There'll be other stories. I'm up for it!

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In the next month I have:

An essay comparing two theater companies from a list (which I was briefly displeased, after my mid-essay rant last year on ethnocentrism in our theater studies, to notice had only two companies that weren't European, American/Canadian, or New Zealand, but naturally I only noticed this far too late to ask if I could write about a company who isn't on the list, and I also pretty much don't know any theater companies)

A 3-5 page script (though I'm not too concerned about this because I decided to write some sudden fic inspiration in script format and as my fics occasionally do, it has run off on me to the point that I've had to cut scenes to fit in the page limit)

A microteaching session and a report on said (oh. dear.)

A show

A report on said show

Possibly more; I ought to read the course outlines more often

And what do I do? Mess around on Tumblr, write fic, and watch Dad play Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. :| (Dad is between contracts again so suddenly he's gaming a lot. Though we literally just finished it. I say 'we' not because I actually played but because I worked out a few of the puzzles and looked up walkthroughs for some of the harder bits, ahaha.) Blargh argh. After my best semester for grades were while I was grieving, I think my subconscious must think I can get away with this crap. :[ I really need to smack myself into gear, because I literally only have one day off until June 10th.

But you know what? June is gonna be great: We'll perform Summerfolk, the Uncharted comic omnibus comes out and I can throw more money at this franchise actually buy it here, and I'm seeing Flight of the Conchords live! I just gotta keep pushing through till then. /o/;

Speaking of Summerfolk, if y'all Wellingtonians could share this Facebook event if you have Facebook and/or reblog this post if you have Tumblr, that'd be fabulous. :D And come to the show!



Random stuff that's happened to me lately (apologies to people who've seen these on other social networking sites):

Saturday was Free Comic Day and I have realized that if I'd had work instead of rehearsal (and known it was an international thing in advance), I could have actually gotten a free comic. :| Ugh. Instead I was actually charged the correct price on a comic for once the day before, because one guy at the comic store routinely undercharged me and for once I got a different guy serving me.

Sunday I worked with a girl I coached for Year 9 debating when I was in Year 13. Now she's in Year 13 and coaching Year 9 debating: "I get it now; it's really fun!" I am so proud.

Yesterday I had a patient at the hospital who spoke very limited English and a receptionist and I were having trouble communicating to him that his appointment was a different day. The receptionist was getting frustrated, he was getting frustrated...until I whipped out my phone and Google Translated part of what we were trying to tell him into Arabic, his first language. I mean, the grammar was probably horrendously off but he seemed to get the message, so. It was a pretty rough experience; I swear if I do wander off and teach English somewhere, it'll be somewhere I speak at least a little of the language (ie. the Philippines or somewhere Spanish-speaking).

An EFL/ESL reading comprehension task we did in class as an example says that if you got 10/10 of the questions right, you read the text too slowly. I was mildly offended by this because my reading speed, according to that test, is 550wpm |D

A couple of weeks ago in workshop we read this article and I am weirdly charmed by this ugly little bird. He looks like an alien!

Someone in another city tried to steal cardBieb from her local Farmers. Besides being generally stunned by some of her quotes and behavior, I find it hilarious that the police station sang "Baby" to her when she came in!