So Omar came to the show yesterday, both shows, as Winni and Ann and other friends were in the 7p evening, so I went in and watched them with him.

They were quite good, much better than I expected. One actress, whom I have never been entirely crazy about, gave the best performance that I have ever seen her do, Ann was brilliant as per usual, there was a great deal of good work.

There were two shows about people who don't know they are dead, which I certainly could have done without, since that is my least favourite plot twist ever at this point (last year at the French there were like eleven of them), especially since the second one was so much better than the first that it would have been a really startling development--you know, had we not seen it an hour previously.

God, though, Winni had this one line that was so unintentionally funny that Omar and I started choking with suppressed laughter again, we were terrified that it would be like the last show we went to all over again, but I bit him on the shoulder until we both stopped. Took about five minutes, though.

I watched half of the 9p show with him as well, until I had to go sit in the booth for my own show.

Before Talk to Me Like the Rain I told him that Jesse's role would be something that he could play, but the show is such a downer that when it was over he turned to me and whispered, "If I played that role I would commit suicide during rehearsal!"

The funniest thing was during Catching Fairies, when just at the moment that one of the actresses had a line about a fairy looking in the window, the front of the air conditioner fell down. I only wish that she had been pointing at that actual window rather than at an invisible window, although perhaps there was an actual fairy sitting on the actual window and he kicked it down to say, "I'm over here!!"

So this guy was insisting on talking to me on the van yesterday, and I was thinking, "I guess when you lose fifty pounds, the guys start talking to you! Maybe after another fifty the cute guys will start talking to me."

I told that story to Omar as he was walking me back to the van and he said that he really noticed how much thinner I'm getting when I got up in front of the audience to tell them to turn off their cell phones. The funny thing is that I am not trying or dieting at all, I am not depriving myself of any food that I like, and neither am I actually exercising, but it's just coming off. It is most peculiar.

I literally am eating everything I like, plenty of ice cream lately, but what I think I may have learned to do at last is to eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full. Sounds foolish, no? Like a fiddler on the roof! Sorry, musical comedy moment. Anyway, I do forget to eat sometimes and I tend to have two meals a day and not snack much, but it's not as though I'm planning anything as far as how I intend to eat or whatever, it's just happening.

Omar thinks that perhaps the fact that I am no longer at The Company That Must Not Be Named and under that astonishing load of stress, that I am only now just beginning to realize the weight of, is one of the reasons, and I have no doubt that he is correct.

I have a long way to go, I am not going to get too thin for Moon For the Misbegotten anytime soon, but maybe sometime next year I'll start to really be presentable.

Speaking of Moon, John hasn't said yes as yet, he's not sure he can do it. But I did have an idea, if he won't, Sam Street could do it. He's wrong physically for the role, but he's such a great actor and he can manipulate his body to look smaller and older.

We still want John, but at least now if he won't do it, I won't have to abandon doing the show completely.

Lenten entries missed:

Anelie was not vanquished by a ten dollar towel, wondered about her One and Only, and got engaged!! Congratulations, Anelie!!

Today's horoscope:
Information brings more access and power than most people realize. Do you have any idea how fascinating your neighbors really are? Improve what you dislike rather than rejecting it outright.

One year ago today:
Moxy Fruvous is this amazing band, very like Squirrel Nut Zippers and Barenaked Ladies and They Might Be Giants, and other quirky bands with five syllable names.

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