day 15- boom, boom, pow!

Well, another day at work, PAT testing is well on it's way ow, 2 days gone, one more to do, you would be surprised how long it takes to test everything that plugs into a socket in a theatre!  a few fails but on the whole, were pretty much set up for the new season, starting with full force next week.  It has given me chance to practice my plug rewiring/ attaching skills which I am getting quicker at finally, It's oddly therapeutic.  Other then that its allot of organising, cleaning, tidying, fixing and general maintenance.  In other news, galaxy cookie crumble is amazing!

Also, having somehow lost my book on bedlam in the theatre (history geek!), I managed to find Dawn of the Dumb by Charlie Brooker in the props storage weirdly, so reading that at work and Boy in the striped pyjamas. :)
Then home, I made chicken noodle soup and currently have my hair in curlers, just for the hell of it!  I'm off to Sheffield on Saturday as It's a friends birthday and it's the industrial night at corporation, which also co-insides with the Faderhead release party, so it should all be good :D  Also I get to see the boy, which is always the best!

Here's a lil game :)
Type these words into your music library and see what comes up

Happy: Happy Holidays You Bastard by Blink 182

Sad: Sad But True by Metallica 

Love: Crazy in Love by Eminem 

Hate:  All These Things I Hate Revolve Around You by Bullet For My Valentine

Light: Lights out by Mindless Self Indulgence

Dark: Dance In The Dark by Lady Gaga

Good: No Good (start the dance) by The Prodidgy

Now I'm off to watch This is England 86 :D

Industrial_Alice

Here's a picture of me next to the giant Xbox we set up at work, jealous?

Quote of the Day: " You can all come to London, to be in my vagina"- Elle MacPherson (well...sort of...)

day 11- XBOX!

Today was another work day, lots of fun with the pit lift, lots of lifting and carrying, lots of jokes and general hard work, after work we then hooked up an xbox to the cinema screen with full theatre surround sound and played the new halo.  It was awesome, except the fact I am god dam awful at it!

Then home, lots more laughing with jess, now IT crowed then sleep, I am shattered.

I will upload pics soon :)

Industrial_Alice

Lyric of the day: "don't wanna close my eyes, don't wanna fall asleep cause I miss you babe, and I don't wanna miss a thing"- Areosmith, because everyone was singing it at work during the get out

Quote of the day "I hate Orlando Bloom, he's such a dick, with his brown eyebrows and curly hair, wanker " "Kariss I have brown eyebrows and curly hair....oh god I'm gonna have a complex now that I look like Orlando Bloom"- me and Jess

Day 10- Back at work

Well, today was the first day back at work, doing the post-Edinburgh shows for the Lincoln Company, altogther it went well, and I got a pay rise which is always good

I got home at half 9 and since then I have just been laughing with Jess, I am literally crying with laughter, I would tell you what about but I honestly don't know, lots of shouting stuff and making stupid noises and pulling faces.

Now time to put MORE stuff on ebay before work tomorrow!

Quote of the day: "I'm a gangly freak!"  Jessica Miller

Lyric of the day: " Tounge Fucking, ass-hold licking, cyber, cyber, cyber whore, anal douching lesbian, P.O.V, cock, cock, cock, cock, pussy, cock, pussy, pussy, cock, pussy, cock, pussy, cock, money, money, money shot"- Uberbyte, Money shot :)

Day 6-I need to get better at this!

hey peeps!


today should have been a good day for blogging, however I left it too late again (sorry!) for me to write anything decent so instead you are going to get a super quick summery.


