I can't believe it's only been two-plus weeks since our wedding anniversary. After going to CA with baby while Monstro stayed home and built scenery / studied for his Q.E. (which he since has taken, and needs to report), followed by his three-day ICON debacle, capped with a week of Q.E. and my introduction to JMG, I am done. Done done done.

Tomorrow is Communion Sunday and Palm Sunday at my church, all rolled up in one. Have I mentioned I'm the Sunday School Superintendent? Pretty much all I hear about it is complaints that “we don't have Sunday School on Communion Sunday, wahhh.” Well, we used to have seven teachers and now there are four, and one's leaving at the end of this school year, and probably, so am I.

My phone call with Hollywood started well and ended lukewarm. Then effusive e-mail to moi. One line back to him, and now the wait.

In the meanwhile, the first act of my new play has major, but not insurmountable problems, since identified. I'm not going to lie; I expect a certain… *level* from my audience. As such, I underwrite. I'd had a lot of stage directions and interpretations built into the script, but for this reading I took 'em all out and I think the play suffered for it. I believe that the dialogue should fuel the action, though, and I don't want to be directorial, because a stage manager who dissed me for the PACE unstaged readings said I made it all TOO specific.

Ugh.

And in the same underwriting vein, I sent Hollywood my CV and a two-page list of completed/in-process productions, but I didn't include Liz, or the Oscar I'm going to win for that same Tony-award winning dot dot dot with the help of David Cutler, once I can pay him. But you know, for a bio, he's just going to have to read my stuff, which Carlin suggested I let him do after signing his standard non-disclosure pact, and offering a FREE, THIRTY-DAY OPTION on the sole condition that at the end of said period, I'd get the names & contact info for everyone he sent it to.

Jay told me to just wait and be patient. I'm utilizing my time wisely with a complete overhaul of my quin·tes·sen·tial domain name, probably the seventh redesign it's undergone since 1995. I have gone deep background into myself and culled all my Web columns going back to 1993 and beyond. Yesterday I reposed on the new bed and sketched what the pages would look like. There's a LOT of pages, but they can be streamlined.

Basically, I've got the material to fuel a drama army.

And even if he's blowing smoke, hey, *somebody* found *me*, and commented, and asked *me* to call *him*. Which is pretty cool, no matter what happens, and has given me the added boost necessary to start sending my own stuff to agents, if need be. So, either way, it's a win-win. I like those odds. 🙂