Friday 05/31/2024
End of June, eh. I took the benchmark walk this morning, and it felt alright; but an hour after I got back, my lower back and right hip were hurting. A couple of ibuprofen and I was back to normal by dinner time.
Practiced music, the songs I will do for the birthday dinner in three weeks, and the duet with Mary in two-plus weeks. Need more practice on all of them. I forget lyrics, I forget chords.
Then lunch, and then it was time to actually rehearse with Mary and with Arlene the pianist. Arlene is a wonder. At over 90, she is an excellent jazz/pop pianist, with lots of good advice on performing. This was our first time practicing using microphones and a PA, which is fun. I need to work on timing, although Arlene very kindly said I was late on my entrance she could compensate.
After a long slow supper with Carolyn, Linda, Pru and Connie, I had just time to get down to the Pear theater to see “Pear Slices,” their annual festival of one-act plays. Some very silly things. None of them really grabbed me, although there was one acting performance that was kind of amazing, a young woman (Jenna Marvet) doing a solo monologue as the “passion monster,” one component of a young woman’s personality. Not a great script but she held the stage and our attention for ten minutes straight.
Codgerville 