For anyone who know what that is, it means a whole day of writing tally marks all over our arms. To anyone who doesn't understand, it's a Doctor Who fandom thing. Honestly, I forgot that is was April 23rd until about 5pm but still...I participated! Here's a few pics:
Pretty cool, right? Who knew liquid eyeliner could be so useful? I did draw one on my neck too, but you can't see it in the pictures. Oh well.
So today was (somewhat) productive. I didn't wake up until noon, but that was entirely unintentional. It was just a matter of me completely forgetting to turn on my alarm. Which tends to happen a lot. But what I DID do was finish an entire Media Aesthetics power point project with my group partner Zach. We picked a pretty sweet movie to do our project on..."Now You See Me". You know, that one that's essentially just like "Ocean's 11", but with magicians. I heard they're making a sequel too! If they decide to call it "Now You Don't" I'm going to die of laughter.
Tomorrow my parents are both going to DC for a few days to see my brother compete in a show choir competition, a competition trip I would have gone on if I hadn't graduated last year. But on the upside, my lil sis and I get some quality sister time this weekend! We're both super excited! We're going to a "Frozen" sleepover thing on Friday night too so that should be fun.
Rehearsals for 'Rehearsal for Murder' have been going great! On Monday night I was asked to read a scene for the play reading taking place this Saturday, in which all the prospective future shows for next year are offered and decided upon. It'll be fun! I don't really know what the play I'm reading from is about, but it's acting, and that's all the matters! I also will be singing the song "Jimmy" from 'Thoroughly Modern Millie', one of my favourite musicals to date. It's a cute little 20's-era comedy that I absolutely adore! I really hope it gets picked for next year's musical.
Oh, and on a side note...
I've fallen in love with *cough*obsessed with*coughcough* BBC's Sherlock series. I've thought about how Sherlock's abilities are something that can, technically, be taught and learned. So I've decided that I would love to learn how to use deductive reasoning like Sherlock Holmes can (though, of course, with not nearly as good a memory or speed) and so I plan on buying a book titled "Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes". I think this will help…and I hope I have the patience to actually learn properly how to use deductive reasoning. I know it would help me in the future when trying to read people during job interviews, at the restaurant I work at, or elsewhere; it would be a genuinely worthwhile skill to learn. This is also, of course, a salute to the Sherlock fandom that I follow and adore. Benedict Cumberbatch—
...Okay, quick sidenote, I think anyone who is a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch should be called a Cumber-cookie. Then we'd all be Cumber-cookies and together we'd be a Cumber-batch! Get it?? Anyway, moving on...
—as I was saying, Benedict Cumberbatch is a wonderful actor and plays the part of Sherlock Holmes very well. As for Doctor John Hamish Watson…well, the man really has made an impression on Sherlock's life. Sherlock was willing to do literally anything to guarantee both John and Mary's safety. And I love how speechless/breathless/lost-for-words Sherlock becomes when John tells him that he is, in fact, his best friend. Sherlock seems completely shocked that anyone would willingly call him a friend, let alone their best friend.
But I digress.
I wish to learn how to use deductive reasoning (and somewhat photographic memory, much like fake psychic Shawn Spencer...any Psych fans in the house?) to my advantage. It may take years to truly hone the talent, but it would be well worth it. Does anyone know of a class which someone interested in this field can take? Or, maybe, a person who you can hire to train you constantly as Sherlock occasionally does with John, so it becomes a part of every-day routine? I did try to observe and deduce last Friday on a person from my photography class. Needless to say, I saw nothing of importance…what I did manage to notice, I tried to deduce what it would mean.
His hunting-camoflague baseball cap he usually wears was removed for a short while and I realized he has a slightly receding hairline, something I hadn't noticed up until then. He's older than I first took him for, as the hat hides the hairline and makes him look younger. He was wearing a blue polo with black dress pants - neither ironed, the pants with a slight line of dirt at about knee-height; I often get the same mark on my lower calf when I get in and out of my car, so I can assume he has a car that is further off the ground, most likely a pickup truck if the baseball cap is anything to go by, and he most likely either lives on a dirt road or drives on one often. The dirt would have been kicked up from the road and attached itself to the bottom of the truck, so that it would transfer to his pant leg when he got out of or into his vehicle. His shoes were basic black dress shoes, probably cheap, and they look worn on the bottom as if he's had them for a while. The toes of the shoes were curved up, so I can assume he wears them often. Job uniform, perhaps? He has tattoos on his right arm, two, and a piercing in his eyebrow.
Beyond that, I couldn't think of or see anything else. This also took me longer than ten minutes because I have never tried it before.
So, that was kind of fun to try. Why I'm writing it out on here, I'm not entirely sure. I'm just sort of spitting out whatever crosses my mind out onto the keyboard and hoping it makes a lick of sense. Oh well, that's what these blogs are for right? Writing down whatever's on our minds just to get our thoughts out there. I just hope they're as interesting to you as they are to me. ;)
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