Stats and Books

So no door to door tonight but I did end up buying back a LOT of books. I finished the (undisclosed) amount of money to give to people. So tomorrow after my final final I am going door to door in the West Apartments to achieve the ultimate amount of money that I can get.

Wish me luck for I will need it.

School is Work

Who Knew?

Okay I already knew that but for the first time in my life I am understanding the grave importance of studying. I have never in my entire studied this much. Its quite rewarding. I think so far I've studied about 14+ hours in the last 3 days. Doesn't really seem like a lot but for me, its A LOT. Thats only one subject by the way, there is a metric ton worth of information in this course.

Finals on thursday. Luck will play a little part.

Rain, the anti-Carol

Well today is not as exciting as planned. Rain has decide to ruin this fantastic parade of musical skill and fun. WHY?!? This is totally anti-climactic, this was going to be our big finish not whatever the last gig we did. We did not get invited to do this. It was an invention of our own, nobody else's and it was going to be great. I'm hoping the rain will quickly cease and desist but I don't have much hope in that matter.

Updates to come later,

J.C. Lewis

The New Day Two

So here I am at the second day of my return to the internet writing world. Its been quite an interesting day. Woke up at a brisk noonish and relaxed the majority of the day.

I just got back from the Vocalists Concert and am now sitting in the Kelly Coffeehouse listening to CAKE.

Tomorrow is going to be exciting! The High C's are going to Port Jefferson, a local seaside town about 15 minutes off campus. We're going to carol among the people and hopefully gain some support from the outside community.

Next semester has quite a lot of potential! I'm taking 4, count 'em 4 theatre courses and I will be preparing for auditions throughout the semester off campus at professional theaters. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for getting cast in a summer show.

Soon off to the potato state for christmas eve the big west coast state for the x-mas day and new years then back to the bitter east for some writing.

Until next time,

J.C. Lewis

Resurrection Is Rewarding.

Hello again world,

It sure has been awhile since I have been posting here. I have neglected this for another mistress, photography.

I'm going to really try to keep both running at the same time. Its going to be a challenge but my eyes were opened this semester by a teacher here at Stony Brook who said that writing is an ongoing process, one that needs to be honed over time. I figure if I can just sit down and write for ten minutes a day I can see some sort of improvement.

Now that that is out of the way its time for an update of my life.

I am close to done with the first semester of my sophomore year here at SBU and I am as happy as happy can be. Its incredible! I'm having the fantastic time I should have had last year. I'm still singing my heart out and taking lessons off campus from the Rob Gallagher who is awesome and has taught me an incredible amount of new technique. I have another niche of theatre and have found myself in a job that gets me a lot of practice in technical theatre. I'm working as a stage hand at Staller Center for the Arts. I get to do a variety of different and awesome jobs including: projections, operating the fly rail just to mention a few.

It has come to the end of the semester and I am ready for it to end. Not to mention a bit of a break from the iceberg that has settled over Stony Brook.

Welcome Back,

J.C. Lewis

LIFE UPDATE

So, it has been almost 2 months since I last updated and I thought it was a good time to update.

I have been having an amazing time here at Stony Brook! Classes are relatively easy, even though I did just have an awful midterm in Astronomy. The leaves are turning and it makes me want to write more poetry. The colors are amazing, things I only thought I'd see in the Northwestern United States.

In the musical world I've been having a blast! I got into the all male A Capella group on campus The High C's. As a group we just went to see Rockapella one of the best A Capella groups this country has to offer. It was amazing we took a four hour trip to the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. They have an awesome campus in Storrs and they have seven, count them, seven A Capella groups on campus and all of them got to open for Rockapella, we made friends with one of the groups and hope to go back for an A Capella fest or something like that.

My knowledge of musicals has been expanding so fast I have something like eighty musical soundtracks now, including a lot of Disney, but I've fallen in love with the works of Stephen Sondheim, the greatest living composer of our time.

