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All I have to say about today is that it started out with me (proverbially) getting out on the wrong side of the bed. Couch. Whatever. I'm about to whine and be not entirely politically correct in this post, so if you can't deal with that, go read some fucking Hallmark cards.

For reasons I cannot fully figure out, I was in a weird mood from the moment I woke up. Then Ben and I had a mishap on the train and went a stop too far. Then, when we were pulling the vans out of the garage, our driver miscalculated the angle (through no fault of his own, I might add) and scraped the side of the van along the edge of the garage. Then there was an argument about music in the van that nearly drove me through the roof. I guess we all got out on the wrong side of our beds, today!

Then we got to the venue for today's performance and the stage was raked. Let me reiterate. Raked. On a slant. An incline. Our set? Is ENTIRELY on WHEELS.
We made it work, though only God knows how.

Then, when I had been given the cue to go ahead with the curtain speech, I went ahead. Only to receive another cue to start over, which I didn't get until I had already finished the speech. So I just repeated myself.

Then Ruby's mic malfunctioned. So, at the first possible opportunity, we stretched out a scene change so that she could run back-stage to have her mic checked out and fixed. However, it still wasn't working in the aftermath of that little incident, so Ester and I invented another scene that took place during the next (and only other) time Ruby was off-stage, during which Ethan frantically fiddled with the mic, the cord, the wind-screen and somehow, magically, fixed it.

Then, naturally, the stage-left side of the house that opens out didn't have a door-stop and kept swinging in to the scene.

Oh, and I forgot to mention earlier that I missed an entrance, what with not being able to hear the cue and running around inventing new scenes in the play. Luckily, it was a one-line cross that ultimately serves no real purpose, so if anything had to be missed, at least it was that.

The thing is that we pulled through pretty well. We improvised a little (ok, a lot) and we got creative with our solutions and things worked. The one thing that didn't work is how frustrated some people got by this course of events and the method they then chose to deal with their frustrations, i.e. taking them out on the rest of us.
That is all I have to say on that topic.

Tomorrow will be a better day. I just know it.