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Sep. 30th, 2010 09:55 pmI didn't mention it when it happened, but the final performance of Cabaret has been and gone.
Gone, too, is the beard -- I decided I needed an appropriate ceremony to mark the end of the production, so when I changed out of my costume for the last time, I shaved the beard off. Reactions were mixed: some people took a few minutes to notice the beard was gone, and some people took a few minutes to figure out who this beardless stranger was that was suddenly about the place. (I don't blame them. There were times, for the next few days, when I looked in the mirror and wasn't sure I recognised me.)
I got to keep the coat, though.
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Another thing that's been and gone without me mentioning it is the first half of the annual Toastmasters speech contest. That is, as you may recall, the Table Topic (1-2 minute extempore speech on a given topic) and the Humorous Speech (5-7 minutes, prepared in advance) competitions.
As always, I entered the Table Topic competition, on the grounds that the only way to get better at extempore speaking is to keep trying. I came second out of a field of two, but the important thing is that I bettered my own performance from last year. I had to keep padding the first half of the speech until I could think of something to say for the second half, but I did actually manage it, unlike last year, when the second half of the speech didn't come to me until five minutes after I sat down.
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Coincidentally, this post makes an interesting matching set with the last "Things I forgot to mention when they happened" post I did.
Gone, too, is the beard -- I decided I needed an appropriate ceremony to mark the end of the production, so when I changed out of my costume for the last time, I shaved the beard off. Reactions were mixed: some people took a few minutes to notice the beard was gone, and some people took a few minutes to figure out who this beardless stranger was that was suddenly about the place. (I don't blame them. There were times, for the next few days, when I looked in the mirror and wasn't sure I recognised me.)
I got to keep the coat, though.
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Another thing that's been and gone without me mentioning it is the first half of the annual Toastmasters speech contest. That is, as you may recall, the Table Topic (1-2 minute extempore speech on a given topic) and the Humorous Speech (5-7 minutes, prepared in advance) competitions.
As always, I entered the Table Topic competition, on the grounds that the only way to get better at extempore speaking is to keep trying. I came second out of a field of two, but the important thing is that I bettered my own performance from last year. I had to keep padding the first half of the speech until I could think of something to say for the second half, but I did actually manage it, unlike last year, when the second half of the speech didn't come to me until five minutes after I sat down.
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Coincidentally, this post makes an interesting matching set with the last "Things I forgot to mention when they happened" post I did.
