Today qualifies as one of the very best of my entire life.

Let's begin with last night, technically this morning. Up at the theatre building until 2:15 a.m. sewing, dying, gluing, drying, painting, and listening to the inner working's of Spence's brain. Despite being tired as Hell, I had great fun. More bonding with the cast and crew and whatnot. There's something about sleep deprivation in mass groups that really brings you closer to people. I have such a huge respect for Meghan and Kelly - they are absolutley amazing, and their creativity, passion, and vision astounds me to no end. I have learned so much from them, I really hope they know that.

This morning had to wake up early to rehearse a beginning acting scene with Austin Hebert (who played Pericles), and then perform it an hour later. Now, personally, I think Austin is an arrogant, self absorbed, pompous ass, who can't articulate and enunciate worth his ass. However, he is a good actor who is completely fearless and commits himself to whatever character choices he makes. To me, those two things, fearlessness and committment, are the two most important qualities in an actor. Anyway, we rehearsed the scene, and it went pretty well. There was some....kissing involved. Now, it was in the script, but we switched things around a bit, and added another kiss to the end. I was a bit wary at first, because I've never stage kissed before (and I can't stand Austin), but it was suprisingly pain-free, completely removed from the situation in a way. A bit later, we do the scene for the class. It was a bit different than we rehearsed (he shaked me a lot, and pushed me around,a nd the kiss was really rough - but that's a good thing). When we finished, it felt like there was a house full of people clapping, not just the class. I know that sounds corny, but that's how good it felt. And Mercedes cried. She cried. I don't have any words to describe how that made me feel. I got this feeling of euphoria. That's the entire reason that I want to become an actor - to make people feel. I saw her cryinng, and I was like, "I did that" - I touched her, I made her believe that what I was doing was real, that I was this character. It made me want to cry.

Moving into less sappy territory. Final dress was today. Holy putas. We put our freaking balls to the ceiling!.......Literally, we hung two huge black woofle balls from the light grid. I'm so happy right now because I know we did a kick-ass job. Bangarang. I won't elaborate too much on this, but Audrey liked it, and that really pleased me. It's all good and well for us artsy-weird theatre people to be impressed by the show, but when a normal person says that they like it, that means something to me.

ANd then the thing that topped it all. Got a call from Teppie and she told me that AHS got nominated for 11 Tommy Tune Awards for Fiddler. Hellz yeah! I am so proud, I can't even describe (I can't describe quite a few things). Anyway, a big "L'Chaim" to all you Ausitn H.S. Jews!

"Can we make sure that the body of Christ gets put back in the tuppeware conatainer that says 'body of Christ'?" - Meghan Dwyer