Calista's Poem and If's Monologue

So a long time ago, I wrote a post that got deleted in which I randomly talked about a dream I had.  In it, even though we were several weeks into the play (which is performing this week!!! AHH!) my drama teacher said, "Okay, Haili, Elli, and Joe Schmo (don't remember his name) still have to do their monologues to be in the show" As in an audition monologue.  Okay, first of all, Elli's not in the play.  But do you want to know what my reaction was?  Monologue?  Wait... wait... we're good. "Give me a minute- I have it- I just have to print it off.  I don't have it memorized- I just wrote it today."
Yep... this is a monologue from "Letters from If" and I shall post it for you...wait.... I don't have my jump drive. Never mind.  I'll post it tomorrow.

Let me talk for a minute and I'll put Calista's Poem, updated, at the end of the post.  I really liked how it turned out.  So, anyway.  this is what I did today:

1. Checked my email
2. studied like a madwoman for my astronomy test (whilst muttering to myself in the corner of the computer lab about Jupiter, metallic liquid hydrogen, crater density and ion tails...hehe)
3. Got snacks and brain food (Yay snickers!! Protein and sugar!!)
4. Took said astronomy test in 20 minutes.
5. Went to high school, did music project while I waited.
6. Took "what disney princess are you" quiz and looked up activities for babysitting Thursday-(I got Cinderella, Mulan, and Belle...I can see Belle without a doubt, I guess I can see Mulan, but Cinderella????)
7. Ate lunch (stabbed a piece of weird chicken with a plastic spork so I could eat it... yum)
8. Took MCA math test segments 1 and 2- had some geometry stuff (geometry was my best math) but I haven't taken geometry since the ninth grade.  I knew that some things worked but didn't know the formulas.
9. Played scattergories in band...not sure why, but that's what we did.
10. Don't remember what I did 7th hour...
11. Play practice
12. Talked in a British accent with my friend who plays Louise, the serving maid.  Discussed how ripped Aladdin was.
13. Decided that my two eldest daughters in the play, Isabel and Marguerite, are fraternal twins.  They look enough alike... and we can't tell which is older.  they suggested that they be two months apart.  To which I replied, "Do you have any idea how much that would hurt?"  Marguerite replied, "Yeah, oops... one baby fell out early!"  I later told Beauty this and she said that they both must have fallen on their heads on the way out.  I agreed...
14. Went home, ate 2 fig newtons, and ran to piano lessons.  Recorded Musette, and continued working on "Puck" "By the Limpid Stream" "Etude: Ivan is Busy" (have you ever tried saying "Ivan" in different accents?  It's fun) and the Beethoven Sonata.
15. Got back, ate a weird dinner of canned italian food- ravioli=yum nacho cheese rotini=not so much.  Frozen yogurt for dessert... dang, I'm hungry now!!  darn it!
16. Attempted to put on my prom dress so that my mom could help me pin it up so I could wear it for formal day tomorrow.  Zipper busted to the point of no return and now we have to get a new zipper.  Ironically, as I was calling the lady I babysit for who is a seamstress to try and resolve this problem, my friend Liz called and asked if I wanted to ditch prom with her.  I told her that I already had my ticket.  I have no date, though.  Anyway, tears ensued and I'm a bit hormonal this week with stress and being a girl... which my dad did not understand one bit and threw a fit.  Oh, and my brothers tore up a book.  As an author, you can only imagine how I felt about that.
17. Tried to play Kyle Landry's version of "I Can Go the Distance" and failed miserably due to the curse of tiny hands that can't handle octaves and 4 note chords.  But you can listen to him play it:

*Cries at the beauty of this and wishes for bigger hands*

((I might post a video of me attempting this just so you can see my tiny hands.))

    18.  Tried to go to bed, but blogged and wrote poems instead... which brings me to...

THE FINAL EDITING OF "CALISTA'S POEM" by Haili G

I will never see the sun rise

I will never see it set

I will never see fireflies 

Or a spider’s sparkling net 

I will never see a rainbow 

Painted 'cross the sky 

I will never see the stars glow 

Or the twinkle in your eye. 

I will never see you smile 

I will never see your tear 

But I can hold you for a while 

As long as you are near 

And I can feel the heat

Of the rising and setting sun 

And I can hear flies’ wings in fleet

Steady as a beating drum. 

I can smell the scent of rain 

As it washes clean the earth 

And I will not complain 

About my curse from birth 

I can hear your smile crinkle 

As it spreads across your face 

And I can feel each worried wrinkle 

And I know I've found my place. 

Here with you, I can see 

I'm where I'm meant to go 

I'm all I ever wanted to be 

When I'm with you, I know.