"I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth..."

I went to see 'The Sea'.  That's a play by Edward Bond, not a big wet thing.  Within this play, there was Harry Lloyd and Russel Tovey.  After this play, there was stage door fangirlage.  Commence Evening of Awesome:

Just to prove that I'm totally normal.

Thing #1:

History Class, Discussing Leader of Democrat Party Elections in America

TEACHER: Aren't the results of the Iowa Caucus exciting?
POLITICS STUDENT #1: *dreamy sigh* Yes, I'm so please Barack Obama is winning ...
POLITICS STUDENTS #2 AND #3: *more dreamy sighs* Oh yes, why don't we have someone like him?
TEACHER: Yes, we really need someone charistmatic and young, who just entices you to vote for them...
ME (IN HEAD): OMG VOTE SAXON!!!


Thing #2:

History Society, Learning About Pirates

SMALL GIRL DOING PRESENTATION: And she became a pirate when her father engaged her to Alf, Prince of Denmark...
ME: *starts whimpering and twitching*
HANNAH: *sigh* Hamlet wasn't the only Prince of Denmark, Raf...
ME: He was, HE WAS.
HANNAH: Maybe Alf was his real name.
ME: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHH...


So yeah.  Totally normal.  By the way- pirates?  Are cool.  And cross-dressing ramnce antics work in real life as well as Shakespeare plays, apparently.  Well, according to Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonney and Mary Read they do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/11/27/51031.shtml

NO.

...and now I'm a total Star Wars slut!

The original trilogy obviously, not the jumped-up fireworks display of a toy advert (thank you, Simon Pegg) that is the newer trilogy.




HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Welcome to 2008.  A year, just like last year, but a little bit different.

...I GOT INTO MAGDALEN (OXFORD)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I get to GO THERE (if I don't fuck up my A-Levels) to that BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL, MAGICAL PLACE.  To LEARN about THINGS I LOVE.

Oh, thank you Baby Jesus.

Also- MERRY BELATED XMAS TO YOU ALL!!!

Ok.  In light of things like The Future, I have decided to do THE BIG MASSIVE UNIVERSITY POST.

I have applied to:


And I have had offers from:


Haven't heard from Warwick yet but apparently they always take ages and Oxford interview is next week- aaaaaaaaaaargh!

...

In other news, I HAVE MY BRACES OFF!!!!  Until next week when I have to have stupid fixed retainers put on.

But still!  I can now legitimately say:

MA TEEFS, LET ME SHOW DEM TO YOU.

Yeah, bitch.  Take that.  (Um, the bitch is my Orthodontic Fate in general.  Not you.)

...


In other news again, I have fallen in love with yet another dead literary figure.  "Which prematurely-deceased, poetry- writing, pretty boy have you fallen for this time, Raf?"  I hear you cry type.  Well, my dear reader, that is what we call a Good Question.


So for the moment, I shall leave you with these thoughts, which are, unfortunately, not mine, but Percy Bysshe Shelley's:

I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven,
The soul of Adonais, like a star,
Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.

OH WOEZ.  SEE MA RL SRS BIZNUS FACE. >-(

I should probably stop talking in macro-speak if i want you to take me at all seriously.

However, this really is serious and crappy real life stuff, which I've been meaning to put up for a while.

But there is some fun stuff (Read: "Fangirl Stuff") too.  Yay!

Christ, that's long.  If you have put up with my woes thus far, well done!  Now for your reward (which will be in devon): FANGIRLING!


Ah well.  C'est la vie.

DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY AND LOVED GRINDELWALD I WAS SO RIGHT SHE SAID IT OUT LOUD ITS TRUE ALL TRUE SLASH IS CANON YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahem.  Oh I am SO happy- think how pretty that is.  Dumbledore is all young and ginger and long-haired and bespectacled and Grindelwald is all curly blond haire and passionate and idealistic.  Oh thank you, God of Slash, your High Priestess has delivered and I am ecstatic.

Just need Remus/Sirius to be confirmed as canon now- because it TOTALLY is, Tonks was kind of a...detail.  Anyway, Remus can be bi.

Go forth and slash bountifully!

