okay! it's all happening.
off on the newcastle/sydney round trip on wednesday and am experiencing a mixture of emotions that have elements of excitement, anxiety, self doubt and constipation. in newwie, i will have wednesday afternoon and thursday morning to explore. then there's the panel on thursday afternoon. friday i am hosting a reading at 11am, doing a reading at 4pm, then doing standup at 7.30pm-ish. saturday i will sample the delights of the festival - i have my eye on a couple of sessions i definitely want to go to. most of my newcastle thoughts will be recorded on my nywf blog, nywf and me.
then sunday afternoon i head off to sydney. i have a standup spot confirmed for the monday night at an open mic in east sydney. tuesday i missed out on a spot at another open mic, but thats cool cause i think i left it till too late anyway. now the question begs - out of all the material i've done so far, what five minutes should i use?
sitting in the heated comfort of my house at the moment, i'm thinking come on, the worse that can happen is that you'll die spectacularly on stage, and then you'll get to catch a plane and get the hell out of there. as opposed to bombing on stage here, then seeing all the same people that saw you do that at the next gig. hmm. maybe now would be a good time to get over this whole 'i'm afraid i will suck badly occasionally' paranoia, because i'm human, and because shit happens.