Did
Sleep in wonderfully late
Laze around in bed reading for over an hour
Use my TD pay to buy new tools
Take a truly excellent floor nap on Husband
Hear from Coach for what will probably be the very last time
Realize that all that drama probably had very little to do with me
Lose twice at Lost Cities
Cook dinner

Didn't
Do any work whatsoever
Clean
Hold a grudge
Write
Worry
Feel guilty about taking the whole day completely off

Did
Get up at 7
Spend 4 hours making cables for lighting instruments
Get physically displaced by a "helper" who assumed I couldn't help lift a platform
Hastily stick together a couple of flats for the last 2 walls
Spend an hour listening to Directress wonder what colors to paint the walls and floor
Spend 2 hours total on train(s)
Manage to run through Cortland St station fast enough to catch the elusive downtown R
Cruise Fairway at 9pm

Didn't
Slap the helper
Maintain good posture while making cables
Feel sanguine about getting everything finished next week
Go to a showing of a tv pilot That Guy was in
Do all my rehabby stuff
Nap effectively
Get to spend enough time with Husband

Did
Sleep in 'til 7:40
Drive all over the city
Get my first sunburn of spring
Marvel at the dick-swinging at our site visit
Wonder why the person who knows everything is always a beta
Pay $25 in tolls to haul my tools to a church basement
Turn on my secret Getto Tech Power(tm)
Stand up a bunch of flats that have very little business standing up
Impress some people
Smell like work
Have fun

Didn't
Remember that Tillary to 3rd is not really a shortcut at all
Forget how to do the things I do
Come up with much to say at the site visit
Betray that I'm just a bookkeeper
Freak out that I only had a scribble to build from
Fail to delegate effectively
Refuse help when it was helpful
Hang out to hear why our brand-new walls probably don't work for Directress
Go grocery shopping
Plan the meals
Play outside

Did
Try to convince the Office Managerette to do office-managing type things
Attempt to understand Directress's narrative of changes to the set
Toy with the idea of observing rehearsal after work like a responsible TD
Encourage a co-worker to pursue other options
Try to think through a cut list without understanding the set, tools, or materials available
Make a lot of maps, do some zoning calculations, and moonlight as a bookkeeper
Talk to someone even more clueless than me about tomorrow's site visit

Didn't
Resist cracking my neck and making it worse
Respond when Lady Boss loudly talked about me from across the room
Wear the same jeans I wore every other day this week
Go to rehearsal
Write
Sound like an idiot at any point
Get a dog

Did
Retroactively become project manager of our new project
Get interrupted by Urgent Bookkeeping Nonsense! Again!
End up double-booked for Friday between work-work and play-work
Make a bunch of maps
Go to Vanity Gym and lift on my own
Deliberately take it easy with things that could probably have hurt me
Get an email from Coach after 2 weeks of silence, canceling a session we never scheduled
Inadvertently watch two hours of British crime drama

Didn't
Watch the tail lights of the R train pull out of the station
Come out and tell Lady Boss that yes, managing the office should be the Office Manager's job
Get bored
Probably take the lifting as slowly as I should
Respond to Coach as petulantly as I wanted to
Write anything
Play with dogs

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Did
Stay late at work, happily fighting with GIS

Didn't
Remember to blog until leaving the house for work on Wednesday

Did
Almost leave the house on time
Use Shamanic techniques to reduce the hurty by about 70%
Work on actual projects all day
See a particularly relevant TED talk
Think about writing a story
Watch Iron Man instead
Hang out with Husband

Didn't
Manage to coax Boss et al into meeting a deadline
Understand what the heck Directress was trying to tell me
Go outside
Refrain from eating junk
Apply for any jobs
Play with dogs

Did
Listen to the sweet strains of thunderous vomiting over breakfast
Turn the kitchen table into a drafting board
Make my director happy
Call my mom for her birthday
Brave my first non-guided workout in a year
Squat
Hurt myself a little
Nap
Watch Helen Mirren triumph for women's lib

Didn't
Spend nearly enough time outside
Do anything stupid at the new gym
Do as much work for the show as I could/should have
Remember to send Mom a card or anything like that
Spend non-TV time with Husband
Write anything
Clean
Play with dogs

Saturday, March 17

Did
Get up at 7
Go to my first rehearsal in six years
Cringe through a read-through
Tape some lines on the floor of a cold church basement
Confirm that I don't have to be at future rehearsals
Nap
Go grocery shopping
Once again remember to always fear the Crimson Permanent Assurance

Didn't
Let the snide come out
Provide fake emotional comfort
Mention the intensifying alcohol smell wafting off of one actor
Gain any confidence in the tech savvy of the producers
Wait for dudes to help me move things
Test drive any more dogs
Wear green or drink beer
Go to a gym
Hurt

Did
Read the play I'm TDing
Sketch some set ideas
Remember how to make a production calendar
Email Directress a lot of thoughts
Shop around for a new gym
Test drive a dog from the dog adoption van
Have a mini migraine
Cook dinner

Didn't
Work out at a gym
Figure out how my shoulder business affects what I can do
Responsibly do my shoulder mobility work
Adopt the dog
Tear the Mister Softee truck into teeny scraps of metal for drilling its theme into my face
Determine how to spike walls without a floor plan
Write any of this week's overdue stories
Feel crappy about myself

Did
Spend 12 hours in the office working
Sing Happy Birthday

Didn't
Go outside
Eat cake

Did
Spend the day jumping from one proposal to the next
Discover I have base maps due tomorrow for a project
Love my three minutes outside on an errand
Realize I forgot to actually send the proposal materials out
Go to my first production meeting in 6 years
Wonder what I got myself into
Play with my shiny new phone
Miss the gym

Didn't
Hear a peep from Coach
Contribute much at the production meeting other than Equity break rules quoted from memory 8 years after I last needed them
Do lunch outside with everyone else
Buy a fourth PATH ticket before realizing I could use my Metrocard
Seem to be allergic to the director's dog
Spend enough time with Husband

Did
Happily read astrology stuff over breakfast
See the best subway ad ever for "Mannish Water" flavor soup mix
Visit Body Shaman
Get involved in an actual project
Discover that MTA will refund you for lost metrocards
Sit next to Crazy Humming Lady on the way home
Do some super-fun Tuesday night laundry

Didn't
Have to talk to Body Shaman about the Coach situation
Quite figure out how to do some of her crazier moves
Look like an idiot for not knowing how to fulfill a nonsensical bookkeeping request
Successfully convey the proposal process to Newbie Office Manager
Write a story
Drop any balls
Cry
Apologize for myself

Did
Wake up really groggy from staying up until 1 and drinking
Drink too much caffeine and get a little weird
Work on a proposal for Lady Boss
Make a bus map that will never be used, but looks cool
Get all stressed out about seeing Body Shaman tomorrow
Worry that Coach secretly despised me all along
Remember that Husband is awesome and clear and honest communication is amazing and I am hugely lucky

Didn't
Resent Lady Boss at all
Do the laundry after work
Decide that going hungry was an appropriate punishment
Stay late to do the work I avoided by making the map
Get to bed early, as planned

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Did
Write a story about marriage and isolation
Continue to love David Wain
Hula hoop on the sidewalk
Eat a burger (with a bun!) and fries
Get a little tipsy
Get That Guy to come hang out at our apartment
Watch one of the best movies ever
Get hired as a tech director for a show next month

Didn't
Resolve the whole gym-and-coach situation
Have any second thoughts about the TD gig
Guess right about That Guy wanting to see a silly romcom
Look for jobs
Cry
Sit inside all day and sulk
Neglect the neighbor's cats