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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

building excitement

i can't believe that in a few days this show is going to go on and all the hard work will come together for a fantastic show. i'm really really soooo excited. it's amazing how this feels like it is the biggest thing i have done so far. something that i have seen from the very beginnings - from the ideas to the planning and down to the rehearsals and sorting out of last minute stuff. i'm going to be soooo hyper when i meet the programmes guy on friday and see my name in print!

and to top it all off, we've only got 45 tickets for the afternoon show left to sell and 180 for the evening! which is great!

i'm sooooooo pumped up on adrenaline now! can't wait for sunday!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

OoooOo i'm getting VERY excited

if you haven't bought your tickets, GO GET THEM NOW! the show looks amazing and we've got beautiful people doing funky dances, complete with breath-taking backdrops and... PYROTECHNICS!

Warwick Arts Centre Theatre
4 February 2007 (Sunday)
£7.50 (£5) 4pm performance
£10 (£7.50) 8pm performance

you can check out the Warwick Tap website and even buy tickets from the Warwick Arts Centre online!

Thursday, January 25, 2007

10 days to Pizazz!

and then i will need to find something else to occupy my time...

Friday, January 19, 2007

Windsday

yesterday, the library had to be evacuated because apparently the winds were blowing tiles off the roofs.
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Weather Damage - Buildings Closed
Update (Friday 19 January)

Thorough safety checks have been carried out this morning. The Library will be open from 10am, Library road is open now, as is Café Library. The roof has been made safe, with the exception of the side facing Humanities, so the walkway between Humanities and the Library remains closed until 10am.

Owing to damage caused by today's high wind a number of buildings on campus have been closed: the Library and the Westwood Games Hall. Rootes Residences D to H Entrance has also been closed - please use alternative entrances.

Library Road has been closed because of a potential health and safety issue caused by flying debris. (However University members can still collect cars parked on Library Road).

Library & Library Road: Small parts of the Library roof are being blown off.

Rootes Residences: The entrance to D-H has a panel hanging off above the doors - please use alternative entrances.

Westwood Games Hall: Lights have fallen down inside the hall, one roof light has fallen into the hall and one roof light has disappeared.

No injuries have been caused and damage will be assessed when the wind drops.

The wind is not forecast to drop during daylight today - and the safety of the buildings will be assessed first thing tomorrow morning. Those buildings that are closed will remain so until tomorrow's safety check.

The Estates Office is arranging for repairs to be made once the wind has dropped and the full damage has been assessed.
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and traffic was bad because of the bad weather.

and today on the news (news.bbc.co.uk):
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UK braced for second day of gales
Workmen clear fallen tree from track near Sutton Coldfield
Reduced services are running while the clear up operation takes place

Parts of the UK are braced for more severe storms after 10 people died and thousands of homes were left without any power.

Northern England, central and southern Scotland and Northern Ireland could be hit by more gales by nightfall, the BBC Weather Centre warned.

Friday will be "a much quieter day" for the rest of Britain, but "gusty".

A clean-up of fallen trees and overturned vehicles is expected to affect some rush hour travel.

On the railways most services have returned to normal although there is some disruption.

Network Rail engineers worked through the night to clear obstructions and repair overhead power lines.

STORM DEATHS
A two-year-old boy was killed when a wall fell on him, London
An airport chief died after a branch fell on his car, Shrops
A man died when a tree fell on his car, Streatley, Berks
A lorry driver was killed when his vehicle overturned, N Yorks
A man died when a lorry blew into his car, Chester
A woman was crushed to death by a falling wall, Stockport
A man was killed when he was blown into a metal shutter, Manchester
A man died when he was hit by a tree, Cheshire
An elderly man was killed when a shed collapsed, Humberside
A man died after he was hit by a falling canopy, Lancashire

Train company GNER says it expected to operate a reduced service, as work is carried out to clear debris from the tracks and fix damaged power lines.

Two trains will run every hour between London Kings Cross and Newcastle, with one going on to Edinburgh.

