Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Facebook statuses from Andrew's Account: January 1-June 30, 2009

January 26, 2009
  • is hating homework and studying
February 3
  • is so happy that his sundance film festival notebook was found containing all his notes on all the movies he saw for his film festival class
April 10
  • My house is finally cleaned I walked in today from work and my house was in great shape especially my room. I love my house keeper. Man am i spoiled
April 11
  • Exhausted. Just ran a 5k in 00:27:06 but i feel good at he same time. Accomplished
April 26
  • Life has its ups and downs, trials and tribuilation and those occasional near death experiences BUT life is great and when you are serving the Lord, joyful with just being alive then NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.
April 27
  • Facebook is redundant and seems pointless lately
May 5
  • Just got in from new york connection from dulles. delays all day it is 146 am and i should have been home at 1230. exhuasted and i have to be up in 5 hours
May 6
  • One more final to finish due by midnight tonight. Take a look what my group transformed me into for Our theatre final. Caliban from the Tempest
  • JUST FINISHED AND EMAIL MY LAST FINAL- SEMESTER IS FINALLY OVER FOR ME. IM SO HAPPY
May 7
  • Just became an uncle again Kim & P.J. just had their boy this morning. 7#2oz. 19 inches.
May 8
  • I need a second job definately for the summer and maybe more permanent and that will work around school
  • wants to wish everyone who graduated yesterday, today, and anyone who is graduating this semester. Congrats to all you graduates.
may 9
  • When you choose to follow God and keep His commandments, you grow in wisdom and strength of character. You can experience joy even in times of trial, and you can face life’s challenges with a spirit of peace. In the scriptures, we learn that true happin
May 11
  • A home established on gospel principles is a place of refuge and safety, where the Spirit of the Lord? can abide, blessing family members with peace, joy, and happiness
May 12
  • I just got for my diversity requirement in Gay and Lesbian Theater 473 out of 500 for the semester. Thats and "A" baby. I am so happy. Had a great teacher. Fran is awesome everone should take if given a chance when she reteaches it in a year.
  • Got a B+ in My Film Festival Class where I had to write an 8 page paper. So Far I have an A and a B+ for Final grades. Off to a good Start. Just NEED 2 more grades and I will be set. This is going to be the best semester yet
May 13
  • I am spending way to much time on facebook. Its ridiculous i need to find something more constructed. I think ill get in just as much trouble if I played wow.
  • I am ready to go postal. Arggghh
May 14
  • I am waiting impatiently for my last grade but my current standing "A", "A", and "B+" I am so happy htis is my best semester yet
May 15
  • impatiently waiting for my last grade to be posted hoping its at least B+ so ill have my first 3.5 GPA regardless if it a B it will be 3.46. This a big change from barely making 2.0's
May 16
  • I'm looking through the proverbial looking glass that allows me to see the best and worst of my life. What i have learn is that I have LEARNED and LIVED and all experiences, mistakes and everything else make me unique and and interesting. ANd unfortunatel
May 18
  • pissed. we will definately be talking with teachers tomorrow last class i was waiting for gave me a C+ when it was suppose to be atleast a B. That really dropped what should have been atleast a 3.46 down to a 3.17. Really pissed dont be alarmed if you......
May 20th
  • If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it, is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
May 24
  • Completely drained, exhausted, every muscle in the body aches- And I am loving it. A weekend of unspeakable amounts of rain, mud, and wind created a very treacherous journey and legendary paintball war that will not be forgotten. New friends made and wo
  • A weekend of unspeakable amounts of rain, mud, and wind created a very treacherous journey and legendary paintball war that will not be forgotten. 
    DUE TO SAFETY OF PLAYERS (and a dying battery)- PICTURES ONLY ARE THOSE OF PRE AND POST BATTLE
May 31
  • You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
june 1
  • when are you going to understand that "normal" is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage
june 2
  • ive been saying for the past week that we dont really get lighting storms in salt lake and how i missed the lightening in indiana, its not indiana lightening but we had and are having lightening storms in Salt Lake. Hey it my fault and i glady accept the
    • Im sorry you missed the memo but the earth may not revolve around me but the universe does. Its all about me, at least thats what the voices in my head tell me, no we dont, yes we do , no its a figment of you imagination, no we tell him that all the time, that guys right the world does not revolve around Andrew it revolves around us.........
june 4
  • Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying.
  • one little elephant went out to play upon a spiderweb one day, she had such enormous fun she called for another elephant to come.....
june 5
  • This is the story of my life- Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying.
  • You cannot leave everything to Fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand
  • The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel." C.S Lewis
june 6
  • Why would God make us all different if he wanted us to be the same
june 7
  • If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilites, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
june 8
  • Don't be scared, we talked to the voices... and they like you!!
  • For all my LGBTQ friends in honor of Sunday: And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Jerry Chin
  • People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within
june 12
  • If I thought that what you thought Was that I hadn't thought about sharing my thoughts Then my reaction to your reaction To my reaction Would have been more revealing I was afraid that you'd be afraid If I told you that I was afraid of intimacy If you don
june 13
  • Worst Storm yet prepare for flooding its a deluge out there. Dont think I have ever seen rain like this in Utah in the 3 year i lived here. Winds rain thunder lightening. How exciting! Ashley better drive safe.. I love the rain
