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| Hey guys! I'm curious, has anyone here ever taken private acting lessons? I was talking to a friend of my dad's the other day (he used to be a movie/ stage actor) and he said I should take acting lessons and do the LAMDA exams because I'm 'naturally dramatic and have a flair for expression' whatever that means when it's at home. However, since it's been soooo long since he took his exams and they were at RADA and he studied in London, he had no clue whatsoever what lessons cost now, especially up North.
Does anyone know what private lessons cost, and how long someone normally has to take lessons / how many they have to take before they're considered ready to take exams? I've never taken any formal acting before and only studied it at school but I loveloveLOVED it and I really want to do it professionally but I have noooo clue what lessons involve (though obviously it's gonna involve acting, so no need to get all smart-alecky there :P ).
I looked on the LAMDA register and found a local-ish (about 45 mins away) private teacher so I've emailed her but thought I'd ask here in case anyone had any input.
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| My contract's come to an end, and I've been paying too much (£26/month, or half that if I ever get my rebate...) I think I want to move to a PAYG phone, because I use about 50 texts a month and under 10 minutes of call time - even with all the technology available, I mostly can't hear on a mobile so I'm never going to use it for chit-chat.
So I need to buy a basic reliable phone - one with a camera would be cool but I can't be bothered to get mobile internet to work - I've wasted enough money on that in the past and never got it to work properly. Right now I need a phone with a reliable battery life, preferably Nokia (only ones that have induction loops). Also with nice buttons that's easy to hold. And lots of storage space for texts and phone nos.
There seem to be lots of deals with a phone for £20 or so, and then £10/month for top-up and get more texts but I'm not sure if you need that if you've got some free texts etc etc. Is there much difference between all these? I'm confused about how you get a SIM-free phone with a calling deal - doesn't the deal have to go with the card?
And most importantly - can you transfer your number to one of these PAYG SIM cards? I've had my number for nearly a decade and would prefer not to lose it.
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| my year in egypt is drawing to a close. i've written bugger all about it. i'm no longer in the stage of my life where this means it didn't happen (just) but if i don't do so it'll soon be as if it never did, what with the premature ageing of my memory.
None of the following posts are likely to be in any sort of logical or easy-to-read format.
Firstly, thoughts on leaving... I can't wait. Some people are really sad, they say it's not time. Most of them, it must be noted, speak rather good Arabic and have met boy/girlfriends here. It's not that I won't miss Egypt or enjoy reminiscing about all the absurd shit that's happened to and around us, but that's not the same as wanting to spend any more time here than is necessary.
Egypt. I no longer question anything here. Everything and anything can or does seem normal. Anything you can imagine with a donkey or a Lada, or some wild combination of the two (now that's what I call a hybrid). From new and inventive ways to squeeze more money out of foreigners to innovative and creative heckles in broken English... the list continues. | |
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| Today was my last bat mitzvah for this academic year. ( mostly successful )I hope I can find some more pupils for next year, otherwise I'm going to really miss the teaching! | |
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| This is what I've been posting today on Twitter: | |
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| Can anyone recommend any good sites that they've used in the past for finding potential housemates/houseshares? There's a million on Google, but most of the ones I've visited so far seem to be completely crap.
I'm moving out of my current place at the end of June, and need to find somewhere nice without too many crazy people. | |
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| Author: Neal Stephenson Details: (c) 1995 Neal Stephenson; Pub Penguin 1996; ISBN 0-140-27037-X Verdict: The diamond age is geekily delightful. Reasons for reading it: I've heard various people enthusing about it, and I liked the concept of a futuristic neo-Victorian setting. (I also enjoyed Snow Crash but I haven't got round to reviewing it yet. How it came into my hands: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cartesiandaemon lent it to me. ( detailed review ) - Tags:book
- Location:New Chusan
- Mood:cheerful
 - Music:Jon Bon Jovi: Livin' on a prayer
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| OK my journal style has now forgotten to display tags as a cloud rather than a list, not to mention the previous extremely annoying problem with no longer opening links in a new window.
Given I'm going to have to fix it again, can anyone suggest a better way to do the new window links thing? I only want it for my E90 due to the stupid way the Symbian browser doesn't let you open links in a new window by choice, only by the target attribute of the links.
What I want is to have the comments links and the lj-cut links that open the entries in my journal's style to target="_blank". Then I want all other links including the 'Link' permalink that isn't style=mine to behave normally.
