I always say I'm happiest when busy. I guess I always fail to remember that there is a point where being busy crosses the line to being absurd. My day began at 8:40 in Mass Communications and here it is, a little after one in the morning and I have not stopped going. My classes sucked, I had so little time to do antything worth claiming an accomplishment, I went to rehearsal where I swear I was close to removing heads, rushed back for my astronomy lab, got done there around ten, came back here to begin doing more odds and ends for the play as well as prepare my photo essay for my English presentation on Wed. I'm so stressed out and all around exhausted I feel like breaking down. But I can't. And it's only the positive reinforcement around me that keeps me going. "This is worth it," I tell my self. The weekend was a good weekend, for the most part. It was one of those weekends where I was just so happy to be with my Kristofer again that he couldn't have done anything to annoy me (which isn't hard for him to do!). And although our time together was limited, I think we enjoyed every minute of it. Sunday, after Kris had to go back up to Flag early, I went prom dress shopping with Helen (for her of course, not me). It was really nice having that time with her though. I've come to the realization that, although the development of our friendship has been slow, Helen is my closest girl friend at the moment, and on the scale of friendships, only second to Kris. We talked about so much for so long, and about things I've never been able to really talk to someone about. She's just so...real. It's a nice change from my previous best girlfriend. I can't wait to move in to an apartment with her and Travis and Kris. It's going to be so friggin amazing... Although I'm almost sick of it, I feel I should jot down some details about the play. We had rehearsal from 3-7:30 today. It was long and horrid, like I had warned everybody it would be. The set isn't finished, but we've made serious headway since Friday. Things were painted during classes today. I realized we had never discussed chairs for the mansion, but remembered seeing a lot of nice fabric in the costume room. So I pulled the old ugly formal living room chairs from the classroom and threw the fabrics over each and some students were quick to begin arranging the fabric and refurbishing the chairs. I have to give everyone some credit today because everyone was pretty helpful and willing to work. I actually had to remind one of my actors that it was not her job to tech and to just worry about her performance. At any rate, besides getting more set up there, not much was accomplished. The church that uses our auditorium every Sunday messed up all our lights, so tech will be working on those tomorrow as well as running through set changes and finishing set stuff during class...funny. Tomorrow we're rehearsing 3-9. No dinner break. Maybe a potty break. It will be painful and horrible and make me very angry, but the cast is willing to put in all of those hours and everyone is very excited about opening night. So, thank goodness for a fabulous cast. Well, I still have loads to do and some sleep to eventually catch...Here's to better days Carrie