Matthew's Journal

Failed to get to mass today - atreic and I have driven in, as we had to go shopping afterwards, but failed to find anywhere to park in time :(

I've been feeling a bit strange today. Rather weepy for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. I've done the odd theatrical thing before and never felt like this afterwards. I can't get bits of LOTR out of my head. Maybe I'm just having difficulty letting go of Treebeard and Gollum. Maybe it's partly because there are a fair few people from the Readthrough who I may not see again (or at least, have just gone away for the summer). Maybe it's because we did a great thing together, that was transient, and is now gone, save in our memories. I know we weren't allowed to record it, but I'd give anything to have had a recording. Not necessarily to ever really listen to, but to have as a concrete reminder that we actually *did* it.

The readthrough itself was great yesterday. Brian Sibley turned up and filled in for the ill ewx. He seemed to like my Gollum (and applauded my Treebeard), which made me feel good. Really good. The tech-stuff didn't go as well as it could, but I think this was partly due to inexperience - with 20-20 hindsight, we should have had at least some tech for the dress rehersal.I think I should leave assesment generally to the people who were the audience, but in general people were really good.

Hm. Are the other post-readthrough people feeling like this too, or is it just me?

Update: would a cast party beginning of Michaelmas be a good idea? If I hosted it, we could provide muchos crash-space.
I may take up Merry's "come and visit" offer up too. I guess I'll see some of you at Oxonmoot, too :)