Thursday, August 03, 2006

Where did I leave off?

Oh right, flatmates and stuff. First though, I just want to mention
how exciting it is to finally be having shows on. After work last
night (I finished at 7! so early) I went with friends to see a couple
shows here at Main. One, called the Black Jew Dialogues, a comedy
thing about a black man and a Jewish man talking about race, starred
two performers from Boston, which is pretty cool. They open with
interviews with people around Boston about perceptions of Jewish and
black people. Quite entertaining. Then we went upstairs to +3 for
NewsRevue 2006, a musical parody revue about news. Also very funny,
although a good percentage was about British political figures, which
went a little over my head.

Anyway, at the beginning I was all by myself in the flat. It was like
that for two nights. Got kind of used to that. When I got back the
next evening two cots had mysteriously appeared in the single
bedrooms, including mine. That felt like a bit of an invasion, so I
promptly moved the one in my room out to the common room. Though I
was expecting arrivals the next day, no one showed up. By the time
my roommate arrived on Saturday I was thoroughly settled. Saturday
was actually the day the Fobos arrived, so 3 flatmates came in
altogether, a guy, Anthony, from outside London, and two girls,
Adriana and Ewa (pronounced Eva), who were Polish/French and Polish
respectively. Both had decent English though, and Adriana had
actually spent some time in Arlington, outside of Boston. We adjusted
to each other well. Anthony moved into my room, having been given the
impression that our remaining roommates would be women. They aren't,
they're guys, Nick and Joe. I know Joe's from Ireland, and I think
Nick is, or somewhere in England. Nick arrived a few days later, Joe
arrived after that. Ewa had to leave because her aunt died, but she
may come back to see some of the festival, she's been studying
medicine in Ireland. People with work to do are starting to need this
computer, so I'll finish up. The past several days have been so busy
that this morning was the first time I saw Anthony in 3 days. Things
are going great, I now get to see may wages in shows, and free soft
drinks at the bars. A few difficult shows, but now the work is much
easier and less hectic, but precise scheduling is the only thing since
shows are going one right after the other. I'll try to get on more
soon, but that's kind of it for now, need to go.

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