june 14
  • "I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best."
june 15
  • Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
june 16
  • If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
  • If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of
june 17
  • Frustrated. Arghh. Blank btw does anyone have extra furniture, dish an silverware sets etc etc etc. that they dont need or want anymore
  • "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death."
june 18
  • I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours.
june 19
  • Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
june 20
  • Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
  • There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
june 21
  • Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
june 22
  • Living in a mental limbo of perplexity while trying to sail on the tempest tossed waves of a monday
  • I just finished the script for the children's live action movie "An Old-Fashioned Christmas Story" This book written by James N Weidman was one that I grew up on as my mother read it to my sisters and I every Christmas. So I was excited the other day wh
june 25
  • Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
june 28
  • History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction-the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, and the surprises and the moral of the romance
  • Can Someone who normally has a hard enough time getting into the Christmas Spirit in the normal season. get into the Christmas Spirit in July... Christmas...... is Just Humbug!!!!........lol
june 30
  • Im in a cooking mood tonight Menu: shrimp and salmon with pasta in a pesto alfredo sauce, asparagus, and a blackberry, strawberry, and cherry trim. The supper table is open to those who wish to join me eating about 730 745. let me know 801 717 5335
  • Dinners about ready, anyone invited im serious, Im was in a cooking mood tonight Menu: shrimp and salmon with pasta in a pesto alfredo sauce, asparagus, and a blackberry, strawberry, and cherry trim. The supper table is open to those who wish to join me e
july 13
  • It is a great and marvelous day!!!!! may the world feel the warmth of love and comfort within in their friends and loved ones. And the support to live another day comforted with the idea tomorrow is a new day. May freedom ring and individuality overcom
  • This is an excellent movie one that i suggest that all should see. Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel did excellent in this movie. Yes I have seen it before its out in theatres we premiered it at Sundance
  • cinematography was horrible and two many close ups, you couldnt tell who was fighting who and such. The movie mad you want to throw up most the time with the nonstop camera jerking. First one was better and there were many gaps in their facts locations. At least it was better than twilight even t..
july 14
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was great. Can't wait to see it again. You will all enjoy it very much, enjoy your midnight showing tonight for those attending.
  • The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
  • If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of
July 15
  • Its time for me to grow up and start saving money Lol. I am going to France Fall 2010 for Study Abroad Program for the semester. So I need to opening a bank account just for my France trip. Looking at about additional 5-6k i will need besides what my tu
july 16
  • On my way to the Shearton for the Utah Film Commission Luncheon
  • Film Commission Luncheon was great a loy of exciting stuff happening in Utah right now and over next few years in the Film Industry
july 17
  • Just watched HSM3 with friends for the third time and i just realized the used the International Peace Gardens on 900 W and 1000 S in Salt Lake City for Stanford University
july 18
  • Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.
  • canceled it anywasy, dont know what im doing probablly just going ot watch movies on the movie screen.
  • If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always t
july 19
  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
july 20
  • Had very productive meetings today with my new publicist Stephanie DeGraw President of Power Media, great things are happening within Power Media and C'est La Vie Entertainment and Talent. Look at my notes very shortly for Upcoming Workshops and informat
july 21
  • From this point on I can not answer any questions about my film. Except to those I am in contact with. All inquiries need to go through my Publicist Stephanie DeGraw or my Producer Warren Workman due to organization and continuity. thank you for underst
  • I have been advised not to answer any more questions about my film. Except for those who are in my current support team. All inquiries need to go through my Publicist Stephanie DeGraw or my Producer Warren Workman. Warren Workman will will be in charge as
july 24
  • Is working is third job tonight about to get a 4th until start actually filming movie and until school starts. And making all my meetings
  • This has always been a charity close to my heart. I know to many friends who have HIV and AIDS because of many different reasons and from all walks of life. these are our brothers and sisters, parents, and out children let's make a difference.
    As a person who loves the theatre, this great organization through broadway shows, merchandise, and opportunities raise billions of dollars a year in the lives of other. This is one of the 3 main charities I support. Working with people who have AIDS, breast and ovarian cancer, and very big on humanitarian efforts providing support where it is needed, as they did with Hurricane Katrina. If you don't support BCEFA please support your local AIDS coalition or organization in your community to give people a chance.
  • Anyone in Salt lake going to Huntsville Set tomorrow i need a ride call me or email me 801 717 5335 andrewjswallow@gmail.com
july 25
  • The World is my oyster, so where is my giant pearl.
july 27
  • We are about to release a press release through the Utah Film Commission inviting everyone registered with the Film Commission and local Talent Agencies to sign up for the workshop. This is the last exclusive opportunity for our Facebook friends to sign
  • ing to promise you will be used but we will keep you on file if the occasion arises that we can use your talent and services.

