With my freeze-ray I will stop the world...

Song: "Freeze-Ray" from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog

March 1st

I had really planned to go to the beach today, but it was a giant inner debate. Maybe the title song should have been "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by The Clash.

Anyway, I was so excited by Nicole figuring out Skype (yay!) that I kind of missed the group exodus from my house to the train to the beach. Yay also for tough decisions being made for me!

After talking, sort of, with Nicole for a bit and catching up on details from my Maryland life that I've been missing out on, I got down to business. When I say got down to business, I mean that I started procrastinating working on my lab report that was due the next day.

The first thing I did after finding out I wasn't going to the beach was go back to sleep. I swear, another weekend I will do more interesting things. Then when I got up, I realized I hadn't yet missed the audition times for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog for the Macquarie Musical Society. So I watched said show on YouTube all the way through again, and reviewed a few songs to audition on until I was ready, or at least ready enough.

Note: you can watch the musical/internet phenomenon on here on Hulu (U.S. only) or YouTube there and elsewhere around the world, at least I believe. Make sure you watch all 6 parts on YouTube. For those of you who are fans of the show and also musicians who like sheet music (like me), you can find that here.

Anyway, I found the audition room, and while sitting outside, my friend John came out of the audition room. Running into people unexpectedly is always fun. I practiced in the hall with a very nice girl who swore repeatedly that I was going to get the part. This made me smile and laugh a little on the inside. She was a little down on herself because she wasn't solid on the song, but I'm not sure why. She sounded just fine to me. I hadn't auditioned for a musical since senior year of high school, so it had definitely been awhile. Luckily, this is not a musical with dancing. I sang the songs the best I could, read lines in the only way I know how, and had a generally great time avoiding that lab report. The director, producer and keyboardist were a lot of fun and I felt strangely comfortable auditioning in front of them.

I went back to the village with another girl who had auditioned who was originally from China. She was really nice and there's a decent chance I've met her before, but I still don't know her name. It's terrible really.

I got back to the apartment, worked on the dreaded lab report for a bit, and then got a call from Tara to see if I wanted to grab some free food from the administration building. I happily agreed to tag along. We got our free sausage, and Tara also grabbed a veggie burger. (I'm sure I mentioned this, but I still can't get over the actual vegetables in the patty. Like, there are whole peas and slices of carrot.) I told Tara I was running out of orange juice and that I was thinking about going to the store. Luckily, when we got a hold of Maeve, she told us the nearby store was closing in 5 minutes. We ran across the street (safely and looking both ways...) and dashed in to grab some last minute groceries. We met up with Maeve and another section of the beach crew, who all felt really bad about accidentally leaving me behind when they left for the beach. I tried to assure them that everything worked out for the best, but they still felt terrible.

Anyway, I didn't have much time to care because I was too busy fretting over this lab report. I eventually finished, working until too late in the evening. I slept for a few hours before waking up early to finish it, but I'll tell you all about it in tomorrow's entry.