Just Another Week...
After my busy weekend, I decided it was time to have a low-key day off. Ballerina Joelle was crashing again Sunday night, so on Monday I just slept in. I got some errands done in the afternoon, and then I had a dinner date!
One of my best friends from high school, Mark, is living in DC. He's been here for a few months, and I was pretty sure that he was a "buyer for the Navy". Of course since I've been in town our schedules couldn't have been more opposite, and every time we've made plans it hasn't worked out... until Monday! I took my subway line (oops - metro) out to the last stop, Vienna/Fairfax, and Mark picked me up. He took me on a little tour of the area of Fairfax where he lives, and I got to see his fabulous apartment. Mark is another one of my friends who is very grown-up. After college he moved all the way to Hawaii, then back to Ohio, and now he's got this fabulous job in DC, a city where he basically knows no one. It's so brave! He has a HUGE 1-bedroom apartment in the cutest little complex. He's got all the amenities in his apartment that I dream about, and it's all very put-together. It was very impressive to see a straight man with matching furniture, framed pictures, and a full set of pots and pans.
When Mark drove me around to see the area, he also drove by his office. Much to my surprise it was the National Reconnaissance Office. Who knew? Mark explained that his job was basically, "when someone needs boots, they call me. I find out what kind of boots they need, and then I find the best people to buy the boots from and I make a deal." I had imagined it more like there was a catalogue of submarines and Mark got to browse through it and then buy some, but I guess that's not quite right. Although I understand a little more about his job now, I still don't get it all. But, I think that's good. Since he's so top-secret, he can go to jail if tells me too much! It was all very exciting and Alias-like. He claims he's at a desk all day, but I know he's really playing dress-up and jumping out of planes carrying guns. YES. Anyway, we had a great dinner and he saw my apartment, which is smaller than his. No fair.
On Tuesday I ran more errands, and then got another show done. Wednesday was a two-show day, so at least we're part of the way there. Thursday was another show, and some apartment cleaning, laundry and groceries, and then Friday I went shopping and then did another show. This is pretty much a regular week! Saturday was two MORE shows, and we still have even TWO MORE tomorrow! That's a lot of shows.
Exciting things that happened this week:
Exciting yummy: I discovered that 600, the restaurant at the Watergate, has a great pre-show burger special. Hallelujah! I loooove burgers.
Exciting bad: One of our cast members, Kirk, was mugged on Thursday night! He went out after the show to the Logan Circle area of town, and was beat up on his way home! Apparently he was "punched in the face a few times" and we haven't seen him, so fingers are crossed that he's looking OK. I've heard rumors about the dangers of DC, but this definitely puts it in perspective.
Exciting amazing: At the beginning of the week our Raoul, Greg, stepped off a curb and was told that he fractured his ankle. Bad - it was going to be six weeks of a cast plus physical therapy! But, he went to a sports medicine guy who popped it back into place and it's good as new!
Exciting boring: I got new jewelry for my scene in Il Muto. It's very sparkly!
Exciting challenging: At Wednesday's matinee, the boat that Christine and the Phantom ride on didn't work! They had to walk through the "lake" but they did a very good job covering. The only people who noticed where the hardcore Phans, who proceeded to blog about it.
Exciting scary: During Masquerade, the Phantom appears at the top of the stairs to scare everyone. This is secret, but basically he goes up in a little elevator through a trap door that drops out of the stairs. Tonight during the show a swing was on, and he was accidentally standing on the trap door in the stairs. When it dropped down to let the Phantom's elevator come up, the swing almost fell through the trap door! One leg fell, and he screamed, but we all had to keep going! Then the Phantom couldn't come up in the elevator, so he had to run around and appear at the bottom of the stairs. It was the first time I've ever been actually scared during the Masquerade scare!
Exciting cool: Tonight, my sorority sister, Condelezza Rice was at the show! How cool is that?!?! Several dems in the cast suggested that we drop the chandelier towards the audience, but I'm sure they were joking... right?