    This is an opportunity to network with the various forms of media out there and help you network with others. Even if you are not right for C'est La Vie Entertainment or we just can't use you we will definitely forward you information on to others who are looking for your particular style, genre, and skill.

    We also promote various photographers, craft services, makeup artists, personal assistants, graphic designer FREE of Charge.

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    Andrew J SwallowJanuary 26, 2009
    • is hating homework and studying
    February 3
    • is so happy that his sundance film festival notebook was found containing all his notes on all the movies he saw for his film festival class
    April 10
    • My house is finally cleaned I walked in today from work and my house was in great shape especially my room. I love my house keeper. Man am i spoiled
    April 11
    • Exhausted. Just ran a 5k in 00:27:06 but i feel good at he same time. Accomplished
    April 26
    • Life has its ups and downs, trials and tribuilation and those occasional near death experiences BUT life is great and when you are serving the Lord, joyful with just being alive then NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.
    April 27
    • Facebook is redundant and seems pointless lately
    May 5
    • Just got in from new york connection from dulles. delays all day it is 146 am and i should have been home at 1230. exhuasted and i have to be up in 5 hours
    May 6
    • One more final to finish due by midnight tonight. Take a look what my group transformed me into for Our theatre final. Caliban from the Tempest
    • JUST FINISHED AND EMAIL MY LAST FINAL- SEMESTER IS FINALLY OVER FOR ME. IM SO HAPPY
    May 7
    • Just became an uncle again Kim & P.J. just had their boy this morning. 7#2oz. 19 inches.
    May 8
    • I need a second job definately for the summer and maybe more permanent and that will work around school
    • wants to wish everyone who graduated yesterday, today, and anyone who is graduating this semester. Congrats to all you graduates.
    may 9
    • When you choose to follow God and keep His commandments, you grow in wisdom and strength of character. You can experience joy even in times of trial, and you can face life’s challenges with a spirit of peace. In the scriptures, we learn that true happin
    May 11
    • A home established on gospel principles is a place of refuge and safety, where the Spirit of the Lord? can abide, blessing family members with peace, joy, and happiness
    May 12
    • I just got for my diversity requirement in Gay and Lesbian Theater 473 out of 500 for the semester. Thats and "A" baby. I am so happy. Had a great teacher. Fran is awesome everone should take if given a chance when she reteaches it in a year.
    • Got a B+ in My Film Festival Class where I had to write an 8 page paper. So Far I have an A and a B+ for Final grades. Off to a good Start. Just NEED 2 more grades and I will be set. This is going to be the best semester yet
    May 13
    • I am spending way to much time on facebook. Its ridiculous i need to find something more constructed. I think ill get in just as much trouble if I played wow.
    • I am ready to go postal. Arggghh
    May 14
    • I am waiting impatiently for my last grade but my current standing "A", "A", and "B+" I am so happy htis is my best semester yet
    May 15
    • impatiently waiting for my last grade to be posted hoping its at least B+ so ill have my first 3.5 GPA regardless if it a B it will be 3.46. This a big change from barely making 2.0's
    May 16
    • I'm looking through the proverbial looking glass that allows me to see the best and worst of my life. What i have learn is that I have LEARNED and LIVED and all experiences, mistakes and everything else make me unique and and interesting. ANd unfortunatel
    May 18
    • pissed. we will definately be talking with teachers tomorrow last class i was waiting for gave me a C+ when it was suppose to be atleast a B. That really dropped what should have been atleast a 3.46 down to a 3.17. Really pissed dont be alarmed if you......
    May 20th
    • If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it, is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
    May 24
    • Completely drained, exhausted, every muscle in the body aches- And I am loving it. A weekend of unspeakable amounts of rain, mud, and wind created a very treacherous journey and legendary paintball war that will not be forgotten. New friends made and wo
    • A weekend of unspeakable amounts of rain, mud, and wind created a very treacherous journey and legendary paintball war that will not be forgotten. 