Have been immersing myself in the Ocean of Shakespeare Canon, once again, and have emerged sopping wet with water from the Sea of Adoration, once again.

Can I just be allowed to express my love for a few select Shakespeare characters?  Kthnx.

First up, the Girls- tragic and comic, wise and foolish, take your pick...



And now the Boys- the pretty, emo, heroic, whiny, evil, scheming, noble Boys.  Ah, what fun.



If you've sat through all that- well done!  Who are your favourite Shakespeare characters- or literary characters in general, and why?  Do tell, I'm intrigued.

In my final year of schooling before I head off to university, it has fallen to me to write the assembly for my form, the illlustrious 13.8.  Casting about for a suitable topic that is relevant to both September and the Sixth Form, that has a strong moral message, that is both informative and entertaining, I had a sudden lightning-flash of inspiration.

Yes friends, it's High School Musical: The Assembly.


I sent it off to my deputy, who duly emailed back, "Hey, your HSM scrpit if cool, but i'm just wondering whether people wil take it seriously."

The world is coming to a crashing end.

Well, I'm back in the land where theatre is expensive and only for gays and womens.

It was enjoyable at times (mostly when we were pissed) and not so enjoyable at times (mostly when we had to do yet another abstract representation of binge-drinking youth in today's society).

BUT.

Next year they might be doing Hamlet (yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, PLEASE).  Speaking of which, two people have told me now I'd make a good Ophelia.  Am slightly worried- does the world really view me as a borderline mental case?  With optional naivety and subservience, depending on how you play it?

Ah well.  The rest is silence.

When we were drunkenly casting people as Shakespeare characters (come on, we're drama students), I was Viola from Twelfth Night, so that's good.  Despite the fact that I'm actually playing Olivia from Twelfth Night.

AND.

The most important bit of the course.  THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO LOOKED LIKE OTHER HOT FAMOUS PEOPLE.


So there we go, that's NYT!  More Real Life updates soon, I promise!

Well, I know loads of people have been freaking out about James Nesbitt replacing their Divine Pretty, i.e. David Tennant but I'm kind of ok with that.  Tbh, he's exactly the kind of person I wanted to take over from DT-older, more mature, not so pretty but just as charismatic (ok, yes, I really do want Christopher Eccleston back).

I will certainly miss DT's aforementioned prettyness and gawkish adorableness, plus his random flailing, his exclamations of joy over mechanical parts and his occasional snogs with french girls but I can live with him moving on.  After S4 he will have done three years, which is quite long enough for any actor, and also about the average length of most of the Doctors, except Tom Baker, who did sveen years cos he was cool.

I think James Nesbitt  will do an excellent job, if it's not, in fact, a rumour; he isn't "tainted" by yellow pages adverys or any of the silly things people have been saying.  I watched one episode of Jekyll and felt physically sickened by the sheer glee and destruction in his performance, which is a very strong reaction to have, so I have no doubts about his acting ability either.

And, on the plus side, the Ten/Rose shippers might shut up about Rose rejoining the series now Teh Pretty won't be around.  Hah.  And, this might be wishful thinking, but I do think that he would have excellent chemistry with Martha.  I mean, srsly, scorching.

Oh, and also- Moffat replacing RTD as Head Writer?  Two things:

1) YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.  THANK YOU GOD MY LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDS.

2)  RTD and DT leaving at the same time convinces me of what I have long suspected: that RTD lives only to create Mary-Sueified versions of Rose as his little prop through which he can envision shagging David tennant.  Mate, we'd all like to shag David Tennant, but we don't slag off Martha to do it.

My insane, eleven-days-late-weeping, let me show it to you.

NB It's eleven days late because I've been in China, which was amazing, and you can all expect a nice big picspam of that.

I, Rafaella Marcus, finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at one p.m. today after reading for seven hours.

And my mind is well and truly fucked.

What will you be when you grow up?
	You will be ... An official cool person judge
'What will you be when you grow up?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Aha I sit in judgement on the world.

That, in the immortal words of Green Wing, just blew my tits off.



Soon I will update with Real Life Stuff (I know, shocker) but for now...  Well yeah.  You saw it.

 Utopia Spoilers Liek Woah.

*sobs*