20 November I think that the moment that I am happiest during the week is the moment on Friday night that I lay down to go to sleep and I realize that I don't have to get up the next morning until the moment that I wake up naturally. And I wonder sometimes whether that's a good thing, an example of taking pleasure in small things, or whether it's a little sad that I haven't got anything more important to be joyous about than sleeping in. Of course, when you have kids, sleeping in is the Grail (see Deb's comment here), so perhaps I'm not overstating its importance! So yesterday we started rehearsing Pamie's play in earnest, and a darn good thing, since we open the 30th! Aw, here I go, scaring Pamie, thinking that we'll do a half-assed job, but we won't and we aren't. It's just that two of my three actors were appearing in a play that was ran until the 18th, and they rehearsed every single day in the week before they opened, so we couldn't get together! However, Cliff and Sabine, the actors in question, both rehearsed a little bit on their own, just to develop a relationship, and they are professional enough not to go around directing each other like Bad Dreadful Actors would, and they learned their lines for the first half and the end (the bits without Cynthia in it), so when we worked together last night, it wasn't like anything even remotely resembling a second rehearsal. We rehearsed at our house, so I met Cliff and Sabine and brought them out on the van into the wilds of New Jersey. The idea was so that they would see the way and understand and be able to come out themselves, but unfortunately we were in a weird van with blacked out windows, so I was saying things like "If you could see out the window, there'd be a giant set of stairs going up the hill there, and you call your stop now." Heaven only knows if they'll make it here tonight. When we got there, Cynthia wasn't there, because she was shooting Law and Order-Special Victims Unit and they ran way over. We ended up rehearsing without her, which was absolutely fine, because a large portion of the play is Cliff and Sabine and we went over their dynamics. As I was directing it, I realized that the direction in which I was steering Sabine was towards Pamie, that the lead character is Pamie. It's funny, because I didn't think about it before, and maybe it's because the sex talk is in it, but I think it's really the rhythm of the words. So I'm glad Sabine is a blonde! Go take a look at Rick McGinnis's lovely and moving site consisting of letters that his father sent to his mother during the war, Dear Agnes-Letters From the Home Front. It's very much worth a read. Today's horoscope: Appreciate your lover's appearance today. S/he needs to hear that s/he is attractive. And take extra care to look good yourself. One year ago today: "If your coffee is in pieces, it might be a little strong!" * Yesterday / Index / This Month / Tomorrow * E-Mail Whole new way of looking at life by: Michael Moore! This page was written by hand. My hand. Only pussies use HTML editors. Last Updated Sat 20 November 13:57:09 1999