I'm here!!
So I was yesterday at least! I left ML at a groggy 6 am after a false start the day before...kinda happens when you forget to pickup your ticket the first time! It seems surreal that little more than 24 hours ago I was in ML and now I'm in Kalispell, thought, maybe not. Dad saw me off and the driver asked I was over 21. I said yes. ("It's cuz I'm short, I know." No more Davys for me!) So I board. That wasn't the most interesting part, however. Outside the window, I see a blackman smoking and pacing and after every drag, he'd spit! Almost like clockwork. That also isn't the interesting part... it seems he wore a long black skirt with a slit down the side, black leggings, a gold lamé shirt and combat boots to boot! But this cross dresser was no where near the transvestite-transgender pretty pretty-boy line! He had a rough, ragged face and beard. It was so attrocious watching him as we waited to leave that a few of the passengers across from me would make morbid games of counting down the time until he'd spit after his cigarette puff!!! It was so disgusting!! Perhaps evenmoreso because they were accurate! I wondered what it was indeed, that he was smoking!
I tried to sleep some, as it was only 6 in the morning but I only wore a sweater and shorts, forgetting how cold the bus would be. I was starving too. I sat next to a woman who was going to Billings and questioned her bout bus procedures and schedules and just as I thought I'd get comfy and push my head under my sweatshit to sleep, we arrive in Spokane for a 55 min layover and breakfast! Breakfast, I thought. Gee!! If I had known, perhaps I wouldn'tve packed a lunch. I wandered somewhat aimlessly around the terminal, bought a thing from the vending machine, walking up and down the staris until I found the cafeteria, then I decided to kill a little time and eat some pancakes. Just as I finished, I found the lady I sat next to on the bus and waited to leave. No one really got on in Coeûr d'alane but some of the bus thinned out so I could breathe again. I tried in vain to sleep. That was no good. I never can take naps unless I absolutely have to. No matter how hard I tried and mentally scolded myself to go to sleep, it didn't work. So I read for a while. A mystery book about Mark Twain visiting Missoula in 1895 and having adventures with T. Roosevelt, Wild Bill and Anni Oakley--trying to clear a friend of murder as well. We stopped in some smaller, barely noticeable places, then onto St. Regis, MT for lunch. I remembered being there 2 years ago or so for my cousin's wedding in SD. I gave up on my cold lunch and bought something to eat. Unlike the book, I was only in Missoula at the terminal a mere 15 mins so I wondered what the town was really like, in some disbelief that I happened to be reading a story which took place there! There were only a few passengers that got on, the bus was old and smelled thickly of cleaner (but I happened to be sitting behind the seat where the driver kept them) and finally to be let off in Kalispell at a local casino. What a spot! I was paranoid so I called Mom to tell her I made it and made her talk to me till Chrys' mom came. hahaha
I slept in till 10 today. I was surprised. My body is still behind so I have yet to catch up; she says we have an early day tomarrow so I should sleep soon but I doubt I will much. The air is hot and stuff, and the fans are going like mad. I'll probably read a while and then sleep.
I saw her play this evening! It was great! Perhaps an obscure comedy it was, I don't know. Gildenstern and Rozencrantz Dead. Did you know that?? It's a droll comedic retake on Hamlet, I suppose!! There were parts I got that were hilarious but mostly, I spent it trying to make sense of it all. I loved it nonetheless and I know Chrystelle is a star just waiting to be born! Or, perhaps she is. The thing is, whenever I see a shakespearean thing, I tend to talk in that matter--though I'm not really know, I seem to be talking much like Rozencrantz n Gildenstern--of whom their names are interchangable... I'll understand more tomarrow I think! I came early today to see her setup. Hamlet said hello, some handsome guy I forgot I can't flirt with (though I never tried--it crossed my mind)... I'll never get used to that!!
Chrystelle's speaking parts were small but grand! She projected herself physically and verbally quite well too!! You can always tell someone like her who is born to be an actor! That's her. You may never see her in Hollywood because somehow, I don't believe that's her style! But she and I are more than confident her name will be in Broadway lights someday! And by tommorow morning, I'll be looking over her shoulder as she reads this...and I Hope she does!!! ^_~ Chrys, I'm SO proud of you!! And I'm glad that I'm here!
I tried to sleep some, as it was only 6 in the morning but I only wore a sweater and shorts, forgetting how cold the bus would be. I was starving too. I sat next to a woman who was going to Billings and questioned her bout bus procedures and schedules and just as I thought I'd get comfy and push my head under my sweatshit to sleep, we arrive in Spokane for a 55 min layover and breakfast! Breakfast, I thought. Gee!! If I had known, perhaps I wouldn'tve packed a lunch. I wandered somewhat aimlessly around the terminal, bought a thing from the vending machine, walking up and down the staris until I found the cafeteria, then I decided to kill a little time and eat some pancakes. Just as I finished, I found the lady I sat next to on the bus and waited to leave. No one really got on in Coeûr d'alane but some of the bus thinned out so I could breathe again. I tried in vain to sleep. That was no good. I never can take naps unless I absolutely have to. No matter how hard I tried and mentally scolded myself to go to sleep, it didn't work. So I read for a while. A mystery book about Mark Twain visiting Missoula in 1895 and having adventures with T. Roosevelt, Wild Bill and Anni Oakley--trying to clear a friend of murder as well. We stopped in some smaller, barely noticeable places, then onto St. Regis, MT for lunch. I remembered being there 2 years ago or so for my cousin's wedding in SD. I gave up on my cold lunch and bought something to eat. Unlike the book, I was only in Missoula at the terminal a mere 15 mins so I wondered what the town was really like, in some disbelief that I happened to be reading a story which took place there! There were only a few passengers that got on, the bus was old and smelled thickly of cleaner (but I happened to be sitting behind the seat where the driver kept them) and finally to be let off in Kalispell at a local casino. What a spot! I was paranoid so I called Mom to tell her I made it and made her talk to me till Chrys' mom came. hahaha
I slept in till 10 today. I was surprised. My body is still behind so I have yet to catch up; she says we have an early day tomarrow so I should sleep soon but I doubt I will much. The air is hot and stuff, and the fans are going like mad. I'll probably read a while and then sleep.
I saw her play this evening! It was great! Perhaps an obscure comedy it was, I don't know. Gildenstern and Rozencrantz Dead. Did you know that?? It's a droll comedic retake on Hamlet, I suppose!! There were parts I got that were hilarious but mostly, I spent it trying to make sense of it all. I loved it nonetheless and I know Chrystelle is a star just waiting to be born! Or, perhaps she is. The thing is, whenever I see a shakespearean thing, I tend to talk in that matter--though I'm not really know, I seem to be talking much like Rozencrantz n Gildenstern--of whom their names are interchangable... I'll understand more tomarrow I think! I came early today to see her setup. Hamlet said hello, some handsome guy I forgot I can't flirt with (though I never tried--it crossed my mind)... I'll never get used to that!!
Chrystelle's speaking parts were small but grand! She projected herself physically and verbally quite well too!! You can always tell someone like her who is born to be an actor! That's her. You may never see her in Hollywood because somehow, I don't believe that's her style! But she and I are more than confident her name will be in Broadway lights someday! And by tommorow morning, I'll be looking over her shoulder as she reads this...and I Hope she does!!! ^_~ Chrys, I'm SO proud of you!! And I'm glad that I'm here!