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pedanther1. We've entered the final week of rehearsals for The Duchess of Coolgardie. We still haven't had a full run-through without anything going wrong, or a full run-through with all of the sound and lighting cues in, but on the whole I think it's coming together quite well.
2. Once Duchess is over it will be time to start rehearsals for the annual Christmas show, which I've already been talked into signing on for. I will be playing a stuffy British colonel leading an expedition into Darkest Africa, which means the moustache is probably going to be sticking around a while longer. (Though I've been toying with the idea of shaving this moustache off and growing another one, as a symbolic point of distinction between the two characters.)
3. Another Toastmasters event I had to miss because of Duchess rehearsals was the area final of the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests. That was a milestone because the areas have recently been rearranged due to the new clubs starting here. It used to be that we were the only club within a 500km radius, and shared our "area" with three clubs in another city 600km away, which meant a long commute for the area final more years than not. Now we're in an area consisting of three local clubs and one distant club, and the situation is reversed.
4. Here's one reason I don't enjoy clothing shopping: last time I did it, I tried on a dozen items of clothing to find one pair of trousers that fit. (And a few more things that I bought anyway, even though they didn't quite fit, so that I could feel like I'd accomplished something, and now will have to suffer through wearing.) And I'm often unsure, when something doesn't quite fit, whether it's slightly too big, or slightly too small, or just plain the wrong shape for me. Maybe I'd be able to get the hang of it with practice. But it's difficult getting the practice when I don't enjoy clothing shopping.
5. Marvel Comics recently announced that it will soon be publishing an ongoing comic headlined by Squirrel Girl, one of their lesser-known characters who's most famous as the subject of a running joke about how she keeps running up against villains who theoretically outmatch her and emerging victorious. My favourite reaction to the news was from someone on Tumblr who pointed out that there's no reason to doubt the viability of an ongoing series about a character in a funny-looking rodent outfit who can defeat every opponent no matter how powerful... since it's worked pretty well for Batman so far.
2. Once Duchess is over it will be time to start rehearsals for the annual Christmas show, which I've already been talked into signing on for. I will be playing a stuffy British colonel leading an expedition into Darkest Africa, which means the moustache is probably going to be sticking around a while longer. (Though I've been toying with the idea of shaving this moustache off and growing another one, as a symbolic point of distinction between the two characters.)
3. Another Toastmasters event I had to miss because of Duchess rehearsals was the area final of the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests. That was a milestone because the areas have recently been rearranged due to the new clubs starting here. It used to be that we were the only club within a 500km radius, and shared our "area" with three clubs in another city 600km away, which meant a long commute for the area final more years than not. Now we're in an area consisting of three local clubs and one distant club, and the situation is reversed.
4. Here's one reason I don't enjoy clothing shopping: last time I did it, I tried on a dozen items of clothing to find one pair of trousers that fit. (And a few more things that I bought anyway, even though they didn't quite fit, so that I could feel like I'd accomplished something, and now will have to suffer through wearing.) And I'm often unsure, when something doesn't quite fit, whether it's slightly too big, or slightly too small, or just plain the wrong shape for me. Maybe I'd be able to get the hang of it with practice. But it's difficult getting the practice when I don't enjoy clothing shopping.
5. Marvel Comics recently announced that it will soon be publishing an ongoing comic headlined by Squirrel Girl, one of their lesser-known characters who's most famous as the subject of a running joke about how she keeps running up against villains who theoretically outmatch her and emerging victorious. My favourite reaction to the news was from someone on Tumblr who pointed out that there's no reason to doubt the viability of an ongoing series about a character in a funny-looking rodent outfit who can defeat every opponent no matter how powerful... since it's worked pretty well for Batman so far.
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