Yubsie's Yammerings

So, kinda sick of saying "Hi, I saw out front that you're hiring?" :p I went to the mall and applied at a bunch of stores. Including a kids' clothes store, which led to a lot of jokes about "Ooh, and you can wear the clothes!" from my family. Loving family I have. :p

This was AFTER the madness that is Free Comic Book Day. Or as I like to call it "Evil sale day" :p I was MOSTLY good! I bought the first volume of the FMA manga, volume two of Books of Magic and volume four of Lucifer. None for full price? Yeah, I need a job. :p

I also ran into seryan, which is always exciting and random. :p

This evening we went to see The Choir of Misfits, an amusing musical put on by a new community theatre group. I got to gawk at all the shiny things they've done to the high school theatre since I left. :p

I've decided that McDonald's is like dwarf bread. There's always going back to McDonald's! Just like there's ALWAYS the dwarf bread. :p

So, Floralie was absolutely fantastic. The plot even made sense, which is a big change from a lot of Tintamar productions. It's about a woman who left her tiny village for the big city and is now going back to do a live special. It features cynical people in the village and naive people from the big city, which confused the chorus!

The chorus was one of my favourite parts of the play, as a longtime chorus member myself. THey start out by demonstrating that they DO in fact have distinct personalities (because the chorus always DOES have an assortment of characters with elaborate lives). I'm biased, since Sam is like a little sister to me, but my favourite chorus member was definitely Frivole, the chorus girl who kept trying to get too many lines. She also kept acquiring every exciting costume piece that got discarded with glee. :p The part that amused me the most about Frivole is the way she shouted "GO CHORUS!" after mass lines. :p

The entire cast is very animated. Which is important, because more than half the show is in French. Ryan still managed to follow what was going on even though he's unilingual. A lot of people who do know French find the switching confusing, but I'm from New Brunswick. I speak English and French, frequently at the same time. :p

So yeah, I definitely recommend all you Sackville people try to get to this show. I know I only really talked about Frivole, but the whole cast is fantastic.

Other than the play, I've been studying for my midterm tomorrow. I did most of the old midterm, but then I, uh, got bored with one of the questions. Still, nothing I can't handle. Assuming I use the key words he wants to hear for the theory questions, I should be fine.

Cabaret was FANTASTIC. Dark and disturbing, but really fantastic. The ending was really effectively staged. And there was a Tess ship, with all the cuteness and doom that entails. POor Snippy didn't know going in that it was set during the rise of the Nazi party, so she was all distraught. :p

Oh, and excitingly, I understood most of the German announcements in the train scenes. Because one of the things I can very much do in German is talk about trains! :p

Just getting to the show was a saga in itself though. Vicki and I were supposed to meet at the theatre. I assumed that she was bringing both tickets, since I didn't know where they were. Except, she didn't know I didn't know, so she left my ticket on the fridge when she left so I wouldn't freak out about trying to find the tickets. The end result was me RUNNING home and back to get the ticket so I could actually, y'know, get in. :p

I am so HILARIOUSLY sleep deprived right now. Last night, we went over to nukichan's to watch Escaflowne. In its ENTIRETY. We finished around 6:30 AM, so by the time I got home, I had been up for 24 hours. Well, more or less. I half napped during some of the episodes. I think I'll have to re-watch the last episode, because my powers of wakefulness were less than 1337 by then. Still, it was crazy mad fun! We should totally do it again sometime. Though starting earlier or watching a shorter series. :p

Much love for teh Escaflowne.

Before that, we went to see the multilingual presentation of Antony and Cleopatra. It was a spiffy little production. And now I finally understand why we kept hearing people singing Barrett's Privateers. :p