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So tonight I went to see Much Ado About Nothing with Catherine Tate and David Tennant for a second time. Yes, I know I said that I couldn't see how but there's a ticket lottery and I thought I'd try and they pulled out my number and so, third row tonight.

I'm so glad I went. It was even better the second time. I spent the entire Tube ride home grinning like a joyful idiot because not only was the play wonderful but I stage-door stalked and Tennant signed my script copy (CT didn't come down our way but we're re-stalking Friday so hopefully I can get it double-signed) and stood less than a foot from me and watched me try to make a lovely Israeli girl's camera focus to get a picture of them and was generally wonderful and oh. TENNANT.

And amongst the joyful flailing that I want to do and don't have time for right now, I have one particular quote that I noticed tonight (I can't remember if it's an actual play-quote or if they've added it but I'm pretty sure it's in the original text because I have vague memories of discussing what it meant in class) was, when Beatrice is talking about Benedick with Don Pedro, they say:

DON PEDRO: Come, lady, come, you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.

BEATRICE: Indeed, my lord, he lent it me a while, and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one...

If anyone thought the Doctor wasn't right for this part? Yeah, William Shakespeare disagrees with you.


I have to go to bed now because tomorrow I have to get up early for Cardiff and then idek where I'm supposed to be. There is Wimbledon at some point. And queueing. And hopefully sleep. I really need to stay in one place for a bit after this week, I think.

(I stood less than a foot away from David Tennant tonight. And am hopefully going to do it again on Friday. Life is awesome.

Today I met up with make_a_move in Lancaster, stole £2 from her and went to see Watchmen. It was awesome (Watchmen, not stealing her money ;) ) which was nice when I went into it expecting nothing other than superheroes. I love superheroes so ridiculously much so I thought I'd enjoy it regardless but then there was unexpected Jeffrey Dean Morgan and A History of America with added superheroes! and Rorsach, who I agree with make_a_move is fantastic even with the ridiculous body count. It was definitely worth the ticket price, even if you're like me and had never heard of it before the movie trailer.

The weather was gorgeous too. I do actually like the spring weather before it turns into summer-hot; I couldn't help thinking it's going to be odd switching to Australia weather in a week (in a week. I know, where did the time go?) BBC is telling me it's still pretty warm out there or you know, warm for me.

New Zealand looks a lot colder already though, especially down south. Hm. Maybe I'll pack a few warmer tops than I thought.

In shiny!news for Australia, I finally followed up a thought that's been nagging me for days and tried a different permutation of destinations for my New Zealand flight. I had an overnight stop in either Melbourne or Sydney anyway, and it finally ocurred to me flights to Alice Springs from Melbourne are so cheap, it might be cheaper just to book a flight to Melbourne and do the Alice Springs leg myself because the dates were proving fiddlesome anyway. And lo, behold, it's over £100 cheaper (that is without the extra night of a hostel... but I'm debating what I can bribe irradiatedsoup with to be an appalling houseguest and turn up for two nights in a gratituous haze of flail, disappear to the Outback for three days only to turn up again like a bad penny and pick up the flail where we left off for another few days. I'LL BRING YOU BACK A PIECE OF AYER'S ROCK? :D Except, I'd probably be shot for that. Or eaten by the specially trained ninja!kangaroos they obviously keep for such ignorant tourist situations.

...I'll bring you back a ninja!kangaroo?)

Pleased with self now. I knew there was a reason I hadn't booked my flight yet. Now I just need to pick a definite date to fly out because I don't know if a week in Brisbane and with acityofwonder is enough but if I leave it the extra day I may as well leave it two days after that or spend two days wandering around Auckland when the only thing I want to see there ia the museum, so that's kind of a waste of a day. Mmmm. Also acityofwonder I want to do Australia Zoo while I'm in Brisbane and they do run a whole bunch of trips up there, but would you know if it's easy enough to do on the train? Some of the bus trips aren't terribly expensive but I'm going to be spending so much time on buses, it might be nice to switch transport for a day.

In less shiny!news, My YHA card still didn't arrive this morning. They said seven working days and it's now been... six? I'm only hyperventilating a little.