One of my best friends from high school, Mark, is living in DC. He's been here for a few months, and I was pretty sure that he was a "buyer for the Navy". Of course since I've been in town our schedules couldn't have been more opposite, and every time we've made plans it hasn't worked out... until Monday! I took my subway line (oops - metro) out to the last stop, Vienna/Fairfax, and Mark picked me up. He took me on a little tour of the area of Fairfax where he lives, and I got to see his fabulous apartment. Mark is another one of my friends who is very grown-up. After college he moved all the way to Hawaii, then back to Ohio, and now he's got this fabulous job in DC, a city where he basically knows no one. It's so brave! He has a HUGE 1-bedroom apartment in the cutest little complex. He's got all the amenities in his apartment that I dream about, and it's all very put-together. It was very impressive to see a straight man with matching furniture, framed pictures, and a full set of pots and pans.
When Mark drove me around to see the area, he also drove by his office. Much to my surprise it was the National Reconnaissance Office. Who knew? Mark explained that his job was basically, "when someone needs boots, they call me. I find out what kind of boots they need, and then I find the best people to buy the boots from and I make a deal." I had imagined it more like there was a catalogue of submarines and Mark got to browse through it and then buy some, but I guess that's not quite right. Although I understand a little more about his job now, I still don't get it all. But, I think that's good. Since he's so top-secret, he can go to jail if tells me too much! It was all very exciting and Alias-like. He claims he's at a desk all day, but I know he's really playing dress-up and jumping out of planes carrying guns. YES. Anyway, we had a great dinner and he saw my apartment, which is smaller than his. No fair.
On Tuesday I ran more errands, and then got another show done. Wednesday was a two-show day, so at least we're part of the way there. Thursday was another show, and some apartment cleaning, laundry and groceries, and then Friday I went shopping and then did another show. This is pretty much a regular week! Saturday was two MORE shows, and we still have even TWO MORE tomorrow! That's a lot of shows.
Exciting things that happened this week:
Exciting yummy: I discovered that 600, the restaurant at the Watergate, has a great pre-show burger special. Hallelujah! I loooove burgers.
Exciting bad: One of our cast members, Kirk, was mugged on Thursday night! He went out after the show to the Logan Circle area of town, and was beat up on his way home! Apparently he was "punched in the face a few times" and we haven't seen him, so fingers are crossed that he's looking OK. I've heard rumors about the dangers of DC, but this definitely puts it in perspective.
Exciting amazing: At the beginning of the week our Raoul, Greg, stepped off a curb and was told that he fractured his ankle. Bad - it was going to be six weeks of a cast plus physical therapy! But, he went to a sports medicine guy who popped it back into place and it's good as new!
Exciting boring: I got new jewelry for my scene in Il Muto. It's very sparkly!
Exciting challenging: At Wednesday's matinee, the boat that Christine and the Phantom ride on didn't work! They had to walk through the "lake" but they did a very good job covering. The only people who noticed where the hardcore Phans, who proceeded to blog about it.
Exciting scary: During Masquerade, the Phantom appears at the top of the stairs to scare everyone. This is secret, but basically he goes up in a little elevator through a trap door that drops out of the stairs. Tonight during the show a swing was on, and he was accidentally standing on the trap door in the stairs. When it dropped down to let the Phantom's elevator come up, the swing almost fell through the trap door! One leg fell, and he screamed, but we all had to keep going! Then the Phantom couldn't come up in the elevator, so he had to run around and appear at the bottom of the stairs. It was the first time I've ever been actually scared during the Masquerade scare!
Exciting cool: Tonight, my sorority sister, Condelezza Rice was at the show! How cool is that?!?! Several dems in the cast suggested that we drop the chandelier towards the audience, but I'm sure they were joking... right?
posted by Beth at 9:58 PM
1 Comments:
OK...so what happenned to your firend who was mugged.....we are all worried about him....
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