Questions and Minis

I'm just about to go have dinner but I'm going to post this quickly before I do.

It's been a pretty quiet day really.

I woke up late, had breakfast, tidied my room (which was urgent and took quite a while...), had lunch and then got the inter-campus bus to BOC. Roadworks and traffic meant it was running over 20 minutes late, so that was fun.

Then when we finally got to BOC, we discovered that the Music Office wouldn't actually open until 3pm, so we were stuck waiting around for half an hour just to collect an exam question.

Let me explain that.

We do what's known as a "seen exam" for our Intro to Musical Theatre module, where we're given the exam question a week before so we have time to research and prepare it. You'd think that would make it easier wouldn't you?

Well haha.

There's actually a reason why we're given the questions a week before you know!

So Nick, Alan and me joined Danny, Anna and Andy in Holts cafe while we waited. I threw an orange juice bottle at Danny's head. I missed. It rebounded on the wall behind him and nearly hit a random girl sitting at the table next to us. I apologised profusely.

Finally managed to get our exam questions.

We then waited for Ben outside his halls while he fetched his car keys (he offered to give Nick, Alan and me a lift back to campus, Danny came along for the ride).

Danny and Nick made loud bird noises and imitated a strange laugh they'd seen on a youtube video. Nick is quite good at being a chicken. Ben is very good at being a pigeon.

We played BEEMER! and MINI! and YELLOW CAR! (complete with arm-numbing punches) in the car.

Ben's driving scares me.

I've sworn off the internet for tonight. I'm going to finish my room (yes. I haven't finished tidying yet. I know...) and then watch MIRACLE ON 34th STREET and then get an early night.

And I know I said that yesterday and then I (of course) didn't get an early night.

But today I mean it.

Time for dinner.

Rock on,

KATY xxxx

LISTENING TO:
Evan Gardner (he's on my course!) - http://www.myspace.com/evangardner


PS.Just got back from dinner.

Ben Hall made a surprise appearance with Arthur Robson in the canteen.

Jem and I were wondering whether he knows about the Ben Hall Appreciation Society facebook group...

Weekends...Bleh

I hate Sundays.

I really do. Boring, depressing, lonely and most recently: rainy. And you know what makes it worse?

It's only Saturday.

I've spent all day on my own. Sad isn't it?

I customised the look of my blog (what do you think?) and listened to music.

I had special fried rice and a yogurt for lunch.

I watched P.S. I LOVE YOU.

I had a Pot Noodle for dinner (I am such a cliche...)

And now it's not even 8pm and I've got nothing to do. Karaoke at the SU's been cancelled due to lack of staff.

So here I am.

Yesterday was pretty similar to today.

I had rice and a yogurt for lunch.

I watched GUYS AND DOLLS (ohmygfreakinggod SKY MASTERSON)

I watched CRY BABY (ohmyfreakinggod WADE WALKER)

I watched Bridget Jones' Diary (OHMYFREAKINGGOD Daniel and Mark Darcy crashing through a window - I think that might just classify as one of my favourite movie moments ever).

Pretty boring stuff.

And tomorrow and Monday will be similar, the monotony broken only by Pub Quiz on Monday evening.

So the point is: I cannot WAIT for Tuesday...

Rock on,

KATY xxxx

LISTENING TO:
Passing By - Yiruma (I like listening to piano solos a lot)

Just Life...

Just back from our last acting session of the term. Interesting. We had a hot-seat interview session where we had to answer questions as a member of our family. I did Ches. It would have gone a lot better if Drou and Harlie and Andy and Rosie hadn't gotten the giggles over my hair. Because Ches pushes her back from her face A LOT. So I did too. Except I've got a short fringe. So I just looked like a turkey...

I've had a few boring days really. Had the most intense body conditioning session EVER on Monday morning...IT BURNED. A lot. We learnt RHYTHM OF LIFE from Sweet Charity in the afternoon. It was good. Weird and a little bit random. And VERY HIGH FOR THE SOPRANOS. But good.

AND WE CAME SECOND IN THE PUB QUIZ! That may not mean much to you guys but ohmygod is it a big deal for us. We've been last or before-last for the past 3 weeks... The mystery round was musicals which is always fun cos our team consists of MT students and a singing teacher (Zoe, Tom's girlfriend).

Yesterday I got told off for going to breakfast in my PJs. Apparently it's not allowed. Health and Safety regulations. AGAIN. People are getting way too anal about this sort of thing nowadays...

I love tap dancing. It's one of my favourite classes. And yesterday I learnt triple timesteps! (Check out the updated list of stuff I've learnt at uni). The problem is I can't seem to stop doing them. And tap springs. And shuffles. Just non-stop. Whenever I'm standing around waiting for people. I just start tapping...Is that bad?

What else happened?

