T is for tired

[thoreau]

ugh. not a great sleep night last night. :( so I broke down and had double mocha this morning - instead of the drip coffee with 1/2n1/2 on the new diet. and its not working. nope. it is not.

Last night's rehearsaphothshoot/performance was a real long haul. Our call was 530pm - and I rushed out of the office to make it - and one of our actors was late - by like 45 minutes - so the rest of us and the photographer sat around while he arrived and got changed - and by the time we got through the photoshoot? we only had time to run a transition - and the house opened. which meant - many parts of the play that had been changed - we'd never run live. and now we were headed into a performance.

Many casts have pre-show rituals.... ours is the gayest. One of our cast members is a HUGEOMONGOUS comic book nut - and actually carries Wonder Woman's golden lasso of truth on his murse. so - we each take hold of the golden lasso. and I usually lead the group in some sort of short statement about truth. (i've been using brainyqoute to come up with something poigniant to qoute each evening) Because honestly - the magic of this play - is how truthful it is - how it portrays gay men in a REAL light - showing their flaws and insecurities right alongside their witty charming beauty. so - after circling up over the lasso of truth - we had one of the most energetic flawless performances of the entire process so far in front of an enthusiastic laugh-filled audience.

Then I got home to the apartment building only to realize I'd left my wallet at the theater - so I leashed up miss kate - and headed back to the theater... then walked her around the hood in the fog - and up to the muffin penthouse.

Once there - Had celery with red pepper hummus as a snack before bed... then - BAM! the fire alarm in the building went off. They had been testing them earlier in the day - and when the fire alarm goes off - Miss Kate (sleeping on the bed next to me) starts MADLY barking. So from dead sleep - I'm sitting up in bed with a barking baying puppy, the klaxon outside my door - and my heart exploding in my chest. It took me a good two hours to get back to sleep.

I turned the alarm off when it went off - and slept till 7am. Then I took Miss Kate out for a nice walk - and came back - showered - and headed into the office. *yawn*

okay so I'm blathering - I do that.

Tonight I have the unexpected company of Roy kroyd who is coming up to the city to visit his sister - and is coming to see the show tonight. YAY! He's arriving in town around 4ish - and will be in town all weekend. Miss Kate is excited to meet him - and so is David come the weekend.

Must get back to....... try and......

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Comments

[bibliocub.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a great performance and that the audience was intelligent enough to know it. : )

Sorry about the bad night. Hopefully tonight will go better.

Kisses.

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

KROYD...sigh. when we had a coffee clatch date he had to go home early.so i never got to meet him ..sigh. shufflin feet.

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

So happy to hear of the great opening night!

Stress is stress whethre from intensely good or bad input. Here's to some less-stressful evenings ahead. :)