Hi.
I’m glad I love what I do.
After the walk last night I was exhausted. I don’t think I had taken inventory. I slept a bit but woke up so I could morning it with Lou. As soon as she went to work I was down like a rock into a stream and slept with unusual dreams and cats until my cleaning lady woke me up at about eleven. Then I started a VISA application in bed.
It takes a VISA application, it seems, for the penny to drop that oh yes, of course, I have a job. A job I have. Acting I will be doing for gainful monies in the United States of America. Oh the joys. First though the paperwork. How old was your father? Last few trips to America? Do you like murdering? How many times have you eaten grouse?
I was dozy though, still, fighting through the paperwork. I think my body is battling something off again. Change of seasons and all that. Throat lurgy, but then I’m using my voice a great deal outdoors right now.
At 4pm I finally abandoned the admin, mostly completed, and I gathered up my costume bits and off off off to The Globe. Same client, slightly different material. We did it intimately and were much less hectic. Could have been unmiked this time, but the microphone meant we could speak quietly. We both have the technique, but we also both do film so we can split the difference. Happy client, happy us. And it all ran very quickly.
They fed us too. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. Usually it’s to do with how frantic it is in the kitchen. They had time this evening and we both got a beef wellington, some paté and some apple crumble.
I don’t even want to think about how many years I’ve been doing event type stuff in that building, it’ll make me realise how old I am. Event stuff, Education stuff. There are a few people I know who have done all three. I need the third.
I’m home now. Ffion and I again, cementing our working relationship. I’m gonna leave her with my costume when I go to America. If they book any dates when I’m away I have many actors I would gladly recommend and rely on. The ones who are left. Confident, stubborn, touched, kind, strange, human and so varied but bound by a string of shared experience and practical optimism. “I’ll make this work but whilst it isn’t working I’ll get really good at this random mad thing and do it too on the side so I can eat cake and pay for tickets to watch my friends”.
Ffion could tell I’m tired. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends a bit. Even this morning, when I wasn’t fully awake I wrote an email looking for more clearance work. I do like to do things. But I kinda need to just snooze for a day. Thankfully this weekend it is just walkies.
AlBarclay 