December 16, 2005 at 11:19 PM

I've been practicing a lot of those breathing exercises that Ms. Cho recommended to me...and I think I'm beginning to see the difference. I used to be in this children's choir, and I got the whole breathe-from-your-diaphragm speech a lot.

My sources told me that we were going to have another snowstorm, but instead it snowed for about 2 seconds and then rained. My grandfather came to pick me up for my lesson which my mom couldn't drive to because she was on jury duty. He was already a few minutes late, but as we tried to pull out of the driveway, the car got backed even further into the snowy ice and was stuck. We spent the next 90 minutes trying to get it out, using bags of salt and a lot of carpet samples we have lying around in the garage. I was kind of worried that he was going to slip and fall on the ice...but eventually he got it out. It was really hard and rather scary, and I called my teacher to see if he still wanted me to come to the lesson (there was nobody after me). And it just happened to be his birthday as well, so he didn't want me to come later since it would mess up his plans. I felt bad that my grandfather had to do all of that for nothing...but I guess what happens, happens. So I told my teacher all about the NY lesson. Spent the rest of the day cozily indoors, practicing, doing HW, and making chocolate chip cookies while listening to an incredibly bad Christmas music station (but I couldn't tear myself away!) Then I went to one of my friend's house to work on a movie we're doing for English (I made one for a history project recently that was really fun, maybe I'll post it up here.)

Oh, here is the link where you can see a trailer of the documentary I was in.

--alice

From Sydney Menees
Posted on December 16, 2005 at 11:52 PM

Wait is your real name Caeli Veronica Smith? And if so, why do you go by alicelizard s.?

From alicelizard s.
Posted on December 17, 2005 at 12:13 AM

When I started posting on this blog, I wanted it to be more private so I used a pseudonym, and "Alice" just happens to be an anagram of "Caeli". As for "lizard", I used to have a pet iguana and I thought it sounded cool.

From Sydney Menees
Posted on December 17, 2005 at 1:01 AM

Well that's cool! I suppose you can have more fun with an alter ego. Hey, you could be one of those superheros who never reveal their identity!

From Colleen Russo
Posted on December 17, 2005 at 1:38 AM

I'm sure that's EXACTLY it syd ;)

From Eric Stanfield
Posted on December 17, 2005 at 1:41 AM

My name is really Brad Pitt. Shhhhhhhhh.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on December 17, 2005 at 5:49 AM

Thanks for the link to the website. You were 13 y.o. when you were in the film. How old are you now?

I heard your radio performance and I liked it a lot. What are you going to do to impress us next?

From Emily Grossman
Posted on December 17, 2005 at 9:45 AM

I'm really Angelina Jolie, but I wouldn't confess publicly that I play the violin.

From Neil Cameron
Posted on December 17, 2005 at 6:33 PM