Legally Blonde 1
November 9, 2012
Tonight was the first performance of Legally Blonde, that hopefully I’ll get to writing to more about once all the madness is over. Just to give all of you some idea, the earliest I’ve gone to bed in the past two weeks is about 3AM, and on average I rehearse/perform for over six hours a night.
The show went excellently and was sold out, and I did play my little part, delivering my few lines with great gusto!
Come Sunday I shall attempt to write around ten days worth of updates but undoubtedly there will be blanks. Things have certainly stepped up a notch around here, work wise too, as we come to the tail end of the fall semester.
Monday – Day 94
November 1, 2012
After a late night on Sunday due to rehearsals I treated myself with a real sleep in on Monday, lasting all the way to 11AM. Following that I decide to take advantage of the high wind warning and the advisory to stay inside, remaining in pyjamas and playing video games for a good while before settling to work. However, no sooner had I picked up pen and paper when Caitlyn let me know that coffee and snacks were being served downstairs as comforts from the storm outside.
On my way downstairs for a little snack I came across Rigel Swavely, head of the PGC Band and his girlfriend Nikki Limtiaco, two of my favourite people on campus, and ended up sitting and drinking a little coffee with them and watching the wind and rain. At this point I decided to venture outside just to see how bad it was. I wanted to loop around the building and peer in through the window and get Rigel and Nikki’s attention however, after about thirty seconds outside, I was blown right back in as I tried to turn the corner, nearly falling over. That was my last trip outside till the storm had well and truly passed..
After a while of chilling we decided to go back upstairs and work. However, after hearing from me that the lounge piano had been tuned, Rigel jumped at the opportunity and took us into the lounge for a bit of a jam. A ‘bit of a jam’ quickly turned into three hours, and after a while we started getting hungry so we ordered dinner from the one place still delivering and gave the delivery guy a hefty tip. After finishing our food ‘saxy singalong’ began in the lobby of the highrise. This was an event for 9th floorers whereby we all sing together and some of us perform a little too. I then got stuck there till 11PM after a fantastic duet with a french friend of Rigel’s singing a jazz arrangement of what a wonderful world.
I worked finally for a few hours and made it another late night, promising myself to work more productively the next day.