posted April 06, 2010 12:13 AM            

As to the question ^ I'm still thinking about it...
I change my mind about these things alot.

I'de have to say though, that voices that are beyond awesome to me; would be, Layne Staley, Darryl Hall, and Dave Matthews.

posted April 06, 2010 01:50 PM            

Not like 29 is such a respectable age, but I certainly know a lot more than I did at 22! And I'm not an idiot, it is strange when people sort of give you the "I'm pacifying you right now, bless your heart you silly little girl".

Sucks that you feel people aren't respecting you.

posted April 07, 2010 10:46 AM            

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Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays

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Oh yes, so with you on that one. I think she has the best voice of any female singer I've ever heard.

posted April 07, 2010 04:22 PM            

What's your play about?

posted April 07, 2010 04:54 PM            

At the start of the play the tavern owner, a grizzled gold prospector is traveling with his younger prospecting friend (and former British sailor). They're off to bring the tavern-owner's will to his only relative, his neice. Only he can't make it, and dies.

Meanwhile his neice shows up at the tavern looking for her uncle. She's reached 16 years of age, and the orphanage thinks it's time for her to make her own way. She's been accompanied on her trip by a representative of the orphanage. Obviously, her uncle isn't at the tavern, so she's not sure what she's going to do.

Eventually, Jack shows up. Jack was her uncle's British friend. He gives the niece, Bertha, the will from her uncle. It's the Deed to the tavern. She vows to make the tavern her home, and never serve alcohol again. The villain isn't happy about that at all, and tries to purchase the property from her. She doesn't sell. In the midst of that Jack stands up to protect fair Bertha from the villain. He's lovestruck with her, and becomes her protector.

Naturally, Bertha leaves the will in his care to ensure nothing happens to it. The villain and his crew plot to steal the will. They pull a shanghai on Jack, and get him to drink drugged tea.

Then gold is discovered nearby. Not only so, but it's at old Sourdough's plot. Sourdough is Bertha's uncle. Now in order to get at that gold our villain has to come up with a new plan. He graciously gives her back the Deed to the tavern before eventually blackmailing Bertha into marrying him. She is forced to marry him in order to save Jack who is still imprisoned in the cell beneath the tavern.

A mysterious woman shows up in the end. She's looking to expose the villain. Turns out she was also wed to him at some point, and he took all of her money. Then all the loose ends in the story get wrapped up nicely. Bertha does get together with a love interest, but, surprisingly, she goes for the military man instead of the apparent hero, Jack. She leaves Jack the pub in Monterey, which he converts into California's first theater.

posted April 09, 2010 10:02 AM            

Friday's here at last. Yay!

I don't think I got a good night's sleep this week. It's tough trying to get to bed at a reasonable hour (probably because it doesn't seem like a reasonable hour). I make it sound worse than it was. I was in bed for about 7 hours a night, which isn't devastating. Can still function pretty well with that amount of sleep.

posted April 09, 2010 10:44 AM            

I love it when threads turn educational too! I mean, really, what's the point of chitchatting?

posted April 09, 2010 10:48 AM            

It was a good bunch of people, so it was pretty productive.

Very tired though - up drinking until 1am and then up again at 7am for a full-on day fixing that centre.

I find it fascinating watching how everyone interacts on these courses.

I found out something that really annoyed me though, and there is little I can do as it was told to me in confidence.

One of our Business Heads(equivalent grade to my manager) propositioned me a while back. He only joined the team last year and is the same age as me. I got on with him really well and felt comfortable in his company (he's married with young kids - so I naively thought 'safe'). There had been a previous occasion where he propositioned me by text, but at the time I thought it was a joke. He made his intentions quite plain the second time and I felt comfortable enough to explain that he had got me wrong, and I would never consider his 'proposal' as he is married. He effectively called me a 'prick-tease' and for this reason I have largely avoided (discretely and diplomatically) his company since.

One of my colleagues on this course, a young newly promoted manager who I have a lot of time for, told me that he had done the same to her (she didn't know when she told me about my encounter with him). Her story was worse - he asked her how she had got to the position she was in (implying she had slept her way there) and then suggested that she could further her career by doing the same with him. I am not surprised by the behaviour, but he is her actual boss!!!