Dear Diary, I made it to the school at six (...ish) for early morning rehearsals... and then we didn't actually do the scenes I'm in... But strangely it was fun. ...Last night, there was an extremely large and ugly bug in my room RIGHT by my bed... and it was one a.m. so everyone was asleep... so I had to sleep on the couch. Ha ha... Oh... I had lots of fun in drama though. We ran through the "seance scene" as we call it, which is VERY interesting... Wharton and Chelsey (our student director) were gone so we pretty much laughed hysterically through the entire thing. It was enjoyable. And then Ryker was visiting, so I sat by him and we had fun... I've decided I really like hanging out with boys that I have NO romantic attachments towards, and they have none towards me. We can be silly and flirty and whatever and it doesn't even matter... So. Ragtime auditions. I decided to go. I prepared a song. I got to auditions... and decided I really didn't want to do it after all... So I went home and watched Gilmore Girls with my parents. Speaking of my parents... my dad is apparently losing the use of his leg... so he has to have surgery as soon as possible if he wants to be able to walk again. They have to operate on his spine, because the passage in the middle of his spine is closing in and pinching his nerves off... It's not good and I'm kind of freaking out about it... I don't know. He's so amazing though. He gets discouraged---but I know he doesn't want us kids to see it, so he does his best to stay positive... A couple weeks ago he had a blessing that said with time he would heal... so I'm just trying to concentrate on that... Life is exhausting. Love, Lisa Ann