I'm not entirely certain what is wrong with me, but for three days in a row now I have confidently carried my laptop out in its open-topped bag, only to be flummoxed by rain.

Friday I stuffed my work overshirt around the top, but yesterday and today both I had to take off my leather jacket and drape it over the bag, and just walk in the rain with no coat on. And yesterday it was really raining really hard!

It's very inconvenient being this dim.

Two shows yesterday, both together I made less than I did Friday night. But only a couple of dollars less, I don't have it in front of me, but I think I made $83, so that's nothing to sneeze at.

I was going to go in and watch the evening show, but it basically sold out, and I knew that there were latecomers coming, so I just stayed in the lobby. I had better see it tonight, or I'm screwed! Well not really, and it's not as though I don't miss lots of shows, but I did see one cast, so the other cast is looking at me all big-eyed about it.

I won't be screwed, but I'll be guilted!

Before the show, I went to the store again and got more apple juice, since the sale was still going on and it sells nicely. I also got some strawberry juice drink by the same company in the same little bottles.

I wasn't certain what to call it, since it's juice, but it's not all juice, but "juice drink" sounds as appetizing as "cheese food", and besides, "strawberry juice" sounds very sweet. It says on the label that there is also apple and pear juice in it, so at first I called it "strawberry apple juice", but then I realized that that is a giant lie and called it "strawberry punch".

It only cost a buck for ten bottles, and I'm selling it for a buck a bottle, so all I had to do was sell one and it wouldn't have been a waste, and I did right away. Hooray! Good call on my part.

I also had to buy more wine again. The guy at the liquor store now knows me, so I told him that I sell it, I didn't want him to think that I can go through four bottles of wine a day. I really must go out to Trader Joe's and get some cheaper wine! The only problem is getting the car, since Cynthia is always out in Westchester with her show that's about to open. Hopefully soon.

I made 18 cupcakes before the show, which meant that they were still warm when I left the house, and I had to frost and decorate them at the box office.

I figured that 18 would last the four shows during the weekend. Ha! They barely lasted through the evening performance! People love cupcakes! They especially love them with jimmies and hundreds-and-thousands or any other decorations on them, and they love that they are whipped up by loving hands at home. They also probably love that they only cost a dollar.

Watched an episode of The Directors about Scott Hicks, which was certainly interesting enough, but honestly, shouldn't a director have done more than three films before being profiled as an important director?

Actually, let me refine that thought. Frank Darabont only directed three films, but two of those films were The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, though the third was The Majestic. So, two of them were multiple Oscar nominees and cult films (more Shawshank than Green Mile, but the latter is at least a cult film by me) and only one sucked.

Scott Hicks directed Shine, a good nine-year-old but generally forgotten film (except for introducing Geoffrey Rush to the world); his other two films were the completely mediocre Snow Falling on Cedars and Hearts in Atlantis, so shouldn't a director have to have shot more than one good film in order to be profiled on the show?

Exactly a year ago, I said that the fact that Jennifer Lopez was on Inside the Actors Studio meant that they had run out of actors. Clearly, they have run out of directors as well.

Today's horoscope:
Yee-haw. Fasten your safety belt -- especially when it comes to what might seem to be casual chitchat. It may seem like you're someplace totally surreal, but remember -- truth is often stranger than fiction.

One year ago today:
And suddenly I was five blocks in the wrong direction. Probably because I had just been in yoga, I thought of this as a little lesson, that sometimes in life it takes a really long time to go a little way in the right direction, and then it takes just a second to go really far in the wrong direction.

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