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1. i am currently running compleat female stage beauty with the SNAP! theatre. in it, i play a meek, sweet little seamstress who is head over heels for a restoration actor who plays all the lady parts in shakespeare's plays. i spend most of my onstage time standing in the background of scenes looking either stricken or smitten, sometimes both.
2. i had a show today (sunday) at six, but i worked at the mall until 3.
3. i have a cold.
i awoke today feeling like total crap--stuffy nose, congestion, headache, sore throat. there was a cough in there that made me think that maybe i had consumption.
"i can not feel this way all day!" i thought. "i have a show to do. people are counting on me!"
but, you know, i was sick. so...balls.
when you are sick, and you need to feel better, you take medicine, right? right. so i sent greg to walgreens to get me both walphed cold and cough and dayquil (in combination, these two medications can give the impression that you are not sick at all, which is exactly what i wanted out of my day). so i took two of each at 11, and felt a little bit better.
i started feeling a little ickier at around two or so, so i took another one of each.
and then, at five, when i was called to the theatre, i took two more of each to make sure i wouldn't cough, sneeze, or sniffle while onstage.
do you see where i'm going with this?
half way through the first act, while onstage, the ten cold pills i took over the course of the day ALL TOOK EFFECT AT THE SAME TIME.
i managed to make it off stage before i started giggling. and then i spent the next forty minutes TRIPPING BALLS. doing set changes, tripping balls. exchanging dialogue and tripping balls. tripping balls, making out with an old gay dude.
most of my offstage time was spent staring at walls, barking laughter, and shredding paper towels. at one point i dropped my bottled water into the garbage and shouted "it's too salty!" and then i ate a piece of cake with my hands.
i think the only thing that really suffered on stage was my dialect, and i don't know if that means i'm just that good an actor or that i am such a bad actor that i can be high as a kite and not have it change my performance that drastically.
i'm sure it was very entertaining for everyone who wasn't me.
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