The day started off terribly, I got up late, missed my train, had to wait an hour for another, my connection trains were all cancelled, there was no bus for over an hour so I had to get a taxi, the 15 minute taxi ride turned into over an hour due to awful traffic (stupid freshers!) and other issues, I had to listen to the taxi driver tell me about his fucked up family, the taxi was expensive, I finally got to work to try and meet with my boss but everything was locked up and my staff card had stopped working, and to top it off my phone has broken so I couldn't get in contact with him.  I assume I'm not in his good books


However after this things started to improve, I went home and chilled out with my house-mate until my other house-mate had finished work, then we met with one of my old friends for lunch at dogma (half price Sundays woop!  and the new students haven't discovered it yet!)  and basically I spent the next 4 (ish) hours chatting with my house-mates and laughing like crazy!  It was the best catch up!


and to top it off I've just finished my application ready for the morning!


bed times now :)


Industrial_Alice


Quote of the Day: "I hope she didn't go bristles down, that would hurt like hell!- Amy Walsh discussing a certian scene in Suger Rush
Lyric of the Day- "Yeah but his bird thinks it's amazing, though so all that's left 
Is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf"- Artic Monkeys ( I definatly won't make a habit of quoting this band!  but i relate alot to this sing, ahving scene some god dam awful amature bands!

My poor neglected blog... awesomeness is on it's way!

Well maybe not blog wise, but these next couple of weeks should be fun fuilled for me at least!

First things first, multimedia assesments are finished! Which means little to whoever is reading this but it basicaly means I am no longer working 14-16 hour days with very little breaks. Infact, i have booked 18 days off work starting in 2 day's, 11 of which will be payed, and I finaly got the pay rise I have been wanting for a while, although that probibily won't come into reality for a while yet...

Photo of all the technicion's that worked the multimedia assesments

Which means no more assesment work till at least October, which is a shame really, I do enjoy them, but don't tell the student's that ;)

So tomorow the fun starts! Tonight I have to finish the show (Bomber's Moon, it's really good!), do the get out, then go home and have a masive packing sesion so i have everything ready for all the upcoming events, which is going to totaly suck cause i HATE packing! Then tomorow, i get up, set some stuff up at work, leave the guy's to it and get on a train because....

I am going to see Lady gaga!

This was a bit last minuite, my sister had two tickets to see her at the O2 arena and someone dropped out so she offered the other ticket to me, i can't wait, i bet she will be amazing live, I have been to the 02 arena twice before, once to go to the fanclub member's only Metallica show with my friend Samantha, and last time was with my older sister to go to the Michael Jackson tribute, if there's one thing you will learn about me from reading this blog it's that my music taste makes no sence

The next day I am getting a stupidly early train to my home town because it's my boyfriend's birthday, and we wil just be chiling out. I don't really know if my boy would want me to put a picture of him on the net so instead....

Happy birthday baby!

Last week was my mum's birthday but as I was working and didn't get to see her so the next day will mostly consist of me hanging out with my mummy <3

Me and Mum at the P!nk gig last year

On friday I am off to London again, this time me and the boy are stopping at my sister's for the weekend for the Bizarre ball

A friend of a friend won tickets and couldn't go so now me and the boy are attending in their place, the theme is carnival, but as it was last minuite i couldn't think of anything to go as, so I figured to hell with it and instead I am going as my blog's name sake, I am going as an industrial Alice :). This is what i have bought to wear so far (i just pray to got it all comes before I set off for London next week!)

These shoes wern't the cheapest but I don't mind because I know I will wear them alot

A latex Alice mask, a bit random but i kind of love it!

My Alice style corset, think this look's Alicey enough?

This is the one thing i'm most unsure of, latex blue skirt, i purposly got it to my hip size and not my waist size as I am worryed about the fit, I don't have the smallest bottom half, so i'm just hoping this works out ok!

And these are the cyberlox I am getting, the guy who is making them is going to stick some yellow in there too to make them a little more Alice like at no extra cost along with a clip in white fringe.

That is pritty much all of it, along with some Alice socks i already have and other bit's and bobs, oh and these awsome Cheshire Cat cyber goggles I already have which i love!

I just hope it all comes together and people can actualy tell who i'm ment to be. Then when i'm back from that it's strait to Download festival! This will be my 5th year in a row of going and I love it, although these day's i think it has more to do with meeting up with old freinds then Download itself

Then the day after I am back from that I go back to London once more to stay at my sister's before going with her and her Texan friend to Paris for a day as both me and him have never been before, I am not sure what this will consist of yet, then back to Lincoln to work the Art's Festival, then back to my home town once more to look after my little sister for a week as my parents are away

and so concludes my next month!

Love ya's all!

