Oh my god! Why am I going go reahearsal, and then centrepointe to build sets, rather than taking the bike out to the Gatineau hills in this AMAZING weather. What a glorious sunny warm day!

A dilemma.

Auditions for Urinetown are Nov. 28, show is in March. Audition for Producers will be...march-ish, for a show in July. That could mean it is impractical to take an ASL class in the spring, I am not sure I can devote a night a week if I get into both shows. This bums me out a bit, I am still enjoying ASL classes more than any other schooling I have ever done. I really want to do level 4, but it's a hard lesson to learn in life that you can't do everything.

Now, there is a chance I won't get into Urinetown. Not for lack of talent I think, but it's primarily a Carleton U production, and I suspect they favour Carleton students if they get enough of them with talent to audition. I didn't get the part in Batboy, even though I am pretty sure I did a kick ass audition. So, if I don't get into Urinetown, I will then have a tough decision. I could take ASL, and hope I can jig the schedule for Producers such that it conflicts as little as possible, but I'd still probably end up missing the end of the course schedule. This also assume of course I get into Producers, which also isn't a guarantee, but I think I have a good chance at least at a chorus role.

One thing at a time I guess.

8.5 hours of sleep.

yegads did I ever need that!

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

I've got to go watch V for Vendetta again.

Best new quote ever

"Get your covet on, Gamorrah style"

Has anyone read any Scott Westerfield? Is he any good? I am getting crazy curious about his new novel Leviathan.
http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?page_id=1125
and not just because it has a cool trailer.

The audio book is read by Alan Cumming, that only increases my interest, because I strongly suspect he'd be a fantastic narrator. I am thinking of getting an audible.com account, I may as well just admit my addiction to audio books. Unfortunately, the audio book doesn't have the artwork that comes in the book....hmmmm, dilemma.

I have been pondering the SCA. I have done little SCA in the past year. I don't miss the activity itself, I have filled my time amply with other activities such as theatre (and others). I am not missing the social contact, as I have met and been able to socialize with a lot of people in other ways (both old friends and new). However, I do miss specific social contact with specific people. Simply losing touch with a friend and making a new friend is a mixed blessing. I do get to make a new friend, but I have lost some contact with an old friend with whom I had some level of rapport. I miss the post-revs, or meeting good friends on a Friday of travelling because I am staying with them for the weekend. My calendar is still very full (ridiculously sometimes), but it's been so long since I crashed on finitedancer's hide-a-bed, or geeked out with black5sugars, or heard Martin sing one of his quirky songs around a campfire, or danced Rostiboli with Helen, or received a backscratch from freya46, or given thirstysmurf a hug...

...and it's not like I can't simply make an effort to reach out to these people outside the context of the SCA, but there are simply only so many days in a month, and I haven't left myself with a lot of free ones. My fault certainly, and a state I don't regret for the most part, but I still definitely feel a need to crash an Kingston post-rev sometime soon.

OW!

Rehearsal was loooong today, long scene, involving all the cast, and ending up with me falling to the floor, obstensibly dead. However, I am not *actually* supposed to hurt myself, by say...landing wrong on my right shoulder such that it's sore enough that I have a hard time lifting anything with that arm.

Plus: I get an on stage kiss
Minus: The slap I receive afterwards is well deserved, Gaston is not a very nice person :)

I do have to say though, this over the top, larger than life villain role...pretty fun on many levels. There is something very engaging playing someone so obviously despicable, so ready to hurt people, so ready to use people to get his way. My ideal line up of characters this year (a long shot, but it's my ideal scenario), is an egotistical womanizer, a mean cop that arrests people for peeing without paying, and a nazi scriptwriter.

I think if I miraculously land all those roles, I will have to find a role next year of someone who loves to pet bunnies and give gifts to orphans.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *squee*

Sock n Buskin (Carleton U theatre company) is doing Urinetown this winter, auditions in November. I have long wanted to see Urinetown, but even moreso to be in it. I am so auditioning for it.

That's on top of Orpheus doing The Producers next spring, if I play my auditions right, this will be a very entertaining year for being in theatre.

Happy Halloween! Did you set your clocks back?

This...
http://gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf
...is an actual memo from the desk of the governor of California.

See anything interesting?

No?

Check out the first letter of each line. I laughed out loud. That HAS to be intentional. This is from gov.ca.gov, it's legit, or certainly seems to be.