So this is a complimentary blog to Diary of a Mythical Warrior (In Training); just a place for me to explain some of the things that happen in that, and to talk about what's happening to the real me (dragons and unicorns or not, I'm not sure I'd want to exchange my life for Malina's. Her penchant for disaster makes me thankful for the days where the worst trouble I come across is having to think up a new excuse for not handing in homework.)
Anyway, hi! My name's Magda, if you're reading this without knowing me personally. I'll start off by explaining how Diary of a Mythical Warrior (In Training) (we'll call it DOAMWIT) came about. Though, if I'm honest, you still may not understand/find it as humourous as it was at the time. Basically, over New Years, I was staying with my cousin in Kent (near London, UK), and we has been sitting in her room for several hours watching endless episodes of Ugly Betty. Anyway, to make a long story short, I got hungry, and, remembering there was left over pizza from the night before, and had the following conversation with my cousin:
"Bea?"
"Mmmyeah?"
"I'm hungry."
"Okay."
...
"Can I get the pizza from last night from the fridge?"
"Sure."
"Will you come with me?"
"Mmmmno."
"Please?"
"Why?"
"Because I might get eaten by the fridge-tigers."
Now, me saying peculiar things to and with Bea is a pretty average occurrence, but on this particular occasion, she gave me a look that would suggest I had never said anything out of the ordinary before. Either that or the kind of look someone would give you if you wandered into town with a large penguin sticker stuck to your forehead as a method of distracting people from a large spot on your chin.
Trust me, I've thought about trying it.
Anyway, from there, things just kind of escalated, to the point where Malina Silverlight was invented, and she even started her own blog.
Right, enough about DOAMWIT. This is my blog.
Song of the week: Pixie Lott's cover of Apologise. Great song. Pixie's voice sounds brilliant in it, and the acoustic guitar part is wonderful. If there are two faults I can find with it though. It's only two minutes long, and it ends very suddenly. She's really belting it out, and then it all just stops. She's softly repeats the first line of the song and then it's all over, leaving it feeling almost unfinished, and me feeling cheated.
TV program of the week: Fast and Loose. This is a brilliant new stand up comedy program in the UK. I've only seen one episode so far (this week's episode is sitting on my TV, waiting to be watched), but I was blown away by how brilliant it was. There was one game at the end called Sideways Scene, which caused me to have one of those "Why has nobody done this before?!" moments. Here's an example of it, but not the particular scene I saw: Fast and Loose: Sideways Scene
Culture item of the week: Chekhov's The Seagull. I saw this on Friday with my family and absolutely loved it. It was a student production and I really don't think they could have done a better job of it. Unfortunately, the very last line lets the rest of the play down a bit, but I won't say what it is, because it ruins the whole thing. Maybe that's why I don't like it. There was one line that stuck in my mind, though. I'm not sure why. It was "Let me start with the man who was woken by the sound of the rain. The rest can go."
(Almost) disaster of the week: My church went on a retreat this weekend, including all but three of the fourteen interns, and with them they took quite a lot of the sound equipment, including the decent AV boxes (guessing at the name here), the bass amp, and the keyboard. As I had to go out to dinner at the time worship practice was supposed to end, and the multitude of problems meant it took a while to get started, I only got the chance to practice two of the songs, having to bluff my way through the rest. Amazingly though, the actual worship session went really well (hence the (almost) disaster of the week). Moral of the story? Next time the whole church decides to pack up and leave, chain down your equipment. Or anyone who has anything to do with worship who's leaving for the weekend. Either will do.
Photo of the week:
I actually took this on the 18th of January. It's slightly out of focus, as I was being hurried along by my friend Hannah at the time, and the moon is far too central, but I quite like it.
My mission for the week: Be more forgiving. Enjoy the little things. Take more photographs.
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