Once Upon a Mattress

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So what a week it has been. First off, school's been going well, I'm kind of on and off at understanding my math class, one day I'll understand the material completely, but then the next day I'm like "huh?". I can only hope that I will be able to understand it and pass this course...

Writing is going quite well, as is Creative Writing, and I definitely enjoy it, though I suppose from previous posts you can probably tell that I am not a horrible writer :). So I suppose that's probably one of my more favorite courses.

My two Psychology courses are also quite fascinating. My Prejudice course is simply enjoyable; we actually spent two hours in debate about different quotes that just made the class so much fun. While Psychology of Creativity is just interesting because it's all about the psychology of what goes into creative minds.

Now as for my social life, well let me just say possibly one of the best things I could ever ask for at school has happened. This week I auditioned for Once Upon a Mattress, a musical rendition of The Princess and the Pea, and sang "What I Did for Love" for my musical part, and then had to do a dance part and several readings of different scenes. I just got the call yesterday that they had decided to give me the part of Prince Dauntless, one of the leads in the play. I was ecstatic. I mean after 1 year where there was no play in Grade 8, five years where I never got cast in any plays no matter how much I tried in high school, and then three years of being cast in minor parts with maybe 3 lines or so, to being one of the leads in the play I'm just so thrilled.

Anywho, that's all tonight everyone!

Sean

Ahh the Future

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So my day was another dull one. I had to work with Chris and already going to say that it was more of Chris's constant asking when we were leaving. But I'd say the only other thing that happened autistic wise was I was doing a minor amount of grocery shopping, just picking up some minor items, and I talked to the cashier mentioning that at a different variety store a jumbo sized container was cheaper than the small container. I think I should of just figured, why did I need to bring this up, but I guess it was one of those lovely occasions where you can't help but bring up something completely random and make an awkward situation. It might not be autism, but none the less, it was AWKWARD. :P

Another thing I need to say is regarding how some things I really hate about in the world. For example, I tried getting a job at this one store that has a specific area of focus, video games, and being that I'm a video game fanatic, you'd figure it'd be easy for me to get a job there. Instead I walk in to find this one girl from my high school is now working there, someone who last I checked has never been interested in video games. Plus when I walked in, she looked at me as though I was dirt on the bottom of her shoe and she treated me the same way too. It irritated me so much I can't even get it off my mind because it is so ridiculous.

Now, the title of my blog, the future. Frankly I've been doing some soul searching and I've come to realize that I really have no idea what the heck I want to do with my life. Well...I do, I want to be an actor more than anything. Even though it's been a while since I did dance, but I still know how to dance, I can sing (I didn't do poorly on my vocal classes, I actually did smashing, so I must have some voice), and I know I can act because I don't take it to the point of perfection. However, as you also know, I'm in a Psychology program as a back up. But the fact is, I'm not happy. I only am ever happy when I'm acting, and while some directors may not always make it amazing, I still love it. I've been acting for years, and I just know that it's what is for me, but sadly it's also very difficult to get into...especially in Hollywood where I really want to go, to help entertain millions. To me it's about bringing joy to people who see movies, and it's what I'd love to get into... This is just me thinking about it and expressing my love of it...

Anyway that's all tonight,
Thanks for reading my friends,
Sean

I Wonder...

Hey Everyone,

So I've been thinking these days, why do I write in this blog? I think to me it's a way for me to express how I'm feeling each day and the struggles I go through. Over the past seven months, you've seen me go from having the structure in which I told you all what I did at each hour and for how long and as you all know, it was boring and basically a snooze fest to read. However, upon bringing my blog over to Salon.com, I was challenged by the lovely people at Salon to break free of the constraints of my structured writing and just make the sky the limit. So that's what I did.

