So, how did it go?

Ooooh I bet all my readers are wondering how my audition at salford went (all four of you.)

Well, I made sure to ask before I left, and they told me I'd made a very good impression, and they would be happy to offer me a position on the course... well, you'd think that would be it wouldn't you? you'd think, 'wehey roll on september!', but there's a catch

I applied for two courses, BA Performing Arts and BA Contemporary Theatre Practice thinking well, if I can't get Performing arts, which is what I want, Ill take the other and then switch (as quite a few people have advised me to do) and guess what, I got an audition!.. for the wrong one. So I did an audition based on something I know very little about, and she was impressed mainly by my writing (a little less by my acting, she could probably tell I've never performed my piece before) and said she was willing to offer me a place on her course, but thought I might be unsuitable for performing arts based on the piece that I did.

So I explained to her, I only performed a contemporary non-naturalistic piece because that was the audition I got, if I'd have god the interview I wanted for Performing Arts I would have revised for a different audition which I would probably have been better at. Well she accepted that, and said she would have a word with the course leader for BAPA (BA Performing Arts) and see what happens, she said its possible they will offer me both positions and let me decided for myself (to which I reply 'gee, thanks' in my head) but was polite as possible in making it clear that Id much rather enter uni on a less sophisticated course, considering I haven't studied theatre or drama before (in an educational sense) so now its a case of waiting, and seeing what will happen, we did discuss other things but I think she's more concerned with the numbers on her course and the administration involved in transferring students than she is for what I actually want from Uni, so lets just wait and see.

In other news my Uni lecturer for Psychology at bolton sent me the link for a rather interesting article, I have my opinions on this rubbish but you can make up your own mind...

Are times a-changin'?

Ok so, with life the way its been I'm getting a little frizzled with my schedule, but I do enjoy updating the web site with articles, blogs and pictures, so I've decided to make things a little simpler for me, that's right, I'm looking into wordpress.

I know I know, everyone's going the direction of wordpress at the moment but there's a reason for that... its very convenient for today's blogger on the go! I can keep the sites style quite well and will only be making the main page into a wordpress blog, everything else will stay the same, I might not even be able to do it with my current hosting package so it may not happen, but we'll see.

In other news, holy shit I have an audition at salford! There was me moaning about not receiving a reply when I actually get one and now I'm terrified it'll all go wrong, I know its too easy to fall into a self-doubt cycle but I just feel so under-prepared for this one. I've been asked to prepare a contemporary non-naturalistic piece, then attend an interview, then hand them a written critique of a recent live performance I've seen, and after wikipedia-ing the words 'contemporary' and 'non-naturalistic' I'm still none the wiser. My plan at the moment is 'A day in the life of a Lancashire terrier', from what I've heard, non-naturalistic means non-human perspective, or something, so there you have it, me = screwed.

I hope its not the audition that stops me getting in, Id hate that, all this year would have been wasted in one afternoon if I fail that audition... here's hopin'!

Faster than a speeding update.

Ok I'm going to try and make this brief because if I was to start the story from the beginning, I'd run out of web space. My parents finally got the right to foster my nephew Jay, but due to a shit up in administration, I have had to move out while he is here. This isn't a permanent thing I am told, it is only until me police check is processed (which I am also told is being put through as an 'emergency' which will hopefully make it quicker.

Why such a rushed update you ask? I'll tell you: I am pretty much lodging at my brothers, coming back home during the day to do work which needs doing on the computer, but my brother and sister-in-law have their own child to worry about, let alone my brothers odd work patterns so I'm trying not to disrupt things with them too much, as its jolly decent that they are letting me stay regardless. Add all this commotion to the fact that I have three deadlines next week, a report, a work-sheet and a case study, two of which I haven't even thought about since I was assigned the work, having already done a group presentation and a seminar earlier this week, add to that the rehearsal and script studying I haven't had time for, for the upcoming play with ByoU, I'm feeling particularly guilty about that considering I really do enjoy it, and feel I'm letting all the others down (though I haven't really been feeling over-confident as some of the cast members levels of commitment, they might be in the same boat as me, so I'm not going to judge.)

All of this none sense when just a year ago my time was spent on absolutely nothing, I was going nowhere, but I was happily going nowhere. I wouldn't go back there no matter how bad things get, but I'm sinking deeper here and its only going to get worse before it finally ends, which is set to be May 26th, I've probably aged five years within the space of nine months thanks to this course, and I still haven't heard from Salford, the only uni I have applied to through UCAS.