Since Monday

First are a few photos of the concert Arielle and I went to. This was the band Marillion. We enjoyed ourselves. I think most of you would have really liked them too. It was cool. Also there's a pic of a James Joyce Award that some pub I was in got. There's James' face and it explains about pubs in Dublin that I thought was cool.

So this needs to be quick cuz I need to do research. I did all the work I needed to do on Monday and got my proposal finished. We handed it in on Tues, even tho the prof forgot she told us to turn them in. Classes, more classes, then we had a guest prof storm out of our last class since most of us hadnt seen the screening the day before. That was interesting... On Wed I had our theatre seminar tho the prof spent the whole class time going over each of our proposals, reading thru them out loud and telling us how we could improve. It was a good session, but she waited to get to mine til last so I was so nervous by the time she got to me, my hands were sweaty and I was shaky! The proposal wasnt very good, but it's a first draft and not graded so that's no worry. None of us did great and none of us knew how to do it. They dont give detailed instructions. They just say "do it". So she said "turn in your proposals" and we said "uh.... ok". At least after giving her what our interpretations of a proposal were, now we know what exactly to have and how it should look when it's due next month. She told us to work on them over Christmas. Oh yea, also on Wed night, I went to choir and we did Christmas caroling rehearsal. After all my junk is finished next Wed, I will meet the choir around 5:45 and we will head down to temple bar and start singing. It's fun since there are a couple of them that I've never heard of! LOL. It's also funny cuz I was the only alto who could start singing Silent Night on the correct note. Hey, at least it's ONE song I recognize!! haha. Oh and I also tried minced pie. For the holidays everyone is bringing out mulled wine and minced pie, and they had the pie after choir. Tasted like fig newtons!

But for now I'm looking over primary research that I can put into a power point presentation for next Wed, and I'm doing laundry. I'm looking to do my dissertation, proposal, thesis, presentation.... all this stuff, on the technology in the theatre. The same plays have been produced for over a hundred (or more in some cases) years, and technology has certainly changed. So I have to find something original - newspapers, video clips, pictures, memoirs, programs, anything that's done first hand on these plays, melodramas perhaps, maybe something on the playwrights themselves... In the end I'll need all of this. Right now I need something that i can talk about for 10 minutes. Maybe I can write long blogs, cuz I have lots of thoughts about "me", but actual academic research is different.

So now that i've told you what i need to be looking for, I will go out and find it. Just one week til I'm done with classes and flying home, but I'm going to stay busy