12.11.01 – dr. jekyll & ms. hyde

that’s my new boss, in a nutshell. it was a rough first day of rehearsal. it was tempting to come home and decompress with a pint of ben & jerry’s triple caramel chunk & a couple of friends episodes, but unfortunately my roommate hannah & i are keeping each other on a health-eating kick right now, plus we don’t have a tv. so much for drowning my sorrows in buffy reruns and chocolate. instead i did paperwork (bleh) but then mari called me and i procrastinated (yay!). i like this job, really i do. but i like it better when my boss doesn’t work out her anxieties by berating and humiliating me. i grit my teeth, smile, and remind myself that these are lessons in 1) how not to let stupid people get under my skin and 2) what sort of stage manager i’m not going to become.

zeke has really chunked up in the past two weeks since we got here. i suspect he’s putting on a layer of winter blubber because we keep the house around 60 degrees (we can’t afford to turn on the heat all the time, so we just wear scarves indoors). alas, someday i will earn enough money that my cat doesn’t have to get fat just to stay warm inside. maybe i should rethink that no-eating ice cream thing. i could save a lot on the heating bill if i acquired a layer of winter blubber, too.