      DUE TO SAFETY OF PLAYERS (and a dying battery)- PICTURES ONLY ARE THOSE OF PRE AND POST BATTLE
    May 31
    • You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
    june 1
    • when are you going to understand that "normal" is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage
    june 2
    • ive been saying for the past week that we dont really get lighting storms in salt lake and how i missed the lightening in indiana, its not indiana lightening but we had and are having lightening storms in Salt Lake. Hey it my fault and i glady accept the
      • Im sorry you missed the memo but the earth may not revolve around me but the universe does. Its all about me, at least thats what the voices in my head tell me, no we dont, yes we do , no its a figment of you imagination, no we tell him that all the time, that guys right the world does not revolve around Andrew it revolves around us.........
    june 4
    • Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying.
    • one little elephant went out to play upon a spiderweb one day, she had such enormous fun she called for another elephant to come.....
    june 5
    • This is the story of my life- Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying.
    • You cannot leave everything to Fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand
    • The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel." C.S Lewis
    june 6
    • Why would God make us all different if he wanted us to be the same
    june 7
    • If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilites, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
    june 8
    • Don't be scared, we talked to the voices... and they like you!!
    • For all my LGBTQ friends in honor of Sunday: And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Jerry Chin
    • People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within
    june 12
    • If I thought that what you thought Was that I hadn't thought about sharing my thoughts Then my reaction to your reaction To my reaction Would have been more revealing I was afraid that you'd be afraid If I told you that I was afraid of intimacy If you don
    june 13
    • Worst Storm yet prepare for flooding its a deluge out there. Dont think I have ever seen rain like this in Utah in the 3 year i lived here. Winds rain thunder lightening. How exciting! Ashley better drive safe.. I love the rain
    june 14
    • "I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best."
    june 15
    • Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
    june 16
    • If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
    • If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of
    june 17
    • Frustrated. Arghh. Blank btw does anyone have extra furniture, dish an silverware sets etc etc etc. that they dont need or want anymore
    • "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death."
    june 18
    • I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours.
    june 19
    • Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
    june 20
    • Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
    • There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
    june 21
    • Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
    june 22
    • Living in a mental limbo of perplexity while trying to sail on the tempest tossed waves of a monday
    • I just finished the script for the children's live action movie "An Old-Fashioned Christmas Story" This book written by James N Weidman was one that I grew up on as my mother read it to my sisters and I every Christmas. So I was excited the other day wh
    june 25
    • Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
    june 28
    • History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction-the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, and the surprises and the moral of the romance
    • Can Someone who normally has a hard enough time getting into the Christmas Spirit in the normal season. get into the Christmas Spirit in July... Christmas...... is Just Humbug!!!!........lol
    june 30
    • Im in a cooking mood tonight Menu: shrimp and salmon with pasta in a pesto alfredo sauce, asparagus, and a blackberry, strawberry, and cherry trim. The supper table is open to those who wish to join me eating about 730 745. let me know 801 717 5335
    • Dinners about ready, anyone invited im serious, Im was in a cooking mood tonight Menu: shrimp and salmon with pasta in a pesto alfredo sauce, asparagus, and a blackberry, strawberry, and cherry trim. The supper table is open to those who wish to join me e


