Not too long ago I just experienced possibly the most religious fifteen minutes I’ve ever spent on a toilet.

I managed to pick up a stomach bug or something and while there had been a few small tremors throughout the day, what I just endured was less prepared for than the Indonesian Tsunamis. In fact, I bet they sounded pretty similar.

The actual attack was a brilliant display of technical feats and pyrotechnics. I managed to get a fever, break out in a sweat and experience vertigo all from my white seat. At the end of this excruciating ablution, I had little more than my conciousness to convince me that my large intestines were still in roughly the right place.

I’m now working on replacing the fluids I lost, but apart from the occassional quiver, the enemy forces seemed to have retreated.

Opening weekend went very well. After three performances I was royaly tired, but I still didn’t get home until 3am this morning (but slept until midday). The audiences seemed to enjoy the show, and the audiences have just been getting better and better. Last night’s audience erupted into laughter often (at the right spots, which is nice), and were extremely appreciative at the end. This was partially because the audience consisted of a group of kids from the children’s theatre.

We did have one scare when two of the cast members were involved in a car accident on the way, but they made it safely to the theatre and were on stage on time for a great show. It was still a tense time, and I was even on the phone to the passenger when the accident occurred. Otherwies, my lyrics have been going well, I haven’t had any emergency ‘re-imaginings’ of lyrics yet, which is somewhat comforting. Other than a little sleep deprivation, sore legs (I stand pretty much the entire show), and a less than perfect voice, I feel pretty good.

I’ve had a few hours now today to sort out the clip of the show on the local news, and I thought I’d share it with you. Beware, you must have a fairly recent Quicktime (if you have iTunes, you should be fine).

1:22, 5.4MBs

Now let’s see if I can dig out the video tape of me on the news for the same show five years ago. Tammy, will you grant me access to your dvd burner to get this done?

Why is life so hard?

I was just double checking the record schedule for tomorrow (I have a computer based hard disk tv recorder with program guide etc, doncha know), and there is a conflict between the local news which I should be on for the show, and the debut of the promisingly mystifying reality/documentary series called The Steph Show, following yet another Neighbours celebrity trying to hit it big in the music industry.

Someone please tell me what it’s like.