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Had another Oxfam open house yesterday - not many people through but I spent most of the time from 10.30-4pm chatting to someone, and got rid of several pictures and some cards for a profit of around £80, so not a bad day overall. I'm taking the stuff down to the theatre tonight to see if anyone turns up there.

A cheering start to the day when I found this post on Alan Cumming's blog. A performance of "Don't Tell Mama" from Cabaret in a genderswapped version, ie performed by AC instead of 'Sally Bowles'. Alan Cumming is made of awesome.

Beast got it into his head that he wanted a new keyboard, so now I also have a new keyboard. It's a nice typing action but a bit noisy, also rather high off the desk. And as it is a Windows keyboard there are oddnesses. Also, for some reason the @ key, while in its proper place above the 2, is indicated on the keyboard as ". The " key, above the ', has an @ label. I'm not sure about this...

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When you see a mariachi band playing to a beluga whale, surely the first question that comes to mind is - why?

Because... why?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_6-IwMPjM

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Today's singing lesson was hard. I *sang* just fine, but Dan now wants me to put some feeling into it, and that is a real challenge. I don't think I am comfortable deliberately trying to express emotion that way - I'd much rather hide it.

So. It'll be interesting.