I had many crazy dreams last night. Or rather, this morning.

One was very scary, clearly influenced by The Ring Two, a movie that I have not seen, have no desire to see, and saw neither the original in English or in Japanese, but having only seen a few clips on Ebert and Not-Siskel and then proceeding to dream about it in detail, I can say without a doubt that it has some extremely arresting visuals! Boy, does that sentence change tenses a few times!

I also dreamt, in the scary dream, that the Army came by to see what was going on. I was up a tree, and in the house were a little girl and a tiny monster baby that fit in your two hands and could do terrible things with his mind. The soldiers saw all this, decided everything was okay, and went off, leaving me with the monster baby that could do terrible things with his mind!

Later, I dreamt about having sex in class. It was an orgy class, we were doing it for credit. That was a much better dream. I slept for an extra hour just to dream more of it!

So yesterday I had my first rehearsal for Bubbling. You know Bubbling, right? The show that is opening in a week and two days? Yup, first rehearsal.

I got there half an hour late, due to the hideous things that they do to the trains in the outer boroughs on the weekends, but it was okay, since Glenn was an hour late. Colleen and I read part of it through while I made out with the cat (literally, he was chewing on my ear at one point--I haven't had that much action in years), then he got there and we read the whole thing through, then we did it again, walking around.

Then he cancelled my rehearsal for tonight, because I couldn't get anyone to cover me in the box office, and because we were just so great! Seriously, he said that this scene was in better shape than any of the others that had been in rehearsal for a week or longer already, but that's just because this role totally plays to my strengths and I've known the play for 15 years.

So, I'm doing this show in six rehearsals in 10 days. I probably should start learning my lines. Maybe avoiding learning my lines will make me do my taxes!

The interesting thing about doing this show that I know so well with a cast and director who do not have the same baggage that I have, is that, well, I know how the show should be done. Or maybe, I know how the show has been done in the past in a way that works.

For instance, there is a character in the show who changed her name to "Daphne Dumas", which I of course pronounced "Daphne Doomah", because that is how it's pronounced.

Glenn said that he knows that that is always how it has been performed in the past, but that he decided that Daphne came up with the name by reading it, but doesn't actually know how to pronounce is, so I should say "Daphne Doomahs".

When it came to the point in the scene where I say the name, I made a face, and Glenn said, "What's with the eye-roll?" I explained that my character thinks that Daphne is a complete idiot for not only renaming herself, but for mispronouncing it, and Glenn said, "O, I though you were rolling them at me!" You know, for making me say the name wrong.

I think it's a cute idea to have her say the name wrong, but I know that Le would have a fit if all of his characters were made out to be such dumb hicks that they couldn't pronounce a French name correctly across the board, so I decided to comment on Daphne with my eye roll, not on Glenn.

Then I had some time to kill, so I went to Virgin to spend a little money.

I went there specifically to get The Incredibles and Easter Parade. The Incredibles was easy, but Easter Parade there were none. You'd imagine that since it's Easter, they might order enough copies of Easter Parade, but you'd imagine wrong.

They didn't have Greg the Bunny, or I would have picked that up, and I really want Buffy seasons six and seven, and Angel seasons four and five, and Farscape season anything at all, but they were all too expensive, so I got Broadway - The Golden Age, which I had seen in the theatre and adored with all of my heart, and the special edition of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. They were both on sale, and the special edition of Eternal Sunshine was only $5 more than the regular edition, so what the hell.

I then felt terribly guilty for spending the money that I don't have and should spend on bills, but then when I went to the show, they had a really good night and I made almost all of it back! Yay!

Today's horoscope:
If someone isn't handling the checkbook properly, don't think twice about it. Put out your hand, and don't take it back until anything you're even partially responsible for is in it. Too bad if they're not happy about it.

One year ago today:
It's no brilliant piece of cinema art, but it's a fun throwback to the sweeping adventure epics of yore and there are horsies and hot guys and heroines both rescuing and being rescued and betrayal and guilty heroes and so on.

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