Monday, October 13, 2008

No Test Tube Required...

Yesterday, I spent the day with Lucy at her ICA Lab which is excellently organised by Deva Palmier. It was an interesting day (spent without wearing white lab coats) and I was fascinated to hear other actors' understanding of the screenplay, characters and structure.  It was really a very enjoyable day and I for one would definitely consider taking a script there for a read-through in order to both develop and 'test the water'.  

It was lovely to catch up with Lucy as we haven't seen each other for such a long time - apparently last time was Adrian Mead's course - but it was also great to finally meet Nun with a Gun Elinor!  The fact we just "picked up from where we left off", knew each other's business like old mates and in Elinor's case - had never met - was probably a bit too much for a some peeps whose vision of "cyber geeks" was obviously something other than us lot.

All that fun aside, I'm glad to say I fully utilised The Kid-free tube travel time there and back by hammering at my Mac keyboard,  rejigging one of my Screen East subs and rewriting my biography. Again. 

Apart from a few tweaks here and there, I thought I was pretty much done on my Screen East submission - wrong. On Friday, I re-read one of the outlines I had written and decided it was total and utter cr*p.  In fact, I was so furious with my lame effort, not only did I hand shred the outline into teeny, tiny pieces whilst shouting loudly at it, I then deleted the whole damn file from Mac.  

So I started again, and it's much better this time - although I'm still not finished, but I am on my way.  

I am going to fill out the actual application form and print everything off this week, then I shall put into play my very own personal OCD (Obsessive Checking Disorder).  Very soon, I'll carry the package to the Post Office like a swaddled baby - wondering all the while if everything is included - and place it carefully into the woven, grey, plastic large letter/parcels bag. But not before Wednesday. No sireeeee, not in a zillion years.  

You see, Mercury moves forward again on Wednesday after being retrograde for ages. Wondering where those "lost in the post" things have gone?  Why THAT email hasn't been responded to? When THEY'LL call back?  I guarantee after Wednesday things will start moving again. And the stock markets too. Mark my words.* 

Ta-ra for now.
x


*The Don't Blame Me If I'm Wrong Waiver: 
The value of your investments can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you originally invested. Therefore, you should avoid investing more than you can afford to lose.



12 comments:

  1. lab sounds good. i'd have come along but i was at home, not in london.

    ooh, very brave DELETING a file! you must have been really sure it was a dud!

    x

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  2. I figured by deleting it - if there was anything worth rescuing from it, I would remember. There wasn't much. Lol.

    Thought you were up home otherwise I'd have said to Luce. I still have a slab of tablet for you, dear...

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  3. ooooooh, tablet S L U R R P.

    we have to meet soon :)

    x

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  4. Yeah, we do - I don't think tablet ever goes off does it? Too much sugar, surely?!?? x

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  5. dunno? depends if it's manufactured or in clingfilm like they sell in the pubs? i'm sure it will be fine AND I WANT IT NOOOWWWWWWWWWW

    x

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  6. Well, it's been in the fridge so I reckon it should be fine. My bit was...yum!

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  7. Well done on your replacement outline!

    Pray tell...tablet?

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  8. Hi Elinor! Thanks for also blaming me for yesterday...lol.

    Scottish tablet - a ludicrously sugary sweet. A lot of people refer to it as fudge because it looks a little like it, but it's not that soft, but also not hard like toffee.

    Crikey it's really hard to describe - just shedloads of sugar & condensed milk that is totally addictive!

    Here's a brilliant picture & info. In fact the picture is so true to life, Pots will be licking her screen. ;)

    http://www.aspoonfulofsugar.net/wp/2004/09/scottish-butter-tablet/

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  9. Tablet: Got introduced to it a couple of years ago on a trip north of the border. Imagine fudge that went wrong and crystalised. It's yummy.

    Oh and Lara I never dare delete a file. It's like paper bags and string. I have to shove it in a folder because it might be useful one day. Hence a computer full of garbage.

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  10. Rach - I was so furious at my primary school-level outline, I had to delete all evidence I had EVER written such total cack. It was too much to live with - even in the shady corners of my hard drive ;0)

    As for Tablet - not fudge that went wrong...fudge is tablet that went wrong! Then if it went really wrong, it's toffee... x

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  11. Ah ha. So my fudge making attempts weren't disasters. They were really brilliant Tablet.

    I shall cook it in batches and make my fortune! That'll show that laughing Home Economics teacher.

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  12. Absolutely, my dear! Or you could just cook it forever and sell vats of "Rach's Sticky Toffee"! x

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