And the news is...
(Drum roll please)
...
There is no news. I still haven’t received their answer! Gah.
I hate waiting. Of course I’d prefer to wait for a month and hear good news
than wait for a week and get bad news, but still…
In the letter that RADA sent to me, they said, “You will be
informed by letter within a week of
your audition result.”
There are seven days in a week. There are 24 hours in a day.
There are therefore 168 hours in a week. I auditioned at approximately 10.30am
on Monday 27th February 2012. It is currently 2.34pm on Tuesday 6th
March 2012. The amount of time that has elapsed between the time of my audition
and now is 196 hours and 4 minutes. Now if I am correct (and please do feel
free to explain thoroughly to me how and why I may be incorrect), this means
that it has now been 28 hours and 4
minutes more than a week since I auditioned.
They lied!
What could this mean? Was my audition so good that they haven’t bothered to send me a letter because they’ve
accepted me onto their course straightaway and are just legally obliged to
audition other people before they tell me officially because everybody’s paid £55,
and once that’s all over and done with I’ll be given a phone call and offered a
place? Or did my audition appal them so much that they feel that wasting a
rejection letter on somebody who auditioned as badly as me would be doing the
tree that provided the paper a major disservice? Or maybe it’s because when I
gave them stamped addressed envelopes to use to send me the results of my
audition, I attached 2nd Class stamps as opposed to 1st…
Yes, I regret that now.
But hey, they never mentioned anything in their letter about
results taking longer than a week to be delivered if they were coming in
envelopes with 2nd Class stamps on them! They shouldn’t make
promises like that unless they can back them up! I can’t be the only one to
attach 2nd Class stamps… I mean when you’re paying £55 for an
audition it’s only natural to try and save money where you can. I mean, the
envelope I sent to them wasn’t actually even an envelope – it was just a piece
of A4 paper folded and glued together to look like an envelope.
Ok no it wasn’t, but still, a sentence that went a bit more
like this might have been more appropriate: “You will be informed of your
audition result by letter, which we shall post within a week of your audition
but which may take longer than a week to reach you, depending on the type of
stamp you attached to the envelope.” It’s a slightly more unwieldy sentence
than the one they used, but certainly a more accurate one.
Anyway I just thought I’d write this because a) I’m bored,
and b) I know you’re all desperate
for more posts from me… The trouble is that now I’ve written about every
audition I’ve done (and also written about UCAS, and just written this
desperate excuse for a post today) I’m struggling for drama school material.
Depending on how things pan out I might end up writing about other acting-y
things as well (mainly to stave off my own boredom) but we shall see…
Until next time, I leave you with this thought:
“A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has…”
No, that’s not right…
Umm… Maybe this:
“Life has meaning only if…”
If…
If…
…
Ah, forget it, I got nothing.
As always loved the post sir, I reckon this blog has a real longitivtiy that you may not quite grasp yet. KEEP AT IT!
ReplyDeleteI've actually been checking this regularly for results. I get really anxious to hear results, even when they're not from my own audition! And I remember making the 2nd class stamp mistake with RADA. I really think for that high an audition fee they could spare the money for a couple of stamps!
ReplyDeleteThanks guys, good to hear people are enjoying reading it! And I agree Millie - some of us aren't just made of money/1st class stamps! A proper update about my RADA audition will be up soon...
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