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jooles34 ([personal profile] jooles34) wrote2011-11-09 09:48 am

I <3 Death in Paradise, suck at dancing, had the best audition ever and am being positive

So, I haven’t written anything for NaNo for two days but I sort of don’t care. My brain is in the middle of heading straight for another meltdown; go directly to meltdown, do not pass go, do not collect £200. All I want to do is cry and whinge or veer wildly to the other extreme and get so angry I want to strangle people. However, I am refusing to do any of the above and am concentrating on the good stuff.
 
So on that vein I am celebrating a very good evening last night. It was partly good because it was Death in Paradise night and I am totally falling in love with that show. It’s quite wonderfully formulaic in many ways, but it is so much fun! There are some great lines in it (“he may be a good scientist, but he’s not much of a grouter”) and the characters are lovely, including the smaller characters who actually have personalities. And there’s a little baby Rex in it! Anyway, it’s tons of fun and def a highlight of my week.
 
But the best part of my day was that I had an audition for the Olympic ceremonies last night. It was so much fun! I’ll find out in the next few days if I’ve got a call back for the next round or not, but just having the experience of yesterday was wonderful.
 
There were 200 of us auditioning together and I’ve never done anything on that scale before. We danced and performed for two hours and I was shattered at the end of it, but enjoyed every minute. Couple of amusing moments included me completely fucking up the choreographed routine, but I always do that early on in learning a routine so it wasn’t exactly unexpected. I just laughed through it and hoped for the best. They had said at the start not to worry about messing up they were looking for more than that and how you deal with it is all part of it.
 
The other thing that is still making me giggle is that during another dancing section I got so carried away during the free-style bit that I totally missed that everyone else and the woman leading us had gone back to the synchronised bit. Twice.

[identity profile] jaynedoll.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
I like Death in Paradise as well. It has some nice little touches & lots of Ben snarkiness.

Hope you get thro to the next round for the Olympic thing

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
LOVE the Ben snarkiness!

[identity profile] darkhorse-99.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Even trying out for the Olympics sounds *so* cool. I don't know how to post pictures in comments but, here, have an pic of Ben Miller... in a hat!

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
AWESOME! I haven't seen any pics from this online anywhere, where did you find them?

[identity profile] darkhorse-99.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It was in a review someone tweeted about, that was the only picture of him in the article. I saved it full size on my computer. I can send it to you someway if you can't find it.
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[personal profile] fififolle 2011-11-09 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! I hope you get through! That would be so awesome and sounds very exciting :D

*hugs* for near-meltdown :(

But yay for Death in Paradise! I wonder if he'll name the lizard by the end of the series :) Such a good ep last night. I'm very much enjoying Danny John-Jules as well. 'Because we catch killers. And I look cool on bikes.' HAHAHAHA (May have misquoted that. But it was awesome.)

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That was an awesome moment. DJJ is fab in this; I'm really enjoying the other characters.

Thanks for hugs.

[identity profile] x-bellaitalia-x.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
One of my flatmates auditioned for the Olpymic ceremony! It sounds amazing.

Fingers crossed for getting through to the next round!

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! How have they done?

[identity profile] emyrldlady.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like you had an awesome time. I'd be terrified to audition on that scale!

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Never done anything on that scale. Was a hell of an experience.

[identity profile] i-bananas.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
*big hugs*

The series is awesome, I'm loving all the characters including the lizard. :)

Hoorah for the audition experience!



[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for hugs.

It's def the new highlight of my TV week.

[identity profile] hab318princess.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooked on Death in Paradise... hubby called the lime... though not where the skellington ended up - so far each episode has provided a surprise and we like that :)

and all the best with the audition

do you want any help with your Nano?

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I got the murderer with the lime and guessed who had killed the old lady, but didn't get the skeleton. It's the only one I've managed to get in advance so far!

I think my NaNo is a lost cause, but I'm still happy to be adding to my story.

[identity profile] hab318princess.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they're really clever (as well as funny) - so hoping we get another series... should maybe write to the BBC :)

[identity profile] thrace-adams.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I've never heard of that show.

Auditions! Omg that sounds AMAZING!!! Even if you don't get in? Still just to try out is AWESOME :D I hope you do get through to the next round though :D
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[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a dinky little thing, really good fun.

[identity profile] phoebezu.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't watched yet last episode of DiP, but I'm sure I'm going to like it as the former ones! :D

Wow for the audition thing, it seems a great experience, and I hope you can get the next round! :D

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I assume you've seen it by now, it was great fun as usual.

[identity profile] aranellaurelote.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a job offer from the olympics but I'm not sure I'm going to take it or not - I need to hear about internships etc first. Your audition sounds a lot more fun than my interviews were though lol!

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Lol, interviews are never fun! What's the job you have gone for?