Now, because I've broken free, I can express whatever I'm feeling. Disappointment, happiness, boredom, anger (which I rarely express :P), or anything else on the rainbow of emotions. But one thing I've come to realize and understand is that I'm actually quite good at this writing thing. Thanks to a certain writer on Salon, my blog was submitted as an editor's pick, and he even showcased me on his own blog which I am deeply appreciative for. I also have picked up over 2,250 views on Blogspot, and over 1800 views on Salon, so in total, over 4000 views. I truly am thankful for my faithful readers because without you, there would be no reason to continue my blogging. I hope you will see me through the next several months of blogging as I plan to end this blog when I reach a year of posts on Salon, which should fall around January. This means to my readers on Blogspot that you still get me for another 8 months, which is four more than I was originally planning as I had intentionally planned for just a year on Blogspot (which would have finished in September). However, since I couldn't let myself just stop after only 8 months on Salon, I have decided to end this blog on January 3, 2011. I just felt I needed to insert these two paragraphs so you know. And yes, I do realize I repeated myself about continuing the blog twice :P.

My day itself was relatively uneventful. I worked with Chris as always, which we basically just finished up Night at the Museum and moved on to watching Bewitched (the Nicole Kidman film). It's kind of funny that I like this film, especially since the connection between Kidman and Ferrell is absolutely atrocious and it's no wonder they won a Razzie award for worst film couple the year this was released (I think it was 2006 or 07?). But oddly enough, I still enjoy it just because it's that bad, and also because I love both Nicole Kidman and Kristin Chenowith who co-stars in this movie. By the way, if someone ever tells you they're a witch, don't EVER tell them in response you're a "clippers fan". Just saying :P

Anyway, aside from that it was a pretty laid back day. I had some dinner, played some Assassin's Creed and yeah, that's about it. The autism thing was my repeating above, basically me lingering on a topic, and therefore going around in circles.

That's all folks!
Sean

TGIF & Saturday

Hey Everyone,

I thought I had posted yesterday but I guess I forgot too...oops. My Friday was fine, starting with me sleeping in and my Dad had to wake me up as a result having come to pick me up from my friend's place. That was embarrassing in my opinion, because my roommate was there.

I thankfully headed back to St. Thomas and played God of War 3 up until I had to head off to work where I went to Wendy's followed by home to watch the rest of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 that we had started two weeks ago. It was a dead zone in St. Thomas because of Good Friday and there really wasn't many cars around at all so it was quite easy and safe driving as a result.

The night just concluded with more God of War 3.

Today I got to see How to Train Your Dragon and it was SUCH an awesome movie! I really suggest everyone go see it because it really is a movie for anyone. Rotten Tomatoes.com even gave it a 98% which beat out even Avatar! So there you go, it's great. I also have been working on my ethics proposal for Research Methods as it's my final assignment due Thursday.

I'll talk to you all tomorrow!
Sean

Believe in Yourself

Hey Everyone!
So Thursday was a good day for sure. I definitely had a lot of fun because of two main reasons.

The first is because I had my audition to be on the Big Purple Couch (the official talk show of the University Students Council at my school) as a co-host and I thought it went so much better than last year. Last year I stumbled a bit, wasn't sure what to say, and was nervous quite a bit. THIS year however I had so much fun with it. I went up there and just chatted with the host Ali as though I'd known her for a while and actually got to know her more through the conversation. I don't know yet if I'll actually get the position as there were 17 people trying out including me and that's going to be difficult to decide from but I do hope mine was one of the top choices :P.

The other reason that I had fun but also experienced a bit of sadness was because I had my first executive council meeting of King's Players (myself having been made Vice-President of Membership Affairs and Attendance) which went quite well. We went over the agenda which I thought was very well laid out and I'm now just absolutely thrilled about King's Players next year. We also had our final King's Players meeting of this year which is the sad part because it means I have to wait five months before I get to return to improv :(. It was still a lot of fun, and the visit to Christina's Pub once more was fun as always. I'm going to miss it a lot but at least we still have the scavenger hunt next week which will go okay I think unfortunately for us our weather drops down to 9 degrees Celsius, whereas today it was 20 degrees Celsius so it's going to be unfortunate that the temperature chooses that night to drop. But at least it's not in the negative numbers or even low single digits.

