last evening we had a read-through for the latest DANGER: ADULT CONTENT show.  remember that?  we did one…two years ago?  must have been two and a half years ago.  last time i got to be a crazy woman turning into a bag lady who carried many things in her purse including a bowl of cold oatmeal.  it was fun to be crazy, except the second night when i couldn’t remember my next line.  luckily i was supposed to be crazy, so i kept repeating the line “AND RUMMAGING THROUGH GARBAGE CANS” over and over, and finally i remembered and went on.  but forevermore that line AND RUMMAGING THROUGH GARBAGE CANS will continue to ricochet around in my head.

my favorite part of the evening last night was before we started, waiting around for people to show up.  mac warren’s little daughter, her name is analyse i think but that looks more like analyze not analisse i have no idea how to spell it and maybe that’s not her name anyway, but she was running all around, very cute.  mac said she was excited about us being there and had been singing a song about it before we arrived.  she was going to perform for us up on her stage, a perfect-height hearth in front of the fireplace.  she even had a big plastic microphone and her best friend, a bunny that’s taller than she is.

she wouldn’t sing, though, because she was suddenly way too shy.  instead she offered gumballs to everybody, carrying around a giant plastic jar of them.  i declined, trying to explain to her that i try not to chew gum because of my TMJ jaw issue, but she didn’t seem too sad to not further deplete her enormous gumball supply.

as we were about to start our read-through she asked me if i’d like to put on my bathing suit and go running through the sprinkler with her.  i have to admit it sounded tempting, but i didn’t have my suit and figured the neighbors would highly object to a naked woman running through a sprinkler in the otherwise very kid-friendly neighborhood.

now i really have to start making spanikopeta.  we’re having that, potstickers, samosas, and pakora for dinner.  everything appetizers, per amy’s request.  lots of frying will commence later today.

ok ok ok,

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