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April 26, 2015:

THE DAY AND NIGHT CONUNDRUM

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Well, dear readers, I was just pondering why there is a day called Saturday when there isn’t a night called Saturnight?  Oh, I know people say I’ll see you on Saturday night, but isn’t that confusing?  You can’t tell someone you’ll see them on a SaturDAY if you’re seeing them on a SaturNIGHT.   It seems to me the name people have perpetrated a fail.  Surely if there’s a day, there’s a night and therefore while it’s fine to say, for example, Monday, when it turns to evening then it should be Monnight for it is no longer MonDAY.  After all, fair is fair.  Fair is also fare, but that’s another story.  And now that one thinks about it, just by inserting a li’l ol’ “L” into fair or fare we get flair or flare.  These are the things that are roaming around the windmills of my mind on a Saturnight.

SaturDAY was a wacky little day.  I didn’t fall asleep until three, and then I was up at eight-thirty, ten, eleven and noon, thanks to the Sami rehearsal being pushed back.  When I finally got up, I did the usual things – answered e-mails and did stuff on the computer.  Then at one-thirty, I decided to go get a sandwich of some sort.  My tummy was not feeling all that good, and I really hope I’m not getting the bug that Sami surely must have had on Thurnight.  Do send some excellent vibes and xylophones for no stomach bug or flu or whatever it is.  Now, if anyone knows the Jerry’s Deli timeline, it’s me.  I know when people are there and when they aren’t – yes, that changes now and then but never overtly.  And the one thing I know is that you can always get into Jerry’s at anytime on a Saturday but most especially at one-thirty.  Not yesterday.  Noooooo, yesterday there was a wait line out the door.  There was absolutely no rhyme or reason for it, but there it was.  I got really annoyed and left.  I went to Hugo’s even though I knew I would most likely not get in there, and that was indeed the case.  Then I went to the Studio Café and there were two parties ahead of me and I left and came home.  It was completely frustrating and there was no way I was going back to Jerry’s to give them my money after that ridiculous and pointless line.

Then Sami and mom arrived.  We chatted for a bit.  She was really sick on Thurnight, throwing up many times, and that continued into Friday.  So, she didn’t go to school and just stayed home and rested.  She also did not look at her material once so I kind of knew what we were in for.  We ran the entire show from start to finish with no stopping.  All the singing was really good, with only a couple of note problems – her voice was strong and on the ballads she was subtle and they sounded great.  The monologues were all rushed and just words, and a lot of the progress from Thursday’s session was gone because she hadn’t worked the material since then.  I told her mom the material has to be worked every day.  I gave lots of little notes, but the big notes were homework notes – to run each and every monologue until they were real and honest and the storytelling was fun and understandable.  She had, in fact, gone so fast that she shaved an amazing five minutes off the running time.  Her mom assured me they’d work everything and I’m told they did so we should see a nice difference today.  I do know that once all this clicks in she will be absolutely wonderful.

They left and I went directly to Hugo’s and had a small Caesar salad and pasta papa, both excellent, but my tummy still felt weird and, all these hours later, still feels weird.  Hopefully I’ll get through the evening fine.  Then I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a documentary on the Flix of Net entitled Fed Up, all about the food we eat and how we have more obesity in this country today than ever before, especially with kids.  It’s a very well done documentary and an eye-opener in terms of what’s being fed to this country (pardon the pun) – that energy and burning calories will somehow keep you thin.  The villain in the piece is sugar, plain and simple.  The food industry spends billions of advertising dollars to addict kids to sugar from the time they’re born.  The secondary villain is processed foods, which is tied to the first villain.  In any case, I highly recommend this documentary, which is narrated by its producer, Katie Couric.  I think I’m going to attempt a one-month trial of severely cutting back my sugar intake (I think you’re allowed four tablespoons of sugar per day.  Most people eat twenty times that amount and probably aren’t even aware of it.  I’m going to buy some chicken breasts and some halibut, sweet potatoes, vegetables and fruit and see if I can just do that and see what affect it has and whether I drop weight.  Apparently exercise is not all it’s cracked up to be in terms of losing weight.

After that, I just did some work on the computer and somehow the time just flew by.

Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep and no tummy problems, and then I’ll relax until Sami arrives for our rehearsal at three.  We’ll run the whole show, then work on things that are problematic, if any.  Then they’ll leave and I’ll cook something healthy and eat it all up.  Then I’ll watch the new Mad Men and perhaps watch the new Blu and Ray of 42nd Street.

Tomorrow, I’ll take it easy until the Kritzerland rehearsal starts.  That will end at five, then Sami and our musical director Alby Potts will come at five-thirty and we’ll work stuff until around seven.  At seven-thirty we begin the private reading.  There will be between ten and fifteen people here.  The rest of the week is meetings and meals, then the second Kritzerland rehearsal followed by dinner at the Smoke House (no sugar – just prime rib and an artichoke – have to stay away from salad dressings for a while, other than oil and vinegar), then we have our stumble-through on Saturday and sound check and show on Sunday.

Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora or the Continental, for today is the birthday of dear reader Jennifer.  So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to dear reader Jennifer.  On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO DEAR READER JENNIFER!!!

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a rehearsal, cook and eat, and relax.  Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them.  So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland as we end this Saturnight.

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