Autistic-wise I think the only thing that might have happened was me doing my whole getting aggravated when I'm trying to say something and the person who is talking keeps talking and to me I'm sitting there thinking "LET ME TALK!". But I suppose that's how it goes.

Night Everyone! Also the post for Friday I won't be able to write until later because well I'm going to bed (it's actually Saturday early morning right now as I write this :P)
Sean

It's Almost Over!!!

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So I am proud to say that my music test has been completed and I think I did fairly well at it! What's more, I only have two more assignments left. First I have to get my manuscript speech finished, and then have my Ethics Proposal, the final assignment for my Research Methods class due on the Wednesday.

My day was pretty uneventful because all I did was see Valentine's Day again which I must say was just as funny the second time around as it was the first time. I have to say though, I really wish there was a way for me to get into acting though. I love movies so much, but what's more, I love acting a hundred or thousand times more. Obviously I'm in University to get a degree so I have a fall back, but really I couldn't see myself doing anything but acting if I had the chance, it just means that much to me. It brings a joy to my life I didn't even think possible, and I just wish it were easier to get into the business so I could have that joy every day.

Anyway, autism-wise I don't think much happened except stressing more than I should have about my music test. But I suppose that's life and you just have to live with it.

Thank-you once again people for reading my blog. I'm glad you seem to be enjoying it so much and coming back. Especially my readers from Massachusetts and other areas of the States and Canada and anywhere else people are reading from!

Night Everyone!
Sean

Election Day!

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So I'm going to try and switch up the format again just because I figure I might as well try. It was a busy day more or less with the Students Council VP Elections and me having stayed up all night writing my speech for it. The council meeting lasted from 10:30AM all the way till 5:30PM which I have to say was annoying as all hell. I ran for Vice-President Operations, in other words the person in charge of the policies, clubs, the King's rink, the Regis (a news publication), and the website. I felt I did quite well for the debate, and while I lost, I felt it still was an exhilarating experience. I definitely have to say it was something I don't regret. The funny thing about me is I never give up, ever. I do whatever is in my power until I achieve it or get close to it because that's the type of person I am. This probably could come in handy though since I do want to be an actor so badly and after all, to get into acting there is one of two things you would need. Either you need connections, or you need persistence because the fact is you're going to be trying over and over again to get a role. Not everyone gets accepted right off the bat, even Jim Carrey tried fifty million times before he got to where he is today. Though to be clear, I'm finishing my Psych degree first because I feel I need to finish it before anything else, so I have a potential backup.

The only other thing I guess I can talk about is that our Fashion Show is coming up next week. I'm ecstatic about it, and I think it's just amazing that this was my first time trying for it and I still made it in. What's more, the commissioners in charge of it seem quite pleased with me and thanked me for being reliable. Frankly, I find people who are just here one day, and then gone another just does not help get anything done.

So I suppose those are my thoughts today. If you can't tell what my autistic aspect I was outlining was my ongoing persistence in trying time and time again. I know some people would say that many people have that but mine basically surpasses that. It's simply as though where a lot of people eventually say enough is enough, I never can. It's just what makes me, me.

So that's all tonight!
Hope you think I did do a better format :P
Sean

Time Goes By So Slowly

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So I woke up at 11:30AM and headed to a recital that I needed to critique for my music class. I then headed back home and played God of War till 4:30PM.

We headed to the school for closing night which went amazingly! It was a great performance and I finally got a chance to meet Lauren's father and the rest of her family I hadn't met yet.

After this we headed home and I played God of War for another hour until Lauren, Ash and Roxanne came and got me to head to the Cast Party. About five minutes into the party I got a call and had to head to St. Thomas because my grandfather had been taken to hospital and my parents were not in St. Thomas so they wouldn't have been able to make it there. So after I found out Gramps was fine, I headed back to London and here I am.

Autism-wise, the only thing that happened was well...the structure of this post, and when I was speaking with some cast members I couldn't get off a particular topic like I often do.

