Lots of late nights, this week. Between the first rehearsal for Bare complete with a delicious display of wines, cheeses, and other snacks, to the ridiculous trip to Economy Hardware at Midnight on Thursday to buy a new couch and chair for the apartment, as well as some other items for the home and puppy with Mr. Jacob Krause, to last night’s celebration of the 21st year of my dear dear dear heart where I stayed out so late I had to take a cab home (my first cab ever, in Boston and on my own!).

Bare has quite a phenomenal cast, seeing and hearing them all in the room together was fantastic. Of course, like anyone else, I have my questions about casting choices, but Mr. DeMita hasn’t ever let me down before, so I trust he knows what he’s doing with some of the questionable casting choices that I see- but for what I hear in voices and see in body types, he put together a good looking, fairly well matched cast. Also they seemed friendly for a bunch of newcomers, notably I enjoyed Anne. She was very sweet, I think she’ll be a fast friend to the company. Tom and I are pretty excellent as ASMs- he is a person to trust and enjoy, and I am glad we’ll become even better acquainted in the next few months.

Have I mentioned what a sweet, thoughtful, man my room mate is? I probably haven’t, but he is. He almost always knows what to say to make me laugh, and I’ve pretty much got his back when it comes to emotional support. He made me laugh at Midnight Madness mostly by being the sparkly rainbow of a boy that he is. Also he looks charmingly adorable pushing a cart around because it makes him shimmy is ass (subconscious? I dunno.) He bought us a Wii on Thursday as well, we’re going to break it open and play when he gets back from Michigan, where he’s visiting his family and enjoying traditional Jewish rites of passage for distant relations

Last night we celebrated the day the earth was blessed with the arrival of Mr. Kyle Hemingway. An intimate group had dinner together, exchanging witty quips (you know, you can make that shit private for a reason.) and dining on an array of Asian/American fusion dishes. I enjoyed a plate of beef with Asian cabbages (yes plural, apparently they have several). The sassy waitress was a special delight for my man. After dinner (and being stuck between the curb and a milk delivery truck for five minutes) we arrived at the Encore piano bar for lots of singing and more revelry. Mr. Hemingway performed some of his staple numbers to the delight of the crowd (who were mostly good friends) and Mr. Hayes and myself prepared a delightful duet where we proclaimed our love for the man of hour through the eyes of two deranged serial killers. Jeremy was so nervous his hands were shaking, but I think he did exceptionally well for all the practice we had (read: none.) We all had a few drinks, socialized and enjoyed the non-dramatic atmosphere for several hours, so many, in fact, that the T totally stopped running and I had to take a taxi home- it’s only a 15 dollar taxi ride and it was sort of relaxing, I would do it again. It was a nice night, I think.

Today Kyle and I spent the better part of the afternoon working on the Brit Brit musical, we made some excellent progress. It is going to be one enjoyable piece of theatre when all is said and done! We make a good team- God knows why, but we just work in perfect time. We even have just about the same amount of stamina. Yeah, I said it. I hope we can get this great American musical up and going by the end of the summer. A few more sessions like today and we’ll be on it!

(I have to take this time out of my writing just to note that there is a puppy curled up between my legs and a kitty laying in the small of my back and the two of them are batting at each other in a half-assed way- what the hell am I- the barricades at dawn?)

Ever Virgin.