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hathycolWeird sort of day yesterday. Nothing academic to worry about - no complaints here - buts lof xtra-curricular stuff. I went to a Wyrd Sisters rehearsal, and upon spotting the badge I have on my bag informing the world that 'Homophobia is gay', one of the frighteningly pretty girls came, sat down very close to me, proceeded to snuggle a bit closer, and talk to me about badges whilst flicking her hair.
Apparently I am so unfanciable that I don't actually recognise flirting until too late. We start talking about a film called 'Little Miss Sunshine' and she smiles, and says "Well, if it comes to St Andrews, let's go and see it together!"
"Okay!" I said, because she is nice and makes me laugh.
"It's a date," she says, winks, and wanders off to sign the timetable of times we're free to rehearse. It was at that point I realised exactly what happened.
*facepalms*
So, we signed up for hoodies, and got the official dates - 24th-26th October - and signed up for hoodies (extras picked slightly odd names to go on the sleeves, mine now officially being 'Sextra', although not as good as poor Alex, who has one declaring 'FOOL' in capital letters) and then there was suddenly an appeal for for male actors.
"But we have everyone," someone reasonably pointed out.
"No, we need a demon, the king, a chancellor and TomJohn." All these parts are played by two people.
"But we have them!"
"No, we don't." It turns out the guy who played the first three parts - I knew him a bit, we had the odd tutorial together and were on the same course - died on bone cancer over the holidays. I mean, we all knew he was ill with it, and with bone cancer it's a 'when' rather than an 'if' but it was thought that he could go for another five years or so. His best friend, who played TomJohn, has rather understandably dropped out.
As I said, weird rehearsal that ended on a sad note.
I rushed home, threw on a new t-shirt, and dived back out of the door to go to DocSoc, which, I think, was just what I needed rather than getting all morbid. It was brilliant. Loads of people turned up, and I spent a lot of time trying to write down who had paid and who was new and BUSY BUSY BUSY. With a few minutes to spare, Andrew and I ended up doing a sort of Q+A session. Who's been here before, who's a first year, who likes Sylvestor McCoy, who thinks Paul McGann in canon, who cares if Paul McGann is canon, etc. Then we tried the "Who's on a Doctor Who internet forum?" and I ended up finding LOADS of buggars from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
new_who. Holy fuck, we're infiltrating everything, and apparently I am now quietly ruling large bits of fandom - I've declared my intention to run for President at the end of the year and now trying to persuade people that it's a Good Idea. The viewing itself was good fun - lots of heckling, cheers at The Greatest Line Ever ("No. Not the mind probe.") eating of the free biscuits which we promised and generally a really fun atmosphere.
I like the committee, actually. We spent a lot of the meeting passing in-jokes around, mostly about me and Taryn being Girls, me having ginger hair and Iain being short. It was... nice, because I haven't really had a definite circle of friends outside of the house. Plus, Katie has now joined the committee (techincally she is the Magistrate, but the other term is The Secretary's Bitch, which works for me) and all was lovely.
Except getting home just before midnight, and today is a Busy Day. I've had five hours pretty much without a break - work from 7-9, tutorial at 9, lectures are 10 and 11. Fortunately the tutorial was just an introductory one and I spent the rest of it sitting in a cafe desperately eating a cookie and drinking tea in an attempt to stay awake and also to make Asser's 'Life of King Alfred' interesting. My modern history lecture was just... odd. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT GERMAN UNIFICATION. I HAVE NEVER CARED ABOUT GERMAN UNIFICATION. I WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT GERMAN UNIFICATION AND I DON'T KNOW WHY THE WORLD MAKES ME LEARN ABOUT IT IN TWO SEMESTERS.
Now I've got that out, I feel a bit better. Ahem.
I'm so tired now, though, and I have another trek into town to make for my 3pm lecture.
... yeah. Weird couple of days. Quite looking forward tomorrow where all I have to do is work and nothing else.
~Hathy_Col~
Apparently I am so unfanciable that I don't actually recognise flirting until too late. We start talking about a film called 'Little Miss Sunshine' and she smiles, and says "Well, if it comes to St Andrews, let's go and see it together!"
"Okay!" I said, because she is nice and makes me laugh.
"It's a date," she says, winks, and wanders off to sign the timetable of times we're free to rehearse. It was at that point I realised exactly what happened.
*facepalms*
So, we signed up for hoodies, and got the official dates - 24th-26th October - and signed up for hoodies (extras picked slightly odd names to go on the sleeves, mine now officially being 'Sextra', although not as good as poor Alex, who has one declaring 'FOOL' in capital letters) and then there was suddenly an appeal for for male actors.
