massive hyperventalation-inducing freak-out of doooom!!

OMG!! ok, so I'm posting a link to a facebook picture of stupid mike and his stupid new girlfriend, the one who is a diluted version of me in many creepy respects...she's wearing some dress she made, it looks pretty well put together, good for her, except that raging who-ore has seemingly made it out of THE SAME F-ING MATERIAL as the dress I spent the last 3 months putting together, and to make matters WORSE, there's been rumblings that Mike is bringing her to the Casa Loma ren. faire...That means we could end up wearing dresses made of the SAME FABRIC!!! This shall not do! ARGGHH, Wench, saucy, damn, hobby-copying troglodyte!! I can't believe this is even an issue!!! I know he saw my dress because he left comments on the pictures that I posted forever ago! What do I do? Is it in fact the same fabric??

Worst day ever.

here's my dress to compare.

on second thought

Ok, so I officially retract the majority of last post, although after talking to some girls at circus, a lot of guys really do expect you to put out or get out on date #3, which is ridiculous. Anywhoo, Grant had the best excuse ever for not calling until yesterday, being on a mountain in Kentucky makes cell reception a bi-otch. So we're still doing the awkward pseudo-dating thing which I'm happy about.

But the majority of guys, in my experience and in others', still blow...

ARRRGGGHH

Why are boys so dumb? I like to think that I'm a pretty groovy gal, relatively low maintenance, all I ask is the occasional dinner out and some time to myself every so often and it's all good. I really didn't think the myth of the dreaded "third-date" still existed, ay know, where you're expected to put out solely because you happened to like a person enough to see them three times...I'm sorry, but if I don't even know your middle name, there's no way I'm hopping in the sack. Nuf said.

So yeah, now, after some really fun nights out climbing and movie-seeing and whatnot, this guy hasn't called or communicated in any way and it's been almost a week. I'm genuinely saddened that this person, who seemed cool and down to earth is willing to never see me again because I wouldn't risk a close encounter with syphilis or something just so he could get his rocks off. ARRGHH indeed. Where are the decent guys? The ones who realize it takes more than a grand total of 15 hours spent with a person while clothed to equal 1 hour with clothes off? I feel like I'm constantly stuck at that damn school up at Downsview with no one around but other female performers or students I couldn't date if I wanted to, for fear of losing my job. I've tried the internet scene to no avail...This is truly annoying. If I can't get a date, me, a fucking aerial CONTORTIONIST; well educated, decent looking, willing to dress up like a total whore if the occasion calls for it (read: Mer's par-tay), then who the hell can find someone to spend time with.

Sigh.

Gigs!!!

Whatsup my faithful followers, thought it was about time for an update, although with stupid school keeping me down not much of note has happened recently...Still "seeing" Grant, it's in that awkward "are we dating, I don't know" phase, but things are good nonetheless. Suzy, it was crazy seeing you at Cafe crepe, we must catch up on morrow next..
Anywhoo, my big (ish) news is regarding an upcoming show in May..it's not my usual thing, I was contacted by a girl who used to perform with Sublime but left due to "difficulties." At this point, I understand how she felt. So, the gig is the T.O version of the popular world-wide fetish party/convention ominously called Torture Garden. I talked to some girls who performed there last year and they said it was all in good fun, just like a normal act/ambiance stuff but with weirder (read: less) clothing. The hair-falls are definatly going to make an appearance.
Should be fun. The former Sublime chick also has a sort of quasi-agency that she wants me to be a part of as a bookable act and she has carved out a nice little niche for herself in the "alternative" scene which has, up to now, been subject to some really sketchy circus. Think Sterling ren faire and you'll know what I mean. So hopefully they like seeing a legit aerialist along with the suspensions, peircings, rubber mouldings, shibari and other cookiness that seems to occur at this event.
Do NOT tell the 'rents.

Sigh. Fine, I'll stop being cryptic for my ladies, because you guys are the only one's who know this thing exists...It was Grant Dunstan (I think that's how you spell his last name...)
He had very little to do with the music/visual arts people that we all hung out with, I remembered him to see him but other than that, nothing came to mind when he showed up in my class. He's about 6', curly brown hair, thin (of course)...He was on the cross-country ski team. Yup. He wore a cow suit. I was a bit jealous that the downhill team never got to wear those.
He has facebook. Go stalk him.

Yay! A quasi-date!

So, yeah, I went on a sort-of, not-quite-sure but I think-it was-a-date date with a guy who I originally went to highschool with, but whom I never had anything to do with at all, and then met again years later in a Hinduism class. We just keep meeting up and now that I think about it, it's all a bit too weird to be purely coincidence...
1) Went to the same highschool, saw, but hardly ever spoke to each other
2) met in 2nd year general Hinduism class
3) a year later, in same class again, hung out a bit
4) Another class together, this one a fluke that had nothing to do with either of our subject posts
5) He was the runner at Sassafraz two years ago when I went there with my family for my birthday
6) he graduates, but we meet again at the rock climbing place while we're both climbing with our respective siblings
7) He e mails me out of the blue saying he found my info and that we should hang out. So we did.
It was fun. He's super into climbing anything that can be climbed (rocks, ice, mountains, towers...he has a couple friends who are "urban ninjas"- they scale buildings downtown at night) and is really active and outdoors-y, which is a nice change from the males I generally consort with who are more, shall we say, indoor creatures. Shockingly, he also looks like a dude. He has
- wait for it-
facial hair.
I know.
Shut up, Katie.
Unfortunately he's heading out for more climbing for a week, so I'll keep all of ya'll posted if any more goes on.

so...student show

Yeah, it's great that the student show looks like it's going to be a coherent, well-planed, organized affair, but where were all these great things for the last 2 PROFESSIONAL shows? Shows that were slapped together (although not so much the last show...) and then taken on the road, in front of paying audience members where the first show was pulled out of our asses...Yeah, I'm a bit errked that D-man has obviously put some thought into this show and yet is satisfied with doing the bare minimum for our shows. Although by bare minimum, I'm referring to a costume, make-up, scenery respect. Rigging, lighting, and equipment-wise, I've always felt safe and taken care of, but I wish more thought would be taken in regards to what's going to be ON stage. Yes, an old costume won't affect your act trick-wise, but it makes a huge difference in how you present yourself if you have the costume, lighting, staging trifecta in your favor. 

If Eloize doesn't end up happening, I'm going to have to bring this up the next time a tour is brought up. I'm tired of feeling second-class compared to past artists with the company who had costumes made or altered for them and a show that wasn't a re-hash of an older concept. 

Sigh.

I am genuinely excited about doing some designing for the student show, and I'm hoping that what is made for this show can be used in future professional shows. At least we would then be able to pull from a wider selection of costumes...