Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house...

LJ refusing to load flist... weird. Too tired for this LJ. Ggrr.

But just got back from seeing Propeller perfoming Twelfth Night and *damn* were they good. I already knew they were after seeing 'Shrew in the autumn but tonight just backed it up. Even my dad, who is the least Shakespeare-y, literary kind of person you'll meet and who sulked about being made to go and see it *all day* really enjoyed it. I love this theatre company. They're awesome. I'm only regretting not being able to see the two plays back to back (and see them again; I wish they'd sell DVDs of the performances. I know it's not as good but it's *something*.) I'm also not, in any way, still crushing crazily like a crazy thing on Simon Scardifield (the guy wearing a dress in the icon.) Nope. In no way at all. I was just happy he spent so much time on stage tonight and dropped his trousers at one point because he is a superb actor.

Which is an excellent excuse, because he is. ;)

In short: awesome. Maybe not quite as good as 'Shrew but our seats were uncomfortable and there was a... what's the politically correct way to say disabled these days? :-/ anyway, a girl who made a lot of noise, especially during the second half, so that might've contributed (will not rant on this point, because it is direly uncomfortable and a minefield of unpolitical correctness but there does reach a point when you have to consider the rest of the people in the audience and the actors too.) More annoying was the little boy humming in front of us, since he only had the excuse of being a bored little brat. If I hadn't had pretty men acting to distract me, I would've whacked him on the head with my shoe. Humming through a play! An amazing, funny, fantastic play! Peasant.

I love Propeller. I hope they keep together and keep doing stuff, so I can keep going to see them in future. Plus the 'rents liked it, so I can just get them to take me. ^_^ Shiny.

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Back in Lancaster. Trying to decide if this is a good thing, since I didn't really have time to get sick of being at home (except the slow internet. Ngh. That I can do without.)

Unfortunately, it means it's actually crunch-time dissertation-wise and I need to start it now. Which is why sitting here wondering why Propeller don't have an LJ community and if I could fix that is a bad idea. Bad bad bad. Tempting but bad.

Buzzing was stopped in my absence. Most excellent.

Why can't I just go see 'Shrew/Twelfth Night again instead of having to work? >_< Though my loan came through yesterday and my 'rents bought food and dissertation printer ink for me, which I wasn't expecting, so maybe I can buy Spaced. Or maybe I should wait until I've reached 10,000 words. Yeah, I probably should. Or at least until I've reached The Point of Ultimate Stress over the next day or so.

Also want to change LJ header. Must. Resist.

edit: Yeah. Didn't resist. Only now I can't work out if everything else matches and if I should need to change it all. Or work. Woooorrk.

Change in Doctor Who's time.

Because I just checked thetv listings as an afterthought and had a wtf! moment: Doctor Who is on at 6:35pm tonight British people. Glad I actually bothered to check before then, since I thought it was on later than the normal time, not earlier.

Doctor Who...

... was weird. Maybe it's the two-parter thing, because I can never make judgement calls on the first part of double episodes but I caught myself saying "meh" far too many times.

That said I still ( spoilers if you've been living under a rock and remain unspoiled about this week's Big Bad and a couple of spoilery opinions )

Waiting until I've seen the second half to make a judgement but it didn't knock me over backwards with the awesome this week. Has some leg-work to do next week if it wants to be better than okay.

edit: My favourite Joseph (Seamus) is being a little bit an ass about needing to be a team player. Dear Curls, be less of a smug git. People will vote you off and I like your hair too much to see it go so soon. No love until you stop being a wanker, Clo.

But you are singing a song I love. That gets you brownie points.

edit of frustrated flailing: DON'T ARGUE WITH THE JUDGES, IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A GIT.

Much ado about nothing it seems.

Well my vague idea of organising some kind of trip down south in June for us to see 'Shrew and Twelfth Night on the same day is screwed; all the performances of Twelfth Night are sold out. I'd still love to see 'Shrew again but Miko's seen it, so I don't know if she'd want to bother with a four hour train trip plus an overnight stay for something she's already seen. *sadness* And the talkback shows are sold out too.

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Anyone fancy a trip to Milan in May? ;)

Oh for godssake, DO SOME WORK. *kicks self*