Well, my auditions all went rather well, and our casting session was even better. I now have a cast for my play, The Good Doctor by Neil Simon. I had one read-through of the script with them a few days ago, just before leaving uni for the Easter break, and it was so exciting to finally hearing its words come to life! It's going to be a very funny play, and I can't wait to get it staged...

I've now been out of Launceston for four days, which is more than the total amount of time I'd had at home since this semester started! It's been so good for me, and I think I'll be ready to tackle the next half of semester by the time I go back. On Thursday I went into Devonport to wave off some friends who were catching the Spirit of Tasmania to Melbourne, and then driving up to Canberra for the National Folk Fesival. I was GREEEEEEEEEEN with envy that I can't go this year, but following their departure I bumped into a friend that I hadn't seen for ages, and then later that afternoon when I was busking in Ulverstone I saw some more friends, had a wonderful lunch of fish 'n' chips from Pedro's (thankyou, Monica!), and got handed $20 by some guy after singing Bring Me to Life by Evanescence! One of the friends that I bumped into was from my year 12 drama class, and she told me that about half of us were going out to dinner in Devonport that night, so I joined them and had a magnificent time! So basically, if I hadn't decided to go to Ulverstone that day, I would have completely missed this dinner, and catching up with some very close friends, so I took it as a bit of a sign that not going to Canberra with my other friends was the right desicion...at least this year!

Nevertheless, as one of my friends in Canberra is the other half of my musical duo, and he's probably going to be able to do so much significant networking, I'm determined to prove to him that staying here in Tassie can be just as productive. So I've been doing lots of groundwork for The Good Doctor, hunting for mini clip-on micrpophones for my dumbeg, working on a few logistics for our Tasmanian Tour this coming summer, and creating some visual art! Yesterday, I went to the amazing beech forest between Railton and Sheffield and got some great shots of leaves, trees, and fungi. I'll upload them very soon. Some of them look awesome, and I'm very proud of them...

So now it's Easter Sunday, and Dad's cooking up a delicious-looking breakfast for us all (I should be helping him, but DeviantArt can be such a distraction sometimes, as you're all aware!). I think today will be a lovely restful one of celebration, rest and artistic plotting...not necessarily in that order!

Happy Easter everyone!

Jesse/~Valadix