Remember.

Remember.

Remember.

New Orleans, 8-29-05. RIP.

Hip, hip, hurray!

Well, more about "hips", kinda.

I forgot to post a week or two ago - I've hit my "halfway" weight. Meaning ... I'm almost there. I'm hovering around the weight I was when I first moved to LA, which is a huge step in the right direction.

But most importantly: I took my three pairs of size 4 jeans down off the shelf. One needed to go back up and wait a little longer - but two of them ... I fit into. I don't think I'm *quite* ready to wear them yet - just because they zip and button doesn't make them flattering yet! But when I think about how it wasn't all that long ago that wearing them again was but a fantasy ... I'm a happy, happy, girl.

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Tomorrow Night!

A DOLL'S HOUSE opens tomorrow.



Don't miss it. It's a relatively short run. :)

I've said it before ...

... I'll say it again.

Tech + PMS = bad

Don't get me wrong, it's not like my role in DOLL'S HOUSE is so overwhelming, LOL. It's just that I have one stupid prop that is a life force of its own: a Christmas tree.

The tree is huge. And kinda heavy. And it's a serious pain in my ass. (Actually, it's a literal pain in my back.)

The tree is brought on - as though it were just chopped down - by someone else, and I remove it. Where to stash it backstage, when it's about the same width as the entire backstage area, is a challenge. Doing it quietly is impossible, as its branches drag across the flats.

I get it in a corner. But now we have to get it into its stand. I get Dick to help me. We go to set it near the door. He picks it up - it comes right out of the stand. Undaunted, we reset it in its stand near the door. Of course, I've completely forgotten the number of people who still have to enter and exit prior to the tree's entrance. I go to move the tree back to its corner, and of course it comes out of its stand again.

I cannot get it back into its stand alone, and even if I could - what difference does it make? I can't pick it up WITH the stand. It will fall off.

Finally after everyone's entered or exited, I drag it back to the door (again, with the brushing loudly against the flats). I bring the tree on, Anna helps me (thankfully!) ... only she sees that it's still without a stand. She continues to hold it as a mumble something about getting the stand, go off to get it - and see, next to the stand, that there are about three branches that have completely fallen off the tree.

Something about that just did me in. And I just hit that moment of overwhelming pre-menstrual irrational emotion, and I didn't know whether I wanted to laugh or cry (both wildly inappropriate!) ... and I picked up the stupid branches, and laughing (yet on the verge of sobbing) flung them across backstage. Of course, Jaxon was kind of in my way and I'm not sure whether he managed to duck in time.

I then brought the stand out, Anna and I put the tree in the stand, and after this three-act comedy of the tree was complete, I said my line: "Do you need anything else?" Of course, said with such utter exhaustion and frustration that poor Anna nearly lost it in a fit of giggles.

I then exited and found Jaxon and made sure he knew I was in no way throwing the branches AT him. He did. He's a pretty affable guy. Thankfully.

Oddly, I was kind of fine after that.

Much craziness.

As actors, we're all too familiar with the phrase "work begets work".

That, along with "feast or famine", are what we live with.

I'm sure it's everything to do with what we put out into the universe ... but it's pretty consistent. I wanted to start auditioning and working again. And at the moment I have no free day for weeks - and it's pretty much filled with Acting Stuff. Working on another play; auditions; assisting a casting director by being a reader. It started ...

Well, technically it started at the top of the year. I joined a second theatre company, I did a show.

Then I decided to start working on the "career" aspect. I got new headshots, did a showcase, started postcarding again.

Then, after feeling a little at sea, I committed to "getting out there" again. I decided to start goint to Playwrights 6 workshops ... two nights a month. And like clockwork, I've had to miss a few because suddenly I'm so busy! I did a lab show (PROOF - thank you, Trina!); I agreed to be the maid in A DOLL'S HOUSE (I don't consider 10 lines throughout 3 acts much of an acting challenge, but someone needs to do it and it's always good for me to be around a GOOD show, which this is); I started taking the fabulous workshops offered at my other theatre company; I'm production managing another show; I have two auditions this week; I'm being a reader for a casting director tomorrow; my short film project with Shelley and Amy is being developed. Whew! Sleep? Yikes!

(Just as a postscript - I wrote this post on August 2. Today is August 8. I'm just noticing I didn't post it. What was that I said about lack of sleep ... ?)