Quirks presents...

1:44pm: I do think that she understands: Shylo lesson 1 report, 16/11, 1000-1100
Two weeks of frustrating delay. One other huge event tonight (even if it does involve merely pressing a button twelve times). And yet this is still undisputably one of the biggest moments of the academic year thus far for me. Finally, the first lesson with Shylo.
( I did expect a long post here, but I never expected this. Includes digressions on the state of pop music, the songwriting process, a brief mention for Alice, and evidence of slavishness to Gemma that I need to quite literally break... )

11:00pm: Simple shinies make me smile, simple shinies make me smile (repeat, accelerating)
Second night of Absent Friends tonight, first night I was operating the desk, and much fun was had.

Including before it started; I actually joined in the actors' warmup, I think I was the lone techie amongst them, and Alice (the director) made a point of inviting me in knowing that I'm a singer. It was actually a damned sight better than Shylo's; there was a small amount of singing, but (well, obviously) the focus was very much on diction, with about half the time devoted to various tongue-twisters, some of them exceedingly deceptive, repeated at increasing speed. 'Pulling a length of string' is a whole lot harder to say at speed, that's for sure.

The play itself was entertaining, comedic yet oddly anxious - or at least it was anxious for me to watch it, partly because of anxiety in my admittedly-trivial task, primarily because of the play's dynamic of shaky friendships - necessitating scripted rows that put me far more on edge than would be 'normal'. That would be my social anxiety, then.

On again tomorrow, though this time I shouldn't need any real input from the technical director. This'll feel good.