Chance = Change

...and dark enough outside on this dismal day to have our Xmas lights and tree on, making it warm and at least glowy in our little home...Peter has a 3:00 matinee of MODERN CHRISTMAS CAROL...and we're going to Derek and Melissa's tonight for sort of a farewell visit. All the Barter Acting Company is so busy rehearsing together and doing show after show after show together, that when we have free time, we rarely spend it with each other, so tonight is an attempt at making up for that a bit. This really is, by sheer necessity, a very un-social group of actors.We simply spend too much time together, by contract!!! It's not that we do not like each other. We do. It's just boring, because all we have to really share and talk about is our work, and since we all do the same work at the same time with the same people, what is there to say?I mean, finally, after three years (or more, in some cases) of day in day out being together in all the same rooms (on or off stage), I guess we all need our private spaces..and this is a company that loves each other!!! it's simply human nature, I guess. That's one of the important things about our friendship with Rick and Amanda: we talk of so many varied things always. Wow! It's really coming down out there. A very wintry day. Peter is packing some boxes of DVD's and movie CD's and tapes int he bedroom. I have just finished another batch of Christmas/Moving Notice cards to yet another large group of people who should be kept informed. And I am glad I do not have to do a matinee!! In fact, I feel great not performing these days...GYPSY did me in!!!!