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Dances with Cows
Date: A Day of My Life
Weather: Stuffy and stuffing
The New Year has been pretty slow in terms of acting work. I haven’t been back to the drama school lately as more and more teaching staff had joined the exodus from Succubus, tyranny, so there is no point going back. The latest victim of Succubus’ crazy regime was the library, which is now dissected into smaller sections to make way for her Board meeting room because “the library has the best view in the building”. Also the Australian play collection was further reduced with duplicate copies of unpublished plays being chucked out completely so that they can reduce the size of the compactus for more study rooms that are hardly used. The scenario is so depressing and even Angela is now seriously considering quitting too. She helped the drama school established the best library specialising in dramatic art in Australia, but now that is slowly slipping away as teaching resources seemed to be no longer a priority for Succubus. The drama school has just become one of the playthings she tatters with and leaves her mark to show people she was once there. As for all the teaching staff that left, she is more than happy to see them go. Now all she needs to do is to find a way to kick all the Board members that she hates out then her dictatorship will be completed. Honestly, the drama school has become such a depressing place that some stuff couldn’t even be bothered to go back and pack. Of course, as “accommodating” as Succubus is, she immediately employs people to pack the offices for them and send all the boxes to their homes as a grand gesture of “courtesy”.
Back to the library. Eva still hasn’t got over the fact that Claire and I are going to the conference at Darling Harbour. As for Claire us, we really couldn’t figure out what the big fuss is about. After all we are just going to Darling Harbour. However, as her scale of bitching expands further, we came to know that she and some other staff members see this as an index of how important they are in the organisation. I know, this sounds stupid eh? But then what we are talking about is a bunch of people who stayed in the same job forever without the willingness to really learn new skills but want to get a pay rise every year. Putting that factor into the picture, it immediately made sense to us. Originally Claire and I wanted to smooth things out a bit with Eva. At the end of the day, although she had been marginalised quite a bit in the project by the management, we still need to work with her from time to time. However, when we found out all the labels she gave us in front of the gang, we just thought “Up Yours!” We don’t really see eye to eye anymore and it really didn’t bother us. In fact it bothered Eva a lot more for she thought that we would make peace with her after she created such an “adverse environment” for us but that didn’t happen. Some people who couldn’t stand her told us that we can go to the management and complain about her bullying behaviour but then we sort of found it funny to watch a lady of her age acting like a kindergarten kid.
The fact that the library job is just for cash in pocket is good for me I reckon. At least I don’t really need to pay attention to some of those aliens who reside in this space ship. Sometimes I do wonder how a respectable profession like this could attract so many “idiosyncratic” personalities into one space. Anyway I am more concerned about my acting career. Apart from a few odd ads here and there, there hasn’t been a lot of work around for me. Hugo is working his ass off to fight of the effects of GFC on his agency so I have been networking like no tomorrow every weekend. Sometimes I felt like I’m prostituting myself for my art but then even Julia Roberts managed to score something big in “Pretty Woman”, so why not? In fact I do enjoy going to these events and functions. At least you are with a bunch of people who share the same passion and we can drink, joke and swear like no tomorrow. Something I definitely can’t do at the library or even at home...at least not in front of mum because it is “wulgar” and “not nice”.
Oh nearly forgot, my annoying sister told mum the other day that she wants to go audition for “Australian Idol”. Mum nearly threw her out of the window. Words were exchanged as I quietly finished all my sister’s favourite dishes on the table – just to piss her off more. Seriously she can’t sing at all and every time “Singstar” is on, I had to find an excuse to leave the house. The good thing about mum is she sees the flaws in her children and won’t hold back to tell them. When my sister was crushed by mum’s honest opinion about her singing, she just couldn’t take it. I personally don’t mind her going cos I think it’s about time for her to know that she is not artistically talented in any sense. Maybe she should still go and make a joke out of herself in front of the judges. I think it should be fun to watch. Sis is now trying to solicit dad’s support. See how well that will go down.
