Some Explicit Polaroids

SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS
ST JAMES CAVALIER

6 - 8, 13 - 15 OCTOBER 2006

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NOT a good week

Last week I experience the weirdest day of my life. I won't go into much detail as it hurts to type (explanation coming up...) Suffice to say that last Monday started off in a normal way. Went to the office (situated in my boss's house), said hello to his kids, played with the dog and started work. One and a half hours later, my boss's wife was trying to leave the house and the dog started growling at her and the youngest kid. I went between the dog (who, they had had for about 3 months - they had taken him in after he was abandoned on thier doorstep) and the kid and he turned and bit me on my hands. Hard. It was horrible, I was bleeding profusely from the left hand and promptly went into shock. But it still hurt like hell. I was accompanied inside to put a towel around my wounds. Two minutes later, the dog bit through his leash, ran across the road, got run over by a rubbosh truck and died on the spot.

Sounds like a bad dream, right? Or a really bad B film. It was just like a nightmare. The kids were crying, I was crying... it was the most awful thing ever. My boss got me to the polyclinic and I was given a tentanus booster and sutures on both hands. The right wasnt so bad, but the left... well, I won't go into details. Since then, I've gone back to the plyclinic twice to take some sutures off and have to go back at least one more time as one bite on my palm just wont heal. But the nurses assure me that i shouldn't scar.

The following Thursday, I had to read at the wedding of one of my very best friends. There I was in my new dress, shoes, bag - the works... and a lovely trendy white bandage on my left hand hehehe! Actually, I managed to hide it pretty well with my shawl so it wasn't that bad. The Pea suggested that I dye the bandage purple, but it is bad enough that I have to do everything with one hand, such as washing my hair and feeding the cats... I really couldn't be bothered!

To add to the 'bad week', I also didn't get into a theatrical production that I really wanted to do and am still a bit puzzled (as apparently is practically everyone else!) that I didn't get in. Oh well, just one of those things I guess!

On the positive side, rehearsals of the production I am currently in 'Some Explicit Polaroids' are going well. At least they will be when I learn my lines hehehe! I'm playing what for me is a really challenging role, and unlike anything that I've ever done before. I'm looking forward to it but am scared of it at the same time. Only two weeks to go...

Things to do in Summer when you're Alive

Title used with apologies to Scott Rosenberg!

Well, it's a been a while since I've put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard!) and updated my blog. My life seems to go on in 'waves' - there are some times when I can cope with the millions of things that are happening in my life plus I have time to do the other non-essential things such as write here or erm... have a home-made facial or watch a DVD. And there are times when there just isn't! And lately it's been very little of the former and a lot of the latter!

However, I did manage to do a few things that I had promised myself I would do this summer:

• Watch the first season of 'Lost'. I finally managed to find (hehehe - excuse the pun!) it at Exotique and spent every possible second of my free time watching it 2 weeks ago. Worth every minute. The best things about it - the pilot (not the one of the aeroplane - although this cameo role was played by Greg Grunberg - Agent Sean in Alias, who is brilliant - but the first episode); the genius of JJ Abrams, the executive producer who was also the creator of Alias; the fact that one of the writers/executive producers was David Fury of Buffy/Angel fame; the writing as a whole; the twists; and last but not least, the amazing dimples of one Josh Holloway who plays Sawyer - not my favourite character, that accolade belongs to Hurley, played by Jorge Garcia - but definately this year's winner of my award entitled 'Most Gorgeous Being on TV', vying with Gary Dourdan from CSI Las Vegas who comes a (very) close second and Madison the female labrador who plays Vincent the dog on 'Lost' and howls when Jorge Garcia sings, and who comes third.
• Went swimming... three times. A record for me.
• After scouring the whole island for a purple dress to go with my gorgeous Next purple shoes for a friend's upcoming morning wedding, I finally managed to find one I liked at a shop in Balzan (next door to Zmerc). Even thought the dress is technically a size larger, it still looks good and, more importantly, is the right colour - hurrah! They have some stunning evening stuff soI''m sure i'll be back.
• I also bought a dress for the MADC's Garrer Garrer (get-together) last Friday - it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening and I really had fun catching up with some friends that I hadn't seen for ages. I even danced, which is a very unusual occurance, so I must have been really enjoying myself!

That's it really... otherwise it was mainly work (writing, doing a voice-over and an advert coming soon to a TV near you (!), teaching Mini Stages, end of term at summer school last week and end of term at Stagecoach this week) and rehearsals for Some Explicit Polaroids by Unifaun which you can see at St James Cavalier in October (providing you're over 18 hehehe!) And of course, school starts soon which means lots of preperation and even more work! Oh well, at least I love my job!