I spent the day with my lover and “empty”.

First at the voter’s polls. And yes, I voted.
Then we dashed about before Art for Art Sake, or what they should call more truthfully for most of the attendees…Drunk for Drunk Sake. It was fun but a bit premature since Sean had to go to work.

We headed to a sushi buffet, and then “empty” and I headed off to Magazine St. to hit the events up and down the street.

I met up with reverend Spooky la Strange (one of the performers with Lil Beaux Peep Show), then we walked about, waiting for Sadie Corset (director and performer) to complete her obligations to the establishment she works for and meet up with us. I waited for Sadie at another venue, and lost Spooky. that was okay. I had a lot of great conversation and heard a great many interesting stories, and met many wonderful new characters. Nothing was lost, I just was enjoying her company previously.

Sadie seems really on the ball, a driven and ambitious girl, in all the right ways, just like myself. I am glad to see not all of new Orleans is made of hopeless flakes. I am so excited about being back in a performance company.

I spent no less than 15 or so hours a week in rehearsals of various types when I was an adolescent. I even would often spend atleast 60 hours in rehearsal in the summers, if not more. I was training in vocal, theatre, dance, and even learned to run lighting, do props, and costuming. I miss it tremendously.

Ugh, the work and dedication is driving…maybe that is why I think that all children should live that for a period of their childhood. It is character building…it instills passion and pride for what they can create, and actually gives them a well rounded collection of skills. It burns a ot of a child’s excessive energy, and gives them pride and accomplishment. i think that is how I got the additional drive I have today.

I am dying to get a chance to have the feeling of working constantly with a company again. I don’t expect to be a star in the show, I mean, we all get a chance to have a routine all our own, but there is no true Star to a company…it is a family, with a common goal, and a shared public image for the most part.

I really like and respect Sadie and all the hard work shehas invested in it. I know what she has been through. Tonight we combatted many silly rumors about the exclusivity of auditions, and other dumb stuff. This is something I am all too familiar with in my realm of dealings in the scene.

I have had so much fortunate involvements lately…a lot of the negative stuff I have witnessed seems redeemed…I feel that people aren’t as instinctually lazy, and petty as I was starting to take them for. I think these girls are fascinating and showing me that all the crappy things I witnessed are not the rule of thumb.

My lover is even a pretty nifty, quality, sweet passionate and caring guy, and with a brain no less…that is refreshing compared to a lot of the people I allowed in to my life in the past couple of years.

I am restoring my faith that there are some really okay people in this town other than my close friends and slaves. I kept getting disappointed that all that was outside my nice safe little family were flakes and petty drama, and I was wrong. thank god.