Friday, April 17, 2009

Day of Silence April 17 2009- Day i came out and admitted that I was intersex

28Nov15- 3 days prior my car was being pulled from Little Dell Reservoir,   Car Pulled From The Little Dell Reservoir . Even from the information Table I worked earlier in the day I heard comments on campus freak, sick, not normal etc, as I struggle to pen exactly what I was going to say when we broke the silence later in the day. Following the Day of Silence, we held a Silence is a Drag Show. I felt the most comfortable being myself and then went back to only dressing the evening in hiding as I had no plan at the time how I was going to come out to the family and church and went back into my same life before I took the plunge. Even when I started dating someone and got engaged to (I did fall in love with her and her baby, as I was doing everything to not be me), her response was "I can handle you doing drag that way I can share your clothes, just can't handle you or being married to another woman."


University of Utah Apr 17, 2009 Day of Silence. I read this as a woman.

Silence is a time for reflection, a time for personal discovery. However, silence can last a life time. Silence can be a deadly weapon if the vehicle for expression is ignored. To many voices fall on deaf ears and the consequences are deadly. As allies, LGBTQ, faculty, students, and friends we call on you to make a stand for the rights and opportunities, the privileges and the very live of the LGBTQ community.

It is a time to take a stand, become a voice to allow the LGBTQ community to break free from oppression that hinder the community from being equal citizens among the rest of the country.

We are no different than our families, friends, church members, collegues, and every other person out there.

We are people. Doesn't matter if we are gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgendered, questioning, straight or whatever characteristics that make one an indidvidual.

WE ARE ALL EQUAL

Lets take a stand to ensure ALL people have the exact same rights as everyone else. NO SUBSTITUTIONS

Even on this campus we still suffer discrimination, disgust, & hatred. Today the comments of freaks, sick, not normal, go to hell and disgusted looks rang true at our information table.

How much more we as allies and the community need to reach out to people and show compassion and to strive to educate those around us that we are no different than anyone else.

As we break the silence. Let our shouts, our cries for freedom and equality be heard far and wide as our promise that we will not stop nor rest until everyone regardless if LGBTQ or not is treated equal.

EQUALITY FOR ALL

Please make noise in support of our promise.

Thank you

getting ready for school
on campus Day of Silence


breaking the silence, reading above words
Silence is a Drag Show fundraiser that evening



Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Long Awaited Update (blog)

Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:30 AM

I am who I am and who I am needs no excuses" I am different from every other person out there. I love being different. All my experiences that i have gone through in my life both good and bad have made me who I am today. I am constantly changing and figuring out who I am. It is amazing how people change. I know for me I am not the same person as I was a few months ago.

I finally am getting a sense of positive direction in my life.

Its been awhile since I updated my blog.  Life could not be any better.  My life and health have done a complete 180 and I am living high on the great things of life.  Im training for a 5k on Apr 11. And a half marathon in July at Bryce Canyon.  My older brother is getting married May 2nd and I am flying out to officiate it.  I have been having fun dating and 6 weeks ago I recieved my Doctorate of Philosophy in Divinity, So I am officially a doctor, a doctor with out the pay, but a doctor anyway. 

