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Blog Thread III : Look Who's Blogging Now
Barmymoo:
I'm glad this thread went back to being the blog thread! I was worried for a moment there.
I am almost keeling over with tiredness but I just cycled three miles ludicruously fast so I needed to wind down a bit before falling into bed. I've been making treasure chests! And painting things! For the past few days I have been swinging violently between blind panic, sufficient to give me a headache, about how much I have to do, and a comfortable sense that it will all get done easily. I'm in the latter camp at the moment.
That said, I got a props list for the September show this morning (FINALLY) and I asked for a ball-park budget. Every show I have ever done before has given me an exact budget and then we have negotiated if I needed more. My rather wankery producer has said "I'm not going to give you a budget, price everything yourself and I'll tell you whether or not we can afford it". So I have no idea whether my budget is £50 or £500 - it could easily be either, I've had both. Based on what I know about the society funding it (rich) and some insider info on his attitude to budgets (splurge on the set, squeeze everything else including my props), I am going to budget high and hopefully I'll get enough to cover the actual costs. It's a shame he's being so awkward, about some other things as well as this, as it's a really exciting props list and looks set to be a great production.
Anyway, to bed with me.
ummmkay:
i get my first real grown up paycheck on friday! also i have planned to spend saturday doing things all by myself because my life has been inundated with being-around-other-people-time and i really really need to spend some time alone, and i can't wait! some of those things aren't as fun, like having to go buy a new tire since i got a flat last week, but others will be super! like going to get a library card/browsing around at the tiny library nearby, and going to see inception (again), and getting a massage for the first time ever! things are feelin' pretty alright.
Lines:
I have an interview in a week and a half for the job that I'm hoping to have when school starts. (I'd be working in the uni's computer labs.) I hope it goes well, because from what has been happening around the store lately (as well as what will probably happen in the next month or so), I don't really want to stick around for it! I'll be ok moneywise when school starts if I don't get it, but I'd really rather have the job. My friend who works for the labs now thinks I'll be ok, so hopefully I do!
StaedlerMars:
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--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 27 Jul 2010, 16:49 ---Guys I have started playing touch rugby
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Oh hey, awesome! I play touch, too! It's a lot of fun but exhausting if you don't have enough substitutes.
Wait, when you say touch rugby do you mean actually a touch version of rugby (as in rugby union) or the touch version of rugby league (i.e.: sets of six touches and then the ball's turned over to the other team)? The latter's much more common but the former's not unheard of - I played it a couple of times when I was at school and it's pretty weird. (Though I prefer watching union over league - I mean the proper full-contact versions - any day.)
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We don't have any substitutes, but we're slowly accumulating more people to play, so hopefully that will change. It's mental, we're playing 40 minute halves and I'm usually absolutely knackered by that time. We ultimately hope to play touch version of rugby, but since there are a lot of first timers we're incorporating a lot of rules one-at-a-time, so at the moment we're probably a bit closer to the touch version of rugby league.
I'm actually not that big of a fan of watching rugby games. I went to a couple of games here in Edinburgh (Murrayfield if that means anything), and it's fun, but not really for me. I'm not really a big sports watching type of person to start out with, and I rugby can move pretty slow sometimes, so it's not really a game I'll watch on my own.
The d&b place was pretty okay, but afterwards I struck up conversation with this girl who I thought I recognized and was pretty cute, and it turns out she was my across-the-hallway neighbour in first year. Small world!
Slick:
The music at the North-West River Beach Fest was dedicated to my dad this year. I mean, the 'striver beach fest is just a tiny thing in a tiny town outside of the tiny town I grew up in, it is nothing of note to the world, but it is really nice that they went and did that. It is real touching that people are still thinking of him and remembering everything he did over the years. It is real nice.
He hated "Gordie", he much preferred Gord, but hey what are you going to do when everyone in town has always called you Gordie, right?
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