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A disgustingly long time ago, my brother and I sat down to watch the Met's 2007 production of Eugene Onegin. It's an opera written by the ever well-known Tchaikovsky in 1879 and tells the story of an ultimately doomed love affair between the title character and Tatiana. For the most part, the story moved along at a reasonable place (okay, so it did move slowly no matter how you slice it, but still enjoyed it) and the performers were all great. What really blew me away, what still gets me excited just thinking about it, is the set design. (It is probably no coincidence that set design and construction was the area of tech theatre that I found most interesting.)

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Koi-san. That was one of the best rehearsals in history ever. We should do it again sometime. (Oh wait...)

I did not get cast in "Tales of an Everyday Soldier", but I had a really great audition for "A Beautiful Afternoon" today. Will hear back relatively soon, I imagine.

Still no word back about my Freezer Fest entries and whether or not they have been accepted. Curse you, Kevin!


... I really love people, especially my friends. Just to clarify for anyone who might not have figured that out by now.

So don't get me wrong - The Traumatized Generation would be a fantastic story to tell at Fridge Festival (should it be accepted - because a zombie story such as this would go over FANTASTICALLY) - but wouldn't it be awesome to tell one of my own stories? The only one up to scratch is probably Escape. I need to get a copy of that to a more impartial eye, or to go over it myself and see if I can't bring the weaker passages up to snuff. It converts to monologue pretty well. The narrator is male and it changes the dynamic a bit to make him female, but not drastically so. I just need to make sure I can update the story enough to make it, you know, good. There's also then absolutely no worries about getting the rights, because they're already mine.

Something to think about, since I'm buzzing off the walls and evidently not bound for bed any time soon.

Yesterday was frickin awesome. More to tell on that tale when I get back from Kung Fu. It was such a good day.

And it's after Kung Fu. So more.

Kicked off early, I was in the shop behind the theater by ten am. The morning was rather boring, with me drawing out shapes on plywood while I struck up awkward conversation with Matt. We have some similar interests, but not quite enough to actually converse properly - you know?

Things turned much better after lunch, when Myriam and Naomi showed up for their crew hours. All of the reds Duncan bought were actually pink or brown when used, so we have a bright coral bathtub right now, as opposed to a red one. We'll work around that :P

The three of us had fun and were productive. I had my first run in with powertools - a jigsaw, to be precise - and so I was greatly amused to realize that the girls were in the back shop using power tools while the guys were out front hanging curtains. It doesn't matter if they're theater curtains :P

We packed up earlier than anticipated (a full hour - this was good), and just as I was sweeping up Bergmann shows up in the entrance way. Apparently, DnD ran late, so he stopped by to see if I was done, as we head home the same way. A very pleasant surprise indeed. It meant a forty five minute ride to Woodbine station with company, rather than alone. Twas good.

Riding some very fun high I made it to Misha's only about half an hour late, and was thus there for the entire RP session, which we devoted to Misha's game as I won't be here for the next two weeks due to play. OMG. One of the greatest sessions ever.

First of all, in the Exalted game system, all Solar Exalted (like our characters) have virtue flaws, and when those build up too high, we have limit breaks. The limit break is then reset - but not before some rather unpleasant side effects.

There are five characters in our game. In this one session, four of us broke.

I think I broke first, but was quickly followed by Gigi and Mitchell's characters, and Colin was only a day behind. When I break, I become the ultimate altruist: anything and everything for anyone and everyone. And I do mean ANYTHING. Gigi and Colin's breaks didn't affect Trian (my character) so much, but Mitchell's hella does. He become deliberatly cruel. He asked Trian to go down into a pit and open a lock on something that was mostly likely a trap - and being the good little panderer I am, for the next few days game time anyway, I went, and I opened the lock.

Half my health levels later.

Good god that was fun. I got kudos from Misha for willingly doing something so stupid but in character. It could have meant her death, and we all knew it, but both Mitchell's character and I had to do it the way we did. Apparently, some players try and balk when they find themselves forced to send their characters into situation's like Trian's, and while I can see why, it's really not in character.

Thus, half my health levels.

Of course, the very fact that I FELL FOR IT and got REALLY BADLY HURT means Mitchell's character is only going to look down on me more, and thus be even more cruel. I'm enjoying this limit break very muchly. Trian offered herself to Mitchell's character while he was breaking (so that he would do something and thus, make Thaiya happy) - the whole cruel thing. He didn't accept, but it was an amusing thing to do anyway.

Also in role play news, I was very happy to find out that I *was* in the Invisible Fortress in my last life! It's as long story as to what that is, but it ties into Gigi's characters past life, and apparently mine too. Andara Trian was Iatryxian the Weaver, who learned how to weave stone into cloth. Do I not rock? (Edit: very, very bad pun, for which I apologize) I'm sorry, but this makes me far too happy for it to really be allowed, but I so wanted to have been in the Fortress in my last life, and a lucky roll got me that knowledge.

Mitchell also thought up a kick ass plan for our two characters for the next ten years - as we are playing a "Ten Years Later Game" once we're finished with Abberant. He's a genius. Trian and Darkwind (his character) have too much fun to separate. I still think they should try being lovers, and it doesn't work out, and that's just the way it happened. :P

I'm not sure if this conveys *why* may day was awesome, but it just was, and you know what? For the first time I months, when someone asked me how my day was, I answered "Good", because it was the honest truth.