"That date ended with jujubees and no sex."

I'M VERY TIRED.
And I have no one to blame but myself.

The insanity started last Thursday.
SAINTS DAY!
Which started off awesome. Went to class. Everyone at school was super psyched up.
I just yelling "Go the Saints" and hitting Marshall cause I was just so happy!
Finish my last class at 12:30 and head home to make a bloody mary, load up my back pack with beer, and make my way over to Zach's house.
We had planned on going downtown to partake in all the festivities, but as soon as we were ready to leave of course it starts torrentially downpouring.
So, we decide to try and wait it out for a while for things to die down.
While we are waiting we realize that the street is beginning to flood.
Awesome.
Of course Zach, myself and Caleb (his roommate) all have rather lowlying cars.
So we start freaking out because the water is getting way too close for comfort on the car doors.
So the boys move their cars, and then I complain about getting wet so Xach runs and moves mine.
And of course as soon as we move them.....20 minutes later the rain stops.
By then, it was like 4pm...and I refused to try and go downtown at that point because trying to park and find a bar so we didn't miss kick off would be basically impossible.
And suzannah and james had offered to let us come over to their house and watch the game there.
So, we decided that was the best option.
And we all now how that turned out.
Happy we got the W!
But whoa, what a boring friggan game.

So then Saturday we had a Zombie Town show.
We all get to theatre at 9:30ish for a line thru.
The stipulation that was given to us earlier in the week was that we needed to get more than 40 people to come to the show in order to keep performing.
We are all up in the dressing room supposed to be going over lines....but we figure it would probably be way more fun to just wing it.
Ya know...like a 70/30 show.....70% improv/30% scripted.....
So we forego doing a line-thru, and instead just start creating new, ridiculously insane things for our characters to do that night.
We assumed there would be about 10-15 people in the audience, so we figured who cared.
It would be more fun, they couldn't really get mad at us cause it would be our last show...and we had already been given our paychecks.
So really, no downside to this situation.
At ten minutes to 11 we all go down stairs to get ready to go onstage....we get out there to start doing our warm ups....and holy shit....the theatre is full!
I mean, not totally full.....but way more people than we had expected.
So then we all start freaking about because we are totally unprepared and we are gonna look like assholes.
Ah well.
The show was so much fun for us! It was like doing a whole new show.
I could not stop laughing at some stuff.
Glad I'm super professional.
MY favorite part of this show is when I go back to my seat and Gamal and I have this yellking match.
We are all supposed to be making zombie noises while Chris is making a change...
But these noises have turned into Gamal and I (in our zombie voices) just taking food items and exhanging one part of them for brains.
The week before I had one the game by yelling out "Brains and Waffles!!" "Chicken Fried Brains!!" To which Gamal responded in hystericla laughter.
He got me good this past show though, with "Count Chocula Brains!"
But then I retorted with, "Red Beans and Brains! Cornbrains!" Which not only broke him and won the game...but got Andrea to snort all the way up in the booth!
Awesome!
So after the show we were told that there were exactly 41 people in the audience.
Seriously?
The show goes on! Another weekend. We'll see if we can bring in another 41 tomorrow night!

Then Sunday we had a Blue Plate Comedy Show rehearsal.
This is going to be a super fun little show we are doing.
Members from NOLA Project, Cripple Creek and Inside Out Productions are combining forces and writing and performing our own sketch comedy show at Le Chat.
Going to be at 11 on the first Saturday of every month.
So we had a read thru of all the first show sketches, which are going to be hilarious....especially with our host Nick Slie.
We got done there and I went home to attempt to learn my scene for school.
Didn't have time to take a nap....just went over to "rehearse" with Zach.
And by rehearse I mean watch football.
Real productive.

Monday was the day of driving hell.
Went to Le Chat.
Went to work.
Went back to Le Chat for 6x6 rehearsal.
Went to school to audition for the UNO show, An Experiment with an Air Pump. (Sounds a lot dirtier than it actually is)
Finally went to Zach's house to make another effort at rehearsing.
But, ya know, Monday Night Football.

By Tuesday I was so sleepy I wanted to cry.
Went to school where Zach and I finally rehearsed seriously for our scene that we had to perform that day in class.
The scene went well.
I slapped the hell out of him, so that was fun.
And then we went and attempted to nap before we went to callbacks that night for Air Pump.
Callbacks of course lasted for about 3 hours....and of course Zach was on of the two last people there....so I had to stay even longer.
On the car ride home Zach was nervous about the casting....
"If I don't get cast I'm not going to school tomorrow."
Such a ridiculous human.
Went back to his house to wait for the list to be emailed to us.
Every five minutes he would ask if we had gotten anything.
"NO! I will tell you when we do! Calm the fuck down, Rogers!"
We finally got an email and thank christ we were both cast.
Crisis averted.

Last night we went and saw Southern Rep's, In the Next Room.
The general comments I have heard from people is that women tend to appreciate and like the play more so then the menfolk do.
I told Zach this to which he responds..."Oh...so I guess I will really like it, and you'll hate it."
Ha. Ha.
And during intermission we were reading all the symptoms of hysteria, which Zach pointed out included: Random outbursts of laughter, loud laughter, and uncontrollable giggling.
"Aww that's ashame. That's all you. You are definitely hysterical."
To which Ron Gural leaned over and interjected...."just hysterically funny."
Thank you, Ron.

I thought the production was great.
Sets, lights, costumes all beautiful.
And I though it was well cast and supremely acted.
Really enjoyed the lady who played Elizabeth.
And of course I adore Lucy and Kirkpatrick and Morrey.
And Shad was awesome. Including his mustache.
So yeah. Super happy I got to see it.
Go see it!
It plays for another weekend after this one!

And now it's Friday.
And I'm going to pass out.
Just writing about all this made me tired.

And it was probably not very exciting.....but my life makes me laugh.

Then again.....it apparently doesn't take much to make me laugh.
And that makes me crazy.
I'm just gonna go find me a vibrator.


This post is dedicated to the very talented and lovely, Aimee Hayes, my biggest blogfan!