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Hello then.
Well - it's all very 'wurrrrrgh' right now...
I got a call on Friday to say 'Hello it's the RSC, we loved your application, would you like to come and perform your play in Stratford-upon-Avon'
Yes we would thank you, so we are. I then had an amazing email off one of my co writers
"the production itself, the drive and the enthusiasm you've put behind this, Sarah, is amazing. In [several London theatre groups], I havent worked with a director so enthused about their show and at the same time, so easy to work with!
Dead chuffed that 5 shows has now become 12!"
So there you go.
Successful at writing, directing and now a chance to do a lead role for a much bigger flashier amateur company in a bigger theatre. It's been quite a year for me.
It's exciting because I am researching the part I have been cast in (lots of reading about The Falklands), whilst organising our Stratford and Camden Fringe performances and researching my next opus. Which I hope will be an opus. I feel so inspired and - well - strong right now. Like I could do anything. And I shall. Very very inspired at the moment. Everything creative is paying me back tenfold at the moment
There's something else I want to talk to you about. I've been fighting an ongoing battle with my weight for the past 14 years...every time I think I've got it sussed something stressful happens and I retreat into a booze/comfort food frenzy. I have to stop this...so I have decided to cut down my options...I am going to attempt veganism. I won't be 'a vegan' so I'll keep my leather boots....but I have realised what I want more than anything else is to be healthy and strong and having done a lot of research and soul searching, a vegan diet (followed in the correct and healthy manner) seems to be the one that would make the most sense for me. The only animal products I can see myself returning to are wild fish and game. I don't want to eat anything farmed from now on - which sort of fits my actual principles on animal welfare - So there y'go.
The increasing rents in London and my salary being the same as it was when my rent was a third cheaper has been worrying me. But then my loan is nearly totally paid off and I've wiped tens of thousands off my debts since 2007 and not done badly for myself in the last 5 years really, and I will own my own place by the time I'm 41 without any help. So I can't complain. Hey - it means that if I do meet anyone solvent in the next few years I might be able to live somewhere well nice. Which is annoying. I ought to be able to do that myself. But such is the economy.
It's been a good 4 and a bit years since L and I were finally consigned to the dumper and that wasn't much of anything for 10 years other than "feelings". And nothing terribly useful has happened boywise since the halcyon days where that started. I'd give it up for a lost cause...but I do like boys and it remains a perplexing conundrum that I haven't really hit it off with a real one in about a decade.
So that's enough for you to be getting on with.
I am probably going to stop using LJ and have a less confessional version of my life story up elsewhere on the web. It's a shame it didn't quite last 10 years, but my friends list is full of similar posts these days - no one comes round here no more.
Well - it's all very 'wurrrrrgh' right now...
I got a call on Friday to say 'Hello it's the RSC, we loved your application, would you like to come and perform your play in Stratford-upon-Avon'
Yes we would thank you, so we are. I then had an amazing email off one of my co writers
"the production itself, the drive and the enthusiasm you've put behind this, Sarah, is amazing. In [several London theatre groups], I havent worked with a director so enthused about their show and at the same time, so easy to work with!
Dead chuffed that 5 shows has now become 12!"
So there you go.
Successful at writing, directing and now a chance to do a lead role for a much bigger flashier amateur company in a bigger theatre. It's been quite a year for me.
It's exciting because I am researching the part I have been cast in (lots of reading about The Falklands), whilst organising our Stratford and Camden Fringe performances and researching my next opus. Which I hope will be an opus. I feel so inspired and - well - strong right now. Like I could do anything. And I shall. Very very inspired at the moment. Everything creative is paying me back tenfold at the moment
There's something else I want to talk to you about. I've been fighting an ongoing battle with my weight for the past 14 years...every time I think I've got it sussed something stressful happens and I retreat into a booze/comfort food frenzy. I have to stop this...so I have decided to cut down my options...I am going to attempt veganism. I won't be 'a vegan' so I'll keep my leather boots....but I have realised what I want more than anything else is to be healthy and strong and having done a lot of research and soul searching, a vegan diet (followed in the correct and healthy manner) seems to be the one that would make the most sense for me. The only animal products I can see myself returning to are wild fish and game. I don't want to eat anything farmed from now on - which sort of fits my actual principles on animal welfare - So there y'go.
The increasing rents in London and my salary being the same as it was when my rent was a third cheaper has been worrying me. But then my loan is nearly totally paid off and I've wiped tens of thousands off my debts since 2007 and not done badly for myself in the last 5 years really, and I will own my own place by the time I'm 41 without any help. So I can't complain. Hey - it means that if I do meet anyone solvent in the next few years I might be able to live somewhere well nice. Which is annoying. I ought to be able to do that myself. But such is the economy.
It's been a good 4 and a bit years since L and I were finally consigned to the dumper and that wasn't much of anything for 10 years other than "feelings". And nothing terribly useful has happened boywise since the halcyon days where that started. I'd give it up for a lost cause...but I do like boys and it remains a perplexing conundrum that I haven't really hit it off with a real one in about a decade.
So that's enough for you to be getting on with.
I am probably going to stop using LJ and have a less confessional version of my life story up elsewhere on the web. It's a shame it didn't quite last 10 years, but my friends list is full of similar posts these days - no one comes round here no more.