Blog nEntry Number 9

I Lindsey McDonald am a twenty-eight year old physiotherapist, wife, and mother of one living in Toronto, Ontario. I like to wake up at the same time every morning, 6:03 to be exact, I am a bit of a perfectionist and schedule out everything. On a good day I wake up peacefully at the right time to my alarm and the birds singing outside. But some mornings, if not most, I am roughly awoken by the screaming of my little two year old daughter, Kira, like today. So as I’m lying in bed, I turn over to face my husband Mark and hope that just this once he’ll get up and take care of Kira, but of course like always apparently in the mornings she’s “my department.” As I get out of bed I totally forget what’s above me and smoke my head on a shelf, is 5 foot 10 really that tall?! I finally get to Kira’s room, get her dressed, fed, and changed. As I’m walking down the flight of stairs of our two story house in Toronto, I remember that I forgot to feed or beagle Molly, back up I go. Mark is now ready to go to work at his job as an electrical engineer and takes Kira with him to drop her off at daycare. Finally, some time to myself, I grab a bowl and start to make my favourite breakfast, hot oatmeal with strawberries and blueberries, yum! After having a kid I realised just how hard it actually is to stay fit, so I’m off for a run! I get back and hop into the shower to wash my long brown hair, and to get all of the sweat and dirt off of my mocha, tan skin. I come out of the shower and put on my typical everyday work outfit, dress pants, a blouse, and of course my signature silver jewelry. I then get into my black Volkswagen, right on time of course, and drive to work. The physiotherapist office that I work at is a family business, so I work with me parents, my two brothers, my sister, and my best friend since we were five Jordan. It’s great working with my family, but sometimes it’s a lot to handle, I think I now know why we have no non-family employees…Anyways, the only thing that is getting me through this day is knowing that I get to do my absolute most favourite thing tomorrow, travel. I love to travel anywhere and everywhere, before I die I want to make it all the way around the world with Mark by my side. Tomorrow though, the two of us are going to Cancun, Mexico and I am pumped! No kids, no work, no problems! While I am on the trip I get to do my favourite things, swim, read, golf, and relax, I can`t wait! Well, I got to go my first patient is here!

Blog Entry Number 8

My bedroom is a very basic room; it’s quite small with four walls, a window, and a walk in closet. The thing that I like most about my room is that it is my own and I don’t have to share it with anyone. All of my walls in my room are purple; three of them light purple, like a lavender and one of them dark, bold purple, the wall with the window is the dark one. Right when I walk into my room the smell of lemon smacks me in the face so hard I can taste it because of my lemon air freshener, I can also smell a bunch of random smells like different perfumes, fresh laundry, and the outside air, I also can feel the fresh spring air through my open window and the fuzzy carpet on the bottom of my feet. My furniture is also a purpley/blue, I have two dressers and a desk. Both of the dressers are piled high with a whole bunch of miscellaneous stuff, it might look crowded and messy to some people, but I know exactly where everything is and everything has a certain place. The one dresser mostly has things from different trips on it like sand and shells from the beach in Mexico. The other dresser is filled mostly with things that I need to get ready, like makeup, jewelry, brushes, and perfume. That dresser also has a huge mirror that is bordered with pictures and memories from different parts of my life. Both of those dressers are filled with clothes that are always organized how I like them. I also have a walk in closet that has clothes in it too, on the left of the closet I have all of my golf shirts that are colour coated and below those are all of my sweaters that are also colour coated. On the right side of my closet are all my pants, jeans, sweats, yoga pants, golf pants, etc. they are also organized and I know where everything is all the time. Behind my door, I have six shelves that are all filled with different things, the first two are all of my books, the next one is all jets stuff, like tickets and programs, the fourth one is all of the awards that I have won through school, for sports and academics, the next one is the medals that I have won, and the last one is the golf stuff that I have won, like trophies and plaques. My desk is mostly filled up with school supplies and on top of it are a light and my laptop. I recently got a new bigger bed and I absolutely love it, it is very comfy and piled high with a bunch of pillows. My pillows take up a bunch of space on my bed so I only sleep on the left side of it, so that side is all wore in and way lower than the right side. Every night I look forward to sleeping in my big and comfy bed. Whenever I am in my room I feel very calm and relaxed because no one is usually around, just me. I don’t usually spend that much time in my room by myself or with my friends, I’m really only there to get ready or before I’m going to bed. My room always NEEDS to be clean no matter what because I like to be really organized and I need to know where everything is all the time. Whenever I’m in my room I can hear a few things, people and dogs barking, usually my sister and mom yelling at each other, golfers golfing in my backyard, and music, I always have music playing in my room no matter what. I like to be in my room sometimes because I’m alone and relaxed, but I don’t like being in there too much because then I start to feel isolated, I would rather spend more time out of my room then in it.

Blog Enrty Number 7

For the character Puck, I have chosen Will Ferrell. He is a very funny and talented actor and he has starred in many movies that showed his comedic side like Kicking and Screaming, The Campaign, Elf, and Blades of Glory. In almost all of the movies that he is in he plays a very funny and comedic role. Will Ferrell would be the perfect person to play Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream because in the play Puck is a very funny guy, likes to play a lot of tricks on people, and gets a laugh out of them every time. In the play when Puck was talking to the fairy she says to him in Act II “Either I mistake your shape and making quite, or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite call’d Robin Goodfellow. Are not you he that frights the maidens of the villager, skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern, and bootless make the breathless housewife churn,” (II, i, 32-37). This funny and mischievous side of Puck would work really well for Will Ferrell because he likes to play funny roles and I think that he would have fun playing tricks on people. Also Will looks to be about the right age to play this role of Puck.

 

For the character Titania, I think that Anna Hathaway would be a good actress to fit her part. She is a very talented actress and has been in many different types of movies like The Princess Diaries 1 &2, Les Miserables, Bride Wars, and Ella Enchanted. In both the Princess Diaries movies and Ella enchanted, Anna Hathaway played a sort of royal or magical role. Also in some of the movies she has been in she has played sort of a demanding role, so she would fit Titania’s role really well. In Act II Titania says “Fairies, away. We shall chide downright if I longer stay.” (II, I, 129-130). This shows that she is sort of the leader of the fairies and kind of orders them around. I think that Anne Hathaway would be good and doing that since she has before and she would also be used to being around magic so she would probably be comfortable with the fairies and the other magic that’s in the play.

For the character Helena, I think that Amanda Bynes would be a really great actress to play her part. She is a very good actress and has been in many movies that showed different sides to her like Hairspray, Sydney White, She’s the Man, and What a Girl Wants. In almost all of the movies that she has been in she plays a very clumsy and sort of awkward role, I feel like this fits Helena’s personality really well. Also in Hairspray, Amanda Bynes plays a sort of side kick role to the main actress and kind of just follows her and does what she does. This is kind of how Helena acts towards Hermia and lets her make the decisions most of the time. Also in Hairspray, Amanda Bynes really looks like the way that Hermia looks in the actual movie of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and acts the same way as Helena does. In Act II Helena says “How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears. If so, my eyes are oftener washed than hers. No, no, I am as ugly as a bear, for beasts that meet me run away for fear.” (II, ii, 65-68). I fell like Amanda Bynes would be able to play this really unconfident role pretty well since she has in the past with other movies. Also Amanda Bynes is blonde and in some of her movies she has been made to look not the prettiest, so she probably could again for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.