Hi ducks, miss me? I sure do miss you.

It's been so easy not writing for this long, partially because I haven't been reading anyone else's journals, but I have been randomly catching up on Eliza's vacation entries (I am horrified to hear that there's a Starbucks on the Royal Mile!) and I thought, "Hey! Wait a minute! I can do that, I used to do that all the time!"

So I am. So my computer is down and I keep trying to reload XP without destroying my files and it just isn't happening and I will be VERY SAD, but the reason I haven't been writing here in the blog is because I discovered that you can save drafts, so then I started doing the thing that got me so fucked to start with, partially writing entries and then not finishing them and gettnig farther and farther behind. Enough of that!

So I'm writing an entry today and I am posting it today and when I get my computer back I will start from where I am at that minute and I HAVE SPOKEN!!!

So, what's happening now? Let's see, in July I directed two one-acts, Chamber Music by Arthur Kopit and Dunelawn by Terrance McNally, which were good, but I had very little rehearsal time and a million actors and two very hard shows, so I didn't do with them what I really wanted to do with them. Mark and I got to work together for the first time, though, which I enjoyed very much. He's a really good actor, though he was never entirely pleased with his performance in Chamber Music.

Next, I got to act in an evening of one-act plays by William Inge that Le directed, which was why I didn't go to JournalCon, since our performance dates were right over that weekend. We did five plays and I was in four of them--one was only an off-stage voice, but in one I was the lead and in two others I had solid supporting roles. The plays, for you theatre geeks out there, were The Tiny Closet, To Bobolink For Her Spirit, and Memory of Summer.

I loved them all, but Bobolink was the most fun, being a big-ass comedy where I was the central character, and who can argue about that?

Immediately after finishing that show, I went straight into rehearsals for another two one-acts. Le said I should get right back on that horse. We kicked around some ideas for some scripts, and finally he suggested two more Inge plays, People in the Wind, which is the one-act version of Bus Stop, and The Mall, which is a terrific piece that is never done.

I wasn't that enthusiastic, but then he said that he'd give me Mark and Kelly as Bo and Cherie in People in the Wind, and I was sold right away. Patrially to get to work with Mark again, and partially because Kelly has wanted to play that role for ages, and Le never wanted her to, so she's getting a shot at it in the shorter version.

I love these plays, they have turned out beautifully. They are playing tonight and tomorrow at Creative Place, call 212-769-7973 for reservations if you are lying around in the tail end of the hurricane that we've got here thinking, "Gee, I really want to go out in that, I wonder where I could go?"

I have lots more stories to tell you, but do you know what? They are going to have to wait! Because I am uploading this RIGHT NOW!

Love you lots.

Today's horoscope:
It's not that you'll be wishing for the pitter-patter of little feet, especially if you haven't heard them for a while -- but you won't be unhappy if you hear them, and they belong to someone else's kids.

One year ago today:
Tracing says that it's a good thing, that I'm not supposed to be the one solving his problems, that if what he's doing is taking care of his issues so that he can be clean and whole again, then it's a good thing.

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