NIKKI MAXWELL: THE MAKING OF A POP PRINCESS! EPISODE #3
SUNDAY, MARCH 16
I spent most of the day trying to catch up on all of my homework. No matter how hard I try, I seem to be getting just further and further behind.
And right now I am SOOOO exhausted! I can BARELY keep my eyes open as I write this. . . .
ME, TRYING TO KEEP MY EYES OPEN EVEN THOUGH I’M EXHAUSTED!
I don’t know how much longer I can keep up this crazy schedule.
And it’s starting to STRESS me out !!!!
I’m just SO tired! The ONLY thing I want to do is go to
MONDAY, MARCH 17
Chloe, Zoey, and I were SUPERexcited about auditioning additional studio backup singers today after school and then going to the recording studio later.
We felt like we were famous celebrity talent show judges. You know, BEFORE they started scraping the bottom of the barrel and using those cray-cray celebs as judges.
But I guess Principal Winston didn’t share our enthusiasm.
I asked him if we could hold our auditions in our brand-new state-of-the-art school auditorium. But he said it was only reserved for “special” events.
The worst place in our entire school is dingy sixth-grade classroom that smells like gerbil pee.
Well . . . unfortunately, THAT’S where he put us !!
ME, TRYING REALLY HARD NOT TO SMELL THOSE STINKY GERBILS
The kids auditioning either had superstrong willpower or a very weak sense of smell.
Chloe, Zoey, and I actually learned how to be mouth breathers!
“So, Tyrone, what brings you here today?” I asked the guy standing in front of us.
“I wanna be a backup singer. My voice is AWESOME, man!” he boasted. “I can outsing any of those famous boy-band dudes!”
“That’s great! We can’t wait to hear you,” I said. “So, what are you going to sing for us?”
“You mean . . . like . . . right now?” He looked confused.
“Yeah. You do have a song prepared for the audition, right?” Zoey asked.
“No, man!” he answered. “I only sing in the shower. That’s how I keep it real. Know what I’m saying?”
“No. Not really,” Zoey said, rolling her eyes. “We’re working in the studio right now, and this summer we may be doing some concerts. It would be kind of difficult for us to carry around a . . . um, SHOWER for you to sing in, Tyrone. . . .”
TYRONE, ONSTAGE WITH US WHILE SINGING IN THE SHOWER!
“I only sing in the shower in MY bathroom, dawg, and that’s it! All the stuff you’re talking about is just . . . WEIRD!”
We watched in amazement as he headed for the door.
“Yo! If you can’t get with the program, I’m outta here!”
“Well, that was productive!” I said with a frustrated sigh. “How many auditions have we seen so far?”
“Let’s see! If we count all of the audition forms that you scribbled ‘You gotta be kidding me !!’ on in red ink, crumpled, and then tossed in the wastebasket, I’d say we’ve had about twenty-nine auditions!”
Then Zoey looked at the callback tray.
“And judging from the number of callbacks, it looks to me like you absolutely, totally HATED all of the talent.”
ZOEY, CALCULATING THE NUMBER OF AUDITIONS AND CALLBACKS
“Ugh!” I slammed my head on the table. “This stinks! Now I know why that Simon Cowell guy is so bitter all the time!”
But as they say in Hollywood, THAT’S SHOWBIZ!
Well, some good news is that Chloe, Zoey, and I had our first recording session this evening at 7:00 p.m. It went really well. . . .
Not only do we sound great together, but we had a blast recording. And we did it all without having a shower stall in the studio. Sorry, Tyrone !!
NIKKI MAXWELL: THE MAKING OF A POP PRINCESS! EPISODE #4
TUESDAY, MARCH 18
Well, my day got off to a pretty ROTTEN start ! When I woke up this morning, the most horrible thought hit me like a ton of bricks. . . .
OMG!! I TOTALLY forgot I was supposed to meet Brandon in the library after school yesterday!! I’m the worst friend EVER !!
Even though I texted Brandon an apology, I was still an emotional WRECK! I felt so bad about the whole thing that I was distracted and spaced out the entire day.
And then in math class, I made a total FOOL out of myself during the quiz.
I really need to try to get more sleep! It’s almost like I’m suffering from sleep deprivation or something.
I stayed up really LATE last night doing practice problems. Then I got up really EARLY this morning and did a few more.
The good NEWS is that all of that studying really paid off. I totally understood how to do those difficult equations and breezed right through the quiz.
However, the BAD news is that all of the stress about the Brandon situation combined with the lack of sleep finally took its toll on me.
I was so EXHAUSTED I could barely keep my eyes open.
The quiz question was:
Simplify the following algebraic expression: -2x + 5 + 10x - 9
I just conked out right in the middle of the quiz!
And I must have drooled or something while I was snoozing because my answer was practically tattooed right across my face.
I had to go to the bathroom and wash it off with soap and water. But hey! At least it was the CORRECT answer!! Which means I got an A on the quiz!
Thank goodness the camera crew wasn’t filming me today! I would have looked like a complete IDIOT!
OMG! When I saw Brandon in the hall before bio class today, I felt AWFUL! I apologized PROFUSELY for forgetting that we were supposed to meet in the library after school yesterday to work on his scholarship entry.
But get this! MacKenzie was hanging around SPYING on us. Like, WHO does that?!! She really needs to get a life and mind her OWN business! I don’t know WHY she is so INSANELY jealous of my friendship with Brandon!
ME, APOLOGIZING TO BRANDON (WHILE MACKENZIE EAVESDROPS ON OUR CONVERSATION)
Anyway, I explained to Brandon that Trevor Chase had asked Chloe, Zoey, and me to conduct auditions for backup singers at the EXACT same time. And I didn’t realize there was a scheduling conflict until AFTER the fact.
Brandon was supercool about the whole thing and said he’d already started working on writing the essay part about me.
He suggested that we reschedule for this Thursday, March 20. And of course I said YES!!
Anyway, I’m just happy Brandon isn’t mad at me for standing him up like that.
He’s, like, THE coolest guy EVER!
!!