good news, everyone!
[please pretend it's Tuesday the 23rd of September so I don't have to change any of the writing below :P]
Soooooooooo I was walking home from uni today, feeling kinda bummed out. This is that part of the year where they decided to put all the essays (and I do mean all the essays), which I'm sick of; and I've fallen behind on my lectures a bit, so I've been sitting in tutes thinking "please don't ask me questions, pplleeaassee don't ask me questions". I'll have to use the break to catch up. But I also feel the same way in a broader sense about my uni life in general, seeing as I haven't really made any friends or established myself in any social circle. In high school, I kinda struggled socially until Year 10, and that wasn't long before I started the whole comedy thing. Comedy gave me a sense of identity: I was that guy who did the stand-up. But cos I'm so socially isolated at uni, no one knows that, so I walk around feeling kinda like a nobody. And though I wanna get into comedy, there's nothing at the uni to facilitate that, and the only other place doing comedy around here is a small comedy club which is itself part of a larger, more general club. Local opportunities are thin on the ground.
But as I walked home, I was like "hold on... that's a false dichotomy. Surely, there are other avenues besides 'local uni' and 'local comedy club' for you to use". Cos my uni has literally nothing in the form of comedy or performance groups, but my uni is also not the only uni that exists, now is it :P So I went online and searched for comedy things at a few universities in Sydney... boy did I pick the wrong fuckin' tertiary institution to attend :P
These places have entire groups dedicated to just comedy! Regular events, Facebook pages, the whole fuckin' lot. They've got stand-up heats going on, they've got improv groups—seriously, how the fuck do they have all this shit while we have fuck all? Man, they're so lucky. But anyway, I'm gonna look into it and see if I can get in touch with them and sort something else, maybe perform up there sometime :)
One obstacle I did think of would be the independence involved in travelling back and forth between Sydney and where I live. It's not like I haven't been to Sydney before, but I've never been there alone. I've always had at least one person there with me who knows their way around. On the other hand, I've been to this city before, I've caught the train there and back before, and I've even planned trips there by myself before (even if I went on those trips with multiple people). It's not like I'm going to another country alone, being dropped into a place I've never been, thousands of miles from home, where no one speaks my language. People my age have come through way scarier shit than that unscathed :P The money involved in travel is another issue, given I'm unemployed, but I've got birthday money I can rely on for now.
All the stand-up performances they even list are at, like, 1pm, so I wouldn't even have to worry about being on a train at night. Though if I perform anywhere up there at night (which could well happen if this becomes a regular thing for me, or if I perform at other venues), that will be a thing I have to work with.
The stand-up group at Sydney Uni is having a comedy competition at the moment, but sign ups closed in July, so I'll probably have to wait a bit until I can perform up there. Still, no sense in not asking these people if I can perform at a later date—nothing to lose :)
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