Back to Eastern Standard Time. Last night at 2a it was suddenly 1a, and I thought great, I can go to bed and get an extra hour's sleep! But first, I thought, let me go through my TiVo season passes.

It was like 1.30a, the second 1.30a, and I fiddled around for a few more minutes, and then I went to bed, and the clock said 3.45a. But I hadn't changed that clock yet. But still that made it 2.45a. So I got up and looked at the other clocks in my house, and they all said 2.45a (or 3.45a, depending on whether I changed that clock or not) and I just couldn't process the information.

How had it been 1.30a and then, just a few minutes later, be 2.45a? How had I lost a whole hour? I guess that's what happens when you are setting your TiVo, time just whizzes by.

So yesterday I went into work to cut a swath through all of that shit on my desk, and I got off the bus at the corner, and there were these two teeny little girls, and they looked up at me with such joy and wonder on their faces that I almost started to laugh. I love it when little kids have that reaction to my pink hair.

Then I went into the bodega to get my Pepsi, and there were these two boys, big boys, one about 12 or 13, and a smaller one around 8 or 9. I walked in and they were right in front of me, maybe two feet away, and the younger one looked right up at me and said, completely seriously, "Look, it's the fairy princess! It's the fairy princess from that thing!"

I walked past them at that point, so I have no idea if the older one said, "What, are you fucking crazy?" or something, but man, I was just walking on air. I called Cynthia once I got to my desk and told her the story, and she said she'd ask Molly if she knew of a video with a pink-haired fairy princess.

I am the fairy princess from that thing, guys, and don't you forget it!

I spent the day at work, going through the Piles of Shame and realizing that the great thing about leaving work for a long time is that by the time you get to it, it's pretty likely that you have already done it! I was able to throw lots of it away, which was cool.

I hadn't finished before going to the show, so I came back afterwards for a couple of hours. I still wasn't done done, because really, one is never done done, but I had done the most pressing stuff, and besides, it was 1a and I wanted to get the fuck home.

The show went well, really well.

On my way in, I ran into the actresses from the first show, who said that the audience was insane, just laughing their asses off at everything, so I took that as a good sign, but once we started, Leslie didn't get all that many laughs at all in her scene, and I always judge my laughs by hers, getting around 1/2 of what she gets, because my piece is so much darker.

Well, she wasn't getting them, so I braced myself for my scene, and the audience went nuts! I realized later that it was because the first time I feed Chris the soup, the first spoonful I gave him, I got it on his face and down his front, and I usually wouldn't get messy until the third spoonful. Well, covering him with lentils gave the audience the clue that it was a fucking comedy, and they laughed and laughed. I was practically throwing it at him by the end. It was fantastic.

Today's horoscope:
You want beauty, comfort, ease and harmony in relationships today. Don't give up too much trying to avoid disagreement.

One year ago today:
It was very stylish and violent, but with nothing at the centre, like a blood-covered donut.

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