We had an interesting conversation at dinner yesterday. I swear they get more random every day...This one was about pineapple rings.

So yeah. Time to go do that musical timeline...

Rock on,

KATY xxxx

PS. Going to watch the MT second years in OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR with Sam tonight, and then joining the girls for the Girls Only Ann Summers Party at the SU!!! Fun times!

LISTENING TO:
Everything - Michael Buble

Being Children

It was Open Day yesterday. I got paid to trail possible-2010-Freshers around campus I showed Business possibles the IT centre, Teaching possibles the primary school-style classrooms and Musical Theatre possibles the Assembly Hall where we rehearse.

And I loved it.

Especially hanging out with the possible MTers. Rosie and Shvonne planted themselves in Daisy's room (Daisy is our brilliant 3rd year hall rep and has to open her room to visitors on Open Days as part of her job) so we had a great time name-dropping, telling tales of agony in dance classes and hyperactive accounts of our free time spent together.

If I remember correctly, we specifically recounted the second night we were here when we all played Twister at 2am on the grass outside our halls.

It was fun and I got paid for it. AND I got a free lunch courtesy of the uni. As well as an ice cream Tom gave me when I had a quick pit-stop at his kitchen window for a chat.

Good times.

Been looking up vintage thrift stores in London. Awesome stuff. Looking forward to having a look round if/when I ever finally get up there!

Last night was pretty good. I don't think I've eaten that much junk food since well...forever. Turkey dinosaurs, chicken nuggets, potato smileys, a big bowl of ketchup to dip into, alphabet soup, Nesquik banana milkshake and to finish off: mini strawberry and mandarin cheesecakes.

I like remembering what it felt like to be six.

Rock on,

KATY xxxx

PS.The sun is coming out from behind the rain and the grey clouds. This makes me happy!

LISTENING TO:
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles

The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn Is Just To Love And Be Loved In Return

Yeah right. Tell THAT to the long-term couples who are breaking up left, right and centre because of the long-distance thing.

Worrying times for some in Couple-Land at uni...

Watched Moulin Rouge with Rosie and Shivers and Andy last night (hence the quote). I'd forgotten how much I love it. And how AMAZING Ewan McGregor is. I fall for him every single time I watch it. Also decided Satine (aka. Nicole Kidman) looks a HELL of a lot like Amy Adams...




Had a fun morning with Rosie burning CDs for her car. Cos we're all getting a little bit tired of Spelling Bee I think (even though it's brilliant)... Also had my third singing lesson of the term. A double one. Very pleased with myself as I sang something I thought I couldn't and Mike actually complimented me on it!

After, I waited for the bus back to BRC and overheard a conversation that made me giggle so I thought I'd share - a girl was telling off this guy (not sure whether it was a boyfriend or a friend):

Well I think it's ridiculous. You should make her pay rent. Just tell her: you're cutting your hair in my kitchen and having sex on my sofa, why don't you just MOVE IN???

So yeah...made me giggle anyway.

Also had a lot of giggles at dinner. Harry normally doesn't eat in the canteen (he's on the "Harry diet" where all he eats is rice and fish 4 days a week) but today he did and he was telling us that someone had gotten into their kitchen (he lives in the same block as Evan and Dave and etc) and stolen two ipods, some ipod speakers, a couple of bottles of booze and (wait for it): a mackerel.

Yes. A mackerel.

A whole fish. Out of the freezer. God only knows what they wanted to do with a mackerel...

Rosie was getting all stressy with Andy because her fags were in his room and he was refusing to give her the key to it.

Their solution? Extreme Thumb War.

10 seconds later - a chair had been overturned, Andy and the rest of us were in hysterics and Rosie was lying flat on the floor.

I love uni.

Rock on,

KATY xxxx

LISTENING TO:
Dory from Finding Nemo speaking whale

Anything to escape the dreaded One Thousand Word Essay...

Essay's irritate me. I have three full pages of notes on what to write. But I just CANNOT find the way of getting started. Once I'm going I'm fine. But it's GETTING going that I reeeeeally don't like...

7pm and I'm on 0 words. Not good.

Acting was OK. I was off ill with a fever last week so hadn't done the prep. Oops. Quite interesting though watching the others. Maria had told them (us) to concentrate on themselves during 2 minutes of their daily routine and then re-enact it in class. It was cool. Not sure about me doing it next week though!
The acting part of the course is actually what I have the hardest time with...I'm just not good at improvising at ALL. And that's all we do. Can't wait till we get on to script work next term...

Had an interesting Masterclass session with a smaller group of just girls today and now I'm stuck in my room listening to people having fun outside and wishing I'd started this 1000 word essay before today... And I really want to go watch GUYS AND DOLLS.

Have I mentioned that I love being able to watch DVDs and call it "studying".

Rock on,

KATY xxxx