Whatever happened to that eh? Although I haven't seen the show since 2012 so that's probably got something to do with it...

BUT two days ago I went to the first night in Bristol of the tour! With gorgeous Ashleigh! It was *awesome* to watch it again.

There are some staging changes (obviously) as it's a set they have to be able to take down and put up again and also the AV is mahoosive so you'd never fit that London set on a local stage. But Ash just knocked it out of the park. Vocals were completely on point. She is a superstar. And she's always been one of my faves (although the top spot is still Nikki D-J...and I'm still sad about her having to pull out of London).

Also Emily Tierney was brilliant as Galinda. They work so well together.

No major hitches, Ash successfully defied gravity, I saw Wicked for the fifteenth time.

And I'm going again tomorrow!

MEME!

List the last ten shows you saw then answer the questions under the cut...

1. Rock of Ages
2. RENT in concert
3. The Opinion Makers
4. Evita
5. Cabaret
6. Ghost
7. [title of show]
8. Pirates of Penzance
9. Priscilla
10. Starlight Express

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*Bonus question - I'm listening to the GERMAN version of Wicked why does my computer think this is Idina? She does not sing in German as far as I'm aware...!

Between 23rd October 2010 and right now today I saw a total of Wicked 6 times.*

In Feb/March I'm doing the same amount in 5 weeks.

*(I've seen it more than that in total though!)**
**(although the last time I actually saw it was August 2012!)

YUP, 2015 is gonna be the year of Wicked! Well, the two months of Wicked. And in those 5 weeks I'm seeing the first and last show of its stay in Bristol, and then three others in the middle. One a week. When Wicked is in my city. *screams* (yes, I'm fully expecting to have seen it more than five times by the time the run here is done. Because, Wicked.) If I *just* see it those five times, it'll take me up to Wicked 19.

Ah musical theatre. I have missed you. It sucks being too ill to sit in a theatre BUT...Wicked.

Right now I'm listening to Willemijn KILL it on the German cast recording. Don't talk to me about how I missed seeing her in London because eugh.

Right. All the food is bought, the decs are up, the presents are wrapped. I don't intend on leaving the house for the next week, and I imagine I'll also be doing a lot of sleeping.

I hope you all have awesome holidays!

So I had an appointment with the pain clinic at the hospital on Tuesday and came out with one less diagnosis than I went in with which is somewhat...counterproductive? Although I'm pretty sure the doctor isn't allowed to tell me I can't call my condition what it's techically called (fibromyalgia) and I have to call it something else (widespread pain). I'm sure doctors aren't allowed to just change the names of conditions at whim...

"You have appendicitis, but we're not going to call it appendicitis, we're going to call it "hurty tummy"."

Yeah,no.

Anyway. It took me two days to stop feeling STABBY STABBY and now I'm just annoyed. And in pain, ironically. Trip to the pain clinic caused me more pain.

IN OTHER NEWS...I have given up on NaNoWriMo under the guise I've got too much uni work to do and then not done enough uni work. To be fair, part of the reason for this is feeling ill. But I should really do some work this week. When I can sit at a computer for a decent amount of time.

OH ALSO, in other other news, I've started yoga. I'm doing a *very* gentle class (like, pre-beginners, fancy-lying-down-for-people-who-can't-move class) and it's actually really awesome. It's a five-week course and I really want to contunue doing it after the course ends in a couple of weeks so the instructor and I are going to come up with a suitable plan, what with me being all, y'know, broken an' all.

Here ends the update. I hope you're all doing awesomely. :)

So I went back and forth with myself for a while about doing NaNoWriMo. I have to do uni work, I was ill etc. etc. In the end I did what I do every year, which is decide to do it. Because I am some kind of fool, it appears.

It was Halloween yesterday, and I know some people count their calendars from Halloween to Halloween. I like that idea. This is one of my favourite times of year (despite it being a hotbed for S.A.D.-type stuff) as I love orange things, I like the sunny-yet-cold weather and I love pumpkin spice lattes so it's win all round, really. Also, I like the idea of starting the year with NaNoWriMo and finishing it with BristolCon and Halloween. It suits my brain.

My make-shift costume yesterday was "budget Eleventh Doctor" - I already had a fez and a sonic screwdriver, I bought cheap red braces and a bowtie and there we are. We only got one lot of trick or treaters but we're hidden right down the bottom of the estate so that could've been why. I still got to wear a fez all evening so I was perfectly happy! Also I have pumpkin-lights to hang, which pleases me.

New year, time to think about how things are arranged in life, time to think about priorities and what I enjoy doing and what I'd like to do. First one would be "make word count then watch zombie films." Works for me.

Barely, though. Barely.

So last weekend was BristolCon which was awesome as expected. This is the fourth year we (me, my brother and J) have been and it's always good - it's a small con although it's getting bigger, but it means it's not packed full of people and you can chat to everyone. Plus there were more panels about fandom this year which I liked. The Con is a very book-centered one as opposed to a comicon, so I spent all day listening to writers talk about books. Which was awesome. I had to go before the end which meant I missed the steampunk one and the YA one I wanted to hear BUT I got to talk to people about being a big ol' fangirl which is always a pleasure.

They do have a small dealer's room though, where I bought two gorgeous pieces of jewellery - one Sherlock-themed and one Doctor who-themed...

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So good times. Next one is FilkCon at the beginning of Feb which I am REALLY EXCITED about and also MILDLY TERRIFIED about as I've not been before but I'm SO GLAD I am. CAPITALS. Which brings my annual con list to three. Which is nice.

Of course after last weekend I had EPIC payback and yesterday I spent the whole day in bed with the heat pad, but I knew it was coming and it was totally worth it. A+++ Would Con Again.

Things have been very boring as I've put myself under house arrest. Sort of.

This is because it's BristolCon on Saturday! Which I'm very excited about. BUT, if I'm going to make it through the day I need to not be knackered, which now apparently means not leaving the house for the week beforehand. Which isn't great, but very useful for the amount of reading I'm getting done for uni. So that's a bonus.

Health-stuff-wise it's all a bit up the the air, really. *Still* waiting for November to arrive so I can see the pain clinic, and am making an ever-growing list of things I need to ask them. My tolerance for doing things like leaving the house has gone WAY way down, hence house arrest, and I'm pretty sure that this weekend will leave me in bed for a week but that's ok, because the weekend will have been worth it.

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Also I can get more uni work done.

Well, it turns out I still am. Helps that the UK tour is coming through Bristol next year and I'm now going to see it FIVE TIMES. Happy Emsy is happy!

But the real source of the continuing Wicked nerdiness is mostly due to this arriving today:

So, today was productive and I had a very nice surprise!

Last year I took a year out of my MA because of health malarky, and now it's September so I got in touch with my university, arranged to see my tutor and the disability office and got in touch with the finance department to ask them how much I was going to have to fork over for the pleasure of attending their university for one more year.

And the answer, as it happens, was nothing.

Because apparently I'm already square with the university - something I did not expect! I think I know how they've worked it out (the year before last I paid for a year but basically didn't do anything, so I think they've rolled that year's funding on to this year? Possibly?) but I called the uni as soon as I got the email to say "Are you SURE sure?" because I don't want a bill for one and a half grand turning up in six months when I no longer have the means to pay for it. But, I have the email, and I checked so as far as I'm concerned it's no taksies-backsies!

So on Tuesday I'm off up to uni to re-register, sort out my email account (so I can get a six-month Amazon student account!), see my tutor and meet with the disability office. And then boom! Emsy's back at university!

And hopefully I'll actually finish the course this time...