In about 20 minutes, I’m gonna do an around four-hour performance for the end of my Year 2, Semester 1!
We’re doing a cut version of The Marriage of Figaro (the play,) a cut version of An African Cargo and a devised piece that we’ve worked on for the past month and a half!
Wish me luck!
i had a band rehearsal for the first time in a year!
you have no idea how relieved i feel. musical blue balls is the worst.
Merde!
Even though I’m not a French speaker, my parents always wished me “merde” before going to an exam. Merde means “shit” in French. It doesn’t make much sense, especially in the context of exams, but apparently the phrase originally comes from the world of live performances such as theatre. People wished the performers a lot of shit, referring to the all the horse shit the audience would bring in on their boots. So wishing you “merde” in this case basically boils down to wishing you a big, but especially captivated, audience for your performance.
Random information mode off
Other languages: *sincere wishing of luck*
French: “you sh!t”
English: “break your legs, loser”
Tbf I don’t know if any other languages have equally weird ones, wouldn’t be surprised if the Germans do 
that’s an ace factoid
wow that’s a lot! best of luck, chicken. don’t lay an egg 
The UK is starting to open up again, and that means I won’t be working from home anymore pretty soon. I’m quite a fan of that as I like seeing people at work quite a bit (as a general rule of thumb, haven’t actually irl met any of my colleagues yet). What I’m not a fan of is that the offices are too far away to make commuting a viable option, so I’ll have to move.
Now I’m already not a huge fan of moving as is. I always find it a stress. But also this job was very much a safety net job, so I don’t plan to stay in it forever (especially because I don’t like the location). So I’m looking for a short term/month-to-month lease which makes things even harder 
Plus, being a single person with no friends in the area limits my choices again. No lovely 3 bedroom cottages for me 
TL;DR: Have to move, it’s a pain
I’m certain you’ll do great. Lots of luck!
You should commission an Artwork of your Bearmon wearing Marty McFlys Outfit.
EDIT: Or is he actually wearing that already and I’m just retarded?
I was always fascinated by Vikki Dougan and her story. So about three or four years ago I’ve set up a Google-Alert to get notified if anybody writes about her. There never was a story. Now imagine my joy and surprise when I suddenly got an alert today! And it’s a great article as well!
Wow, this is heavy.
20 heavy words.
Okay, wow, so, that’s done (for now)!
It went pretty well! I think it was our best performance yet, though there were still a few hiccups.
(In my case: I forgot to say a cue line in Act 1 of Figaro that made someone else leave the scene, so they just stood there for a bit; But with some quick thinking I inserted that cue into a different line just a few seconds later, saving it, and I think it still made sense to the audience.)
All in all, pretty well done! We’re doing this again on Friday, where it’ll be livestreamed to our friends and family. So, that’ll be our last crack at this and hopefully we can smooth over what went wrong today. (Hopefully that recording doesn’t have any major mistakes in it, since it’ll be up for the whole week after we do it. 
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Merci!
Thanks, all, for the encouragement!
I’m super grateful that we were allowed to do this in-person, I’m not sure if we would have been able to stomach doing it through Zoom, as we did for one back in the Winter!
I have never gotten such texts from a food delivery man. I know it would put off some people, but I’m happy he feels he can joke around. The world needs a little bit more silliness.
I’ll see if I can find it in a bit, but this reminds me of a funny text chain between someone and their food delivery driver that was posted on reddit once.
If you want the situation spoiled:
Basically, the delivery person couldn’t find the client’s location in this neighbourhood, so the client used his military-grade flashlight to shine a beacon into the sky.
ET Rewards gloves with the suit you already have. Just had the thought of a glove fractal. A gloved hand with tiny gloves on the tip of each finger. As you zoom in on each glove you go deeper and deeper in the ET rewards. If I had the software to make .gifs I’d be right on that. 
Edit: Okay. A hand will do.
Alright, final final performance is later today!
Hopefully we can knock it out of the park this time! Ooh I’m excited!
Work/Life Update.
As I approach the late May opening day for the park we’re in the final stretch here of pre season. What this entails is various events and procedures to check off before opening.
Through the weeks ahead of me I’ll be cleaning and preparing the Employee Commissary’s since as of Tuesday I was put in charge of those areas for the time being. This is subject to change and I’ll be stretched throughout the park as we get deep into the summer and into the fall.
I’m not particularly fond of some of the leadership positions taking place within the Area, but since I don’t have a say in the matter I’ll reserve my doubts until I see how they work out. One thing I’m surprised about is we’re having another Leadership Summit. Last year I posted on the forum about the one I attended back in March of 2020 literally the same day the first COVID case was announced in Pennsylvania. Well we are having one in the middle of May and all I’m hoping for is to finally get a Leadership Jacket since for the past years it’s been pullovers and almost the entirety of the Leadership Team has been requesting jackets especially for the fall where it gets fairly cold here.
As for my life I’m finishing up my classes the first week of May and my finals are the following week. I’m not necessarily nervous since it’s the final stretch before the summer and this is the last summer with my friend group together in one place as of now so we have a lot we want to do before I and my one friend transfer colleges to finish up our final years.
I haven’t had the time to play a lot of HITMAN, but I think the plan is as of now to go ahead and put the 7DS content on the back burner and focus on time limited things like Events/Elusive Targets. I should be able to knock those out with just about an hour max of my time.
But yeah that’s my life at the moment.
Short update, I managed to find a place I like. I haven’t got it yet but I’ve been in contact with the agency, so fingers crossed.
It’s a little more expensive than I’d like, but I decided to find a place in the nearest city (I’m much more of a city creature than town/village). So I’ll be doing 2h commute everyday, but hopefully that gives me time to enjoy other things (I might even get a switch).
Thankfully it’s a short term lease like I wanted, so if I decide it’s not financially viable at any point I can just move, no hassle. Also it means I can keep looking for jobs in other places and not have to be worried about being stuck in a contract (the contractor hates contracts 
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Overall tho, pretty happy with how quickly and generally stress free I’ve managed to do this. But of course as soon as I’ve done that my laptop has broken. So I now have the new worry of getting that fixed 
oh life