Is this possible with S2? | |
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| Somehow I've developed a social life! Not only have I had people over or visited people for the last few weekends, but I went out for a meal with flippac on Tuesday, with Pippa on Wednesday and had Ash over all evening on Thursday. I'm also away for the next several weekends (I just realised), so this weekend is officially my weekend off! I've been having a relaxing day so far having listened to some podcasts in bed, read a little and caught up with LiveJournal and Twitter. The BBC Two reality TV show Beyond Boundaries about physically disabled young people crossing the Andes has a dyspraxic team member, Liam, this year. I'm watching the show because this is probably the most prominient example of dyspraxia on TV (although apparently the captain of the winning Oxford University team on University Challenge was dyspraxic) but I find the whole concept and presentation of the show 'distasteful', voyeuristic and probably exploitative. As yet they haven't presented dyspraxia in Liam's own words, have said some things that misrepresented the condition and had Liam clearly being bullied or at least extremely misunderstood by the others due to having an invisible disability. So yes, I've also spent quite a lot of time today on the Dyspraxia list and Ouch message board 'discussing' the show. As well as doing my backlog of chores this weekend, I'm also hoping to get some really good practice in for my autoharp. The instructional DVDs I ordered a week before I bought my AH finally arrived on Thursday, meaning I now have 2.5 hours of tuitional material to watch. Oh and something I forgot to mention last week -- Dougal is clearly better at counting than I am, it turns out that my autoharp DOES in fact have 36 strings not 37 as I'd mis-counted, making it the perfect match for me :) | |
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| Hi guys Just a quick note to remind you about Ashton's true alternative music venue.... Tonight sees the return of Jagerpoloosa...... Free entry, Jager cocktails, live music and yours truly playing music till the early hours..... JAGER COCKTAILS ON OFFER: BUSY UDDER Simply Jager & Milk BLACK ARMY Jager & Galliano WIDOWMAKER Jager, vodka, kahlua & a splah of grenadine LOCH NESS MONSTER Jager, Baileys & melon liquer JAGER MONSTER Jager, grenadne & orange juice All cocktails are only £2 each - or keep it simple and have a shot of Jager for just £1.50..... It's a rock/metal/punk/dance/cheese/80's/goth/i ndustrial kinda thing...... See you on the dancefloor!!! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1159282756Olivers Bar Bow Street Ashton Under Lyne Lancs (We're next to Iceland)  | |
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| Are there any night trains from sheff to hudds? Am sure i have got a later train than 22:41 which the internet says is the last one. | |
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| Stupid question, and I've tried googling but to no avail.
My debit card is due to expire in 06/08, but I'm going home to Hereford on Monday so won't be here when I presume the new one gets delivered. Will the old one actually just stop working on the 1st June? As in I won't even be able to take money out at a cash machine, or chip and pin...?
I'd go into the bank and ask, but obviously they're closed now till Monday and I leave early.
Yes I'm a dozy bugger. | |
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| As it says on the Anna Maria trolleybus...
Once we got our iced coffee and fruit cones and our compact car turned into a mini-van and we worked out how to take off the parking brake, we set off across Florida towards Tampa and Sarasota and the Gulf of Mexico, mocking the Mickey Mouse power plant with mouse-ear pylons. Swimming - well floating and swimming with my arms and soaking in the hot tub and use the massage pads with ibuprofen gel overnight - loosened my back up enough that I could start to feel human again. I cracked my first joke in days, we stopped at Anna Maria beach for fish lunch and paddling, we drove up and down Anna Maria island looking for somewhere to stay with a pool with shallow steps so I could walk into the pool rather than climb in, we paddled on the beach opposite (waist deep, so the water takes some of the weight off my hips which lets me move them more), then I floated and swam in the pool at the motel. With all that, I was actually able to walk a little without the stick on the beach and sit up from my nap almost normally... improvement at last.
Dinner at the Sun House, which calls itself Floribbean. I think the connection is that the cruise ships go back and forth... Different and very nice; straws of beef, crab cakes with pineapple in the mashed potatoes, blackberry piglet shanks for Simon, a mango ice eclair...
The sea is blue turning green at each wave. The beach is fine white sand, like salt or flour... | |
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|  Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico Anna Maria Island, Florida May 2008 | |
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|  WES this year was, as always, excellent. We got access to many of the people we wanted to talk to, including sessions with the co-CEOs of RIM, talking about the future of Blackberry and the role of the smartphone in a connected contextual world. It's left me with a lot to think about and the inklings of a thesis I want to explore in articles and blog entries over the next few months. WES, also, was self-contained, and we didn't leave the air-conditioned halls of the combined hotel and conference centre from the moment we arrived (escaping the dodgy taxi driver who stiffed us $30 while accusing us of under-paying) to the point nearly four days later where I had to go ask the folk at the rental car agency just how to release the parking brake on the mini-van they'd just upgraded us to (there's a lever above the foot pedal for the parking brake that releases it)... So we drove west, across the narrow peninsula, to one of my favourite coastlines, the white soft beaches and azure seas of the sand keys of Florida's Gulf Coast. Currently we're on Anna Maria Island, where I spent a pleasant sunset chatting to a local photographer and twitcher about the various sea birds that made their way along the beaches. Coal-black frigate birds drifted effortlessly overhead on long thin wings, while brown pelicans bobbed their way up and down, alternately skimming the waves and soaring. The stars of the show were the skimmers, with their strange asymmetric beaks - the lower portion much longer than the upper - and their striking black and white plumage. It was when the beaks hit the water that you could see why they were shaped the way they were. Open-mouthed the skimmers shot across the surface of the waves, leaving a wake as they aimed to catch fish swimming just below the surface. Alone they were impressive, in formation they were amazing. Banking sharply they wove around each other, all the while skimming the waves.  If you're ever in Florida, this part of the Gulf Coast is well worth the two hour drive from the tourist hotspots of Orlando. | |
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| Too much walking and standing and working has kept my back sore, but I didn't want to miss the conference. Ice is good, also ibuprofen gel with menthol. We finished up with afternoon of rest, writing and pool time tomorrow, to make up for three days of walking miles round the conference.
Non-work highlights; huge dragonflies, easily the size of a London mouse. The excellent lunch on Tuesday: Marriot World Resort does the best conference food bar none. John Mayer playing 'free falling' and 'message in a battle' (the accent!), which I parsed as 'I'll send an SMS to the world' and saying he prefers BlackBerry to Pampers... | |
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