Burnout
April 1, 2011 |
12 comments
I did my second show. Put a lot of effort in.
It was quite good. Exhausted. Parenting/performing double is quite hard to sustain. So I’m stopping the blog. Not really. Haha!
APRIL FOOL!!!! Or is that only before noon? Anyway. I’ll blog
properly tomorrow. Hope you are having an amusing and prank-filled April 1st.
Posted by Rachael on April 5, 2011
I forgot all about april fools! I must have missed all the pranks and amusement and now I will have to wait another year..sigh.
Posted by Andrew on April 4, 2011
Was very disappointed at the Newcastle lass who I had the misfortune of sitting next to. They really, really, really detracted from the show. In hindsight a no, or boo may have done the job, but I suspect not.
She also had the most ungeordie like accent I’ve ever heard.
I know you’vebeen doing the show a while (I saw you workshopping it at trades hall 2 years ago!), but I think the start of the show wasn’t telegraphed to those at the bar outside, which meant you ended up with 30+ late comers, rather then a few? Perhaps an ennouncement may be more appropriate at the forum with it’s weird long corridor betweent he bar/waitign area and theatre?
Posted by Helen on April 3, 2011
No problem Lydia, I shall talk to her soon and get back to you x
Posted by Lydia on April 2, 2011
Thank you [:
I’m glad Norwich is nice. I’ve never actually been there, so I’m going to try and get there some time soon. My lack of preparation for all this uni stuff is kind of terrible. I have no idea what to do with the money side of things.
Thanks, Helen, that would be really good.
I am definitely less embarrassed by my over excitement now, lol.
Posted by Amy B on April 2, 2011
More than quite good- it was excellent, despite interruptions from Newcastle lady and incessant hooting man.
Nice to see you afterwards, even if I did, as usual, make a bit of a tit of myself. I feel I should clarify that I haven’t ruined all of your books for my friend. I sort of ruined Eleven, because I told her about how you’d ruined Eleven before either of us had read it, and she tried to guess the ending of Bullet Points and I’m terrible at lying, so she sort of knew part of it but not really. So yes, not sure why I even mentioned it. Shouldn’t have. Silly really.
I hope you got the pen back from Drewy. I won’t be even remotely offended if you want to give/throw away all the pens due to already having far too many and not being quite as big a fan of novelty pens as I am. But not to Drewy. Perhaps unfair, but I’m standing by it.
Anyway, have a nice rest of the festival, and be careful not to give Misha a heart attack. My best friend texted me to say she’d broken her finger, which I think, considering I’m on the other side of the world, doesn’t really count as an April fool. More just a way to make me needlessly worried about her. Fortunately, yours made me less concerned because I spotted the big capitalised April fools before I even read the other bit. Phew!
@Lydia: Well done! And try not to get yourself too worried about not getting the grades you need. They’ve given you the offer because they think you will. And if you’re already getting all As it sounds like you’ve got nothing to worry about
Good luck! And I hope you like UEA when you get there- I live in Norwich. It’s a very nice city!
Posted by Helen on April 2, 2011
I am happy to hear your show went well and hope you are feeling less tired soon.
Lydia:
Congrats on getting an offer! If it helps at all, a friend of a friend does Creative Writing/English at East Anglia so if you want to ask anything or whatever I can either ask her for you or possibly give you her email address so you can email her? I know uni gives you lots of info anyway…but if you do want to talk to someone who does it then hopefully I shall be able to help you out in some way.
Posted by Lydia on April 1, 2011
I’m glad your show went well. I hope you are now sleeping.
Now I am going to say something unrelated but kind of related because it’s sort of TYSICish (by which I mean it is majorly).
As part of my uni application to East Anglia they asked me to send them samples of my creative writing (I want to do an English lit/creative writing degree). The thought of allowing anyone to read anything that I have written has scared the crap out of me forever. I never do it, basically. But, obviously, when they e mailed me asking to see samples I had to.
.. And I got in. Which is insane. Insane and, like, the most amazing thing ever.
Although I have to get all As which is another scary thing. I might be able to because I have so far, but I still think I am going to fail everything, because that is how my brain works.
Posted by Anji on April 1, 2011
Actually it’s been a pretty prankless day – one of ‘those’ days but no pranks. Think I’m quite glad!
Posted by Anji on April 1, 2011
Actually it’s been a pretty prankless day – one of ‘those’ days but no pranks. Think I’m quite glad!
Posted by Tracey on April 1, 2011
Hi Mark. To go back to your previous blog regarding the Black Eyed Peas, I don’t like them, my daughter does – which I think is how a lot of parents may feel. I agree with Noel Fielding who, while having to do the intro’ to one of their songs on Never Mind the Buzzcocks said “Music like this makes me want to kill myself.” That’s pretty much it for me. I think, as a group they’re quite up themselves and they don’t produce anything remotely special. Take care, Tracey x
Posted by hornseygirl on April 1, 2011
Classic!
Being in Oz, you may well have heard about the Ikea Australia dog high chair April Fool…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPIszdcCcc
Keep up the double act.
Best wishes from N8.
Posted by Misha on April 1, 2011
Jesus fuck Watson. I nearly had a heart attack there until I read the words April Fool.
I could kill you if only you weren’t out the country.
I mean, not really, but still.