Hey!
Posting a quick entry before eating lunch and running out the door to the theatre. We open tonight! Woo hoo! I have to wear a scratchy wig that I hate, and my dress is hideous, but we're opening tonight! Didn't get home until 2:30am and I'm so glad I took today off of work. I slept in until 10am, then got up and did stuff around the house. You know, the things that slide when you're not home for two weeks. :P
I wrote two pages in Magpie on Thurs.! Woo hoo! Broke a two week writer's block on the book and am feeling good about it.
Also got two rejections - one from sf-org and one from Black Gate. But they were both personal, with very specific details as to why they'd been rejected, and both said the stories had been shortlisted. So that's kind of encouraging :)
Picked up J. at the train station yesterday with a friend of his who's in town from Ohio (I didn't know anyone lived there :P). Mentioned that I'd invited a bunch of friends to go out this coming Thurs. and said he was welcome to come. And his quick - "I'd really like that" - was quite gratifying ;) And thus far six of my friends have said they'll be able to make it, so it looks like it'll be a good night.
And that's about it. I've got so much to do it's not even funny. Later!

Yeah!
Got the specs for my website. I'm so excited! Chris did a great job, and I only had a few comments on it. So now it's just up to me to go through my pictures and decide what I want to give him to scan and link to from my site. But it's so great to see a concept becoming a reality!
I subbed Deep Enough to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and am now awaiting my alasogram :) Yeah, I know I should think positive, but hey, why set myself up for disappointment? This way if it sells I'll be pleasantly surprised. But I'm proud of the story, and that's a nice feeling.
We ended rehearsal last night early - 11pm. A good thing for my sleep-deprived state (you know it's bad when you can't remember any of the hour plus drive home) but a bad thing for the show. We're not even done blocking the second act! Can I freak out now? I asked Joel if he thought we'd be ready to open friday and his response was - "Um, I don't really think I can answer that honestly" :P So not a good sign when your music director isn't confident two days before opening night...
And that's about it. I'm going to do something radical and attempt to get some writing done today. Fingers crossed.
- D

I did it! Asked him out! And he said yes! Hee hee hee hee. Dances around in excitement. We won't have time to go out until after the show goes up, but he said we'd "definitely hang out." Yes! Yes! Yes! So I'm going to be a stereotypical girl and gush crazily/worry about what to wear/and just generally enjoy the fact that - after two years - I might actually have a "possibility" in my life.
But honestly, I'm cool with it even if I just end up with a friend. That would be nice, frankly, though is he sooo hot, I mean not just yummy by double YUMMY, because having guy friends can be great. Luckily, I have the show keeping me so busy I haven't had time to think about it - except for when I get one of those shivers up and down my spine, you know, the "what if?" shivers - though I keep stealing glances over at the piano ;) Bad Dena!
Oh, yikes, do I sound "high school" or what? Oh, well, I'm having fun! More later :)