School Play: Metamorphoses

I slept at like 2:30 am yesterday... the latest ever on a school night. I was up most of the night after postponing finishing my biology essay and global project for five hours. I wasn't doing nothing during those five hours though; there was some productive work such as scanning pictures from the National Geographic book for Karinina to put on the poster and (re)scanning the food labels for biology (Chinese style sausage nutrition facts are just so hard to get a clear scan of). Then there's the whole editing part to enhance the quality of the images, reduce byte size, and crop to a smaller size (scans come out HUGE). Anyway, I finished biology first...it took me at least two hours to finish the conclusion (which was all I really needed besides editing the other stuff). I didn't have much time to add more to my part of the global report on Egypt (Geography and Origins was what I was doing) but somehow managed to compile a really crappy pointless paragraph to extend my part. Our presentation for it today was long...over half the period but I think we did pretty good considering I've been told many students gave us a 9/10 for rating---I think it was the sucky-flavored "Egyptian" gum we gave out *BRIBE* (it was actually Trident Coconut Coolado or something).

English teacher was gonna give us extra credit if we went to watch; I'm not sure how he'll know since we don't have any proof but out tickets (and Molly lost hers...>.>") Anyways, he'll at least accept the crappy Playbill right?

I didn't think of actually going to the school play until Rebecca and Molly told me they were going for the credit. Somehow, I managed to gather $5 and since Courtney got the ticket for me, I stayed at the library before going out 9th to eat at McDonalds.

I hate the McDonalds we went too... it was overcrowded and when I went to buy a snack wrap, I kept alternating between two lines. It's just my luck that when I saw that the other line had less people, I go over and if I hadn't, I would've gotten my order already because my previous line was faster. This happened a few times. I see that the other line just finished an order, I go over. A new customer takes my place at the previous line. That customer orders before I do. I go back...etc. etc. When I finally stopped and decided to stick with one line, this guy who had major B.O., speech problem, and was probably a bit retarded, came next to me after I ordered. The counter lady took his order which was a drink. The employee got him a Coke and he starts saying he wanted orange juice. She probably misunderstood because of the way he talked but he decided to take the Coke while counting out dimes, nickels, and pennies to pay. This took a while and I was just standing there looking around, trying hard not to breathe unless I needed too. When the lady went to get my order, she said something to the manager or something and gave me this look. I have a feeling they were making fun of me; maybe how I must've looked as a reaction towards Levey (at least I think that's what the Coke guy's name was---he seemed intimate with the counter lady). Overall, I had another bad McDonalds experience. Just to make it clear, I had no problem with Levey except maybe his hygiene but I did want to complain to the manager about the long wait for my food and how the employee fulfilled Levey's order before my own. Have they ever learned that you're supposed to serve food to people who ordered it first?! The snack wrap wasn't as good as I expected (grilled chicken with Chipotle BBQ sauce). The chicken was to small. I preferred honey mustard crispy chicken... but I wanted to try something new.

I've noticed I've ranted a whole lot already so I'll keep the summary on the play at a minimum. It was interesting actually, although full of incest. I believe Metamorphoses was supposedly a compilation of myths, particularly Greek. There the the one about the Golden Touch where the greedy king was granted the desire of turning anything he touched into gold but learned his lesson when he turned his daughter (WHO DOES NOT "BE STILL"---inside joke) into gold. I thought the next story was rather creepy. I couldn't really hear but this king was cursed by "Hunger" and couldn't stop eating. He even sold his mother away for food! In the end, there was no meat left for him to eat so he started devouring himself...

I forgot most of the other stories but there was one on the God of Spring (I think) fell for this female garden enthusiast. The god dressed up as various characters who would pass by the maiden to exchange a few words. His final disguise was of an old woman (the actor literally put on a blond wig and some sort of weird granny dress) and told the girl a story of Aphrodite...or something. He was trying to convince her to desire a lover. In conclusion, the girl was onto him and demanded he remove his guise. He was "naked" (the actor was still wearing clothes) in the story and the maiden fell in love after looking at his bare body?!

Incest. Oh how every disturbing. A daughter falls in lover with her single(?) father and consults the nurse. The nurse convinces the father to sleep with 'a girl that's in love with him' and when asked about age, 'the girl was the same age as his daughter'. He agrees, apparently, but in order to make love with this stranger, he had to blindfold himself. So the father has sex with his daughter two times consecutively. Before the third time, he asks to take off his blindfold and accidentally does, discovering that he had been sleeping with his own daughter. The daughter runs away into the forest and fades away or something.

The other myth that contained incest wasn't as disturbing, rather I liked it. Incest was between divine beings so it doesn't really matter ==" Cupid was in love with Pysche who was his mother, Venus's sister. It was quite funny how the actor for Cupid, wore a black shirt and shorts with a leaf prop dangling from his private area (Cupid was supposed to be naked).

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