Ok, another one!

Dave Barry

by Fish 42

At the end of the Council of Elrond, everyone concluded that 'Shards of Narsil' would be a great name for a band.

I have very little to blog about...but five posts away from my 700th blog, so I'm filling up space. I popped over to this site courtesy of the Elfin Ethicist. The site is "what if LOTR was written by someone else." I really like the Douglas Adams examples, Jane Austin, and C.S. Lewis. The Dickens one is very clever. And this one:

Friends: The One with the Ring.

by AckThud

Frodo Bing: Could we BE in any more peril? Mt. Doom is SO much further than Tulsa!

JoeWise: Don't worry, Mr. Frodo, I'm sure it'll be fine, so long as they have sandwiches there. Besides, we got this guide helping out here. Hey, How you doin'?

SmeaGellar: Um, ittttt burnsssssssssssss, like, I could help, but um.....there's this thing...my precioussssssssss...I, uhhhhh.....

Frodo Bing: Could you FORM a complete sentence?

Elsewhere:

Tom Phoebedil:

SmeaGellar, SmeaGellar,
Why are they torturing you?

SmeaGellar, SmeaGellar,
It's not your fau-au-aullllt!!!!

Oh,and this one..

Gilbert and Sullivan

by Zanzibar

I am the very model of the modern magus Mithrandir

I fought the Balrog in the chasm and was his extinguisher

I know who is the king to be and all Middle Earth's history

As well as all the lin-e-age that makes up Strider's ancestry

I ride upon the mearas that is known to you as Shadowfax

And fight Saruman's tyranny by leading Rohan in attacks

For guidance information about messing with a palantír

I am the very model of the modern magus Mithrandir

Another busy day in the "Waggin' Tongue." (actually overheard: "That's not the way you spell that." "It's a PUN!") I've made over a hundred dollars a day the last two. If I keep this up, I might have a good pay period. I could use it! The starving artist phase of existance is fast approaching!

I got in trouble today. There's usually an hour or two of dead between the lunch rush and afternoon cocktails. I started bringing a book to work, which is ok with three of my four managers, but really makes the fourth mad. She went through my cart, found my book, and sent me home to put it away. I'll not make that mistake again.

There is a new bellman at work who is really on fire. He came to get a soda on his rounds and was telling me that he's having trouble talking with people about truth when, 1) they don't believe it exists, 2) they don't accept the Bible as the basis for living, and 3) if they do believe in truth, it is considered relative. We discussed how "truth" by definition must be absolute. Now he stops by two or three times a day instead of once. If only he knew that I have to wear my extra-large cross necklace at work, under my uniform. Having it wacking me about the midsection reminds me to be charitable...or that's the theory at least. I have 1 Corinthians 13 taped to the bar, but I still find Charity in short supply. Patience is in short supply, and I struggle not to be rude to abominable customers. Rarrgh. Confessions of a bartender...

Well, I've been sitting by my phone for 24 hours hoping that director will call. I hate playing this game. I don't have the number of the guy who recommended me, to ask what's up. This business is weird.

I spoke with my high school and junior high youth leader this morning. I haven't seen her in probably two years...It was so good to talk with her. Two of her children are abroad doing missions work. She and her husband are leaving to build a church in the Ukraine for three weeks. She's a wonderful woman, a great influence, and a tenured member of the "blessed company."

Thanks to everyone who wished me well! Wilson, it's good to see you're hanging around still! I have even more exciting news....get ready for it....

On my way to blog this evening, I got a call. A theater is doing "Marry me a little" by Stephen Sondheim and needs an understudy. Now. Like, I have to learn a whole show by him in a few days!!!!!!! That might totally freak people out, but me, it's so exciting. The director is going to call me this evening and see if we can work out the schedules!!!!! SONDHEIM SHOW!!!!

Hmm...I was expecting a bigger response about my audition being a success...Is everyone alright out there? No one's died or anything?

Ahh, back to the grind. Now I just have to wait for answers from those folks who were interested in my audition. One was Lambs Players, a Christian theater in San Diego. They aren't currently hiring, but wanted to find new talent for upcoming seasons. The second callback was for A and D theater in Houston. They are offering an internship position for the next twelve months. They have five mainstage productions (including Anne of Green Gables, the musical, and Shadowlands, the story of C.S. Lewis) and five children's theater productions. Concievably I could do ten shows in the next year. Sounds good to me. The pay is just enough to live on, if I share an apartment with other interns. The third was for a touring company through Wycliff translating services. They do a traveling dinner theater and give plays based on bible-translating missionaries. In the fall they will be doing a southwestern tour, based in Portland. All expenses are paid, and would make a very small per-diem. And lastly, a theater in Pennslyvania is looking for an ensemble musical cast for the spring. So those are my options, assuming that any of the three make me a job offer. It's nice to have options!

Hail the conquering Hero!

I had a mass audition yesterday at the CITA conference. We had a meet and grett for an hour where the various theaters told us what they were looking for. Then we had our audition. I sang one song and did my monologue. Then they turned us right around and posted callbacks. I had four! So, the cities interested in me were Pennslyvania, Houston, San Diego, and one touring company of the Southwest. I was very glad. I thought I woudln't even get one. The opportunity to chat with other Christian performers was great, and the heads of the theaters were very kind at the callback interviews. The first part was pretty much like a normal audition -- their heads were buried in my audition packet. But there's no way to avoid that.

Drea met me down there. We got lost on the way back up, and our trip home took us until 3 am. I'm very tired, but so happy!

And Cai brought in two lizards today. Two days ago I saw one on the floor and figured I'd get around to it later. I needed a cup of coffee first. I came back and it was gone. That night I climbed into bed and heard Cai batting something around the bathroom. I got up to take the poor thing away from him, but IT was only a barette. I climbed back into bed, looked down, and there was the lizard: on the leg of my pajamas. I shrieked. I collected myself and took it outside, trying to act normal because Cai was eyeing me with interest. I've had a lot of things in my apartment, but never on me. As my mother would say, it gave me the heebie jeebies.