl in my English class, and the band, as I knew a lot of the members. It was very cold, so I went with Amanda to get a blanket. I met Eugene on the way, another senior. I bought myself a hot chocolate and enjoyed that while we hung out and watched the rest of the game. We lost 28-14, we pretty much sucked at football... I then headed home. Once home, I saw Jan briefly before heading out again to meet up with Alex and Molly at Starbucks. I also made a new friend in a girl called Claire-Marie Malfoy! Her last name was actually like Draco Malfoy! We hung out for the evening, before I eventually got home. The good news was that the Sox won their first play off game! 


The play offs are the best of seven games, the Sox were pitted against the Cleveland Indians. The Sox had won their first game 10-3, but almost looked like they'd be knocked out! However, the pulled through, I'll tell you the scores as I go along! Once they won the play offs they entered the World Series against the Colorado Rockies. I won't let you know the game results but I'm sorry I let you know that they won the World Series, it was pretty exciting though! Enough about baseball though. After a very long night, as I caught the end of the game (and most games ended at around 1 or 2am) I headed, very tired, to bed. 


Thanks for listening.