Industrial_Alice

"a dream is a wish your heart makes, when your fast asleep"

So i have this wierd habit, when i work alot or have alot to do. i dream about work, i go over and over things i need to do. I guess alot of people do this, but sometimes it really helps, i seem to have the ability to memorise things in my sleep.

For instance I'm one of those people who if i make a mistake at work, will own up to it and then beat myself up over for it for a while so i know i won't do it again, this has now transfered im to my sleep. In my dreams i can go over and over what i did wrong and how to do things so in the morning I know how to do it, wierd but useful

The pinicle of this recently was when i was Stage Managing for a touring company, first night we opened in Derby i hadn't had time to go over the changes in the technical script properly and as a result I gave a few incorect cues during the show. Anoyed with myself i went back to the place we were staying on tour, went to bed and in my sleep i somehow managed to memorise my technical script, in my head i went over and over, page by page, when i woke up I knew it off by heart, so strange!

I'm only talking about that now as last night i feel asleep reading "the lives of the English rakes" cause I'm a big nerd and I woke up with this poem going over and over in my head

God bless our good and gracious king,

Whose promise none relies on;

Who never said a foolish thing,

Nor ever did a wise one.

Nerd Points to whoever know's who wrote it and which King it was about!

In other news I Just bought wreck this journal, I haven't started it yet but I'm going to wait till I've stuck my other pics on here cause I want to document it on here :) it's gonna be awesome!

P.S sorry for there being no pics in this one, i tried but it just wont have it, someone show me how to work this thing!

All the world needs is a late opening chippy...

Just finished another long and stressful shift at work, one of those where the day starts well but ends in a lot of running round and panicking to the point where it actual seems like 2 different days rather then one long one...

Anyway because of the complicated get in and lots of minor things not working for no apparent reason or simply "disappearing" (don't even get me started on that) I ended up doing another 14 hour shift with only one break. Which basically meant towards the end of the day I was starving, having not eaten since dinner. So during the interval i ran to Tesco express to grab some food (you have no idea how stressful it is in a cue at a supermarket when you know you have to be back in the theatre and at the tech desk in 15 minutes or you hold up the whole show)

Anyway so on my way running back wolfing down some form of over priced edible-ness I over heard this conversation from a guy and his friend carrying a bag of chips:

" this is the problem, this is what the world needs, a chippy that's open till midnight, and 3am on weekends obviously. Seriously, I am fed up of eating kebabs on a Friday night, and the word "pizza" doesn't even mean anything to me any more..."

small things get you through the day :)

Samuel Pepy's, inventer of the smiley face...oh and i think he also wrote a diary...

So recently i have just finished reading Samuel Pepy's diary, and as if that wasn't nerdy enough, i was nerdy enough to notice this:

That's right, it's official Samuel pepy's, inventor of the smiley face! 23rd of February, 1669, so it appears he did more then just record important events in restoration history, it appears he was the inventor of computer nerds!

In other news, i know i was going to blog about York, the problem is I have a new phone and it came without a connector, so all my photos are stuck on it, i ordered one on-line and have been trying to get it to work in the short time i have after work before i pass out and its been playing up, pictures are coming though in bits and peace's, hopefully soon i will manage to get them all up and i can show you my stuff and have more cam pictures in general on my blogs.

Also as of Monday my ridiculous work schedule calms down... dramaticly.....its like going from 100 miles an hour to slamming the breaks on, oh how i love the stability of the performing arts industry! Anyway what this does do is give me more time to blog!

hope you have a great weekend

industrial_Alice

Stay tuned....

So i can only apologise for the state of this blog at the moment! i have ton's of idea's for it but time is lacking! I have just got back from work at nearly midnight and i have a job application to send off and get train tickets, sort stuff for tomorrow and shower at some point!

i promise that as soon as i get chance i will make a decent start on the list of things i have in my head to share with you guy's on here! just bare with me, work goes from insanely busy to deadly silent, that's the theatre business for you, so no doubt lots of blogs one week and none the next

At least i will keep you on your toes :)

Off to York early tomorrow for a day out with my daddy, hopefully i can take lots of pictures and stick some on here if i learn to work my new phone!

over and out!

Industrial_Alice