almost there

two more days off since the last post, and both of them were fairly uneventful... which was exactly what i needed. we sat by the pool, went to the beach, took naps, and went to see a movie. all activities that require no more effort than occasionally lifting a glass of wine to your mouth. i never thought sitting around doing nothing would feel like such a luxury...





cocoa beach is home to the world's biggest ron jon's surf shop, open 24 hours (in case of a 4am surfing emergency?) which we drove to at midnight because we were stir crazy and i needed a hat.



the situation with the office isn't the greatest... as a cast we're completely unimpressed that our project sheets and original drafts of our contracts blatantly omitted a few things, under the claim that they were 'last minute revisions'... the truth is they knew we wouldn't have agreed to come if those articles were in there, and now that we're here and have gone through rehearsals it's unlikely we'll leave. ugh. apparently we're the first cast that they've hired that aren't dumb as a bunch of monkeys, because we refused to sign them as they were and called a meeting with head office to revise them. as i understand it, this has never happened before, and they're curious as to why we feel that we would like to see things like, oh, i don't know, a copy of our health insurance policy. shocking. the good news is communication seems to have improved since the meeting, and i'm hoping that it will continue to once we've signed everything...

we only have three days left of rehearsals to go. this week, we have a preview show for the office and stakeholders in the company on wednesday night, followed by a party for us at peter's house (he owns the company. also, he's a hundred, i think). we have a day off on thursday to do laundry and pack, and we fly to london on friday morning. we just found out our first show opens on august 8th, two weeks sooner than we anticipated, so i suspect we'll also get called in to rehearse on our day off, which, although annoying, is still better than looking like a disastrous chaotic mess on opening night.



also, i found some lizards on my lunch break and made friends with them. florida isn't good for much, but it's good for lizards.

my next post will be from the ship... if you're interested in pictures of the vessel or my itinerary, you can find it at http://www.princess.com/ships/cp/index.html.

still having a great time, although i think we're all sharing a cold right now... =(

miss you all, and please let me know what's going on with you in the real world!