let me just say this: EARPLUGS. somebody kept telling me i should wear earplugs at night to help me sleep and i thought this was a good idea in theory. but last night i finally FINALLY put some in some fabulous earplugs that i’ve had for a long long time and haven’t used.
and i didn’t wake up this morning till JUST NOW. and it’s almost ten.
A MIRACLE!
a great way to start my weekend.
oh yeah, and there was the show last night…
well, first of all, the hair extensions went well and amy made big banana curls all over my head and i felt just like little bo peep and longed desperately for a frilly dress and a staff. it was fun to go out to lunch and run some errands with this ridiculously long curly hair. boing boing went the curls, like sally in charlie brown.
no nap indeed, because i didn’t want to squash them.
i started getting a little nervous around five o’clock last night which i hadn’t expected. i suddenly found myself with nothing to do, so i went to the theater pretty early, and on the drive over the nerves went away.
because i was there so early i was of course ready to go really really early and i started getting bored. i fluffed my hair out and put on my makeup and costume and waited and waited for time to pass.
and then, when we were FINALLY standing backstage getting ready to go on, i got excited about doing it.
and then…it was fun. it was SO FUN. i’m lucky because my part is pretty easy and fun. yeah, i do have to run up and down the stairs a million times (approximately) in my very tall heels, but that’s not so bad. i get a little warm doing it, but since i’m not wearing many clothes it’s not so bad. not like patrick in his WOOL JACKET, and he has to do a lot more than me, and at one point backstage i worried that he might actually spontaneously combust. is it too late to get him a lighter jacket?
it was so fun. it was the best we’d done; there were a few times when the lines we were saying didn’t match exactly the written lines, but it didn’t matter because we kept going. at one point in the third act patrick was saying all kinds of things (i’m sure he was completely delirious from the heat/fatigue at this point) and he kept saying stuff and i kept saying stuff in response and eventually we got to the right place where we were supposed to be. it was so funny to me that i almost laughed, which wouldn’t have been appropriate at all.
i realized why i love being in plays. i do love doing my one-woman shows because i love writing them and they’re so fun to perform. but the great thing about a play is that it’s not a solitary venture. there are all these other people around you, and we’re all in it together.
that’s a great feeling. many things i’ve always done in my life have been just me alone, and it sure is good to have others there to share the experience with.
nearing the end of act three, there’s a long stretch where i’m crawling around behind the couch and i don’t have to do anything really for the rest of the play and i started getting kind of sad that it was almost over. i think i’m definitely going to miss it when it’s ALL over. but hey, we still have five more performances.
there was a decent crowd last night, and it was a FANTASTIC crowd because they LAUGHED. this was so awesome because that’s been the most challenging thing about the rehearsal process, doing the stuff with no reaction at all. a few titters and grins here and there from the staff watching it, but having a real live audience was great. there were things that made me laugh every time, like when jim says “little hugs and squeezes” and the audience laughed a lot at that.
fun. it was so much fun. i wish i could do it all the time.
now, the party on the other hand…
ok, for one thing, i was STARVING.
let me say it again.
STAR-VING.
but so i got there and felt the need to eat ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.
EVERY SINGLE THING.
it was like i’d suddenly forgotten that i have to be in my underwear YET AGAIN TONIGHT, and somehow i felt that i HAD TO EAT EVERYTHING.
not good. not good at all. bad, bad grace.
tonight will be different. NO MORE EATING EVERYTHING.
i promise.
christine and paolo are going to the party with me, and i’ll tell them to NOT LET ME EAT EVERYTHING.
maybe i’ll bring along some duct tape and put it over my mouth.
but then again that might make it slightly difficult to talk to people.
the other bad thing is that i kept staying at the party later and later and later and then it was TWO IN THE MORNING and i had a very long drive home and then i’d have to take off my makeup and MY GOD I WASN’T GOING TO GET ENOUGH SLEEP.
but so i got to bed at three and i put in the earplugs and even though it would have been good to have another hour of sleep, it’s all good.
a nap is definitely in order this afternoon.
oh yeah, and i’m not going to even mention my ABSOLUTE HORROR at all the SNOW covering the ground at this time. no to mention the snow FALLING FROM THE SKY.
today, i’m going to focus on NOT eating everything tonight at the party, and NOT looking outside.
whew. i’m going to get up and make some spanikopeta for the party now. it’s very delicious and i love it but i’m NOT GOING TO EAT ALL OF IT. i’m bringing it to share with others.
that is all at this time. i hope your saturday is fulfilling and i hope you COME SEE THE SHOW!
ok then,
saturday grace, full of glee.