The week we can forget

Monday night was class. We went over our role play for saturday as an ENTIRE group. Please note since -Alice has been ill, Jen was skiving, and Adam had a family emergency for the past month this was the first time the whole group had been present for a rehersal and the actual performance was at the end of the week!
However it went suprisingly well given the lack of research, practice or effort had gone into it.

Tuesday I had an RA induction meeting after work. This required me to squeeze into an aparmtent filled with around 50 people all wanting to take up the position of RA in january. I am doing it purely to alter the current situation in my flat where I am over run with constant indian parties and social gatherings with no notice. And because otherwise I may never have a full nights sleep- ah the joys of sharing a room!

Wednesday I went Kickboxing with Maz. Now as most of you know- I have done kick boxing before. However this is AMERICAN kick boxing. Think boxing come boot camp. There was an angry man shouting instructions - with a very complex accent- whilst jumping about and waving his arms like a monkey. He did take the time to allow me to punch him in the face - which I thought was friendly enough - then returned to his drills, push-ups and insane 'speed-bagging.' I felt better for it - i think. The walking home in the snow after an hours punhcing was er... a new experience.

Thursday I could feel every muscle in my body. I had a role play rehersal at Alice's apt after work. However this didnt actually go too well- Rich and I turned up on time (notice a trend here) Adam made it 45 mins late. Jen didnt. Apparently She had emailed Rich at work saying she wasnt going to come as she was going out for dinner with her friend. Rich was having none of this - As a result I received an angry phone call from Rich at work complaining about Jen and her 'flakiness.' It seems the programme organisers were informed and they called her up at work. Of course Jen wasnt at work as she had taken the day off to see her friend. Thus she was called in to discuss her behaviour. This was blown way out of proportion and Jen took this as meaning Rich had dobbed her in for skiving work and therefore refused to turn up to the practice and whined at Mountbatten. It seems her 'friend' was acrually her roomate who has been kicked off the programme for being too ill to work- nice arnt they? Thus Jen was a little peeeved. She did turn up evetually, however there was much tension in the air which wasnt even dispersed by Pizza, and then practice which lasted over 2 hours did very little to help the final performance. Following this I went to the pub with Rich to discuss the evenings happenings (and also to calm him down before eh killed someone) and bumped into Sachit and Paddy in the pub who bought us drinks. See it's not all bad :)

Friday I went to the MOMA after work to shop and because I felt like being more cultural than the usual drinking routine of friday nights in general. I bought some xmas stuff and generally looked about midtown. This was my only night by myself which was a welcomed change. However, when I got home - knackered and ready for a quiet night in- I discovered Vik Plus 5 friends in my living room 'practicing' their role -play for saturday, although I say this loosly as they had beer and the topic of conversation was quite off purpose most of the time, and Dina plus 4 friends making enchalatas (have I spelt that right?) in the kitchen. Given my apt has 1 kitchen, 1 living room, and my room- this didnt leave me a lot of options. I therefore retired to my room - so much for my TV night dreams.....

Saturday I had to be up at 7am in order to get to the role-play in Manhattan on time - weekend public transport the bain of my life...
The role play itself was fine - although I was deprived of an entire saturday morning in bed for a 20 min speal on alternative views surrounding abortion. The free dougnut hardly made for the lack of sleep I feel. Following this I did some more xmas shopping - which was successful I feel then headed home arounf 5pm to wrap and to have my TV time. I did actually get into my living room this time althought hits joy only lasted about an hour before the hoards of drunken idiots with whom I am forced to live returned and spilt JD everywhere. joy. I went to my room.I was going to go out on saturday however, it was cold and I thought it best to save my cash for things I will remember.

Sunday was not a good day. I went to Duane Reade and bought bread. yes I know- I've reached the point of telling you when I buy Bread. Spoke to Adam, Hima came round at some point and drank tea, then I went out with Jen and bought Chinese. - It wasnt very good - I didnt eat most of it. Then Jen and I went to Suba's and watched dirty dancing after much deliberation with Suba's RA who was trying to sway us into watching some horrible horror film which would simply have been horrible. We drank wine, ate tiny Twix's and glared at a screen. It was nice not to have drunken idiots falling everywhere whilst we were doing this. I left Suba's around 11pm and headed home.

Tonight I am going to the knicks game so hopefully this will be more exciting than my weekend has been - fingers crossed.