Trying to be funny

I'm trying hard, and I think I'm succeeding. Funny acting. After a few hitches, I'm now acting in two comedy sketches with the DumbFunded Theatre Group, set up by three of my friends on the course. And I'm really enjoying it. It's something I'm rediscovering that I love doing, and am actually not bad at. The last proper comedy stuff I did was in Year 9 at school, when we did some improvised sketches, I played one of an old couple, bored of their marriage, and was delightedly surprised when everyone laughed at my friend and me (they were meant to). Since then, I've neglected it a little, other than taking a role in 'Daisy Pulls It Off' by Denise Deegan with an amateur theatre company, the Carlton Players in Birkenhead last year. It was so much fin playing a schoolgirl again, almost ten years after leaving school. A gymslip can knock years off you.

So I'm now doing it again, hoping I can make people laugh. It's quite addicitive. I'm not a great actress, but I'm good at certain things. I'm pretty good at learning lines too, which always helps. That's a weekend task: if only I had a tape recorder, I could play it on the very long drive home which I am embarking on once again this afternoon. Six and a half hours is a long time to fill, and driving is a very boring thing often. At least it's a clear, dry day. Bitterly cold, though I guess this is as cold as it gets in Cornwall.

I certainly looked funny today: I am a student ambassador, and have been up at Tremough for the postgraduate open day. Lots of visitors which was great, including loads for the Professional Writing course. I hope people like it, and want to come next year. It was quite weird as I came myself in February last year, and spoke to students then, and did wonder at one point where I would find myself a year on. And here I am. Dressed in a mustard yellow hooded sweatshirt, which clashes horribly with a purple skirt. But at least it was warm for standing outside ushering people through the car park barrier. I was very visible - the outfit was completed by a fluorescent vest.