Look out for me, oh muddy water. Your mysteries are deep and wide.

Continuing the weekend update from last week:

Some toilets are a piece of...no pun intended.

Friday, and the rest of the weekend, was pure SMOKE rehearsals. Friday afternoon, I used the bathroom in the house I'm staying at to do something that everybody does, even females (though they don't talk about it). Now I've gotten very good at not clogging. I do the multiple flush thing.

Apparently, my flushes weren't multiple enough. Nothing overflowed, but some brown water came up into the shower, clogged up everything else in the house, and leaked out from SOMEWHERE out the bathroom and several feet into the hall. Neither Amanda or I could find a plunger anywhere in the house, so I made a trip to Ace Hardware to buy one. Amanda had to leave for the theater to instruct a Broadway Bootcamp thingie. I got back to the house, plunged, and of course that fixed it. Now all that was left to worry about was cleanup. Mark, the theater's AD and owner of the house, had come down to help clean up. I was thinking "They're sure to invite ME back to do another show." But he was cool about it. It took us a half hour max to clean it up, and then everything was good as new. We used a bunch of beach towels to soak up what had leaked out into the hall. Good thing it's not outdoor swimming season. He said something about how the toilet has been a P.O.S. for a while and that everyone needs to just hold the flusher down for 5 seconds. And that I must have just broken the camel's back by not holding it down long enough. Awfully gracious of him to let me off the hook.

When that drama was all over, I had a couple of hours to calm down and watch some TiVoed Simpsons and Family Guy. Rehearsal was blocking Act One. Went well. Scott's a fast director. I like that. Some directors take forever to block the show to the point where I want to put a gun in my mouth. Scott's speed at it reminds me of Colleen, who directed me in Little Shop of Horrors in 2003. She was also refreshingly efficient. Scott's a big shutterbug, and took all sorts of pictures of the rehearsals, which are up on my Facebook page, but I'll put them here too once I figure out how.

Saturday was a 10 out of 12 type rehearsal. More like an 11 out of 13 for us. We rehearsed from 9AM to 10PM with 2 meal breaks. The feel of the show and our progress evolved in leaps and bounds, and I thoroughly enjoyed our time that day. We finished blocking the show, then worked through the whole show, where I did my monologue without holding my script for the first time. Had to call for line a couple of times, but getting rid of the training wheels is the biggest step. Spent the last of my physical money having Mexican food on the second meal break, where I had the 2nd best taco salad I've had in my life. Got some awesome news from Scott when we got back. Rehearsal the next day was cancelled - which meant I got to go home that night. The rest of the rehearsal was spent running Act 2 again, upon cast request. It's the easy act for me - my monologue is in Act 1.

Went home that night and spent 3 nights at home.

I'm going back today, but will be back home Thursday night, only to return to Tyrone Friday. Today I begin a stretch of 20 consecutive days of working.