So, yesterday I finally brought my desktop computer in to be repaired!

It's just such a pain, lugging it into the city, that I never had the energy to do so, or it was raining, or I didn't have time to go to the repair place on my way to work, or I just didn't feel like it! But since I told Mom I did it three weeks ago, I really thought that I had better actually do it.

So I dragged it in, told them that it needed Windows reloaded, but I couldn't do it because the A drive didn't work, and also that I wanted my information backed up, since if I lose what is on this computer, I lose everything forever--years worth of stuff just gone gone baby.

They said they'd get to it in the afternoon, so hopefully I'll have a computer in my house again someday. I don't want to live and die in the Ghetto Internet Cafe.

Also before work, I picked up the cane that Mary Jane is lending me for Old Bat Role #2 that I am doing in the Xmas shows.

It is very peculiar, let me tell you, carrying a cane around town. It's actually easier to use than to carry, but then you feel rather like an imposter, trying to scam a free seat on the bus and some sympathy.

On the other hand, even though my knee isn't hurting nearly so bad, since it no longer is humid and raining, it was kind of handy for going up stairs. What the hell, if you are carrying a cane, you may as well get some use out of it.

I was hideously late to the show, even though I left work at a reasonable hour.

I got on the bus on 5th Ave. and headed downtown, but since there is terrible traffic near Rockefeller Center, I was just playing Yahtzee on my phone and not really paying any attention to anything, until I looked up and didn't recognize the street. Because it was 32nd. I had gone ten blocks too far downtown. Which ended up being 19 blocks too far, since the bus was a limited and didn't stop until 23rd.

At that point, I was supposed to have been at the theatre, so it was all a lost cause, but at least I knew that I had a competent usher who could take care of things until I got there.

So I went down to the subway and waited for 20 minutes as train after train came from the wrong direction, or didn't stop because it was an express, until finally the local arrived and I jumped on. And then we got to 34th St., where they announced that the next stop would be 57th, so I jumped off. I was beginning to think that I wasn't meant to get to the show, but fairly quickly another local came and took me to 49th St.

Of course, as I was running down the street, I noticed a message on my phone, and it was Karen saying that she and Jon were at the theatre and nobody was at the box office, but she would take care of things and she hoped that I was on my way. No-one was there? But where was Anna?

So I got there only a bit after 7p, and the show started at 7.30p, so it wasn't so bad. Except for the fact that I called Anna and found that I had thought I was booking her for last night and she thought she was booking next Thursday, and I damn well needed to get away and get to my rehearsal. Fortunately, I was able to arrange for each of the directors of the evening to man the lobby for the show before their own, which meant that latecomers would be taken care of.

And there was even a house last night! Twenty-five people after audiences of five and six. It's nice that they got a crowd, but it frankly would have been better had they been spaced a bit more evenly over the run.

Then I went to rehearsal.

I had spent the afternoon learning my lines like the bad, procrastinating actress that I am (don't ever start a new book, especially one as good as Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical "Follies" when you have anything else that needs doing), and pretty much managed to stuff them into my head.

I also managed to work up a character. After rehearsal the other night, I mentioned to Kelly that I really should think about doing that sometime, and I kind of figured out what I was doing for yesterday. Pam was surprised when I said that I didn't have a character before, but that's because I think she sees the show more simply than I do. And because a fake character is usually good enough, but not when you are playing Le's mother.

Unfortunately, I left my script at rehearsal, and no computer also means no printing out of scripts, so hopefully the lines I blew yesterday will magically be right tomorrow morning at 10a. I hope so, but I doubt it.

Remember, if anyone who wants a Xmas card from me this year had best send me their address, because remember? No computer means no Xmas card list!

Today's If you're not careful, you could find yourself in the middle of a clandestine melodrama. If you're attracted to someone who's not quite ready and you want to pass on the drama, wait. Give them your number.

One year ago today:
Okay. Linda Tripp is getting married. If that awful woman can find her true love and I'm still single, I just plain give up.

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