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I wonder if my neighbours are sick of hearing tenimyu soundtracks, because that's what I've had on nonstop for the past two days.

The costumes for Richard III have been handed in, though I did not technically complete them. Because of my injured wrist, hand sewing was frustratingly slow. I'm usually rather deft with a needle, but today it wasn't going to happen. But as we'd say in French, c'est à moitié mal, because that way the head costume lady can pin and tack the hems when the dresses are actually on the actress, instead of it being me just going by the measurements of someone I've never seen in my life.

Due to the rush to finish the costumes and then try to get to Shibuya to meet people (sorry I was so late, guys! m(-_-)m, and Jill, will you ever forgive me for forgetting the pictures?!), today I ate: a banana, a box of Look chocolates, a KitKat (lemon!), two slices of bread, a cup of instant mushroom soup, a curry bun, and a chicken Burger from Freshness Burger. And I've drunk copious amounts of tea.

Good nutrition, I haz it! :D

Also, gay baseball, I haz it! (Thanks, Erynn! *smooch*)

Tonight was Oasis, so here are some thoughts, which are not in any way coherent or organised as a proper review!

EVERYBODY DIES!

XD

Oh fine, not everybody. But three important characters, including the main one -- that would be KenKen's -- are stabbed to death. And to our great surprise, they died quick deaths, with nary a minutes-long soliloquy in sight!

I'm not one to be bothered by an ambiguous or not strictly realistic ending; as long as I get a gut feeling of "That made sense", I'm happy. (See also, the ending of Utena, Murakami's writings, the tv ending of EVA) In other words, this type of open-ended, maybe it's his dream, or her dream, or maybe it's something else, worked for me.

Also, there was much dancing and singing (I wasn't the only one who had no clue it was a musical, right?), and comic relief in the form of, among others, a detective/police guy/whatever-he-was with the biggest penis ever who sang a song about sake while everyone waltzed around him. It was brilliant!

Sometimes I feel like a cynical curmudgeon, because I'm not half the romantic I used to think I was... But god, KenKen really did it for me tonight. While I didn't think the initial scene between Mamiya and Shiori, in which they talk about travelling, had much chemistry at all, their first duet just about slew me, simple though the lyrics were (I understood every single line of that song, that's how ~~cheesy~~ simple it was). And every interaction between them after was so sweet, I was nearly in tears.

And just so you don't think there was nobody but KenKen on stage, there were also SPARKLE TWINS (sadly, they were not sparkly tonight -- but they'll always sparkle in my heart! <3), Erynn's Really Tall Guy (Takeshi, a.k.a. Higa's Chinen), and First Kachirou.

In summary, it was a damn good show.

I suppose I've been starved for tenderness these past... years, but as usual my brain buries that need so far down that I'm not usually aware of it. I also wonder if maybe I'm finally experiencing culture shock, two and a half years after moving here. At my six-month mark, which is, from what I've heard, the usual freaking out point, I was in full emotional turmoil because of stupid G, and the year that followed that I was mostly in hiding. I'm a person who likes being on her own, so I wasn't unhappy in my solitude, but I'm glad that I was here and not back home at that point, because I could indulge myself as much as needed without anyone pointing out that it was perhaps a tad unhealthy to spend so much time by myself. Anyway, I keep waiting for the culture shock to hit, and it hasn't yet... At least, not that I'm aware of. @_@

I don't know, it's as though now that I've made a bunch of different friends and have an actual social life, I somehow feel my loneliness more than I did before, when it was just me and my comfortably numb and blanketed emotions. Not that I'm dissatisfied or anything, it's just that I'm getting used to having feelings again, and isn't it weird how they affect my mood? I mean, come on!

This moment of introspection was brought to you by KenKen in tight jeans. <3

Thank you, and good night.