Thank God this semester is almost over, however this looking to be the best semester yet.  I am taking two classes this summer. 

I am so blessed in my life and I am grateful for the many opportunities the Lord Jesus Christ, our brother, gives me to serve him.   I am very greatful for our temples and our priesthood leaders and their guidance and extremely greatful for our living prophet President Thomas S Monson who was called by God in this dispensation to guide his people in these latter days.  This weekend is General Conference and my 5 year anniversary that Ann Weidman, my cousin, made me promise her to read the Book of Mormon with her puppy dog eyes and for that I am forever indebted.

I am blessed to have such a great family and to have have two great heros and friends in my life, my Mom and my Uncle.  I have four sister and two brothers and two gorgeous nieces from Jenna with a niece or nephew on the way.

Life is great.  "Carpe Diem"

My personal philosophy:  C'est le vie, What life throws at you a that you can't change, make the best of it will fixing the things you can change.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Scripture D&C 59:23  see footnote

We are called to represent Jesus Christ in helping people become clean form their sins, for our testimonies need to shine forth and be lights onto the children of men that they may see the glory and splendor of Christ's promises through our lives.

When we stay true to our baptism covenants we put off the "natural man" and become a Saint 'through the atonement of Christ the Lord"
Scripture Mosiah 3:19  see footnote



.......Today I awoke and readied myself for my 8am math class, my test #2 for Math 1010.  As I left the house it started to rain and snow.  No news yet on the National Guard.  Had a busy day with class, work, and two institute classes.  This is the year of REDEMPTION, this year is about satisfying personal debts, coming to term with a better me,.......  What a glorious day it was.



Daily reading: 1 Nephi 10:1-12

Sunday, February 8, 2009

8 Feb 2009

Its funny the coming out process is never over and really isn't necessarily for identifying with the LGBTQ community. It's your own journey for self-realization and finding your true self, your uniqueness and your destiny.  As for the previous entry (In here labeled Feb. 1st) I am not gay, nor am I straight or bi, I AM QUEER.  I AM ME.  I don't conform to norms of society but travel a path of individualism.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Theater or Theatre

REAL NAME: Andrew James Swallow

STAGE NAME: I use my professional name of Andrew

LAST SHOW YOU ADDED TO YOUR RESUME: Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe

LAST SHOW YOU AUDITIONED FOR:Nauvoo Pagaent

DID YOU GET INTO IT: Yes and no. I did not get the core Cast but I did get into the family cast

LAST SONG YOU USED AT AN AUDITION: Silent Night

FAVORITE THEATRE (VENUE) THAT YOU HAVE PERFORMED IN: Don't Have a favorite Currently

FAVORITE MUSICAL: Favorite Musical that I have seen was seen was RENT and Wicked cant choose. However Bebe Neuwirth was awesome in Chicago.

NAME A THEATRE SUPERSTITION: Saying "Good Luck" DONT EVER TELL ME THAT

LAST PART YOU PLAYED IN A SHOW: Minotaur in Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe- which i stage managed

YOUR GOAL IN SHOW BUSINESS: To Have fun and use my experiences to help others achieve theri dreams and to use my knowledge when i go into Drama therapy

FAVORITE DIRECTOR: Carol Channing

WHAT WAS YOUR VERY FIRST SHOW: The Bad Seed, Freshman year of Highschool

HAVE YOU EVER HAD A DANCE SOLO:Thank God No

HAVE YOU EVER HAD A SINGING SOLO: Again,Thank God No.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THE LAST PERSON TO TAKE A BOW: No.

