Good Evening!
This has been one incredibly long day for me...
I woke up at 7:00am.
I left Richmond shortly after 9:00am.
The snow started around 10:00am. It was practically white-out conditions by 10:30. I lost track of the accidents I saw on southbound 95 as I was driving northbound. *And I had one total idiot who was following five feet behind for about 10 miles in the snow... without his headlights on?!?!?!?
I made it to the theatre just before 11:00am. -Not bad time considering...
We had a Noon matinee. -Half the audience did not show up due to the snow. A lot of the school busses simply turned around since some of the counties started dismissing early.
The evening show was scheduled to start at 8:00pm, instead of the usual 7:30 since it was another "Close Up" night - 514 high school kids.
Long break between shows. I didn't even attempt to head home since the traffic was literally at a stand still outside the theatre starting around 2:00pm.
By 7:45pm, no one was seated in the theatre. The busses with all the kids were no where in sight. After a few phone calls...
The kids were still eating dinner at 8:00 across the street at Philip's Seafood?!?!?!? -Some had not even been served yet.
We held the curtain for 55(!!!!!!) minutes. -Ah, the "joys" of the LORT contract.
The show finished at 11:12.
So... Needless to say, I'm a bit, tired, frustrated and generally "over" the whole day... But...
On the positive side, I was not in any of the 150+ accidents on 95 that occured between 11:00am and 1:30pm. It did not take me eight hours to get from Richmond like it did for one audience member tonight - if I had left just 15 minutes later...
And, since we hit the three hour mark at 11:00pm, we got over-time for tonight. So...
Sorry to unload that bit of negativity. Of course, since tomorrow is the re-Inauguration, and we still have a show tomorrow night... Ah, well...
I'm still getting my stuff put away here in Fairfax, and I need to take care of a bunch of things before I can start reading the rest of the posts from today. So... It might not be until tomorrow until I can catch up on things...
-I need some hot chocolate...
Laters...