I've gotten heavily involved with the student theatre group here, Pocket Theatre, which is awesome group of actors and techies really devoted to the art that they love. We're putting on the Pavilion in a few weeks, which I hear is going incredibly. Next semester we're hoping to put together a musical, hopefully Songs for A New World by Jason Robert Brown. The actual theatre department recently finished their run of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, which was amazing! I look forward to their rendition of Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge.

Classes here have been pretty good overall. I'm captivated by almost all of them. I'm taking Astronomy 101, Acting 1, Singing for Actors(another theatre class), a voice lesson, the Chorale here at Stony Brook, Writing 101 and Intro to Stony Brook(most useless class ever!). My favorite class of the semester is my Singing for Actos class, it is taught by the amazingly talented Marie Danvers, who played Christine Daaé in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and who is also an amazing teacher. I'm having the most fun and learning a large amount on how to control my voice.

I must say that I have an awesome group of friends that I hold close to me here. I have had such good times, from climbing trees to discovering massive fish in the pond on campus. The goldfish, for lack of a better description was about the length of my arm, so roughly three feet.

Well it's raining at the moment, quite profusely actually and I'm going to be of to bed soon!

So I will update again soon!

Thanks as always!

J

A Library and iTunes

I sit here in the massive library at my school after a night of hookah and crazy amounts of water falling from the sky. It's nice to find people who live on my floor that aren't LOUD, and I use capital letters just to give you a taste of what living on my floor is like.

I had my first quiz yesterday, just about the easiest thing ever. Dr. Carini would've been disappointed in the small amount of thinking I had to do. Five questions, that's it, five. I was confused I thought it was going to be just about the hardest thing in the world but it wasn't. It was a very pleasant surprise.

Anyways more later.

As Always,

J

My New Life

Here I sit in my way too small room thinking about what's going to happen when I go to Astronomy 101 for my first college quiz, two weeks into my college career. Its kind of shocking to think that I'm a college student. It feels like days have gone by since I graduated high school. I miss my crowd from high school (not that I haven't found friends).

The weather here is so strange. There is entirely no pattern to the weather, unless you call random a pattern, it'll rain for half an hour and then be perfectly sunny. At least it's not bloody hot any more it's nice and cool I actually had to pull out a sweater while getting Dunkin' Donuts! *excellent donuts by the way*

I miss home

New York

So I thought that I would talk about what's coming for me.

I'm moving from San Francisco, California to Stony Brook, New York which is about 60 miles east of NYC on Long Island. I'm really excited for this brand new part of my life even thought I have no idea what to expect.

It's going to be difficult to leave home but I have to do it eventually, so why not now? When I'm young and rearing to go and explore new things, meet new people and see if what I love is really what I love.

I'm planning on majoring in Theatre Arts and Marine Vertebrate Biology with a minor in Vocal Performance (Music) but for all I know I'll get there and decide I want to be a Lawyer(NOT). One just never knows.

The school is huge but apparently not big enough for all of the students because they are ten percent over capacity (which means as a freshmen I get shafted and put in a room with three people that is designed for two). Fun? I hope so. My roommates seem really cool from the e-mails that have been sent.

Overall it sounds fun. I leave on Wednesday, very very soon.

As always,
J

OW!!!

Okay so yesterday was INCREDIBLE but today I'm sore. I am not one who deals with pain very well, so this whole hurting thing, not for me. I'm in relatively good shape, or at least that's what I keep telling myself, but yesterday was the first time I had done a lot of strenuous activity. It was a whole lot of fun going from boulder to boulder.

Luckily there are miraculous remedies like Tiger Balm and Ibuprofen. I spent a good hour lying on my stomach while there was a massive burning sensation on my back and upper shoulders. The pain slowly crept away and now there is no pain! It's so nice, Tiger Balm is stupendous!

Anyways, Em and I planned on going to the river but we were too sore to go swimming. So we started our whole reason for being up here, moving Em's stuff and leaving behind her car. It's quite a process especially because she has quite a bit of stuff.

Well I'm off to help.

Thanks for reading,
J