I was asleep, and then I woke up and I suddenly felt all buzzy and like I had to go for a run or something. I won't, because it's midnight, although running is something I do these days, a couple of times a week, with my friend Ashley. So now I'm up, and blogging, and not really sure what's going on. I think it is the steroids (Mum, I know you'll ask....not a high dosage but forgot to take some earlier today so took them at night and that's why I'm a bit crazy). Asthma has been playing up....body is a little burnt out from the month. But on the mend now.
Also, body is a little burnt out from the Pink cast party on Friday night....yes, a little odd to have a cast party before the season's over but some people couldn't do it the final weekend. I very rarely get super-drunk and party all night but a great cast party is one of the few times I do. However, I am officially too old to do that and just bounce back the next day :) although I do get super-woman points for delivering two excellent shows on about the same number of hours' sleep.
On a completely different subject, Lucas' new obsession is the game Magic - the Gathering. It's a thing he did when he was a nerdy teenager and our friend James brought it back into his life at his birthday party last year. Now a whole bunch of them who play are getting together, and I play it too (although perhaps a little more than I would if Lucas wasn't into it. No wait, make that way more.) It's fun, but I'm rubbish at strategy games. So Lucas slaughtered me with his army of zombies before we went to bed tonight.
Umm, what else is going on....rehearsed today with Express for the Hilltop shows this week. As always, they're disorganised but a whole lot of fun. Also had lunch with Adrianna from Pink. One of those beautiful, long, wide-ranging, honest conversations that left us both feeling refreshed in our souls. I'm almost sad that she doesn't live in Houston all the time (from a small town in East Texas, and moving to New York in the fall), but that would mean I'm not super excited to see what her journey is. Also, people keep saying we look alike, so she'd be beating me out for roles all the time if she lived here :)
Speaking of roles, something on my to-do list for when life calms down post-Pink and post-England-trip is redo my audition portfolios. Which means I'm thinking about what work suits me, what kind of work I'm going for, what are my go-to audition pieces. I just sent out an email to a whole bunch of people I've worked with in Houston to get their perspective on me, but if you, oh blog readers, would like to do the same, please answer the following questions in short, snappy, incomplete sentences made only of keywords:
1) what roles would you cast me in based purely on my physical type?
2) what subject matter do I communicate really effectively?
3) what colours/flavours/tones do I emit?
I'm sitting in my newly set up home office where I've just put up some photos of some of the shows I've done since moving to Houston. So if you were going to answer question 1 with reindeer, nun, German-Texan abolitionist or stay-at-home mom who dons pink princess dresses and tiaras in moments of epiphany, thanks but I already have visual reminders that I know how to do those :)
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