Last night I didn't take my allergy medicine at all, and I slept fine, so maybe it wasn't the fact that I was taking two pills, it was that the pollen had all been used up. Probably straight into my lungs.

Or maybe the weather just changed yesterday. Anyway, I'm not complaining about being able to sleep well.

So yesterday I spent most of the afternoon (or at least the bit between being awake and having to go to the theatre) casting my play.

It's actually like playing a peculiar game of Jenga, where I have to match up actors and roles and pile them all together, making certain that I include the actors that Le wants to include, and putting people in the roles that are best for them, but sometimes, two people are best for one role, and one of them you want to be in it the most, but there's another role that she can do, and the other girl has no backup role, so if I cast her in that role and she turns it down, then I can move the first girl and recast her role instead.

So far, the tower hasn't fallen. I had three turndowns immediately, then four acceptances, then more refusals today. And everyone refusing is because they will be out of town that week in July.

It's like when I was a kid and could never have birthday parties on my actual birthday because everyone went on vacation in August. Well, nowadays it's July. But even with all of the regretful refusals, the show is going to have a great cast.

Unless Libby turns me down, then I'm out of older ladies and the tower crashes to the ground and will have to start digging through the rubble to find someone over fifty in this company who can actually act.

I left the house very late for the show again, but arrived more or less on time.

You can really tell when I am not even remotely interested in being at the show at all, because if I'm giving myself ten minutes to get through the tunnel, into the city, and walk several blocks, then I clearly couldn't care less.

This show is such a pain in the ass, what with the stupid double tickets and the stupid accounting, but especially the stupid stupid hour between the two shows when no audience comes in and there is nothing to do except sit and stare.

At one point I asked Carole, "Has time actually stopped?" and she agreed that it seemed likely that it indeed had. Stopped.

I don't know why it seems duller than other shows, but between there being no intermission for the 7p show, then the long break between with no audience members to actually sell tickets to, it is about a hundred times more tedious than any show I have previously done.

All I can say is, thank God they haven't scammed a Sunday show and I'm actually off that day, because I absolutely cannot take much more of this.

Got home in time to watch the final episode of Frasier, and it was really very entertaining, and I really do understand about willing suspension of disbelief and so on, but I do think that it is rather rare for a woman having her first child to go into such hard labor exactly one second after her water breaking that there isn't even time to get to the hospital.

Just a thought. Don't want to rain on that series finale parade.

On the other hand, it was quite a good episode, though they tried to stuff too much into it (see above, re birth happening in seconds). But the very ending was absolutely lovely, and I do like the way they didn't try to wrap that up quick quick like a little bunny.

I even forgave them for not getting Frasier and Lillith back together.

Today's horoscope:
Step back from the brink of desire. Wanting something so much is affecting the rest of your world. You're not losing anything this way -- in fact, you're gaining a lot more than you realize.

One year ago today:
It was just the most hilarious thing, all these longing looks and so close and yet so far vibe, very French Lieutenant's Woman.

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