I should have dressed Oz as a jaguar.

Totes! Though Kim Lenz is also a cool choice.

Working another ballet show this weekend. While it's not bad... It's not good either. The ballet school show a few week back was much better. And better run. Funny thing being, this is a "professional" dance company.

That's sad, Omnis.

What's even sadder? We ran the show tonight. It didn't run bad, but it wasn't smooth. At the end, there are a series of songs strung together. On the *handwritten sheet*, they were written to be one long cue. Then, all of a sudden stage manager panics as the third song (of five) starts "Pause! Pause the music!!" (I pause). At the end, she was like "we talked about this earlier"

Yes, you said you will call the first Zep song, and Kashmir [the fifth song], the rest are auto-follow.

"Right, but they have to pause".

Um, then it's a called cue, and not an auto-follow.

Then the director complains that the aerialist cues were too quiet. I say That is the level we set during rehearsal.

"I didn't know I was signing off on levels"

Honey, I told you flat out, I've never worked with aerialists. I have no clue if they need the music louder, because they are off the deck, or quieter so they can communicate to each other, or what, that is why I said, YOU MUST TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED!

"Oh, well, I thought you'd just turn it up".

Well, maybe if you didn't burn all your rehearsal time with focus notes, because you refused to send a tech rider before your arrival, or have your lighting designer look at the rep plot, maybe we could have done a proper run during the rehearsal block! (didn't say that, but wanted to). Grrr.

I'm fine if I fuck up. I'll kick myself all night, and make sure it doesn't happen again. But when *YOU* fuck up, and then chew me out for it! That's bullshit! Grrr. It really steams my collar.

So much so, I've poured myself a drink when I got home. I never drink alone. Grrrrr.

I'll be all right. I got the Yankee/BoSox game recorded. A nice rum n coke. And I'll chill, and let it go. And do the show tomorrow, and slam the door on their asses as they head back to LA on load out.

That's right.

Cuntyballs.

Ha! Excellent. It'll have a life of its own soon.

Woah o_a, the director sounds like a real asshat.

Maybe even a cuntyball!

Y'all are really quiet. Not fair. Show is boring. Need entertainment.

OMG. I saw the title of this article and thought maybe their first wedding had to be canceled because of this past winter's snowstorms or something. But NO. She planned the wedding in Jamaica...and he failed to get a passport. DUDE. DUUUUUUUUDE.

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This might not be entertaining, but I can infodump:

Tim got a new suit, and the jacket fits quite well (though it could be tailored just a wee bit more, but it's good enough for the funeral), and the pants were hemmed overnight.

He looks DAMN GOOD in that suit, I gotta tell you. (Black, single-breast, 2 buttons, European cut [slimmer, and 2 vents in back on the jacket].) t /shallow

The funeral is a Catholic mass, and because Tim's parents are so active in that church (and WAY into Catholicism), his dad instructed us (that's really the only word for it) on how Tim and I were to handle the issue of communion time.

You know how, you go to a wedding (or a funeral), and it's Catholic, and you're not, or you are Catholic but don't intend to take communion for your own reasons? And so you stay in the pew when it's communion time?

Tim's dad told us that we are to walk up with everyone else and then when we get to the priest, we cross our arms over our chest (to indicate that we aren't taking communion) and bow our heads for a blessing anyway, because "staying in the pew is just tacky." His brother and brothers' family has been instructed to do the same thing, because they are Lutheran.

Does anyone here know if that's a real thing? The walking up and crossing one's arms? I've never been to a mass where I've seen people do that, and frankly, it seems weird and awkward, like "Look! WE ARE NOT CATHOLIC UP HERE!!!"

But I told Tim that there's a LOT I'm willing to do to comfort his dad, and doing that is not the same as agreeing to return to the Catholic fold, and even though I think it's awkward (so does Tim), I'll do it. A funeral is not the time to make a statement about religion.

But -- I had just never heard of that practice before. I'm used to people just staying in their pews. Anyone else ever heard of that?