That's all for tonight, even though it's day!
Sean

Living on a Prayer

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So I'm skipping the post for yesterday as it wasn't really all that great a day :P. I woke up today at 9AM after heading to bed at midnight. I headed over to Lauren's at 10:00AM and we headed on our way to the school (Central) as we had a Matinee to do at 1PM. It went fairly well, but became rather sad when our audience left before we even finished because their school was over. So we finished that up, and headed out to lunch.

Lauren, Tricia and a few others headed to Crabby Joe's and I got just some cheese bread. Could barely eat it thought because it was so greasy and I don't need fully clogged arteries thanks. We then headed back to the school for our next show, Opening Night.

The show went amazingly. It was a great performance, and it seemed like people really enjoyed it.

After the show we headed back out to Crabby Joe's for dinner. I had the Haddock Fish and Chips, and it was quite good indeed, and definitely outside of my norm. We then headed back home.

Autism-wise, I actually BROKE one of my quirks. Generally I will only eat certain foods when I go to certain restaurants, like Grilled Cheese. But I decided to finally go with something I generally don't have and had the Fish and Chips. Surprisingly, I really liked them. I definitely was very happy that I had finally broke one of my quirks.

That's all for tonight!
Sean

Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag

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I woke up at 1:00PM and did my usual shower and such. I then watched MadTV and followed it up by Daily Show and Colbert Report for some last minute laughs before my day turned on the decline.

I headed to King's as it was finally time for my Clinical Psychology exam. I am hoping I did a good job, as a lot of questions I kept thinking "this is all in order of what I studied".

After class, I took a cab up to Central Secondary as it was time for the play, but turns out most people had gone out to dinner. So here I am at the school ready to go, and everyone else is out. So I sat and had dinner at the school with my friend Alex as we waited for them to get back. The practice/rehearsal went pretty well, and my costume changes went fine. Wednesday is the dress rehearsal so it kind of has to work out other wise. But you know what they say, "crappy dress rehearsal, amazing opening night" so here's hoping tomorrow goes horribly :P.

Once practice was over, Lauren, Tricia and I took the bus to the main gates and then briefly got some food from the variety store nearby. We then headed home and here I am.

Anyway that's all for today!
Sean

Summertime

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I woke up at 12:00PM and had my usual shower and everything. I then headed out for a meeting at 1PM. Following this I headed up to Masonville Mall as I had to do some shopping. I had to buy some shorts to go with the tights for my costume for the play and an apron. I then grabbed some milk and toilet paper before heading home.

I got back home, with my finger blowing a blood vessel or something from carrying the milk with one finger, which resulted in my finger feeling numb for an hour. I watched some television and studied a bit for my exam tomorrow.

At 6PM I headed over to Lauren's to head to Speech class and then we got there and it had actually been our professor evaluation, which meant we couldn't stay and Lauren couldn't do her speech. So we let our Professor know whom was in another room and then headed out the door. We had to pack up several bundles of branches from trees for the play as the trees needed branches. We got to the venue, and it's quite a great stage. I really hope everything goes well with it.

I got home around 9:30PM and here I am.

Autism-wise, I suppose only thing that happened was me keeping to the normal structure of my blog. I wish I could separate from this but it's just not me.

Night all!
Sean

Just Another Picture to Burn

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I woke up at 3:00PM and got ready for play practice later that night. I worked on my study notes for my exam Tuesday. At 6:15PM I headed over to Lauren's and we headed over to play practice. It went pretty well frankly, and I got a chance to slip next door for Fashion show practice. We finally got onto actual practice of the play at 8:40. I then headed home after practice and here I am. I'm sorry that this post is so extremely short.

Autism-wise there was really only the structure of this post.

Sorry again!
Sean Previl

This is My Time To Shine!

