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Every time I see the current issue of "Entertainment Weekly", I have to giggle. The cover is for season 3 of "Game of Thrones" and the headline says "Shocking Deaths! Wild Weddings! One Angry Bear! Game of Thrones Prepare Yourself for the Most Thrilling Season Yet".

This makes me think of the line "Exeunt, pursued by a bear."

Which is from the Shakespeare play A Winter's Tale. (Which is probably my favorite Shakespeare play.)

I am such a dork.

Dress rehearsal #1 went well tonight, including my teaching the othe booth person how to run the program she'll be using for sound. So yay there!

Performance #2 went well. The audience was great. There were a few little flubs, but they were in different spots from before, so it's considered a win. :-)

Jean and I saw Cloud Atlas today. It was really good. I enjoyed how the stories were all woven together and the cast and crew were phenomenal. I highly recommend it. Just remember to not drink anything before-hand because it's a three hour movie. (But so worth it!)

I've gotten through the storm just fine. Thankfully. And having yesterday and today off was nice.

I did have rehearsal tonight, which went well, thankfully, since we're supposed to be opening on Friday. We're doing Rehearsal for Murder.

I did my last show for Isn't It Romantic? this afternoon. I'm kind of glad it's done. It was fun, but added a surprising amount of crazy to my schedule this past week and a half.

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This evening I went to the movies. I was originally going to see Cabin in the Woods, but then decided I wasn't up to watching anything serious.

So I went to see The Pirates! Band of Misfits instead. It's made by the people who do Wallace and Gromit. It was a lot of fun and very cute. And it had a great cast - Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant, and Martin Freeman. I knew about the first three, but the last was a pleasant surprise. And Flight of the Concords did a song. So it has a surprisingly fannish base. :-P

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And speaking of fandom, eternalmusings showed this to me.

[From the "Suits" pilot commentary]

David Bartis (producer): He wants to hug him but... Harvey's not interested. No he'll punch him instead.

Patrick J. Adams (Mike): That moment... it's the beginning of all the strange fanfiction we're beginning to [giggle] find online [laughs].

Gabriel Macht (Harvey): That's going through my head too.

Patrick J. Adams: It's just that--

David Bartis: Was there going to be more than a hug?

Patrick J. Adams: Oh man there is a lot of--

Gabriel Macht: Have you seen that stuff?

Aaron Korsh (creator/writer): Mm-mm.

Patrick J. Adams: Just stay off the internet. Do not write Mike and Harvey in Google.

We got through opening night. Yay!

I'll admit, there were a couple moments this past week when I wasn't completely sure, but we did it. And we had a really good-sized audience that was pretty responsive, so that's good. :-D

Today was good, if long. (Had to be at the theatre at 8am and started at 9.)

It was six theatre groups doing eight one acts, seven of those being adjudicated for the competition to go to regionals next month. Things kept moving and we were done by about 9pm.

And one of the shows, Vampe was interesting because it was an original musical and was cut down from its normal 2 hour, 40min run time to fit within the hour allotted. And it was about a vampire and an angel (both male) who fall in love. Now I'm really interested in seeing the full run, but it doesn't seem to be currently in production.

This morning, I watched the finale of "Warehouse 13" and I'm still pissed about some stuff from the episode before. And I had a fic idea to fix it, and then other stuff happened and I have no idea how I'm going to pull it off. Granted, I'm curious to see how *the show* pulls the rabbit out of its hat when it comes back.

Today, I went up to Philly with my mom and John and met Regina at the Academy of Music. We went to Buca di Beppo for lunch - which was very yummy.

Then we went back to the theatre and saw Billy Elliot - which was *amazing*. The boy playing Billy in this afternoon's show, J.P. Viernes, was *great*. I wasn't sure how well it would translate from a movie to a musical, but it did really well.

Now I'm at Chapel Street for closing night of Beauty Queen of Leenane. It's been a lot of fun. Last night after the show, we hung out here and had things to snack on and drank Irish beer and Irish whiskey.

And I had to laugh at Sean's (the director) note to me - "You've been great running sound for Beauty Queen of Leenane! You stepped right in and have put up with all the changes and adjustments with aplomb. And any womon that will drink 'Fecking' whiskey with me, is pretty cool in my book. Thanks for all your help!"

Tonight's show went well, though we had a smaller, quieter crowd.

But we did have some other interesting stuff happen. Like the director having to go pick up an actor who wasn't here on time. And having a car parked in our area (we share a very small parking area with a house next door) and debating whether we should just park them in or tow them. (We ended up going with the former.)

Homecoming is also this weekend (and the game was today), so everything's been nuts!

Rehearsal... went tonight. *crosses fingers really hard for the last dress rehearsal on Thursday*