Stark Raven madness

Ohhhh, so much to tell you, my precious blog!

I've been asked to perform at Gala again! Yay! Hopefully Dulce Et Decorum Est. I was gonna do Young Entertainers but changed my mind at the last minute because I was stressed out and unprepared. That's what you get for writing it the night before it's supposed to be on. It'll be a good skit once I learn it properly. Maybe I'll get a chance to do it another time. It's about repetition. It's about repetition. Anyway, they rang me about Gala on Friday night. It's on next weekend. The night before the Festival. Great. Another busy weekend. Such is the actor's life.

On Tuesday, on the way into my BRECCY meeting, I ran into the lovely Lee McLachlan, who asked me if I'd be able to perform a monologue at Stark Raven's 10th birthday party on Saturday night. Of course, I said yes! I picked up the monologue on Wednesday and learnt it over the next few days, and pulled it off really well on Saturday night. I had such a great time! So many theatre people were there and everyone was talking theatre! It was so nice to catch up with everyone and even meet some new people. Andy came down for it, and we had a good chat. He was really encouraging about getting youth theatre going down here, and said to get in touch with him if I wanted to run ideas past him or needed help with getting it going in terms of funding etc. It's awesome to have his support.

On Friday night, the night before the party, I had a rehearsal with Lee, but I'd had a long day, wasn't quite ready, and had just pulled out of the Eisteddfod, so I wasn't feeling too well. I had a panic attack for the first time in ages. I felt this enormous (irrational) sensation of absolute dread, and ended up coming off after doing only the last line of my scene and collapsing in a fast-breathing huddle, fumbling through my bag for my rescue remedy. Thankfully, my understanding friend Dave was there to rescue me, and he took me for a walk and helped me clear my head, then he suggested ice cream, so we had a sundae and all was well.

Right now I'm just very busy. How I have time to write this, I don't know! Probably because I'm procrastinating!

I know meter. Trochaic, Dactylic, Iambic, Anapaestic!

And I know what a split infinitive is. It's time "to happily leave" this blog.