Sounds like April to me? Here in Denmark it’s pretty much the wtf month. One week we have 15 degrees the next snow. Two weeks ago we had, Sun, rain, snow and then hail within a hour. I’m just use to it at this point, same thing every year.
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I don’t know, I feel the past couple years a lot of our snow disappears after March.
Maybe I’m wrong, but it’s just strange to be seeing snow after 3 weeks of temperatures above zero. It’s like someone accidentally turned the thermostat the wrong way all of a sudden.
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In Germany we say April macht was er will April does what he wants, regarding the weird weather, 
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We have a saying for it too.“Maartse buien en Aprilse grillen”. Nothing to do with BBQing to be clear 
In other news, I got called up to contribute to a promotional video for my work place, trying to get people enthusiastic about starting to work there. It will be shown at people’s first day of work. Just talking about my job and what I love about it. I’m actually a bit nervous about it, because I always think I sound ridiculous in videos. And it will be a first impression for new colleagues, so I might lose face forever!
Think I’ll be taking my cues from Clemens’ roadmap videos. A lot of hand gestures and a cool cap. What else do I need?
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And last week it was 16. Of course my sister, the winter baby, is cackling gleefully in the family group chat as we all suffer but come on. I was supposed to get my snow tires off today!
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-saved the phrase for further online discussions.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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 
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that’s an ace factoid
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wow that’s a lot! best of luck, chicken. don’t lay an egg 
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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
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I’m certain you’ll do great. Lots of luck!
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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?
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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!
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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!
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