For The Sake Of Completeness...

[magicaddict]

...and in addition to a regular update, behold the answers no-one got to the two memes:

Song Lines:

5) I don't find myself bouncing along whistling buttonhole tunes to make me cry.
- Annie Lennox - No More I Love Yous
6) What do you do when you're falling, you've got thirty degrees and you're stalling out?
- Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
9) Should have listened when you said I'd miss you.
- Meatloaf - You're Right, I Was Wrong


Character Themes:

4) You've done it now, you've gone and made a big mistake.
- Jim Johnson - You're Gonna Pay, theme song of Trillian Mistwalker, a revenant, LT

8) It ain't easy livin' free, season ticket on a one way ride.
- ACDC - Highway To Hell, theme song of Vaexarius Firestorm, a mage, TL

9) My Shangri-La, I can't forget.
- Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister, theme song of Mindstalker, a walking nightmare, LT

10) Lived and learned from fools and from sages.
- Fisher - Dream On (Covering Aerosmith), theme song of Delann, a thief of the Night Caste, Exalted.

11) The one full of promise, and the one I knew would hurt.
- Kristian Leontiou - Story Of My Life, theme song of Rhinyn Morridar, a scout, LT


With that out of the way, the following few weeks will be really quite busy.

Today, I talk with both the supervisor and the internal asessor about what I'm doing with the next few months (I'm actually quite pleased with how much I have done already and what it suggests for the future), on Thursday there is a talk about conferences (still looking at Cape Town), and it all leads to the 3rd of February when Dow Corning come to inspect what I've done and schedule the final part of the project - it's a testament to my burgeoning powers of ignoring problems that I'm quite looking forward to their coming. In the middle of all that, I have to proof-read the program and give it to the Print Unit, now charging what I think is a reasonable price after the Great £201 Estimate Scare of 2006.

On Saturday the ISB begins, otherwise known as nine days of non-stop rehearsing (with the brief break for the DC visit), stressing as people realise they haven't learned their lines, finding out that due to not having a backstage representative (through a combination of both BUSMS and BTS being stubborn fucks and not coming to a mutually beneficial arrangement), the staging doesn't match the director's lack of ideas, and generally driving me closer to the edge than any number of problems in the labs ever could.

Then comes show week - don't even get me started. While I'm out there performing, those few sweet hours will be the blessed release I have been craving for the last three months, but for the first time I genuinely don't think they're going to make up for the nightmare that putting this show together has been. It's still definitely my dream career exit, but only if professional theatre pulls a good deal more of its finger out on a regular basis than this lot. I hope and fully expect them to do so.

After that, and the evening I hand Stu my resignation and tell him and the society to go fuck themselves with a snow-shovel, I can return to normalcy and fun - work, larps, GASP, possibly The Tempest, roleplay...the future is looking bright, as long as I don't kill someone before February the twelfth.

19 Days To Go...

Comments

[doribore.livejournal.com]

You have a theme song for *Mindstalker*??? .... *whimper*

Good luck with the show and now murdering people! Just take it a day at a time and rant as need be. ;) It really does help.

[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

Well, of course I do - I can't be a decent character without having music it makes me think of.

Cry, and come to your brother...*flexes claws*

[indigogecko.livejournal.com]

So this is going to be a bad month for stage productions... there's light on the horizon though, with Charley's Aunt. Take it you'll be auditioning?

[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

Charley's Aunt? Is that what BUST are doing in lieu of the Shakespeare-on-a-cotton-string thing in Studio 1?

[cheekychipmunk.livejournal.com]

What we're planning, yeah. The Shakespeare thing would have been fun as anything, but pretty difficult to pull off.

[dbexx.livejournal.com]

I vote for killing them all. Why do something if you're not going to do it to the best of your ability? Why are they in this if they're just pissing about?

And you know where I am if in need of an alibi. As always.

[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

Because they're amateurs, they're hear for a laugh, and I signed up to it knowing full well that they were. The annoying part is dealing with the ones on the committee who think they're not. I'm not either - I've got more to learn than not about how to organise and appear in shows in a truly professional manner - but I'm a fuckload closer than they are right now, and probably will ever be.

[dbexx.livejournal.com]

You know me. What did I ever do for a laugh? You laugh after you succeed.
But I am learning that you need to be easygoing to get by in life. Or fake it.

[drabbit.livejournal.com]

Can I suggest that it's not worth having a go at them, in person or on paper?

Putting aside the slight lack of professionalism involved with the detailed and aggressive resignation letter, if you do tell them everything they do that bugs you either (a) they know they're rubbish already, in which case you're telling them so won't make them more aware; or (b) they don't, in which case telling them so will produce vociferous denial, probably without any eventual admittal of fault.

If you simply say that you're leaving due to a lack of desire to continue to be considered part of their specific group and then refuse to elaborate, that leaves them to speculate on what they've done that's bugged you so much, which may lead to some genuine self analysis.

[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

I must say that your suggestions are falling on a combination of deaf ears and the already converted. I was never going to be quite as blunt as telling them where to stick their snow shovel, because I don't want to be viewed like the last guy to resign, who accused them of disliking him because he was Dutch (unjustified - he was a complete wanker, but with his attitude would have been regardless of nationality).

I will point out that due to the way they have conducted themselves in the production of this show, they have made my life overly difficult, and prevented me from having fun at all stages of production, up to and including performance. Fun is what they claim their shows are - if someone who a lot of people looked to when things go wrong resigns and makes noises to the contrary, maybe they might go easier on their next committees.