So, because I am all conscientious and all, I wrote on my calendar that I had to get my third Hepatitis B shot when I got back from Canada, I found out the address where I had to go, I called for an appointment, and I left the house early so that I would get there on time.

Of course, I didn't quite leave the house early enough, and it took much longer than I expected. Then, when I got there, there was no there there! Or rather, the address given was not at the cross street given. Which was right, the address or the street? I decided that the address was, and walked several blocks back in the direction from where I had come, before locating a pay phone and calling them to find that the street was right and the number was wrong. I had to make a new appointment.

Even when I try to be grown-up, it never quite works.

After work, I had the first rehearsal with the kid since he was cast on Tuesday. And he had not read the script. At all, he hadn't even flipped through it to look at his lines.

How can this be? We open in a week, we tech on Monday, time is short, how could he not have looked at the script, how could he have been cold-reading it in front of me? Okay, he's nine, but why didn't the mother take him through it sometime in the 48 hours between the audition and the rehearsal?

I thought that my problems were over when the kid was cast, it's just possible that I was wrong about that.

I have been barreling through these Diana Wynne Jones books that I got in Canada, pretty much at the rate of two a day. Occasionally there has been a surprise, like Power of Three, Which I had never read, or Time of the Ghost, which I remember reading, but not loving as much as I did this time.

But yesterday I got to read Fire and Hemlock, my very favourite of all. For a long time I had said that Homeward Bounders was tied with Fire and Hemlock, but no more, although I certainly love it, Fire and Hemlock is just head and shoulders above anything else.

I remember reading it when I was younger, and not so much understanding it, getting lost towards the end, but having it haunt me, always remembering it, and then reading it years later and falling in love. I have read the occasional person not liking it, I can't remember who ( Lisa? Jessie?)--certainly someone who should know better. ( Columbine?)

Anyway, I want to recommend it without saying anything about it so as to not give anything away, which is the wrong way to sell a book, but when I think of things to say about it, I find it impossible to think of just one thing to say, so best keep my mouth shut. Read it.

Today's horoscope:
Paying attention to the details gives you perspective on needed repairs at home or work.

One year ago today:
Soon we'll be chopping up the furniture for heat and drawing lots over who gets to be dinner.

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