So I signed up for that Durarara fanfic thing.  Hey, it might be fun to just turn out 10,000 words on a light topic.  My first idea was "Shingen Kishitani goes on a kappa hunt."  I don't know much about the character except what I've read in the novels...  Something to think over.

"You were fucking brilliant.  I knew you would nail this part."

That was my director after tonight's rehearsal.  Ah, satisfying.

I'm healthy again and I got that assignment in.  Finally, less stress.

This has been pretty much the worst week ever.  Hideously sick from Monday to Friday and with an assignment still looming over me.  Joy.

And I have rehearsal on Sunday!  I want to do well in this play but I haven't been able to prepare as much as I'd like because I've had to struggle with this assignment.  Normally an assignment wouldn't be this ( Read more... )

Sick!  Gastroenteritis.  By the way, if you've never had this one: not fun.  Nooooo, not fun at all.

The only good that came out of it was that it landed me a much-needed extension for my first Program Management assignment.  I was tight for time with it because I had to get an important job application in just before this assignment was due.  So it ( Read more... )

I'm really struggling with my program management subject...  Partly because the course convener is a fucking nutbar.  Grr, sociologists.  Anyway, behold our key learning point from week 3:

Grasping the idea that power and politics and two concepts that are vital to understanding program and portfolio management and particular if you wish to make a ( Read more... )

A few days ago I discovered this show called 30 Rock -- why have I not seen this before it is awesome.  Right now I'm blitzing through the first season.  I had no idea Alec Baldwin was so funny!

I had lunch today with a friend and ran some of my play's lines past him -- mainly my take on the character.  He laughed a lot at how I was doing it -- a ( Read more... )

I went to Canberra Skeptics the night before last and had a ball.  The topic was the anti-vaccination movement and the (now debunked) vaccination autism link.  Which is appropriate, because sometimes Canberra Skeptics comes close to being an autism convention itself.  The guest speaker was one of the leaders of the anti-anti-vaccination movement.  ( Read more... )

Back to uni tomorrow!  Still don't know the time, lecturer or textbook for my project management class.  Not a win for university organisation.  Ugh, if I have to change class I have no idea what I'll do.  None of the other options look like much fun.

I've been totally paranoid about my play -- I want this part so much that it won't feel completely ( Read more... )

So: I had the long-awaited job interview/assessment centre yesterday.

Oh the whole: yeah, I think I did pretty well.  I'm fairly sure I didn't do anything hideously awful that would automatically disqualify me from the job.  And that's half the battle!  Earlier this morning I did a post-mortem on my performance (basically, thinking over how I did ( Read more... )

Hey, some good news for a change!

Anyway, today I auditioned for a part in The Imaginary Invalid (a play by Moliere).  And... got a part instantly.  Seriously.  I read for a couple of characters and the director said "Right, you're playing Thomas."  She explained the snap casting decision by saying "That's just the way I roll."

Very different from ( Read more... )