Archon update
We just finished doing tech rehearsals for the Masquerade this afternoon. One extremely … healthy-looking … young woman is portraying Jessica Rabbit in her entry. Suffice it to say, she can.
At the meeting before rehearsals even began her mother came up to me and said “Jessica” wanted to rub up against me - that’s, the MC - in the course of her act. She asked, very diffidently, if that would be okay.
I said, “You have to be kidding.”
I love this job
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Yesterday was my 53rd birthday. It passed with little acknowledgement as a birthday per se. By the end of the day, more than a bit irrationally, I was somewhat sad. I put great stock in birthdays, as I do in Christmas. I felt I had missed something.
But indeed that’s silly. I had an extremely full day, and a very fun one. I spent time with old friends and some delightful new ones. I got to ham it up in the dinner-theater play Mike Smith and Florence Achenbach put on for the GoH banquet. Whereas when I have a birthday at home I’ll generally do something special to mark it - which I didn’t get to this year - I’m also often as not solitary. In general I spend too much time in that condition.
So on the whole, really, it was a pretty fine birthday. Even if fatigue and the tail-end of this infection put me in a less-cheerful state at the end of it.
Tonight’s Masquerade should be great. It’s the smallest in memory; a lot of locals aren’t able to attend because of $100+ NASFiC full-membership tag. They’ll be missed. And it’ll still be a fine Masquerade.