How many times have I listened to the Miss Saigon Soundtrack since I heard of the auditions?

Maybe a million times?

I fear.

It’s saturday and still no callback.

If I don’t get it… will i be crushed? I think I may just be!

Or not.

You know what… I think I know what crushed me before in my other audition. It was the knowledge that I had… not done well. Knowledge that I wasn’t even on the radar for those panelists from the moment I walked into the room.

This time. I know I did well. I know I did my best. That I sang my audition piece with emotion and clarity, it’s story was well thought out and my voice was in the right place as I sang. I know that I gave it my everything, that the audition went incredibly. I know that if they go the other way its not because I didn’t show them my best, because dammit it was my best and I can get better! The audition was bloody amazing and the outcome will not change my perception of it.

Only… I will be unhappy being denied the opportunity to play my most coveted role.

I imagine myself in that role so often… it is the never-ending movie in my mind… I think even if i don’t get this I will always play that dream in my head. Its been a bittersweet movie since my last audition, I imagine people being proud of me just like they were proud of me after the King and I. I imagine how amazed they are at my portrayal of an angry young mother, I also imagine that I can cry on cue… which at the moment I can’t but hey… it’s my freaking movie ok?

Perhaps I shall look into setting my sights and investing my feelings in some other project in the near future, something that will give me a sense of achievement, that will, depending on the outcome; alleviate the feeling of crushing defeat or temper growing elation.

Mother is looking to do a fundraising concert. That would be an interesting project for the holidays, alongside redecorating both my rooms and getting my hair dyed and losing at least 10kgs. Ahhh…. so many projects for the the summer… I am very excited to get uni over and done with.

Speaking of uni. My coping strategies for uni have gotten quite pathetic. I think I need to learn more about how I learn and figure out a system in which I can learn a little bit better. These last few years I have felt like I have just been scraping through this course. It’s not a very happy feeling, especially when I believe myself to be one whose performance quality matters.

EXELLENCE…

I think about that medal given to me at the end of the HSC.

I feel pathetic at the moment. I feel like I’m just scraping through my life and it feels disgusting. I feel low.

Now that that’s out To the general public of nobody I need to get up.

I may be scraping through, but scraping through is better than admiting absolute defeat, although it is getting increasingly more tempting to do just that! I need therapy.

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I am obsessing over my audition like a crazy person.

I swore I wouldn’t do this! But noooooo… nooo…. I have to just freaking OBSSESS about it… i can’t stop thinking;

will they pick me?

will they not pick me?

Then i think JESUS I want this so badly! So here I am blogging out all of my insecurities and perhaps all of my securities, so that I’m not obsessing over it over the next few days while I’m taking my EXAMS!

geez I am pathetic.

I wonder if they’ll choose that Katherine chick I saw on the net.

She’s pretty, but I have wanted this role since… since… since I dared to dream that me getting this role would be possible!

Sigh… I have to let go of this! i promised myself that I wouldn’t do this anymore! Ok celine you need to just calm down. The thing is I’ve told so many people about it. They all want me to get this and I don’t want to disappoint them if I don’t. Sigh… You know It’s not a question of wether or not i’ll do it. I think I’ll do it regardless of me getting the lead or not…

That way you don’t disappoint anyone. You are still in it right?

Also; remember. This one is but a student by weekday and shop assistant by weekend. Nothing special, just a girl who wanted a real shot at playing the role of Kim.

A real  shot at the role, where they considered me and took me seriously and i think they did  take me seriously, and that I did  get a real  shot. Not like last time, when I wasn’t ready for it. I am ready for this opportunity now. I know I am, and I will  let it go and let time pass as they deliberate on their cast.

Because remember, there are others who will always be better than you. There are decisions that are not in their hands. You went and did your best. You conducted yourself in a professional manner and you sang as well as you could’ve given the circumstances. You did well.

NOW

Cogneuro exam is on TOMMZ at 12.30pm

And you still haven’t covered all of the aphasias!

You need to get a grip ok… and you need to remember, WHY you are learning all the things you are learning now at Uni. It’s because wether or not you get this role in a musical, there is another more important role in your life that you have to take more seriously; and that role is to ensure that you contribute to society, to be a servant to your fellow man.

Don’t forget the prestigious honor of being blessed with a clever inquiring mind and please do not squander it.

While I believe that no one in this world could want the role of Kim more DESPERATELY than I do; I cannot deny that Speech Pathology is my calling. I have known it since the first time I helped a young boy in clinic string a sentence together on his own. I feel in my heart that this is what I was meant to do with my life, and I want to do it well.

I want to do it well.

So I’m going to go now and learn about aphasia, voice and audiology.

because in the end it is what I need to accomplish in the long term that matters most.

Good Luck BTS in choosing your cast.

I am sure that the show will be spectacular.

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just had a minor freakout over exams… I’m over it now coz I had a look at the TT and realized that i would be stupid to freak out over something as stupid as exams especially such well spaced exams… It’ll be over before i know it… it’s all good….

breathe!

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I should be asleep right now but you know what I don’t care… I haven’t blogged in a while!

Greetings my non-existant public!

Just a thought that has been running through my head all week – Exams are Easy…

There can be nothing EASIER in the University of Sydney’s Speech Pathology Course than passing the exams. treating a child with autism for 8 weeks really helped me put everything into perspective.

I mean really these exams are written by examiners who WANT you to pass because they DON’T want to have to deal with the fall out of your failure! Compare that to a child with autism who doesn’t give a rats ass wether or not you pass or fail and you have your perspective! Well thats it I’m going to bed now

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I spent the the 10th and 11th of Jan 2008 with my Uni girls at the Meriton Apartments in the city… they are so wonderful and I’m so very lucky to have them.

It’s just hit me now how much I’m really going to miss them once everything changes. With Manda going to Mac I won’t bump into her anymore at the JDV or on the bus or train to Uni… The other girls will still be there and I love them to bits. But I especially will miss Manda only because she was the first person I had connected with when I had gone to Uni.

 I remember we were on the line to get something for orientation day and Amanda’s mum had said something like…

“Now you have to make new friends”

and she was like

“Oh man! Why?”

and I went up to her, said something like,

” Don’t worry it’s not that hard…” and smash, bang, alacazam we were friends

 2007 was a whole new experience of Uni for me without them constantly by my side. In 2006 I pretty much relied on them all the time Amanda was especially good at the times and places of all our classes and Steph with all the study notes. Faith the wonderful entertainment in class… you make life less boring! and Eva… seriously no one listens as well as Eva does when we’re having a serious conversation about God… something I take for granted… but which she should know I appreciate.

And I realized although I am about a year older than them, I rely on them alot! During the first year of Uni I pretty much didn’t mind closing my eyes while they took my hand and led me while I quite obligingly and blindly followed… I’ve not had that experience with alot of friends and I think it is a rare thing, indeed to be able to do.

 This epiphany came to me after we had already split up and gone our seperate ways… I noticed that the entire time we were there I stuffed my glasses into my bag (my eye sight is pretty poor) and just followed them around, trusting that they knew what they’d be doing… i could see very little but hey, they’d never steered me wrong before!!!! but once we had split up and I had to wander around on my own I had to stop reach into my bag and put on my glasses…

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