My Christ did it pour down yesterday! It was the deluge.

It has been raining for days and days and days. Friday on the Conan O'Brien Show, he said "Bring the camera closer. No closer. Closer," and all you could see were his eyes and nose, they filled the screen, and he quietly said, "If it doesn't stop raining soon, I don't know what I'm going to do."

I'm right with you on that one, Conan.

We had our first runthrough of the play yesterday, and boy howdy did it ever suck ass!! This is not me being falsely modest, it was appalling. Everyone was, except for Philip, who was perfect, the rest of us have quite a bit to do before we open! In four days. Gulp.

We worked with liquid for the first time, as there is a great deal of drinking in Act II/III, and about time, too, as some problems cropped up. I don't do shots, you see, so when I knocked back one, I poured the water all over my face and dress, and Fran is a beer drinker, so when he was pouring the shots they were at least quadruples every time.

Also, and this was the funniest bit, after a couple of rehearsals where he wouldn't kiss me when he was supposed to, yesterday he went in quite the other direction. There's one bit where he is specifically not supposed to kiss me, though we do clinch, since I have a line later where I say, "Here's hoping you'll have more courage later and kiss me at least," but frankly the only reason that he didn't kiss me was because I was pushing him away from him with all of my strength!

We were going to rehearse Act II/III later on, Fran and I, so as to try to get off book, but as I was sitting in my apartment waiting for it to be 9p, the lights went off in the storm. And stayed off. For two hours.

We lit candles and ran lines, but they were off until 10.30p, then before we were going to get up and rehearse properly, we turned on the boxing match and watched it, fascinated, for at least an hour.

It was the greatest fight I've ever seen, the heavyweight championship bout between Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko, two absolute monsters of men, and Lennox was out of shape and Klitschko could have really done it, except that Lewis tore away part of his eyelid and he was absolutely gushing blood. They ended up stopping the fight, but it went on rather a bit longer than you would have expected, and it was really something.

After that, Fran had to go to the store, so we really didn't start until after midnight, and we did a little, but then he was still a little tired from being sick the night before, so we stopped. I guess today we will magically be better without rehearsing our blocking or anything.

Here's hoping.

I talked to Omar on the phone, telling him that I would be back at the theatre tonight, and maybe we could go out afterwards, but he said that his latest ex was coming back to see it again, and he promised that they would go out.

I was annoyed, of course, and I got annoyed about something else he told me but I didn't tell, I was all "Fine, that's fine." And it's like just last week I was all proud of myself, saying that I can tell him anything, and I am not passive-aggressive anymore, and how I can express my anger in a healthy way. Guess I spoke too soon!

Or I guess that's something that you always have to keep working on--it's an ever-evolving process.

Watched Leonard Cohen on Austin City Limits, and do you know what? He has a French accent! I knew that he was Canadian, of course, but not that he was French Canadian. I seriously love him, but "Jazz Police" may be the worst song ever written.

And the very last Lenten entries missed is:

Elle got all alphabetical and acquiesced, thought about what would be written on her stone, wished she remembered how to speak French, was livid, and went on hiatus She's back now, though!

Today's horoscope:
This time around you actually enjoy what you're usually driven to do. Your instincts stir at the new echo of a barely remembered experience. You'd talk about this if you could find anyone who might understand it.

One year ago today:
"My God, did you see that? A grown woman walking around looking like that? Have you ever seen anything so ridiculous? A GROWN WOMAN appearing in PUBLIC like THAT!!!????!!!"

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