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Name: Brianna Gender: Female
Interests: Theatre, reading, writing, Harry Potter, movies, music, poetry, speaking French, singing, camping, acting (on stage), movie/song/book/play quoting, knitting, etc. Expertise: I am an expert on Milton Hershey, chocolate, chocolate eating, the Medieval Era, chivalry, romance, mythology, books, Harry Potter, School Thespian Troupe, "Dead Man Walking," "Wicked", creative writing, "The Laramie Project", "High School Musical", "Pride and Prejudice", "Into the Woods," playwriting...etc. Occupation: Other - Student/Writer/Actor/S Industry: Other
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7/21/2004
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| If you couldn't use the internet for a year, what would you do instead?I flatter myself to think that I would actually write something. Maybe a full-length original play. Or a novel. Or a poem, even though I hate writing poetry. I would barricade myself in my room, with only a large stack of loose leaf paper, a cup full of my favorite black ink Bic pens, a jar of peanut butter, a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. And I wouldn't come out until I had finished something. I'd have my cell phone with me in this daydream of mine, so I could call downstairs to have my family bring me new peanut butter once I run out.
Goodness knows I would get my homework done on time, early even. THAT would be shocking, for sure.
I would definitely go to the library more often, because if I needed to do research but was unable to use the Internet, I would need access to a wide variety of books. Although it'd be horribly inconvenient since periodicals have become more widely available online. On the bright side, I could do my research and searching the old fashioned way.
I might go a little insane because as it stands now, I check my Facebook WAY too frequently. It's probably unhealthy the amount of time I spend playing Mafia Wars and thinking up witty status updates. But it would definitely be good for my health and sanity if I could sever my dependence on Facebook. Although it would be really sad to lose touch with any of the people I talk to via Facebook...maybe after that Internet-less year is over I can limit my Facebook time to once a week. Or once every three days. Okay, maybe once every day.
Just think of the massive amount of reading I would get done...every list of books that I've wanted to read...I could finish them all in the course of a single year. All because the Internet monopolizes so much of my time. Damn.
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| I wish  I wish I had a key to someplace secret. Someplace that only I know about, like a little cottage in the woods. Someplace terribly romantic. No one would ever worry about me or wonder where I had gone or what I had done, but I could just disappear there when I wanted to be alone to think. It would be the ideal place for me, I would have a little garden that I could take care of, but nothing in it would ever die so I wouldn't get frustrated with it. I'd have an apple tree behind my cottage, and a willow somewhere on the grounds. The inside would be all comfortably cramped, tons of fluffy feather pillows and hand-knitted blankets on the mixed up furniture in the tiny sitting room. The kitchen would always have food in it, food that I could cook easily, but the kitchen table would have mismatched legs, making it wobble, and none of the chairs would match. There would be a loft where I could keep my bed, piled with pillows and blankets. And the floor of the loft would be covered in richly colored carpets that would always be soft and never get dirty. I'd have a window seat in my loft, where I could comfortably read one of the books from the packed bookshelves all over the house. I'd also have a desk somewhere in this cottage, a big one, where I could store beautiful, thick paper and various fancy ink pens. I would have a hammock in the backyard somewhere, someplace I could stare up at the stars. Inside the cottage, it would always be at a comfortable brightness, but with no light source other than the sunlight visible. Even at night. It would be a place where I could wear flowery sundresses and rain boots if I really wanted to, but I would always wear some sort of dress from a giant wardrobe. And of course I would never have to do laundry.
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| Miscellaneous RamblingsSo in these beginning idle days of what promises to be a completely idle summer, it has come to my attention that I have a lot that I want to do, but very little motivation to actually do it. A To Do list is only so threatening. I want to write. I want to write so much my fingers bleed. And I want to read. I want to read until my eyeballs have paper cuts. But it's summer, so of course I want to get outside and actually do something, see my friends that I haven't seen in forever, just laze around on the grass, discover what my dog rolled in to make her smell so repulsive, you know, what every teenager wants to do during the summer. I want to play with chalk, just cover the entire driveway in the stuff and leave the neighbors to wonder who the five year old is who actually drew all of it. I want to stare at the stars for so long I get lost in the darkness. I want to swing on the tire swing in my backyard in the rain and get sopping wet dancing through the drops. I want to do something completely romantic and absolutely nonsensical, all at the same time. I would love to figure out why my computer has decided that it's not going to have any sound on Internet things, but will let me listen to my itunes. I want to figure out why my brother has friends over when I look like a harpy, if that's purposeful or completely accidental. I want to wake up before nine o'clock. I want to stay up all night just to watch the sun rise and find out if caffeine actually affects me or not. I want to do something completely spontaneous and not realize it was spontaneous until afterwards when I reflect on how totally random it was. I kinda want to walk around my neighborhood and take black and white pictures of pretty much anything just so I can pretend I'm a photographer for a day. I want to quote a movie and have someone recognize where it came from. I want to finish something. I want to drive with all the windows down and scream my favorite song. I kinda just want to be random. I want to do everything.
