magictreehouse | No Business Like Show Business

Busy busy busy. Tuesday night was opening night for ‘Blithe Spirit’, the play that I’m doing lights, sound and curtain for at Skipton Little Theatre. It was by no means perfect. I even managed to cut a page of script out by starting the music too soon causing all of the actors to look nervously at one another before figuring out where to go from. Excellent. Me and Tom (other guy who’s helping with lighting and stuff) also got a telling off by one of the Nazi theatre members who was helping with props. Everyone had left the stage so we put the curtain up only for Anne to come up to the bridge (ffs) and tell us that she ‘hadn’t had time’ to take the plate of food off-stage. Fuck off bitch. Honestly, I *hate* her. She doesn’t even know me so she has no right to tell me off at all, whether I’d done something wrong or not. She seems to forget that we’re all volunteers who have put a damn sight more time into this than she has. Grrr. Danielle tells me that she used to be a teacher and hit the children. I’m not surprised. Still, it went ok and we celebrated backstage afterwards which was nice. Yesterday however, it was spot-on. The audience were great, really into the humour and stuff and everyone was perfect. She I felt really good after it. I really hope it’s as good tonight because James and his Mum are coming to see it.

Apart from that, I’ve just been at work I guess. Once the play is out of the way then I’ll actually have some time to do other stuff. Honestly, I have no free time at the moment. I go to work, come home for half an hour, do the play, come home and go to bed. So I’m feeling a little guilty for neglecting James. Not long to go though. As for work, well OfSTED re-inspection is next week so we’ve been having a mad time of it trying to get all the documents together. Unfortunately, it’s mostly a waiting game until people send stuff through so me and Sarah have been in the Base Room sticking posters up and organising stuff, while listening to Kylie! It’s not often you get paid for listening to Kylie is it?

Birthday is imminent and OfSTED may have killed any fun I will be having on the actual day but me and James have booked a trip for London the week after, pretty much like last year. We’re even staying in the same hotel. However, this year we’re just going to take it easy rather than rush round and do *everything*. I’m really excited about going to the zoo again. I hope there will be ducklings in the tapir moat again! Plus there’s a new gorilla exhibit and the hilarious otters too! And I really want to properly do the V+A (and also look at Kylie’s pants!). We’ve got tickets to go and see Avenue Q as a present for my birthday and we’ll probably see something that James wants to too because I don’t know what to get him for his birthday otherwise. So yes, that’s to look forward too.

On a different note, there seems to be an awful lot of stuff about bullying about lately. Just in people’s interviews and things like that. I’ve just read an interview with Mika actually. When stated to him that, ‘If you think about it I’ll still despise those people for the way they treated me and I’ll never forgive them and it’s true! You really never get over it and it really irritates me that schools have such a lack of understanding about the whole thing.