"But we have everyone," someone reasonably pointed out.
"No, we need a demon, the king, a chancellor and TomJohn." All these parts are played by two people.
"But we have them!"
"No, we don't." It turns out the guy who played the first three parts - I knew him a bit, we had the odd tutorial together and were on the same course - died on bone cancer over the holidays. I mean, we all knew he was ill with it, and with bone cancer it's a 'when' rather than an 'if' but it was thought that he could go for another five years or so. His best friend, who played TomJohn, has rather understandably dropped out.
As I said, weird rehearsal that ended on a sad note.
I rushed home, threw on a new t-shirt, and dived back out of the door to go to DocSoc, which, I think, was just what I needed rather than getting all morbid. It was brilliant. Loads of people turned up, and I spent a lot of time trying to write down who had paid and who was new and BUSY BUSY BUSY. With a few minutes to spare, Andrew and I ended up doing a sort of Q+A session. Who's been here before, who's a first year, who likes Sylvestor McCoy, who thinks Paul McGann in canon, who cares if Paul McGann is canon, etc. Then we tried the "Who's on a Doctor Who internet forum?" and I ended up finding LOADS of buggars from
new_who. Holy fuck, we're infiltrating everything, and apparently I am now quietly ruling large bits of fandom - I've declared my intention to run for President at the end of the year and now trying to persuade people that it's a Good Idea. The viewing itself was good fun - lots of heckling, cheers at The Greatest Line Ever ("No. Not the mind probe.") eating of the free biscuits which we promised and generally a really fun atmosphere.I like the committee, actually. We spent a lot of the meeting passing in-jokes around, mostly about me and Taryn being Girls, me having ginger hair and Iain being short. It was... nice, because I haven't really had a definite circle of friends outside of the house. Plus, Katie has now joined the committee (techincally she is the Magistrate, but the other term is The Secretary's Bitch, which works for me) and all was lovely.
Except getting home just before midnight, and today is a Busy Day. I've had five hours pretty much without a break - work from 7-9, tutorial at 9, lectures are 10 and 11. Fortunately the tutorial was just an introductory one and I spent the rest of it sitting in a cafe desperately eating a cookie and drinking tea in an attempt to stay awake and also to make Asser's 'Life of King Alfred' interesting. My modern history lecture was just... odd. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT GERMAN UNIFICATION. I HAVE NEVER CARED ABOUT GERMAN UNIFICATION. I WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT GERMAN UNIFICATION AND I DON'T KNOW WHY THE WORLD MAKES ME LEARN ABOUT IT IN TWO SEMESTERS.
Now I've got that out, I feel a bit better. Ahem.
I'm so tired now, though, and I have another trek into town to make for my 3pm lecture.
... yeah. Weird couple of days. Quite looking forward tomorrow where all I have to do is work and nothing else.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2006-09-28 02:31 pm (UTC)2) I wish my uni had societies and suchlike related to Doctor Who and Discworld (on subject of which, get the new book, Wintersmith! It's awesome)
3) Out of interest, do you post on Outpost Gallifrey?
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:39 pm (UTC)I would get Wintersmith, but I'm waiting for
Christmasthe paperback.And I can't be done with Outpost if I can help it.
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:39 pm (UTC)*thumbs down and sad face re: boy* That's terrible :(
I want a DocSoc to go to!
totally unrealated to your post
Date: 2006-09-28 06:05 pm (UTC)sorry it's taken so long, yahoo just decided to send me a months worth of LJnotifications :P
hope that helps, mum said she'd let me know if she comes across anything else useful in the office
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Date: 2006-09-28 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-29 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-29 02:26 pm (UTC)EVERYONE wants a DocSoc to go to. FORM ONE IN YOUR UNIVERSITY NEXT YEAR. DOOOOOOOOO IT!
Re: totally unrealated to your post
Date: 2006-09-29 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-29 02:30 pm (UTC)Honestly.
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Date: 2006-09-29 02:32 pm (UTC)I saw your opinion. It is all SO TRUE, but Eight is love, isn't he?
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Date: 2006-09-29 05:07 pm (UTC)Getting hard pressed to pick a favorite Doctor. It's generally Whichever One I've Seen Last.
Too bad I can't join as a foreign correspondent. Discrimination against non-St. Andrews non-students! :-P
Let me know in the coming weeks what sort of care package you'd like from the US...
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Date: 2006-10-04 11:46 am (UTC)(Care package would be exciting simply because I like getting post. Ahem. American stuff and food is ALWAYS AMAZING. In return, however, I will send you Torchwood when I get it - end of this month!