what day is it?

the weekend rather passed me by, i was in the theatre in richmond with kirstie, finishing off the costumes and neatening up the set (mostly my own mess from the last production). Yesterday afternoon, we went back to distribute costumes and watch a run-through of the first half to make sure everyone was wearing the right stuff, then, this morning, i went back again for the second half. The projections are working, although the projector seems to be making the images rather dark, so i may have to have fiddle with it when the technician is not looking. The costumes look great (thanks kirstie!), especially under the lights. I am in a pretty good mood now that it is all coming together, although i only managed 4 hours sleep again last night.

Am a bit confused about what we are supposed to have done in terms of our soundtrack for the collaborative project, but it can't hurt to keep working on it, especially since i have some time and a mac booked. Am really feeling the pain of working on p.c. at home. I actually dread turning it on, I'm just waiting for it to crash all the time! I was right at the end of putting together the images for the website (for the collaborative project) last night at about 1am, when the whole thing froze. I had to start two images from scratch. I know i should have saved them earlier, but still - the stupid machine shouldnt have died on me either!

I am really pleased with the character karen and amitesh have extracted from the text of hedda gabler for chris (the actor who is performing my route in the collaborative project). It suits the character of my soundtrack perfectly and has confirmed my choice of a song by ed's brother's band for inclusion the soundtrack. The song is called 'why so shy', i won't try to describe it because you can listen to it on their website: www.dakarrally.org I think it contains just the kind of balance of naivety and cynicism that my character will have. I am finding it increasingly strange that I am basically asking Chris to act in the role of himself - as interpreted by me.

my tasks for this evening are to read hedda gabler (have borrowed from karen), work on the business plan for this company i am setting up with my friend and put together the program for under milkwood... phew! better get on with it then...