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October 19, 2006
I Am Scum
Today being Wednesday, I had dance class and rehearsal after work. I can’t say I was much looking forward to rehearsal, but then again, I rarely am.
Normally after class, I stretch for about 15 minutes, chatting with Maria if she’s there. But as rehearsal now starts as soon as class finishes, I either stretch with Maria in the corridor (if she’s there), and chat with her and others at length, have a cigarette, and miss the first 20 mins or so of rehearsal.
Today, the plan was to have a quick cig, make a quick phone call, and dash back into the studio. Not including quick hellos with people from my dance group, I chatted with about seven people while I was outside, texting Laura a few times before she turned up out of the blue, and – cough – accompanied me to the pub (an hour and a half before the end of rehearsal, cough cough).
That in itself wouldn’t have been so bad, except that I was still at the pub at 10pm when one of the guys from rehearsal turned up.
Worse still, however, was when the dance teacher friend and I went to O’Neills after the pub closed, and standing outside the window… were another two people from rehearsal.
I smiled, waved, and raised my glass to them.
Posted by chantal at October 19, 2006 02:42 AM