Songfest

Now that Songfest is over, I'm back to the realm of the living. I think I literally spent a week only going from class to the house for songfest stuff until the wee hours of the morning and I was only at my apartment to sleep for a few hours at night. It was all worth it though because the preparation that went into it really helped us put together a good show. A bunch of the kids from Troy Camp were there and we raised a total of $14,000 for the camp so I was very thrilled. On Friday afternoon my mom, brother, and my brother's friend John came to USC and we went to lunch at El Cholo. My mom was worried about being late so she wanted me to wear my costume to lunch so that she could just drop me off, but seeing as my costume included a pair of purple striped pants, pigtails, and a bunch of drawn on stitches, I declined. The actual show went really well. I had a lot of friends in the audience and the other girls from our house came out and cheered really loud. Although I have to admit, the Kappa Alpha Psi guys were the show stoppers. They did an incredible step dance to "Candy Shop" and threw candy out into the crowd. Before the show when we were walking to the auditorium, the guys serenaded us!! It was excellent. I haven't met a better bunch of guys here at USC and they're one of my favorite fraternities now. In the end, our group didn't win first place, but we did win "Best Singing"...something that surprised me because we focused a lot more on choreography and dancing than singing. In fact, our motto was to basically sacrifice any kind of notes to shout the words at the audience because the auditorium had horrible acoustics. But for a group that hasn't done Songfest in many years, I'm so pleased with winning anything at all and we got some wonderful publicity from the Daily Trojan and people around campus. I can't wait for next year's Songfest. The Kappas are already talking about new step moves. Here are some pictures from Friday.










It's getting to be that time again. Time to start thinking about finding a date for my last invite of the year. Senior sendoff's on April 22nd and the theme is "Vintage Hollywood." Finding an outfit was the easy part. I'm doing a kind of early 50's donna reed look with a puffy crenaline dress, bulky cosmetic jewelry, teased hair and everything. So if you're a boy, like to dance, and would like to save me the hassle of finding a date please tell me.

In other news, I had my photography critique on the project I did juxtaposing the Catholic and unitarian services I attended and I got a fairly good response, but not as good as the one I did on consumerism/excess. I'll have to step it up for our final project due at the end of april.


I want a puppy.