Maybe not a monsoon, but while we were in Chipotle, the rain started coming down in sheets. It looked like someone turned on a faucet. It’s so nice and muggy here. I’m told, if this were summer, that I would, in no way, ever be able to enjoy the humidity in the air because it would be so stifling that I might just keel over dead on the spot.
The trees, air, plants and atmosphere here are the closet ever (that I have physically been to, at least,) to the idea of what the swampy south/ the bayou is like in my head… and we’re only in north-central Florida, we haven’t even been to New Orleans and Lafayette yet. I can’t wait. I love being able to see all these parts of the country that are the actual counterparts to things I’ve seen in movies or depicted by cultural stereotypes (no negative connotation implied).
Today was a pretty normal tech day. Becca and I didn’t wake up until noon Florida time (9 am our time.) We probably slept in so late because we didn’t go to bed until 2 am last night, which sounded late to us until we remembered that that would be 11 pm… an early night. Whatever, yesterday was a travel day, that always poops me out.
After we got up and got ready, I walked to McDonald’s for a $2 ice cream cone and cheeseburger breakfast, (eewww, I know) then we walked all over looking for a grocery store. Finally we asked the hotel for a shuttle, and a very nice driver took us pretty far out of his way so we could buy cereal, fruit and toiletries we forgot to pack. By the time we got back, we had just enough time to chill out for about an hour before we had to meet everyone in the lobby to head to the theater.
We got there, Chad led warm-up, my socks got ruined (a normal occurrence,) and we got our standard Ed-led tour of the space and backstage. Then we ran through act one and I read my book (currently The Narrows, I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha, again) whenever I wasn’t onstage. We got done an hour early (unusual) so we all raced home to try and get to Chipotle before it closed at 10. Refer back to paragraph #1 to note that we, in fact, did make it to Chipotle just fine. Now I am very full of vegetarian fajita burrito yum. SNL is on E! and I have wireless internet and I am contented even though I miss Jerry and home and I feel pretty sick. Boo.
Now I get to go plan two one-hour warm-ups that I have to lead tomorrow. Boo again.