Did
Get 10 hours of sleep
Lay around the park reading books and making fun of people
Kick a soccer ball around with Husband
Go out for burgers and a movie with That Guy
Get sunburned
Take my first motorcycle ride
Do pretty much exactly what I wanted all day long

Didn't
Work on any projects
Get a dog
Spontaneously develop the ability to solve That Guy's problems
Discover that non-homogenized milk is magically digestible
Waste the day

Did
Sleep for 9.5 hours
Wake up to eat
Contemplate going to the zoo
Have a 2 hour nap
Go to the gym for the first time since March 9
Lift some light weights
Shower

Didn't
Go see opening night of my show
Receive any emergency calls from the SM
Say hi to people who I know more or less like me
Get hurt
Have anyone tell me I should be seeking therapy instead of training
Feel sad

Thursday, April 12

Did
Get called for the night's rehearsal at 9am
Let the SM know that notice that late is not really ok
Get "LOL"ed in return
Do things on my long-term, if-I-have-time work list
Fix some lights and some cues, rebuild a bench and do a crash course in upholstery
Chafe at being called "Wonder Woman" again
Alter some cues the SM just can't handle
Walk out of the church basement for the last time until strike
Eat smoked salmon, ice cream, beer, and chocolate for dinner
Stay up super late

Didn't
Eat the SM's heart in the marketplace
Express any negative attitude whatsoever while in the theater
Stay for the second run-through
Fall asleep at work or on various trains
Have to wait forever for the PATH train
Miss the last R to Brooklyn
Blog
Go to bed until 2am

Did
Somehow manage not to fall asleep at work
Watch the hours dribble past
Have an evening to myself

Didn't
Go to the theater for the first day in a week or so
Use a wrench or any gaff tape
Get any panicked calls from the SM
Have to run anywhere or be late to anything

Tuesday, April 10

Did
Play hooky
Go to Body Shaman and get un-twisted
Listen to a world-weary 19 year old on the train
Finally buy some decent-looking work clothing
Nap hard
Forget that lots of people drive from NYC to NJ around 6pm
Fix the main lighting problems
Possibly fix some cues with the scatterbrained SM
Do a lot of highly adaptable driving
Hear that someone from the gym remembers me!

Didn't
Successfully make conversation with Body Shaman
Fall asleep while she worked on me
Forget to eat and then consequently despair
Save any time at all by driving
Freak out when all my normal routes were closed
Sleep enough
Get the SM to sit down and focus
Give notes that would have been helpful but resentfully ignored
Enjoy or participate in the vitriolic post-run bitch-fest

Monday, April 9

Did
Shower when I realized I was still covered in lead paint bits
Manage not to fall asleep while sitting at my desk
Do some thrilling paperwork
Enjoy sitting
Leave work early to go to rehearsal
Almost get the SM to understand her cues
Make an effort to call actors by their actual names
Get to feel competent and fix things
Have the best subway luck ever
Still get home after midnight

Didn't
Take the best care of my body
OD on caffeine
Eat birthday cake instead of dinner
Get enough done
Blog

Did
Sleep in until 8:30
Do some chores before heading to work
Program the light board, write cue times, sync with sound, make cue sheets and a magic sheet
Fix the crack, photograph the "grid", hang some pictures
Leave at 4pm!
Cruise through Fairway
Drive recklessly
Fail to nap
Eat a bunch of delicious ice cream

Didn't
Have to encroach on the Sunday School group
OD on caffeine
Remember to eat until about 3:30
Dye or hide any eggs
Totally miss the sun being up
Manage to get some decent work clothes after tech
Get in any accidents
See family
Give enough love

Did
Get to the church basement at 8:30 for a 9:00 level-setting
Check my watch with irritation when no one showed up at 9
Mostly run a cue-to-cue
Blow our stage manager's mind by knowing how to use the (very simple) light board
Get told that my set is better than the actors
Leave at 6:30
Eat hot food at home with Husband
Watch the best Community to date
Shower

Didn't
Get new clothes appropriate for work
Electrocute anybody
Lose patience
Doubt for a moment that I could do anything that was necessary
Back down from giving Directress authoritative notes
Get through the second act
Careen crazily into the walls of any of the 10 miles of tunnels I drove through
Read a book
Enjoy the sun
Play with dogs

Did
Spend about 12 hours or so in the church basement
Hang a lot of lights
Do some fun midair troubleshooting of dimmers
Pretend I know what I'm doing with gel color
Attempt to move ladders quietly so as not to disturb parishioners
Inhale a lifetime's worth of lead paint bits

Didn't
Permanently break much of the drop ceiling
Rely on the subway to get home this time
Eat enough
Sit down during those 12 hours
Let them talk me into last-minute stage managing
Finish

Thursday, April 5

Did
Bookkeep
Make a mad dash to 34th street during lunch
Get utterly flummoxed by B&H Photo's "efficiency system"
Bookkeep more
Head to the set after work
Get trapped by Vietnamese congregants and a priest hearing confession
Paint some stuff
Get the producer to set up the dimmers
Decide to maybe give blogging a break during tech week

Didn't
Actually catch the last magic R train to brooklyn
Have to race through Cortland street
Figure out how the heck to light this show
Hurt myself too much yet
Get home after midnight
Do anything but work

Did
Dress nice
Get grilled at our client interview
Hurt myself doing recommended stretches
Send a reasonable email to Body Shaman that made me feel like a dick
Learn that ArchiGirl is quitting
Go to rehearsal
Watch Directress behave so poorly that my jaw dropped
Race through Cortland Street Station to get the downtown R again

Didn't
Have to get off at Rector and walk to the 2/3 this time
Express any sympathy to those poor actors
Do any more stretching
Come off like a total moron in the interview (maybe?)
Learn to deal in vagaries
Give up the blog because it's tech week

Tuesday, April 3

Did
Mostly do bookkeeping all day
See Body Shaman
Forget to blog

Didn't
Get fixed
Let her know quite how much it hurt
Go to rehearsal after work
Forget or celebrate 2 birthdays

Did
Kind of enjoy how much my back hurt
Finish the research project
Have a phone call with a client in which I didn't sound like a moron
Get Boss's attention when I needed it
Leave work early to have a nap on an ice pack
Heal through the magic of sleep, ice, and ibuprofin

Didn't
Get derailed by admin/bookeeping requests
Forget anything major
Even think about trying to lift anything heavyish
Let my jade plant die yet
Do anything cool with my Monday night alone
Feel sad

Sunday, April 1

Did
Reassemble a bunch of junk into an ok looking set
Crawl around on the floor painting baseboard lines
See The Hunger Games
Leave the theatre in lots o' pain

Didn't
Remember to blog At All
Work for 6 whole hours
Get up stupid early
Try to move the rug alone again

Saturday, March 31

Did
Get up at 7
Spend 12 hours in a church basement working on something unimportant
React with indignation when Directress used my screwdriver as a paint stick
Paint some stuff
Build some stuff
Remember that I used to lift heavy things
Fence the performance space off with plastic chairs to fend off Sunday schoolers
Come home, after more than an hour on four trains, to a Husband bearing dinner and kisses
Have beer

Didn't
Spend any time with Husband
Spend any time outside
Walk away in response to Directress's various antics
Work on anything important to me
Have an entirely bad time