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  1. Back online already

    A BT engineer mysteriously appeared only hours after I complained about how it would take them a week to come round.

  2. If you see Sid, tell him the future’s broken

    Our phone line’s gone but it’s going to take BT a week to get round to fixing it. This is the future!?

  3. UK gig ticket alert service wanted

    I want a service that emails me when a band I like are playing near me.

  4. The Method Studio Intensive Summer School, part 3

    The course is over. A busy week of practicing our scenes but I think I maybe, just about, cracked it.

  5. The Method Studio Intensive Summer School, part 2

    Half-way through the course and it’s been a mixture of mini emotional crises and a lot of fun.

  6. The Method Studio Intensive Summer School

    I’m three days into a two week acting course, and it’s proving hard work.

  7. I got in

    I’ve been accepted for the City Lit’s one-day-a-week, one-year drama foundation course, although not the day I hoped for.

  8. Slimming for August

    I’m going to unsub from one RSS feed a day for the month of August.

  9. My first audition

    Last week I had my first audition, for a place on the City Lit acting foundation course.

  10. Moving photos

    I’ve moved all 500 or so of my old photos that were on my personal site over to Flickr. A laborious process.

  11. Technical Voice Production

    I need to make my voice stronger for performing, but something didn’t quite click for with this class, and I still need to work on it.

  12. Ways Into Text

    I’ve been spending my Saturday afternoons doing this class for the past six months, and it’s been surprisingly emotional.

  13. I’m OK too

    I’m OK. You OK?

  14. Acting through improvisation

    Last term I did a fun improvisation class.

  15. Working on evnt

    I did some IA/design work on evnt a while back and it became visible a month ago. I’m a bit behind.

  16. Nice chart of my MP3s over time

    I did a chart of what years my MP3s originate from.

  17. Royal Society of Chemistry’s new website

    I built the templates for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s new website, which recently launched.

  18. ‘An Actor Prepares’ by Constantin Stanislavski

    Because I’m usually immersed in web stuff, it’s interesting to read a text whose ideas…

  19. The endless musical relay race

    Dan Hill passed the musical baton on to me, an excuse to waffle about music I like. How could I refuse.

  20. Introduction to acting

    I really enjoyed some of the Introduction to Acting classes I did last year. But some of it was excruciatingly difficult.

  21. The cast

    I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the kinds of people in my acting classes - no overly-excitable, precious wannabes, desperate to become famous.

  22. Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stanton

    I scanned a couple of biographies of Federico Garcia Lorca to look for information about Blood…

  23. Classic travel

    Paul Theroux on why he travels, and Levi-Strauss’s definition of “mana”.

  24. Europa and Hackensack

    The sadness of two “boy loses childhood girlfriend who then becomes famous and successful” songs.

  25. Royal Mail spam

    I like the Royal Mail a little bit less every time it shoves its junk mail through our letter box.