It's Been a While...

Sorry for the long hiatus. School is definitely getting the better of me. Even as I write this I should be working on an essay that's due next week. But it's more or less about Aristotle and I kind of really hate him, so I'm putting off the work.
Oh well.
These past few weeks have been really fun.
Halloween I spent with some international friends at a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show at this wonderful cinema called the Prince Charles Cinema. It's fairly small, but it's absolutely wonderful.
The screening itself was excellent, of course. I've not been to one in years, so it was nice to return to it. One of the group was a Rocky Horror Virgin, so I was especially excited for her. I was disappointed that they didn't do a virgin sacrifice before the show (Google it if you're curious), but maybe that's not as common here? I don't know. Also curious was that all the call backs were done predominantly by Americans. I heard British people yelling every once in a while, but it was rare. The loudest yeller was this American guy in front of us. I was glad he was there for my friend's first time--Rocky Horror just isn't the same without the yelling.
For what it's worth, my mother asked me to show her pictures from the night and, while they do exist, I will not be posting them. Sorry to disappoint, but that's a bit beyond my comfort zone.
The past few weeks have mostly been a blur of homework, class, and rehearsal, honestly. This week was supposed to be reading week for all the students at my school, but as I technically go to two different schools and coordinating is beyond everyone at both of them, I am off from one school this week but still attending class at the other. The other happens to be where most of my classes are located, so while I didn't have two classes this week, I still had (or will have, since there are some today) the other five.
Not much of a break, frankly.
As a result, I've not done much at all this week, except on Wednesday.
Wednesday some of us on my course decided we were going to try ad get day tickets for this play by Jez Butterworth (an exellent playwright, highly recommend looking him up if you're unfamiliar) called Mojo.


It's a fairly star studded cast, so we figured we'd have to get there early. We spoke to the people at the box office and they suggested we arrive at 6am to be sure we got in.

So of course lo and behold we get there at 6am and there's no one else there. It's just the six of us waiting until about 7am when other people started trickling down.
Doors didn't open until 10am, so for four hours we sat outside in the cold, eating food and entertaining ourselves.


Look how much fun we were having.

It was worth it though, since we ended up having seats that were front row center!
The show was excellent. Even the weakest actor in the show was still great.
And Daniel Mays. Good lord Daniel Mays.
I went into the show expecting to be blown away by Ben Whishaw (RADA grad! HAAAIIII) because I'm a massive fan, but it was Daniel Mays who kept my attention. He is INCREDIBLE in this show. Seriously. Just absolutely stunning.

Overall it was a long day, but I got to spend it with some absolutely lovely folks and saw an incredible show for a very low price, totally worth it.