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So I woke up at 10:30 and quickly talked to my Mom. I then had to do some stuff for the KUCSC website as I'm the designer for it..I then got ready to head out and met my friend Brittany at King's to head to Masonville. We headed there and saw Alice in Wonderland which was a fantastic movie. Classic Tim Burton, and just full of "naughtiness" (see the trailer to know why I put that in quotes).

After Alice, Brittany and I walked around to try and find some black tight athletic pants for me for my upcoming play as tights didn't fit. Surprisingly, I can't buy them either as they were over $50 which I'm not paying for something I'll only wear for three days...not saying I don't exercise, but I wouldn't wear those pants even if I did a lot of running like they're used for.

I then headed to play practice at 4PM and we did quite a good run through. But there was a bit of lacking emotion. It still was quite a good performance though. I then headed home and here I am watching Miss Congeniality on Showcase Diva. (Yes you may laugh :P).

That's all for tonight!
Sean

Cause When You're Fifteen

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So I woke up at 12PM after a 12 hour sleep and had my usual shower. I watched television for a while and then headed to my Psych of Work class which wasn't bad for once. We watched a clip from Braveheart, followed by a clip from Devil Wears Prada (one of my favourite movies). Lauren and I then walked back to her place before I headed home for my first night off in a while. Even though I'll need to get back to studying for Tuesday's exam, I just decided to take tonight off as I had spent the past couple days both studying and writing a silly Research paper.

Around 9:55PM, I headed to Lauren's so we could head over to King's Players. We had some fun, and I played Pocket Lines (a game where you act out a scene and insert in one of the lines on the slips of paper you picked out). There were other games we played, but not as many on stage ones, more "In the Manner of the Word" or "Molecules".

After KP we headed to Christina's Pub for a little while, and chatted. I then grabbed some groceries from the variety store and Lauren, Ashley and I headed home. Now that's where I am, playing Matrix: The Path of Neo.

Night all!
Sean

When You Wish Upon A Star

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So here's my post for the past two days.

Sunday I woke up at 11AM and did my usual shower stuff and got ready to head to London for my usual busy Sundays.

My parents and I headed to London at 1PM and made it there by 2PM. I watched television a little bit and then headed to Fashion Show practice which went from 3:30-6:30PM and I worked on the posters for the Fashion Show as the coordinator called me Saturday night asking me to help with the posters. I also apparently have more or less made my walk a heck of a lot better than it use to be according to the coordinator.

After was our long ass play practice that lasted till 11PM. We did two run throughs and then we headed home. I talked to Lauren about how miffed I was at how a certain incident happened and I don't care to really discuss it on here because A: the directors already know about it, and B: the person it involves may be reading this. Though I kept bringing it up a couple times as we walked back to her house, which was just my autism acting up.

Today on the other hand, I woke up at 12PM and then showered. I then headed to my Moore's fitting for the fashion show which went really well, and the coordinator thanked me for always being at practices and always being faithful and cooperative. I told her it was no problem, and it was just a part of my nature.

After this I headed to Masonville and did a couple things around there and finally headed home. I headed to speech at 6:30PM and listened to a couple more speeches, headed to Christina's Pub and then headed home to work on my paper which is what I'm doing now. I hope everyone's doing great!

Sean

I'll Always Remember, It Was Late Afternoon

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I woke up this morning (Saturday) at 11:30AM, and did my usual shower stuff. I then headed out at 1PM to pick up Chris. We went to Wendy's for lunch then back to my house and watched the ending of Chuck and Larry, and also started watching Wall-E. I then took him back home at 3PM and then headed to Wal-Mart.

I had to look for tights at Wal-Mart as I needed them for the play as a pawn. I then headed over to EB Games and bought a game since my burned copy was no longer working. I finally headed back home. My grandfather was home which was really nice and we had my favourite meal, mashed potatoes and chicken. I then helped take Gramps back home as he has mobility issues. I then came back and played Final Fantasy X and beat it.

Autism-wise, I think the only thing happened was my lingering on things as always. I'm sorry this post is so horrid, I'm really not here today as it was a long day. But hopefully my next post will be okay.

