Friends, Family, and Big Fat Failures.

This past weekend was a busy one for me. The play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, was taking place this weekend at SU. For anyone that does not know I am a Theater major with an emphasis in production and design. Well anyway, I was running the sound board for this play so my parents, aunt, uncle, and cousin were coming up to see it. Saturday morning I also had a track meet at Shippensburg University. Since Ship is on the way from my house to SU, my mom came up to the meet to watch me throw. I was nervous as always but right before my flight was getting ready to throw, one of my best friends, Kristy, showed up. She goes to Ship so I had told her about the meet earlier in the week. I had not expected her to remember because with finals coming up I thought she would be very busy. I was very surprised and happy when I saw her; however, she made me even more nervous. My first throw was okay but not quit what I was hoping for. The second throw I fouled. Before my final throw my coach came up to me and said, "Now fucking throw this one like it is land marks and I will be fucking pissed if it sucks." I am not even kidding. That is exactly what he said. So while I was trying not to be any more nervous then I already was, I also knew that I needed to take it seriously since championships are next weekend. So I went into the circle and I tried my best. Once I let go of the hammer, I felt like it sucked. It felt slow and just not how it should. But, I took it as a mark and left the circle. Once I left I realized how far the hammer actually went and I started to get excited. When I found out that I got a PR of over five feet I was really happy. My throw was 38.93 meters. So since my very first college track meet a few weeks ago, I have broke the women's freshmen record in hammer at SU three times.

Later that day, my mom and I met up with the rest of my family and we went to dinner at BJ's. We talked about a lot of things like the play and how the past few nights had went. I told them about Cobra Starship coming to SU and how they used the bathrooms in the theater area so a lot of people got to meet them. Also, the same night the fire alarm went off right before the play was about to start. We had fake fog for the play and apparently someone thought it was real smoke and pulled the fire alarm. Anyway, after dinner they dropped me off at the theater so that I could get ready. Everything went great and they liked the play which was good. The next morning we all went to breakfast before they headed home.

Sunday night was the last night of the play. I was there extra early and I had made sure that I was completely ready, or so I had thought. When the lights came on and my cue came to start the music I accidentally stated the wrong song. The director was right in front of me so I immediately went into panic mode. I turned it off and the girl on stage that was supposed to be singing was just standing there not knowing what to do. Everyone started to laugh and the director yells out "Start again!". So the girl goes back behind the curtain and this time I get it right. The rest of the show goes great and the whole time I was so nervous that the director and stage manager were going to yell at me. After it is over I find out that it was okay and that no one was even mad. Most people in the audience even thought it was part of the show. However, I still feel bad and I do not think that I ever want to run the sound board ever again.