After waking, breakfasting, showering, etcetering, we went to Starbucks so I could buy Carrie her morning coffee. There I ran into Gina, who was on a coffee run for the Bead Factory. After collecting all of our collective coffees, Carrie & I gave her a lift back to the store (all two blocks). We then went straight to Party World where I purchased three helium balloons (one purple, one orange, and one red), while Carrie went upstairs and bought plates and napkins.
She dropped me off at home while she went and picked up
I drove home and had lunch and all that, and finally remembered to look up Heat Vision and Jack, the fabled pilot that I'd heard about but never actually seen. But now thanks to Kane Software's invention of streaming video, HV&J is all over teh Intarwebs.
I only got to watch about harf of it before Mike picked me up to take me down to the Fools Play workshop, the last one for a while. 'Twas fun. We taught them "directing" in improv, with the after-information that doing this actually does make you a "better" improvisor. We also did some serious scenes. I of course mean the comedy technique of Serious.
Leia & Kedar showed up, despite Leia recently having Strep Throat.
Mike & I ate at El Nopal for din-dins, then headed back to the theater only to take Taisha out to Jack in the Box for something to eat.
The show was Fools Play Slumber Party, a brand-new format about the Knight children, Eunice and her brother, whose parents move around constantly. Afraid that their children won't be able to make any friends, they arrange for Eunice and her brother to stay overnight at local children's homes. There they have various (mostly) normal adventures, and each night they tell a bedtime story (a scene).
We'd never done the format before (obviously), and we had done a shockingly small amout of preparations for it. In fact, we didn't finally decide on the structure of the night until about an hour before showtime. Nonetheless, it went over like gangbusters; the audience seemed to really love those world-weary kids.
It also probably helped that there was an exceptionally funny episode of "Ragz and his 20s and 30s-Style Tin-Pan Alley Band" with special guest Marie Antoinette.
After the show a whole bunches of peoples went to the Rib Eye. Leia & Kedar came so that she could have a milkshake to ease her sore throat, but the poor thing couldn't even taste it because she was still sick. They left before I even got my food (pancake combo deal thingy), so I didn't get a ride home with them. I sat mostly with Sandy and Amber, then with Sandy, Mathias, Jake, and Tia. I also performed Bozarth's brother (called "The Congenial Party Host" by mike and "Brozarth" by Mathias) for Becky and her table. Several times.
Eventually Sandy and Mathias decided to leave, so they gave me a lift home, but I didn't get in until almost 2:30 in the AM. And then this morning I got up at 8:00.
