Hey everyone. I'm a first-time poster here, in my second year of FPS at the senior level (junior in high school). I was just posting about the Ohio FPS State Bowl
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We had just finished writing our songs, so we were mumbling them feverishly under our breath while other people were performing.
We stayed in that hotel last year, it was nice. It's a miracle that no one reported us for noise, but thankfully the room we were hanging out in was surrounded by our other rooms. Brett and Keith were acting like four year olds and doing flips and, um, humping the beds. FACEPALM. There are serious drawbacks to being the only girl!
It's kind of weird that you guys used the song "Under Pressure," because Brian totally thought of that, and when he saw your prop, he was hoping you'd also sing it! I'm going to really miss doing skits. Where else is it OKAY to be creative like that? And to be that excited about it? I'm going to need to find a creativity outlet next year. Thanks about the hair. We had a banner crisis right before we left - which is another story entirely! - and in the commotion we forgot a few of the props, so we had to stop at a Target, and I specifically bought a green bowl so that if Willy Wonka worked (we had been brainstorming skit ideas, and it was a possibility) we could use it for hair. Keith's Oompa Mullet was the best.
And I remember Katie! That's funny, because they're always trying to get numbers...I don't know who she might mean, because they're all kinda tall. I'll have to hear who she means before I give you the scoop on them. :)
Brian wanted to talk to the evaluators. I didn't realize he was going to hang around for a minute or I would have, but our coach this year really knows nothing about FPS and didn't want to stay like Mrs. M would have. :( I wanted Mrs. M to be there, but she had to leave before awards.
I was totally singing to myself the whole time, despite having gone over it again and again. We all were. Hah. Ohh skits.
There were people like us on our floor, but apparently the guy below us wasn't too great. Whatever. The hotel was really nice, though, but not as fun as last year. We stayed at the one connected to the lame mall. Awesomeness. One of the good things about an all-girl team is there's no messing with not having the same hotel room when writing skits. But Katie and Lyssa had "something" going on on that bed as it started getting late that we won't discuss. ;) Not really, but you know. It gets late...
We may or may not have named Under Pressure that because we were possibly going to use the song. As in I was writing it and just announced, "I'm naming this thing Under Pressure so we can sing the song in our skit!" We hadn't completely decided on allll Broadway then, so it seemed like a good idea.
Skits are seriously the most amazing thing in the world. I'm so pumped that we may get to do another one, because finishing our's yesterday felt so depressing. The end of an era! Woe!
And I did love your banner, by the way. So much cooler than ours. Everyone hates ours. I don't know why we don't make a new one.
Ahahahahaaa.. Now, see, she totally should have talked to him! I think it's the one who looks sort of Asian, but I'm not sure. And they all are tall, come to think of it.
I'm sure I have more to say, but I absolutely must sleep.
Haha. I got my own room at the hotel (the one that was attached to the lame mall. :P The Comfort Inn.) because I was the only male. :P But then we all came into my room for the skit, so I ended up sleeping next to a bed full of props. XD
Hahahaha, thanks about the banner. Here's what happened - we had a nice, normal felt banner like everyone else that we've used for the last couple of years, but when Mrs. M left her old room over the summer, she took it with her. The woman who is teaching in there now is our former middle school gifted teacher, who, although she is extremely nice, is - to quote Brian - "bat shit insane." Well, Mrs. M left the banner on said crazy teacher's desk with a bouquet of flowers last fall, with extra felt for us to fringe it if we wanted. I'm certain she did. She's always on top of things. We forgot to go pick it up earlier last week, so when we remember Thursday night, we decided to just swing by the elementary school and pick it up as we were leaving. Mr. Coach called just to make sure she was there, and she announces to him that no, she doesn't have the banner! She never had the banner! So, we make a zillion phone calls trying to track Mrs. M down to ask her about it. We finally do, and she's sure it was there. We go over, and Brian and I go in to talk to Crazy Teacher. It was ridiculous. I think the only things she said to us while we were in there were "Nope nope nope nope absolutely not don't have it don't know what you're talking about nope nope nope." We rooted around in boxes, played more phone tag, had the school secretary check in the basement while I manned the phones...no dice. We gathered up some materials to throw a new one together, but we finally decided it wasn't worth it...we kind of had to convince Gene Rust to use it. We were like, "Look! We're using our problem solving skills!"
The sort of Asian one is Keith, who is half Korean. Ha ha, I was hoping it wouldn't be him! :p We're friends, but, um, there are a lot of things I don't like about him...he can be kind of a cheat and a jackass and lazy and acts like a four-year old. Of course, I just spent 48 hours+ with him, so my tolerance has worn extremely thin. :p
We stayed in that hotel last year, it was nice. It's a miracle that no one reported us for noise, but thankfully the room we were hanging out in was surrounded by our other rooms. Brett and Keith were acting like four year olds and doing flips and, um, humping the beds. FACEPALM. There are serious drawbacks to being the only girl!
It's kind of weird that you guys used the song "Under Pressure," because Brian totally thought of that, and when he saw your prop, he was hoping you'd also sing it! I'm going to really miss doing skits. Where else is it OKAY to be creative like that? And to be that excited about it? I'm going to need to find a creativity outlet next year. Thanks about the hair. We had a banner crisis right before we left - which is another story entirely! - and in the commotion we forgot a few of the props, so we had to stop at a Target, and I specifically bought a green bowl so that if Willy Wonka worked (we had been brainstorming skit ideas, and it was a possibility) we could use it for hair. Keith's Oompa Mullet was the best.
And I remember Katie! That's funny, because they're always trying to get numbers...I don't know who she might mean, because they're all kinda tall. I'll have to hear who she means before I give you the scoop on them. :)
Brian wanted to talk to the evaluators. I didn't realize he was going to hang around for a minute or I would have, but our coach this year really knows nothing about FPS and didn't want to stay like Mrs. M would have. :( I wanted Mrs. M to be there, but she had to leave before awards.
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There were people like us on our floor, but apparently the guy below us wasn't too great. Whatever. The hotel was really nice, though, but not as fun as last year. We stayed at the one connected to the lame mall. Awesomeness. One of the good things about an all-girl team is there's no messing with not having the same hotel room when writing skits. But Katie and Lyssa had "something" going on on that bed as it started getting late that we won't discuss. ;) Not really, but you know. It gets late...
We may or may not have named Under Pressure that because we were possibly going to use the song. As in I was writing it and just announced, "I'm naming this thing Under Pressure so we can sing the song in our skit!" We hadn't completely decided on allll Broadway then, so it seemed like a good idea.
Skits are seriously the most amazing thing in the world. I'm so pumped that we may get to do another one, because finishing our's yesterday felt so depressing. The end of an era! Woe!
And I did love your banner, by the way. So much cooler than ours. Everyone hates ours. I don't know why we don't make a new one.
Ahahahahaaa.. Now, see, she totally should have talked to him! I think it's the one who looks sort of Asian, but I'm not sure. And they all are tall, come to think of it.
I'm sure I have more to say, but I absolutely must sleep.
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The sort of Asian one is Keith, who is half Korean. Ha ha, I was hoping it wouldn't be him! :p We're friends, but, um, there are a lot of things I don't like about him...he can be kind of a cheat and a jackass and lazy and acts like a four-year old. Of course, I just spent 48 hours+ with him, so my tolerance has worn extremely thin. :p
I was so tired last night. I'm still so tired!
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