It’s Over!
The title for this entry should be read in a Strong Bad kind of voice.
So, City of Angels is finally over. I shall miss it a lot. It’s been absolutely fantastic, and I can only imagine that the number of white suits I get to wear in future will dive dramatically.
It also fuelled my new interest in noir, alongside modern re-interpretations like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Veronica Mars. Here’s hoping Doctor Who (April 15, by the way) does a noir episode some day.
You should see a lot more content here soon — now that I can’t avoid my lack of job-finding through musicals, Grapefruit will have to take the brunt of it.
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ben
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:22 am
i was walking through a japanese department store the other day, and what do you know, one of the ‘flavours’ for a particular brand of sunscreen was infact ‘Grapefruits’
Shannon
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:58 pm
This is more a blog entry than a comment, but I’m not cool enough to be allowed to post entries, so you must suffer through the randomness.
You know, it sucks not having all my friends working in hospitality anymore. Strangely, Im the kind of person that likes to study for exams in a quiet coffee shop away from home and distractions like tv and computer… But going to a coffee shop on your own with your homework CAN been seen by SOME members of society as, um, odd (to be polite to myself). But see, if you have friends who work there, then you can show up and study under the the guise that THEY are your company, that you are there to support your poor friend through a boring shift, and you are not in fact a loner with nothing and no one in her life, bar her homework. (*Jackson is of course the beautiful exception to this connundrum, only the git doesn’t work on Mondays)
I have neglected all uni work for the sum of 5 weeks of semester now, and have so many mid-semester tests and assignments to resit and catch up on (pre-arranged for after the show closed) that it would be impossible for one human to accomplish all this in such a finite amount of time as this week. Or at least, to complete with any level of competency above atrocious.
Now add this to the overblown task of sorting through all the heaped piles of CRAP in my front yard and front room left over from the show, which familial obligation says I should clear up as soon as possible. 100 costumes to be sorted and dry cleaned, returned to cloc and other hirers, or catalogued and stored away. Sets to be dismantled and taken to tip, or sold off. Props to be disassembled, or stored or sold off. Again, more than one persons worth.
Then there is the matter of my starting back at work this week, which is now, quite simply, not going to happen. Way to piss off the best employer I’ve ever had.
And here I thought April was going to be the oasis of calm I had been yearning for. Why does life have to be so goddam difficult? Couldn’t, for once, things just BE. As opposed to things trying to tear you to shreds at every turn.
Honestly. I want to start over. Can I reset to a couple of years ago please? I’m sure a must have saved back there… (Not a geek. Just.. writing to suit my audience)
The best part is, I’m going to fail Ancient Greek, which means I will have to do the full four subjects next semester (so much for an easy finish), but better than that, it means I won’t get my classics major. I will have spent four years studying to major in theatre studies which I dont even want to do professionally, and I will look like a hack who couldn’t get into the Bachelor of Performing Arts and who ultimately did it by default anyway.
Would you like fries with that??
Shannon
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:04 pm
I maintain that there is no such thing as Post Production Depression Syndrome. My current mental state is purely coincedental..
Tom
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:19 am
You know, you could post to this blog if you wanted to. Twas you who refused it, many moons ago. As a reviewer (at times) you’ve got certain rights.
That does sound grump-inducing though.
How come failing Ancient Greek is such a certainty at this stage? And how come you can’t just do it again?
Shannon
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:49 am
Because I have a test tomorrow morning on the first 5 weeks worth of work, and the course goes really fast. I’ve got a whole bunch of grammar to learn that I don’t understand in english let alone in translation at this stage, and the vocab list to learn is pages and pages long. By the end of semester when we have the final exam I will be even further behind I presume so it doesn’t seem worth the effort now.
And I can’t repeat it because I need a sequence of it, and I have to pass semester one to be able to move on to semester two. And next semester is my final semester. I don’t want to come back in 2007 just for one unit of Greek. I’d rather not get my classics major.
Its alright, I’m choosing to ignore everything I have to do and I’m going with time-honoured procrastination instead. I’ve earned it.