"Horrid, horrid [finals]!"*

A few months ago I auditioned for The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, a play being put on in my community, and won the role of Cecily.

I have to say, I adore this play! I am sure it has been said many times by many people but Oscar Wilde was a great writer. Everything said in the play either advances the plot or is finely crafted wit and satire. Having wikipedia-ed Oscar Wilde upon joining the cast there is one line that sticks out in particular to me.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes
painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very
attractive. (Gwendolen, Act 2, The Importance of Being Earnest)

Besides being a satircal comment on men and women in victorian times, it relates directly to Wilde himself. He was a very effiminant man, and I can't believe that this quote is a coincidance; it amuses me. :)

There are so many other very funny and clever lines, it is just a really amazing play and I can't wait to perform it. The cast definitly has a hand with the deliverance though, I feel so lucky to be on stage with such talented people.
And actually, I won't have to wait that long, we perform in two weeks. Not so lucky is that we are performing in two weeks. :O But I have confidance in us, and we shall work hard these next two weeks and it will all be worth it!

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* Actual quote, "Horrid politcal economy! horrid geography! horrid, horrid german!" (Cecily, Act 2, IoBE)

Restless

I have had some pretty epic dreams lately. There was the one were me and my friend Anna were escaping this evil house, and had to evade a religous cult who wanted to drug us to keep us quiet, avoid a pen of cheetahs, climb through this crazy mountainous valley (oxymoron yes, but In my dream it totally worked) and ended up being award a cure for a friend who was stil suffering in the evil house by these god-like people (think "the powers that be" from Angel).

Last nights dream was very Buffy-esque. There was this snake/lizard dragon thing that was trying to kill me (it had already succeded in killing someone before me) and so I was running aorund my neighbourhood trying to figure out how to defeat it and I met up with some guy who I beleive represented Xander (but i can't remember who it was, or if it was an imaginary person) then my Taekwondo instructer, who I think represented Giles (the training aspect) and my friend Anna was Willow because when we decided to just gather up the people from my DoJang to attack the dragon with swords I needed to call Anna to find out how to kill it (beheading, go for the eyes, ect). Sadly the morning mayhem woke me up before the conclusion to my dream.

I would love to know what these dreams mean (besides that I am maybe a little too obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer... but Spike wasn't in this dream, so thats new! Progress maybe?) but these are way to complicated to look up in any dream dictionary.

I shall have to search deep within myself to discover their true and deeper meaning.
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Ok, thats enough of that, I'll just let myself enjoy these dreams at face value.