Night all!
Sean

Here we are, so far from where we started

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I got up about 11:30AM today thinking I'd hit up my Speech professor's performance workshop, but I wound up dozing off again until 1:00PM. At 1PM this person came to see my friend's house again, but at least this time it wasn't the Varsity Rentals who seem to have no manners whatsoever. The guy seemed nice, but it didn't really matter since I probably wouldn't be living with my friend next year as I found another friend has a place even closer to King's that I can stay at when I need to.

After this I had my usual shower and then headed over to King's for my play practice. It went really well as we said it's probably about a level 8 out of 10 at the moment. Luckily we still have a few more practices before it's showtime, so I'm sure it'll be at a ten by then.

Afterwords I returned to my friend's place, grabbed my bag, and my Dad picked me up to take me back to St. Thomas until I have to come back Sunday for play, fashion show, and Students Council.

Autism-wise, I'd say the only thing that happened was I acted a little goofy at the beginning of play rehearsal and that was just because my mind was out of it from everything that was going on with the play. I eventually settled in, but I had been saying some random stuff that was a bit out of character for me.

That's all for today!
Night all!
Sean

Sorry for Being Sorry

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So I didn't do my post yesterday due to exhaustion on my part. I had woken up at 8AM on Sunday and headed to final dress rehearsal at the UCC at 9AM for the play. I then headed back to the house for a short time until the Fashion Show shoot which I still felt odd about being in a tank top as I'm not like super fit or anything. After that I had students council which was the USC Presidential debate, and then finally followed dby a LONG LONG LONG play practice. The directors have decided to make practice 6:30-11 now which is freaking ridiculous no matter how much practice they thing we need, it is still completely ridiculous.

Today on the other hand, I woke at 12PM and quickly went to Kings to do some business that needed...doing, and then headed back home for a bit. At 2:30PM my parents and I went out shopping and had dinner, and then just headed back home. Around 6:30PM I headed to speech class which I'll be doing my speech on the Monday after reading week. Then at 8:30PM I headed to the UCC as it was time for the production. We went on at 10PM and it went wonderfully, and now I'm home and just relaxing after a good day's work.

I only had autism related things when I was with my parents and kept talking despite the fact I knew I could of just cut it short. But oh well.

That's all for today!
Sean

Improv Insanity

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I woke up at 12PM and had my usual shower and then hopped a cab to Masonville as I had to pick up a wife beater shirt for the Fashion Show photo shoot tomorrow. I then got my hair cut too for the same reason and then hopped a cab back to the UCC for play rehearsal.

When I got to the UCC, play rehearsal went really well. I actually have all my lines memorized I now just need to work on not sounding like a stand up comic but sounding like I'm joking with a friend.

Following this, one of my co-stars Joel drove me home and we discussed the annoying elections of the University Students Council President election. I don't really know why this whole thing annoys me, but probably because each UWO President generally has never works on producing anything they promise so really, how can we trust them?

Once I got dropped off, I headed to the Improv show which went really well and was so much fun.

After that I headed home and here I am, 3AM, I have to be up for dress rehearsal at 8AM, so I'm basically...screwed.

Night Everyone!
Sean

Dancing Queen

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So to begin with, yes I've returned to my old format but it's just so hard for me to stick to any other format than that. But I suppose that's just my autism for you really, I have no control over that particular aspect. Or should I say, I do but don't bother worrying about it too much.

I woke up at 1PM and was planning to get up as I had a meeting at 2PM but then it got cancelled. So I decided to head back to bed, however then I talked with my Mom a bit and then just studied some more before my exam.

I headed to my exam at 3:30PM and I think it was not too bad, I finished at 5 and headed back to my place where I just watched some TV until 10PM when I headed to King's Players.

When I got there I found out I was going to be in the Improv show on Saturday. We then learned some more techniques for improvisation and then headed to Christina's Pub.

I then got home and here I am.

As you can see my only autistic thing was that of my returning to my usual structure of my blog.

Night All!

Sean