Things, in no particular order.
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bliumchik1. Work feels like a warzone. When I first started the october before last, I was such a newbie it was funny. Well, not to me. I was terrified. Hello, social anxiety, would you like some tea? It took me months to get some semblance of competence going, and I guess the place still brings up the old nerves. I mean, heck, I still feel hurt when Andrew The Baker snarks about me, and his snark is so habitual that I have mentally renamed him Snarky, The Eighth Dwarf. So yeah, not the least stressful place in the world. Add to this the sudden influx of zombie hordes gnarling "Breeeeead, breeeeead", the baguette-sparring and the ever-present menace of the Slicer Demon, and I felt like mortars wouldn't be amiss in the scenario. Maybe some smallpox, too. We already may as well have been in a trench. And I suppose it can't have helped that I had the song from The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny stuck in my head all day.
2. Speaking of Ultimate Showdown, I joinedcanonwars. They have Chuck Norris! Not Mrs Norris though. It would be funny if they did, because I am playing Greebo. From discworld. Yup, somebody on the island is about to find a huge naked one-eyed man miaowing at their front door. Bwahaha. And everyone else should join too! Ther is, for example, a distinct lack of PotC characters and Good Omens characters, and I know there are fans of both on my flist. COME ON PEOPLE, think of the hot Johnny Depp on Johnny Depp action! (For those not "in the know", JD was supposed to play Crowley in the Good Omens movie)
3. Speaking of zombies, a bus recount:
4. Drama. Not LJdrama, the subject. It is extremely empowering. I am one half of the costume committee for our major production, and thus I get to wander round with an art diary (next best thing to a clipboard) and a pencil, canvassing clothing availability (from people, which I haven't done yet), and making lists. The back room in SO AWESOME. I mean, Frocks, dresses, nice, good, okay. Frilly things up to here. Also the worlds largest supply of cardigans for some reason. Then we have some cool jackets and things, and a large amount of shoes in various sizes. My counterpart Zoe spent half the period walking around in these genyoooeene stillettos, after which she asked me to make a note not to assign them to anyone who has a walking part in the three scenes after wearing them. I tried on some HUGE-ASS BOOTS which were, alas, too HUGE-ASS for me, unless I wanted to be all Hussar and wear them wrinkled, but they fit Poppy perfectly and actually looked quite good, so there you are. I also found three plain white aprons and one weird, wacky double sided on. One side was khaki with studs, the other side was hot pink with furry material spelling out "jessica HSC 2002" on the top. Yeah, okay.
5. Everyone should read "At Swin, Two Boys" by James O'Neill. You might enjoy it more if you're a slash fan, and you'll definitely understand it more if you knwo things about Irish history (I missed sooo much... who exactly is Parnell?) but even if you fit neither category it doesn't matter for it is good. and sad. And pretty. And... Irish. Which means things blow up, and people talk funny. But it's a really good book, if just a leetle bordering-on-LOTR-sized.
6. Legal Studies excursion on Tuesday. We went to a forum on sentencing, which was informative and amusing, although the latter for all the wrong reasons. For one thing, the venue they'd rented for it was a Wesley Mission place. After a tremenous effort in gettign Park Street untangled, and losing half our group to shopping and/or zombie attacks along the way, we got there and saw the signs and just thought "...we must have got the wrong place." - especially when all the private school kids started showing up in their high heels and snappy blazers. We felt just a tad out of place. Then Ms Morisson showed up and shooed us into the auditorium. Points of interest:
Theeee END. At least, I can't remember any more XP
2. Speaking of Ultimate Showdown, I joined
canonwars. They have Chuck Norris! Not Mrs Norris though. It would be funny if they did, because I am playing Greebo. From discworld. Yup, somebody on the island is about to find a huge naked one-eyed man miaowing at their front door. Bwahaha. And everyone else should join too! Ther is, for example, a distinct lack of PotC characters and Good Omens characters, and I know there are fans of both on my flist. COME ON PEOPLE, think of the hot Johnny Depp on Johnny Depp action! (For those not "in the know", JD was supposed to play Crowley in the Good Omens movie)3. Speaking of zombies, a bus recount:
Me: So I was in Randwick and I saw one of those weird automated public toilets, and inside there's a big sign that says the door will open after twenty minutes (in case you crawl in there to die or something). And I was just thinking it would be funny if you were being chased by zombie hordes and you went in there to escape, and then you saw that sign and you were all like "oh, crap."
Tenielle: ... ...wait, what zombie whores?
4. Drama. Not LJdrama, the subject. It is extremely empowering. I am one half of the costume committee for our major production, and thus I get to wander round with an art diary (next best thing to a clipboard) and a pencil, canvassing clothing availability (from people, which I haven't done yet), and making lists. The back room in SO AWESOME. I mean, Frocks, dresses, nice, good, okay. Frilly things up to here. Also the worlds largest supply of cardigans for some reason. Then we have some cool jackets and things, and a large amount of shoes in various sizes. My counterpart Zoe spent half the period walking around in these genyoooeene stillettos, after which she asked me to make a note not to assign them to anyone who has a walking part in the three scenes after wearing them. I tried on some HUGE-ASS BOOTS which were, alas, too HUGE-ASS for me, unless I wanted to be all Hussar and wear them wrinkled, but they fit Poppy perfectly and actually looked quite good, so there you are. I also found three plain white aprons and one weird, wacky double sided on. One side was khaki with studs, the other side was hot pink with furry material spelling out "jessica HSC 2002" on the top. Yeah, okay.
5. Everyone should read "At Swin, Two Boys" by James O'Neill. You might enjoy it more if you're a slash fan, and you'll definitely understand it more if you knwo things about Irish history (I missed sooo much... who exactly is Parnell?) but even if you fit neither category it doesn't matter for it is good. and sad. And pretty. And... Irish. Which means things blow up, and people talk funny. But it's a really good book, if just a leetle bordering-on-LOTR-sized.
6. Legal Studies excursion on Tuesday. We went to a forum on sentencing, which was informative and amusing, although the latter for all the wrong reasons. For one thing, the venue they'd rented for it was a Wesley Mission place. After a tremenous effort in gettign Park Street untangled, and losing half our group to shopping and/or zombie attacks along the way, we got there and saw the signs and just thought "...we must have got the wrong place." - especially when all the private school kids started showing up in their high heels and snappy blazers. We felt just a tad out of place. Then Ms Morisson showed up and shooed us into the auditorium. Points of interest:
- The Lady MC, a cheery middle-aged woman reminiscent of nothing so much as a purple hot air balloon, trying to be "hip to the vibe". When an audience member from an Anglican school stood up to ask a question, she said "Oh, we love Anglicans!" and let out a high-pitched giggle. She did the same for a catholic school, and then went over to some dark girls in headscarves and said "Can one of you ask a question? I want to say we love muslims too!" ...and again with the giggle.
- One panel member was cheerfully nicknamed Judge McWaffle. He went on. And he went on. and on and on and on. As Lady MC discreetly signalled him to pass on the mike with waggly finger movements.
- The aircon it was freezing, we almost started sneezing. I'm going to stop rhyming now. Anyway, I did Dianas crossword for most of the thing. Not that I missed anything - I'm a good multitasker.
- One of the boys from Reddam who stood up to ask a question turned out to be Lazare, a kid who went to Mount Sinai with me and has apparantly doubled in height since year six. I waved
a leetle flag.
Theeee END. At least, I can't remember any more XP
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