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I want to leave a secret note somewhere someone'll find it. I want to meet someone who can convince me that being adventurous can be safe. I want to avoid the computer for an entire week just to prove to myself that I can. I want to sit in the sun and just listen to the world around me. I want to take random pictures of cemetery monuments, creepy though that may be. I want to light candles and have a seance, pretend or not.
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I want to do Shakespeare. Be in a play, direct one, write an adaptation, at least one, please. Maybe all three, Kenneth Branagh's done it, kinda. I want to write an adaptation of The Canterbury Tales. I want to write a murder mystery. I want to write a play that the audience is actually a part of. I want to use the characters that I have no plot for. I want to have a conversation entirely made up of movie quotes or song titles. I want to read some classics. I want to convince myself that I deserve to be involved in theatre at school, even though I'm convinced that everyone in that department is a vampire and opposed to a werewolf joining them. I want to go geocaching or waymarking or letterboxing. I want to find a way to trick myself into thinking that there is more time in a single day.
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| Interview --- Lysette CraneLysette Crane didn't want to be here. Not in this outrageously cluttered room with the carousel horse in the corner, sitting on this rickety old armchair across from this girl in an overlarge cream sweater that reminded her of the one she should be at home wearing at that moment. Lysette Crane, suffice it to say, was not in a good mood. She was still in her work clothes, a tailored pinstriped jacket and matching pants with a powder blue blouse underneath, but she was out of work. She sat across from the young, bespectacled blonde and raised one carefully plucked eyebrow.
"Uh, good morning," the blonde greeted, setting aside a mug of something that looked like coffee with more creame than coffee, but didn't smell like coffee at all. "How are you this morning?"
"Wretched, so if this is some survey, I'd really rather just get on with it," Lysette replied frankly, her eyes finding the emerald green of the girl before her. She was not to be trifled with.
The girl let out a nervous laugh and shuffled some papers as an excuse to break eye contact with Lysette, and finally found what she was looking for in an old and worn spiral notebook, already open to a page that had the name "Lysette Crane" written across the top. Picking up a simple ball point pen, the girl bent over her notebook and balanced the tip of her pen on the paper.
"It's really more of an interview," the girl apologized. "So, can you tell me why exactly you're feeling wretched this morning?"
Lysette let out a breath of air. So it was this kind of interview. "I've been let go, and no one bothered to tell me before I got to work today."
The girl scribbled a couple notes, nodding as she did, as if encouraging Lysette to go on.
"I showed up at work to find this prissy little Barbie doll sitting at my desk and asking me which lawyer I needed to see this morning," Lysette explained, fiddling with the corner of the envelope that had summoned her to this very room. "And I just threw a shot at her and left. So now I'm here."
"Ah," was all the girl could say in response. She couldn't exactly relate to Lysette's current predicament, but she wrote down everything anyway. "What is your favorite ice cream?"
"Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey."
"Favorite actor?"
"Colin Firth."
"Favorite crayon color?"
"Cerulean."
"I'm really sorry to hear about your job," the girl told Lysette, finally looking up at the young woman and noting the dishevled chestnut brown curls that had started to get into her face. "But I won't keep you from home, best of luck finding a new job."
A small smile tugged on the corners of Lysette Crane's mouth, and she rose from the armchair and nodded at the girl before taking her leave. And once Lysette Crane had left the room, the girl in the cream sweater let out a regretful sigh and placed a fountain pen in a black leather box. A pen that was shadow black and bone white.
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| Interview --- Prince Charming"Please, have a seat, your Highness."
The young man with golden hair like the sunlight sat down gingerly in the rickety armchair across from the young woman in the overlarge cream sweater. She was smiling, holding a large mug of tea in both hands. He flashed her a dazzling smile and waved the envelope that had summoned him to this very room. The envelope with the tri-colored fleur-de-lis.
"You summoned, madam?" he asked, his confusion barely concealed on his storybook features. "How can I be of service?"
The young woman set aside her tea and pulled her well-worn notebook to the almost clear space directly in front of her. Picking up her crystal black Bic pen, she took special note of the prince's attire, black trousers, a loose white poet's shirt and black boots. There was little that gave him away as a prince aside from the ring he wore on his right hand and the gold chain he wore around his neck. The ring held a deep purple stone, cut in an oval and held in a gold band. The necklace was significantly more simple, just gold. But as the young woman scribbled all this description down, the prince's royal blue eyes followed her every movement, a small smile playing across his lips. Finally, the young woman looked up and smiled sheepishly.
"I'm sorry, your Majesty," she laughed nervously, her own emerald green eyes glancing from the prince's face to her notebook and back again. "Can I offer you something to drink?"
"If you happen to have a goblet of wine, I would greatly appreciate the gesture," the prince said.
The young woman froze, her mouth half open as she almost ducked behind her desk to retrieve a refreshment. Wine?
"Wine?" she repeated, blinking and slowly coming back to life. "I'm sorry, but I don't have any wine."
The prince looked mildly surprised, but took the news in stride.
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