Uni-lateral
It's been a big week this week.
I started uni again last Monday. I have so much work piling up already. I'm supposed to be an arts student! Arts students don't do work! That's for the med kids and the physio kids and the science kids... the ones that are actually going to get jobs at the end of their degrees. But I'm already listening to lectures on my computer and stressing about readings. I have to do a blog for one of my subjects - I cannot think of anything to say. It's supposed to be relevent to the week's work but seriously. I like this blog. It's not like I can post my fic over there.
I've been missing class too because I had my wisdom teeth out last Thursday. I'm still mega puffy and yellow from the bruising. I'm just getting back on solid food which is so nice. I've been missing it. I've been catching up on a heap of TV though. And sleep. I spent my first few days so hopped up on painkillers I was practically comatose. I'd better go down soon though - I had plans from Wednesday onwards and I really want to be able to keep them. It's been nice not having to go to work though. It's been almost a week since I've been in, and I'd taken time off before that to go on holiday too - so from 5 shifts a week I've suddenly been down to like 1 or 2. It feels so weird. Awesome, though.
I saw Wicked again on Wednesday. I pretended like I'd just happened to be walked past while the lottery was about to finish and just might as well enter and see what happened - but I'd planned for it really. I really wanted to go. But that was the version I told everyone else.
I've seen it three times now. And I'm going to see it next month with a bunch of my friends, plus my friend wants me to take her to the lottery, plus my other friend, the one I always go with, wants us to enter the lottery again so that we can go to stage door and get signatures, cos we've been too shy before. So that makes six all up. Yikes. I'm going to turn into a real fanatic.
But I can top that. I met this girl who'd won the lottery too and I was talking to her while we lined up to collect the tickets and I said, 'I've seen it twice already.'
'Yeah,' she said. 'I've seen it 35 times.'
35! This was going to be her 36th! I was amazed. She knows the whole cast now, and they all know her by name because she goes and talks to them afterward. I kind of hope I don't turn into that. I mean, I love Wicked, but I don't want to love it that much.
An interesting note though: I've seen Wicked three times, and I've had three different Elphabas. The first time I had Amanda Harrison, who was, of course, absolutely amazing. The second time I had Jemma Stevenson who was good but not as good. And this time I had Patrice Tipoki. And I loved her. I thought she was better than Jemma, even though she's Jemma's understudy. But I really, really liked her. My first thought when she ran out on stage was: 'she's tiny!' But I forgot that pretty quick. I loved her Defying Gravity and I was very excited that she flew because last time I went Elphaba didn't fly. There were two things I didn't like so much though - the first was the way she said my favourite line, 'we can't all come and go by bubble,'. I love the way Julia Murney says it. Patrice didn't say it so well. The other was that she said, 'pronounciation' at one point, and I wanted to jump up on stage and yell, 'NO!' I hate it when people say that. I'm such a nitpicker.
But apart from that, I loved it. Awesome show, as always. I'd be interested in seeing Glinda's understudy next time - I love Lucy but I'd kind of like to see someone different do it.
Bedtime, I think. Not that I'm getting up for anything - I'm still just hiding in the house and waiting until my swelling goes down. I actually thought I'd do a lot more writing with all this free time I have, but it seems to pass really quickly. I've written about one paragraph of a Doctor Who fic I was already working on. My Wicked table isn't going so well; I've gotten three fics done and I still have seventeen to go. Ouch. I need to get to work.
I started uni again last Monday. I have so much work piling up already. I'm supposed to be an arts student! Arts students don't do work! That's for the med kids and the physio kids and the science kids... the ones that are actually going to get jobs at the end of their degrees. But I'm already listening to lectures on my computer and stressing about readings. I have to do a blog for one of my subjects - I cannot think of anything to say. It's supposed to be relevent to the week's work but seriously. I like this blog. It's not like I can post my fic over there.
I've been missing class too because I had my wisdom teeth out last Thursday. I'm still mega puffy and yellow from the bruising. I'm just getting back on solid food which is so nice. I've been missing it. I've been catching up on a heap of TV though. And sleep. I spent my first few days so hopped up on painkillers I was practically comatose. I'd better go down soon though - I had plans from Wednesday onwards and I really want to be able to keep them. It's been nice not having to go to work though. It's been almost a week since I've been in, and I'd taken time off before that to go on holiday too - so from 5 shifts a week I've suddenly been down to like 1 or 2. It feels so weird. Awesome, though.
I saw Wicked again on Wednesday. I pretended like I'd just happened to be walked past while the lottery was about to finish and just might as well enter and see what happened - but I'd planned for it really. I really wanted to go. But that was the version I told everyone else.
I've seen it three times now. And I'm going to see it next month with a bunch of my friends, plus my friend wants me to take her to the lottery, plus my other friend, the one I always go with, wants us to enter the lottery again so that we can go to stage door and get signatures, cos we've been too shy before. So that makes six all up. Yikes. I'm going to turn into a real fanatic.
But I can top that. I met this girl who'd won the lottery too and I was talking to her while we lined up to collect the tickets and I said, 'I've seen it twice already.'
'Yeah,' she said. 'I've seen it 35 times.'
35! This was going to be her 36th! I was amazed. She knows the whole cast now, and they all know her by name because she goes and talks to them afterward. I kind of hope I don't turn into that. I mean, I love Wicked, but I don't want to love it that much.
An interesting note though: I've seen Wicked three times, and I've had three different Elphabas. The first time I had Amanda Harrison, who was, of course, absolutely amazing. The second time I had Jemma Stevenson who was good but not as good. And this time I had Patrice Tipoki. And I loved her. I thought she was better than Jemma, even though she's Jemma's understudy. But I really, really liked her. My first thought when she ran out on stage was: 'she's tiny!' But I forgot that pretty quick. I loved her Defying Gravity and I was very excited that she flew because last time I went Elphaba didn't fly. There were two things I didn't like so much though - the first was the way she said my favourite line, 'we can't all come and go by bubble,'. I love the way Julia Murney says it. Patrice didn't say it so well. The other was that she said, 'pronounciation' at one point, and I wanted to jump up on stage and yell, 'NO!' I hate it when people say that. I'm such a nitpicker.
But apart from that, I loved it. Awesome show, as always. I'd be interested in seeing Glinda's understudy next time - I love Lucy but I'd kind of like to see someone different do it.
Bedtime, I think. Not that I'm getting up for anything - I'm still just hiding in the house and waiting until my swelling goes down. I actually thought I'd do a lot more writing with all this free time I have, but it seems to pass really quickly. I've written about one paragraph of a Doctor Who fic I was already working on. My Wicked table isn't going so well; I've gotten three fics done and I still have seventeen to go. Ouch. I need to get to work.