NAME A SHOW YOU'VE DONE MORE THAN TWO TIMES: None

HAVE YOU BEEN TO LA: Yes

SCARIEST PART OF AN AUDITION: Showing Up and auditioning with others who are more talented

BEST PART OF AN AUDITION: The Feedback. Being told what i can improve on

NAME A SHOW YOU WOULD NEVER DO AGAIN: can't say would never do again, there are many i would do over in another company

NAME A SHOW YOU COULD DO FOR YEARS: Dunno

NAME A SHOW YOU WOULD LOVE TO DO BUT HAVE NEVER BEEN IN: Wicked or Romeo an Juliet

NAME A PERSON YOU'D LIKE TO WORK WITH AGAIN: All the Genesis Players from Hobart High School

WHAT ARE YOU AUDITIONING FOR NEXT: Dunno yet, been focusing on auditions for films

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PERFORMING: 1997 (ask my mom she would say all my life)

DO YOU CARRY YOUR HEADSHOTS AROUND WITH YOU: need to print them

DO YOU KEEP IN TOUCH WITH PAST CAST MEMBERS: Some

ON A SCALE OF 1-10 HOW IMPORTANT IS GETTING PAID: 1- right now im just building resume

WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE PERFORMANCE: The Bad Seed - High School Performance, first play i was in

WHAT'S SOMETHING EMBARRASSING OR UNEXPECTED THAT HAPPENED TO YOU WHILE ON STAGE. Pants falling down 

WHO IS THE MOST DIFFICULT PERSON (ON STAGE OR OFF) THAT YOU HAVE EVER WORKED WITH: I plead the 5th

EVER BEEN NAKED ON STAGE?: Does pants falling down count with no underwear on. however would love to do naked boys singing even though i cant dance or sing, or Equus

IF YOU COULD BE A RICH FAMOUS PORN STAR OR A STRUGGLING THEATRE ACTOR WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE? Struggling theatre Actor, I will not sell my soul again

BEST PROFESSIONAL SHOW(S) YOU'VE SEEN: Wicked and RENT

BEST AMATEUR/COMMUNITY SHOW(S) YOU'VE SEEN: JUVIE"


ONSTAGE, HAVE YOU EVER...

a) Been killed? Yes

b) Been drunk / stoned? No

c) Played someone half your age? Yes

d) Played someone twice your age? Yes

e) Cried? Yes

f) Fired a gun? Yes

g) Driven a car? No

h) Been drenched? Yes.

i) Been in a dream sequence? No

j) Been kissed? Yes

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Grandparents 50th Wedding anniversary (from blog)

Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:14 PM

Family bonds and ties are key the key to life.  When you have a collective of individuals both of blood and those of mutual aspirations and love for one another we sew the fabric of life creating a wonderful  masterpiece arrayed with every individual’s own personal imprint upon it.  Whether you see your family on a daily basis, multiple times a year. Ever 2-3 years, or even 25 years there is that bond and connection that creates a sense of warmth and the all American family tradition.

This weekend we all traveled to Virginia Beach, Virginia for the grandparents 50th Wedding Anniversary, with every one traveling from Utah, Arizona, Illinois, and Northern Virginia we came in as a surprise to the unexpecting grandparents who through the genius mastermind of their daughter planned and instrumented this covert operation of bring the whole family together.  Unfortunately Holly was not able to make but we will photo shop her in later.  This is the first time the Tori, Chris, Kristen, and their parents have been all together in 25 years

There is always some adjustment when you haven’t seen someone in awhile and having to get to know people again during the reunification process only to leave again a couple of days later.  Even the quirky humor of an aunt can take sometime getting use to (love you Kristen).  The experience was great and everyone had an all around good time.  We took many pictures and videos, reminisced on the past, had a wonderful anniversary dinner and enjoyed heartfelt conversation.

I will actually be returning in August to Virginia to perform the wedding of my brother and soon to be sister in law who will also have PJ’s first child by then Paul Aiden Vroegindewey.  Family is something that should always be cherished and treated like your most important treasure.

  
In Attendance

Barbara Jean and James Norman Weidman
 

Tori  & Paul Vroegindewey  

 >   Andrew                                               
 >   Jenna & fiancĂ© David
       >> Krystal Rose            
       >> Aurora Dawn

  >   PJ & fiancĂ© Kim                 

  >   Kristy & bf Erik

 
Chris & Terri Weidman  

>   Ann                  
>   Nathan 
>   CJ         

 
Kristen & Dennis Weston
>   Nicole  & bf Ben
>  Dawn

 
Mary (Grandma’s Sister) and James Husa