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Forgot to post about this yesterday, but I found it amusing. I have six groups of ten students each, under my tutelage; they have to write a seven-to-ten minute script on a subject of their choice and perform it as their final project. Needless to say, this generates some intergroup tension.

Playwright: Well, we were thinking about a comedy. But we have no ideas.
Me: Is there an issue you'd like to address? Politics? Gay marriage is big right now, or the presidential race --
Playwright: *uncomfortable look*
Me: What's wrong?
Playwright: We kind of wanted to write a comedy because we didn't want to offend anyone*.
Me: Then you really shouldn't be doing theatre.

* 1. This was the fourth time I'd heard that -- "We don't want to offend anyone" -- uttered. 2. Isn't 90% of comedy about making fun of some segment of the population?

Anyhow. My standard response is "In a class of a hundred and fifty other people, rest assured, someone will be offended even if all you do is stand still on the stage staring at the lighting for ten minutes."

To which one playwright replied "Can we do that?"

*headdesk*

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This is the script for the Futurist Theatre piece we had to synthesise in class today. Our theme we were assigned was "The Life of a Graduate Student". I'm not making this up. I typed it directly from my notebook. :D

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A room. One long oval conference table. Three people. One sits at the table among the audience, frantically but silently flipping simultaenously through two identical textbooks. Two pace around the table, shouting their lines over each other:

ONE
THEATRE! SHOP! OFFICE! TA OFFICE! PAINT SHOP! SOUND LAB! COSTUME SHOP! CLASS! THEATRE! SHOP! OFFICE!

ONE
THEATRE ARTS 593! THEATRE ARTS 596! THEATRE ARTS 602! THEATRE ARTS 638! THEATRE ARTS 700! THEATRE ARTS 820!

All collapse.

Repeat for three years.

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We love grad school. We also love whining.

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Tadaa! Sweet Home is all grown up now, and no longer fits in LJ updates, so it has its own page. Which segues nicely into an organised list of the HP stuff I have to work on, since I'm not sure I can keep it all in my head (and it's not THAT long a list, which tells you something.)

Sweet Home: Remus wanders the earth in search of employment and a good shag.
Stealing Harry: Sirius and Remus have mansex and joint custody of eight year old Harry. Cos, you know, AU.
All This Time: Snape takes self-absorption to a new level when he pals around with his eleven-year-old self.
Hello, Darkness: The Marauders' E! True Hollywood Story. Featuring Neurotic Undersocialised Remus and Fat Lily.