Well that went just like clockwork!

I won! My Alex DeLarge outfit won first prize in my film class’ dress-up do today. It was so cool wearing it to uni, I felt pretty awesome. Several people told me it was a cool costume as we waited outside the lecture theatre, and I actually started singing ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ in the foyer… Not in a shy mood today, in other words. Or maybe I actually adopted Alex’ buoyant behaviour as well as his clothes.

The people who had dressed up had to go up on stage and introduce themselves one by one, and when it was my turn I held up my glass milk bottle and said, after I’d said I was Alex from A Clockwork Orange, that ‘I’ve even got my milk!’. One of the tutors then repeated our “names”, and whoever got the loudest applause would win. Guess who was very pleasantly surprised when the tutor said my name and the whole room erupted with applause and cheers, after very polite applause for the people before me. There were a few other people whom I thought might beat me, but according to the tutor, after everyone had had their round of applause, it was pretty clear to him who the winner was: Alex from A Clockwork Orange! What a great feeling it was to hear those words. I made a few bows and spectacular movements, in line with Alex’s strange behaviour.

First prize was two movie passes, so now I have to choose what to do with the second one – be selfish and go to the movies twice, by myself, or go with someone and treat them to a free screening? The second one is more tempting, but then the question remains; who shall I share it with?

See any resemblance? (The lecturer and the tutors took heaps of photos in the lecture today, so if/when they post them online I will post them on my blog, so you can see what other costumes I was up against.)

I spent the rest of the afternoon running around town getting my grocery shopping done, battling the ferocious wind all the time. When I finally got home it was almost tea-time, and after some time trying to decide what to make (I bought lots of yummy foods today) I finally decided on burgers. (Mmmm burgers.) I haven’t had a burger that didn’t come from McDonald’s or Burger King in at least a year (or maybe like 10 months).

They were sooo darn good. (I was starving when making dinner, hence the large number of burgers. I was close to vomiting when I forced down the last bite.)

Now I’m about to have a shower, a glass of gin and tonic, and then set out for town to see what it’s like. Friday night, wooo!

Dress-ups and presentations

Today I finally completed my Mdia102 response paper, which included a 700-800-word essay and leading a group discussion in this week’s tutorial, about the readings and the essay topic. Funnily enough, I wasn’t a bit nervous before the tutorial, and I think it went pretty well. I’m hoping it did, anyway.

After uni I went to town (for the first time in about a week, it was great!) – the sun was shining, and I was wearing a dress because it was so nice and warm. I got several compliments for it, from strangers as well as from people I know, which made me smile even wider at everyone I met. (Just for the record, here’s a picture of me wearing the same dress in January this year:)

The reason I was going to town was that I was looking for stuff I need for this dress-up thing we’re doing in my film class tomorrow, where we are supposed to dress up as our favourite celebrity, movie character or something like that. So I’ve decided to dress up as Alexander DeLarge (Alex) from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, because I find that character so fascinating. Plus I really love his outfit, and have been wanting to dress up like him for some time, but didn’t really have a reason to do so until now. There will be prizes – I really want to win!

Pretty cool, huh?

I went to several shops around town; the $2 shop, various second-hand shops and other cheap places, but everything was either not quite right or too expensive for something I’d probably only wear once, so I went to a costume place our lecturer had told us about, and they fitted me with the costume seen above (my shoes) for only $35 – I would very much like to keep the hat! I even bought fake eyelashes to wear on one eye… That’s what I call dedication!

Malcolm McDowell’s Alexander DeLarge is like Heath Ledger’s The Joker of the 1970’s – frightening; charismatic and crazy; but we still love the characters.

I also went to the supermarket, where I happened to come across a ONE News cameraman and a TV presenter hard at work in one of the aisles, and I just had to walk past them while they were filming, so somewhere in the NZ news world I will be shown on a screen, most likely tonight (I’ve been trying to locate the clip online, but so far I’ve been unsuccessful). I swear those cameras are following me…

Btw does anyone else notice how much better I’ve become at posing in front of a camera? Just thought I’d randomly throw that out there.