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Due to a slight miscommunication, I walked out of the shop looking like I just stepped out of the ’30s. Damn you, hairspray!

Top Tips are a new series for this blog: a collection of observations on life that I belive the world needs to know. As always, you are entitled to both my opinions and your opinions – however, if you ask me, these Top Tips are so blindingly obvious, if you don’t know them, you’re bloody pathetic.

Let’s use the infamous blog Stuff White People Like as a white-o-meter.

Putting an X next to everything I agree with… (oo, it automatically made a bulleted list)

In other news, I’ve got no social life outside of rehearsal. And we’re not even in Tech Week yet. Rather looking forward to it, actually.
-L

ANYWAY.

Happy Winter Break, to all who have one…and to all who don’t, well, piss off and bitch somewhere else.

Don’t know what I’ll do with it yet. Planning is ridiculously over-rated.

This weekend’s looking really nice, though. Today – set construction:

1. Put handles or eyehooks on…basically everything that moves
2. Built a throne out of an armchair from IKEA
3. Started building a ground-row to hide the lights hiding the cyc.
4. In the process of accomplishing #3, the circular saw started acting weirdly.
5. Nobody could fix it.
6. As a result of #5, we sent everyone home and bought a new circular saw.

Tomorrow: no rehearsal. Thank god for that — apparently there’s some cheerleading competition, and the place will be swarming with cheerleaders tomorrow. Lucky break, by my standards.

-L

I hate Mondays. Hate hate hate hate hate.

Monday morning, waking up, it has to be one of the worst feelings in the world. Weekends, even with rehearsal, I can wake up and feel like I’ve slept enough.

Nothing like the sinking feeling of staring at the clock on the ceiling and realising that it’s 6 AM, and you’re about to waste another day of your life.

That being said, today didn’t go too badly. Half asleep for most of it. Rehearsal – the new set pieces seem to work well. Orchestra – boring as usual.

Sometimes I feel like the weeks start to run together far too much.

Construction went well, though. The smaller platforms are nearly complete, the fence is up, and the trapdoor platform is framed out.

Went to the mall later with Molly, Laura, and Mia… Providence Place is so full of weird people. kind of ridiculous. I bought:

• Tonight: Franz Ferdinand – the new album..on vinyl!
• a Led Zeppelin greatest hits collection
• Ágætis Byrjun, my favourite CD from Icelandic band Sigur Rós
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• The Beatles – the biography by…someone. can’t remember who.
• A new journal
• Chinese food

All in all, a good weekend so far.

In other news, being sick is still boring.
Nearly as boring as not being sick, but still being at home.

Rehearsal all weekend. What fun. A late rehearsal on Friday too, bringing back memories of 42nd street: hastily consumed takeaway meals in the spine.

6:00 AM

2 Tylenol
1 Vitamin C supplement
1 Mucinex tablet
Felt like crap.
Took a nap.

12:00 Noon

2 Tylenol
1 Mucinex tablet
Still felt like crap.

4:00 PM

2 Tylenol
1 Mucinex
1 granola bar
Still felt like crap.

9:00 PM

1 cup of Darjeeling tea
Feeling fantastic.

Take that, pharmecutical companies! India’s worked out a long time ago.