Long time no update..

Gosh, ain't it just been too long! I guess my prehensity to blog is like my moods - they come and go. I really should blog more.

So what can I tell you? Well, I went overseas and came back. That was an experience. Taking my boyfriend to places I know and love was great fun. Highlight was hiring a car and driving through some of the most bleak landscape I'd ever seen: Northern Scotland in the winter. Brrr. Horrible. But so horrible, and so different, that it was amazingly beautiful. I'll attempt to post some pictures at some stage :)

Rehearsals for 42nd Street are going really well. We're ahead of the schedule, which is rare, especially for such a full-on show like this. We open in ten days, and we're already running the show. We just have to weave in the costumes, lighting and scene changes and we're done. I'll be nervous as hell on opening night - I'm still faking some of the tap steps. Will have to take some time every day at home to get them right - dancers in the audience will know I'm faking and I don't want that :)

The cast is fun - having arrived halfway through rehearsals the cast had already bonded, and I was like a spanner in the works. I was already quite comfortable with a large number of people, and I think I shocked a few people with *just* how comfortable and relaxed I was. Guess I shouldn't have told some of those dirty jokes. But it's all good, and we're a pretty close bunch of people. Great people, too, I really feel at home with them. It's been 6 years since I was onstage, so it's lovely to be back around theatre people so much. I missed it. It's a whole different level of interaction - there is no pretence, no walls - just raw emotions and open minds. It's great.

Flirting is fun, too. There's a gorgeous guy in the cast who has taken to flirting back, which is always a bonus. I was flashing some flesh across the stage from one wing to another (as you do) to a girl, but this guy though I was aiming for him. It was just my nipple, don't worry dear readers. But he responded by lifting his shirt and rippling his stomach for me. Yum. Such a sweetie to flirt back :)

One of the other leads has relaxed a bit too - I think he felt a little threatened at first, but we've quite warmed to each other, and the joking is a lot of fun. There's a bit in the show where he falls on the ground, and invariably his t-shirt rises and I get to see the top of his underwear. He's supposed to be "dead" but my comments about his underwear always gets him laughing. Now he's taken to picking it out especially for me. "Calvins tomorrow night ok with you Marcus?". Such a sweetie.

So yeah - I'm right back in the debauchery that is musical theatre. I'm like a pig in the mud.. *grin*

Work wise things are good - I'm back at a contract 3 days a week, which is a lovely pace to be working at. I've also had some luck in other business areas - a friend and I have a contract to supply some software to a couple of business in a state-wide franchise. If we're lucky, we'll eventually get all of the franchises in the state, which will be *very* nice. So nice that I'll be able to make that my only source of income and work, giving me time to expand on it and hopefully sell it interstate, and maybe even overseas. But that's in the future - we have to write it first!

Which leads me to other news. I've always wanted to go to uni to study stuff for fun, but what has stopped me is my love of money, and the lifestyle to which I've become accustomed. I don't want to be a poor uni student. With decent franchise contracts signed, I'll get a guaranteed income over the next two years without lifting a finger beyond the initial work on the software. Which means should I want to go to uni, I don't *have* to be that poor uni student. So, all things going well, I'm going to apply for university next year. I've already decided on a double degree of International Studies and Media. So I can do my film and television production, screenwriting, all that sort of fun stuff. And I can also debate/learn international politics and policies and all that stuff, which I find more and more fascinating. The International Studies degree also involves a year of abroad study (optional, but highly recommended) meaning I'll get to go back OS and keep studying, which would be *fabulous*. So yeah, I'm really looking forward to the prospect of working on the business only a few hours a week, and immersing myself in studies which I'll find to be fascinating. I hope.. hehe

Oh - I also wrote a letter to a politician here in my electorate. I decided enough was enough and I wanted my say. I also wanted to test the governmental process - just how much can one person actually affect anything. Can one person make a difference? Or will I just get a "thanks for your letter, we'll consider it" standard reply? No idea, I look forward to the responses. I copied the letter to two other senators (in different parties) so it'll be interesting to see the responses, if any.

Well, that's enough of an update from me :) I'll try to be good and get back more often. But ciao for now! :)