on the news last night they kept saying HUGE STORM A COMIN’ – FROM SIX A.M. TILL SIX P.M. TOMORROW IT’S GONNA SNOW SNOW SNOW.
i woke up this morning expecting to look out and see gobs of snow on the ground.
but, nothing.
i drove to an appointment, no snow.
but less than an hour later i was driving home and it started to snow. it didn’t look consequential at all, but then the flakes got bigger. as i drove down veteran’s parkway, suddenly it was coming down ridiculously hard and it was impossible to see up ahead and snow was covering the pavement.
so here i am at home now, watching the snow fall the the wind whip all around.
was it really 72 degrees just two days ago?
because it’s march, though, it’s bound to get warm again sometime soon. except for the temperatures in the teens that are expected this week.
maybe rehearsal will be cancelled tonight. i’m in “victor victoria,” in case i haven’t mentioned it before. it’s going to be at the hoogland at the end of the month, dinner theater. i’m in the chorus, which means i have to both SING and DANCE, which i haven’t had to do in about…many many years. it’s actually kind of fun, though, the singing and dancing.
well, the dancing, anyway…even though it is a musical, the music director is also the music director of a show that’s going on at the same time, so we haven’t seen her in a few weeks. last night she was back, plus we also had a piano player for the first time…ever? and it was interesting to sing the songs again. we haven’t tried singing and dancing both together, yet. soon, hopefully. i only have to sing three songs, not much. one of the dances is kind of like tap dancing, without the tap shoes. modified tap. it’s a fun dance except VERY VERY FAST.
the director of the play, matt schwartz, is 22 years old. TWENTY TWO. i couldn’t have directed a play at 22. i did manage to direct a movie at 31, but a lot of stuff happened in those nine years for me. at 22, i couldn’t have directed anything. but matt, he’s a very old 22. he doesn’t look OLD, per se, but he just seems to have it all together, pretty much, especially for somebody so young. besides directing, he’s also doing his own choreography. he shows us the steps, and he doesn’t seem to have anything written down at all, but his memory seems infinitely large. i find this incredible, but the thing that is really nice is he clearly has a vision of how he wants things, and he’s cheerful and polite, most of the time.
another funny thing about the production is that matt’s mom, barb, is the lead, and his brother, brett is also in the show. one night we were rehearsing a dance but not that many people were there, and i pointed out that half of the people dancing were schwartzes. it’s also funny because matt will say, “ok, you stand there, and mom, you do this…” i bet there has never been a play around here directed by a son with his mom playing the lead.
if rehearsal isn’t cancelled, then i will be forced to sit around and worry about the primary results. last night after a not very good day, i got home and wanted to watch jon stewart’s “the daily show” but was horrified to see that hillary was the guest, via satellite from austin, and she continued to talk throughout the entire rest of the show.
luckily randy called me so i didn’t have to actually listen to her.
randy, by the way…at this very moment randy is stuck in a ditch outside of decatur. he had to drive there for work and when it started to snow i told him YOU SHOULD COME HOME, but he felt he had to do a few more things. so now there he is in the ditch. a cop or a sheriff or somebody in an unmarked car is now sitting next to him, and in between randy in the ditch and the guy in the car, four cars have skidded off the road and run in between them.
so it’s a little bit dicey for randy right now. but i know he’ll pull through it. but he won’t be in a very good mood.
ok then,
snowy grace.