So I tried to do a magic trick today: I tried to make 500 words of my dissertation appear on a page, and failed. Not as spectacularly as Sunday when I aimed for 500 and sort of dribbled 125 words onto the page. Today I managed to bring that total up to 470 but yeah, it's slow going. What's more, I have a meeting with my tutor regarding my dissertation portfolio tomorrow at noon! I am definitely nervous. But that's for me to tell you this time tomorrow.
Today, writing aside, I have enjoyed my evening with the lovely people of Plymouth's Amateur Dramatics society aka my second family! I survived further than I imagined I would playing Hello Sister (the simple premise being to walk up to a member of the group and try to make them laugh - if you fail, you take their place in the circle, and it is their turn; if you succeed, they sit, and you try with someone else). But when it came time for workshops - this week summarizing a popular film - I had the bad luck of ending up in a group who got Stars Wars (which, if you hadn't guessed, I have never seen). After some deliberation, our end piece was an over-enthusiastic amateur breakdown of The Empire Strikes Back, explained to me as the simultaneously real and pretend friend who hadn't seen it. Other films made fun of included The Lion King/Drag Queen, Twilight, Mean Girls, and Cinderella (with twin step-sisters Justina and Justiana played by one person).
Back home, the end of my night was similarly dramatic as the Spring Showcase scripts had been uploaded and I am so impatient for auditions next week. If you had stood outside my bedroom door around 10.30pm, you would've heard some strange conversations being conducted with myself. From past experience, I have never landed the role I so desperately wanted, but as this is my last showcase, I am crossing my fingers that I get lucky. We'll see what next week brings.
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