The four days of abandonment plus a broken toe

So it really has been a while . . . I'm glad I made a list in my previous post.

The four days of abandonment plus a broken toe. Let me see if I can remember this properly. Day one - Thursday. No classes, but I'm coming in for a number of reasons. Rehearsal being the main one. So I go to rehearsal & all is good. The day before, I asked Will to come over & watch Love Valour Compassion with me because it's a wonderful movie & because John Glover was visiting & it was relevant. That would happen after the final meeting of our little playwriting lab with David White. So I went to rehearsal, went to the lab & as soon as I got out, contacted Will about where to meet him. We were pressed for time because I wanted to watch the movie & then get back on campus by midnight for shclevening. There's always schlevening on Thursday! Will texts me telling me that plans have changed & he's not coming over. So I sit in the car for a while & decide to just go home & hang about until 11:30 rolls around. I had already seen the movie so It was more for him than for me & he didn't make it to the thing that John Glover does every time he comes over to TU where he just sits & answers everyone's questions & we all kind of chat - so I had some interesting trivia to share. Oh, well. Abandonment #1

Before I head up to campus for schlevening, I talked to Abby who said she wasn't going schlevening because she wasn't feeling well, & John T. Who said he probably would go schlevening. But there are about 20 other people on the regular schlevening list, so I go up to Richmond @ 12 & apparently, I missed a memo. NO ONE was there. I stood in disbelief. There has always been schlevening on Thursdays . . . . I had been MASS stood up. Abandonment #2

Friday, I broke my toe. Fun. I asked how Abby was feeling. Much better. so i invited her to Largo Desolato & she said maybe, remind me later. So I reminded her later. And before I go on, let this go on the record - for SOME reason, Abby got extraordinarily angry at me once because I was bored & sent her a mass amount of text messages, each one with an inside joke. She claimed that her problem with it was that I was wasting MY money. Now, when I remind her - & this is all by text message - she asks me what it's about. And I send her a basic idea of what she can expect to see. It's a dark absurdist comedy about an agoraphobic writer. So she says, well what else? And I give her a little more & she asks what else, & I give her a little more.

Well, idk . . .
C'mon it's right up your alley
(mind you, I've been abandoned twice & I'm just looking to be a little social.)
Ok, sure. How much is it?
$7
Well, I don't have any money.
Do you have a dollar?
I don't have any money.
You've got quarters everywhere, I'm sure you can scrape up a dollar, I can pay the rest.
I don't want you to spend your money on me
Well I want to
Well I don't feel well.

COULD YOU MAYBE START WITH THAT PLEASE?!?!?!?! If you don't want me to go, lemme know! SO I dont waste my money in text messages begging you to spend some time with me before I go insane!! JEEZ!!! I was thoroughly upset by the way she handled that. Abandonment #3

So I hobble through rehearsal on a broken toe& I go see Largo Desolato alone. I tried Will again . . . asked if he wanted to see the movie Saturday. He said that he was busy & that he wasn't actually that interested in the movie, so just send it back (netflix). Again, why would you wait like that? I was looking forward to it. Abandonment # 4

The Saturday I contacted Abby again to see if she wanted to do something. Keep in mind, last time I saw her, she said she wasn't feeling well & she was broke. I had something in mind like keepinf her company since she was so sick - maybe take her mind off it. SHe said she couldn't get together because she was going to the Towson Town Festival. Somewhere I cannot follow. 1-the place is way too damn crowded, my sanity would never survive & 2- broken toe. Really not looking forward to walking all day. Although what really bothered me is her massive fluctuation in health from can't sit & watch a show to walking all day in a crowded place & then hanging out afterwards. Abandonment #5

By this point, I'm feeling like a lepor & have stopped trying to get together with anyone, but I wait all day Sunday for word from Irene. My second lighting project is due Monday & she is the actress in it. She said she'd be away until Sunday afternoon & I asked her to contact me when she got back. At around 5 in the evening she told me she wasn't coming back until morning!! That leaves NO rehearsal time & believe me, we needed it. Abandonment #6

So I asked Abby if she was free to perform at a certain time on Monday & she said she was. I begged her to be in my project & she said she would. And at one point there was a miscommunication & I wound up yelling at her over the phone until she understood exactly what I needed from her. She was with friends & wasn't free until 10 pm. So at 9:30, I was in the lighting room, setting up the lights & music. We finished with confidence around 11. Monday right before lighting class, I got snagged into acting in another lighting project for which I had exactly two rehearsals without the other actor in the scene. And the performance for the class was the first time trhough with the other actor. And of course, I have to walk on the toe for the scene - so it was pretty painful . . . & more on that when I talk about the rehearsals & the final performance of my directing scene, all of which were performed with a broken toe.

It's been a while . . .

. . . SInce my last post. Over a month. Wow. You know why? COLLEGE that's why! And right now, I've got way too much to say to fint into one post that anyone would read . . . so I'll space out the stories some . . . & come back later. And more for me than for my readers (such as they are . . . does ANYONE read this?) here's what's coming up.
1. The four days of abandonment plus a broken toe

2. The development of my scene & rehearsals plus a borken toe

3. Mother's day plus a bad back & a broken toe - with pictures (of mother's day, not the toe)

So, until then, here's my schedule. Today, rehearsal & working on lighting papers. Tomorrow, Math exam at 8 am & then find something to do until I can get picked up. Thursday, rehearsal, then a performance at 6, schlevening & the night on campus. Friday, sleep in. Friday night to Sunday morning, camping with my father. Um . . . plus a broken toe . . . Should be charming.

Monday-
8am Theather history exam
3pm Psych exam
5pm English exam

Tuesday, a sudden rush of boredom, total loss of social life as everyone returns home to various parts of the country. Start back on the diet in hopes to lose 50 pounds before schoolchums see me again (with secret more realistic hopes of at least 25 pounds). Kniting. Knitting. Knitting. In November, when people are looking for Chriatmas gifts, I'm looking for money for Christmas gifts, & the weather is getting cold, I'll be selling stuff on eBay. Scarves, at least one afghan, maybe a sweater . . . but for me, I'll be making socks. I LOVE homemade socks from the right kind of yarn . . . they are SO comfortable.

Ok . . . off to work . . . & my second to last rehearsal.