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Santiago's Municipal Theatre put up a special ballet function of Dickens' beloved christmas classic and I was there for it.

Julie (2018) is Polly Stenham's contemporary rewrite of Strindberg's Miss Julie (which I haven't read or seen, so there's a task for this summer), and it tells us a story we might already know well: crazy rich beautiful not-that-young-anymore woman who has failed in life due to neglectful parents is lost, drinks and does drugs, is horribly inappropriate with her staff, and is generally miserable. On the night we caught her, she is also trying to seduce her father's driver, who is engaged to be married to her maid (with whom she shares the typical mistress-maid tension that comes from emotional intimacy mediated by money and status).

I went to see the NTL transmission yesterday; it started off with an interesting interview with the director and playwright and finished off with a whimper, with some depth in between.

So what are my feelings on it?

So, history can repeat itself, as it turns out.

I feel like, more than anything else, my most draining pain has always been (and could always be) the fact that no matter how many times I try telling myself that it's literally impossible, deep down I have always desired to be perfect. And eternal.

And I don't know if I can live any other way.

(And I hate myself because I am not, sometimes.)

After more than five years, I went back to my local library.

I think I started liking K-pop around 2009, and was really invested in it by 2011. Saving a few exceptions, I met my closest friends to date either through the Super Junior fandom or K-pop context.

If you stan K-pop or part of it, you know it is a world on its own. It is a gateway to Korean culture: food, music, shows, social structure, even history. You get immersed in a glamorous world that used to be so far away (now it's easier to travel there and get your merch shipped home) but became closer when there were events and  fandom get-togethers. Then concerts started to happen: JYJ, Music Bank, Super Junior, etc., and the community thrived.