An hourly train shuttle service will run between Doncaster and Leeds, and in Scotland there will also be a revised timetable, connecting with First Scot Rail services.

Virgin Trains West Coast is running an emergency timetable.

Arriva Trains Wales has a line closed due to flooding between Llandudno Junction and Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The M20 coastbound is closed between J11 and J12 due to traffic queuing for the ports and there are similar closures on the A14 southbound into Felixstowe harbour.

A number of A-roads around the country have sections closed due to fallen trees, flooding or accidents.

Storm victims

On Thursday a two-year-old boy died when a wall fell on him in Kentish Town, London.

The managing director of Birmingham Airport, Richard Heard, 49, died after a branch fell on his car between Bridgnorth and Broseley, Shropshire, and a male passenger in a Ford Fiesta was killed when a tree fell on the car in Streatley, Berkshire.

A lorry driver died when his vehicle left the road and overturned in high winds on the A629 Skipton western bypass, in North Yorkshire.

Another man was killed when a lorry was blown onto a car on the A55 on the outskirts of Chester, Cheshire.

In Stockport, Greater Manchester, a woman in her 60s was crushed to death when a wall toppled onto her in high winds.

HAVE YOUR SAY
We can see parked cars moving in the wind and lamp posts swaying

Myra Davis, Swansea

A man also died after being blown into a metal shutter at an industrial estate in the Strangeways area of Manchester.

A 60-year-old man was pronounced dead at Leighton Hospital, Crewe, after he was struck by a tree while working on a site in Byley, Middlewich.

Meanwhile, an elderly man died from injuries after a shed collapsed on him in Humberside.

A 58-year-old man from Essex also died after he was struck by a falling petrol station canopy in Lancashire.

Gusts of up to 99mph saw flights cancelled, rail speed restrictions enforced and sections of motorway shut.

Thousands of homes across the UK were left without power when the storms were at their peak, including some 100,000 people in Godalming, Surrey, and tens of thousands across the north east of England, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.

While England experienced high winds, Scotland saw its first major snowfalls of 2007, bringing road and rail disruption.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Waiting On The World To Change

by John Mayer
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me and all my friends
we're all misunderstood
they say we stand for nothing and
there's no way we ever could
now we see everything that's going wrong
with the world and those who lead it
we just feel like we don't have the means
to rise above and beat it

so we keep waiting
waiting on the world to change
we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change

it's hard to beat the system
when we're standing at a distance
so we keep waiting
waiting on the world to change
now if we had the power
to bring our neighbors home from war
they would have never missed a Christmas
no more ribbons on their door
and when you trust your television
what you get is what you got
cause when they own the information, oh
they can bend it all they want

that's why we're waiting
waiting on the world to change
we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change

it's not that we don't care,
we just know that the fight ain't fair
so we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change

and we're still waiting
waiting on the world to change
we keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
one day our generation
is gonna rule the population
so we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change

we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change

i cannot feel my legs

i think i am mad. honestly.

i was on campus for 13 hrs today (well, yesterday by now). and none of it was actually wasted. i was actually there for things that have been scheduled into my diary.

4 hrs of screening and seminar.
6 hrs practically non-stop of dancing from 2pm to 8pm
1 hr of running around getting stuff done for Tap
2 hrs at a social where we screened the DVD of last year's show. i had to work the equipment in the screening room and lock up since i signed for the key.

got home at 11pm-ish. ate dinner at 12.30am.

and to complicate matters i had a whole load of Tap show-related emails to answer and sort out when i got home.

plus i need to get costumes and props tomorrow (or rather, today)/friday for a dance i am co-choreographing. and attend rehearsals tomorrow (today), friday, sat and sunday.

and schedule a doctor's appointment for tomorrow because i am breaking out into a weird rash/bites all over my limbs.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

back in Coventry

to a dirty/messy house.

which i, naturally, got down to cleaning before even unpacking.

now it feels good to be home to a nice clean home. with clean floors. and a grime-less stove.

:)