The advantage of having a larger washing machine is you can, you know, put more clothes in it, wash more clothes at once.

That’s kind of why they make them.

The disadvantage, of course, is if you rely on the fact that you have a really large kind of laundry machine and then you save up enough laundry to fill it, then the folding takes a really long time.

And I’ve gotten really precious about my clothes.

I prefer to hang dry most things, like even my socks, because I don’t want anything to shrink.

I’m tall.

I want my clothes to fit.

And if stuff shrinks, then they don’t fit.

And then I’m sad and annoyed.

So I do a lot of hang drying.

And sometimes that means I have to get really creative.

Like yesterday’s laundry batch, I had to use the drying rack and the second drying rack because we happen to have two.

We set one up in the hallway and then I still had stuff to hang.

So I set up a small step ladder and was hanging things on the rungs of the ladder, too.

And, you know, now everything’s folded and put away because you’ve got to fold and put away right away.

I mean, I say that like I always fold and put away, which I don’t.

I mean, I always end up folding my laundry, but sometimes it stays on the drying racks longer than it needs to before I fold it.

And then, of course, there’s, you know, whatever things I do put in the dryer.

And those things, you know, before I’ll fold them, if the dryer is already done and, you know, it’s now it’s the next day or it’s hours later, you’ve got to run the dryer for 10 minutes, fluff them out, and then I’ll take them out and fold them.

But anyway, I just want to be clear.

All my laundry is clean, all my laundry is folded, and it’s all put away.

That’s why I have merited this theme song.

Your Daily Lex.

I feel like it’s been a minute since I gave you a good enough misery update, so I want to be clear.

I really do know all my lines.

There was one scene, there was a giant monologue at the end, and I don’t even know how I learned it.

It was a combination, I think, of reading a lot and also listening to my recording of myself doing it and then re-recording myself doing it so I could have a slower version where I had pauses and more of a delivery that I want so I could hear it that way.

And then also, really, it’s, I’ve found it quite helpful to be doing occasional readings with my kids who have, at least two of three have been helpful.

67% of my kids have been helpful with line readings.

One of them always says no, and I’m not going to say who it is, but he knows who he is.

And, but so, you know, hearing them point out where I’m making mistakes helped too, but I got that monologue locked.

And there’s really only one page of the script where I’m having trouble at all, and I think I’ve got that locked down now too.

And that page is a scene where the woman playing Annie also has trouble, and it is a big scene, it’s the hobbling scene.

But in the lead-up to that scene, I wake up and she has, I don’t know this yet, but she has given me a fentanyl shot and she has tied me down to my bed.

And the things I say are all the things you would probably expect to say if you were being held hostage by a reasonably crazy person and you woke up to find yourself drugged and tied down to the bed.

But saying those things in the right order and at the right times proved a little tricky, but I think I now have it down.

So that’s good.

And tonight I have a rehearsal that I’ve been looking forward to for a long time, which is like really mapping out all the physical stuff.

We were initially going to do that rehearsal on Monday, but Monday just became a full run-through, which we did off-book, which was great.

But so yeah, now tonight it’s falling out of bed and really being hurt and crawling to the door and testing the door.

And then when I try to open the door and discover that it’s locked, swearing quite profanely, what a joy.

Then, so there’s that scene.

Then there’s also a moment where she has to pick me up and put me back in the bed.

I genuinely have no idea how we’re going to do that.

Poorly, is my guess.

Then there’s a scene where she’s left, I’m wheelchair-bound now, and I sneak into the kitchen so I have to break the lock open.

The lock is really hidden from view while I’m doing it, so that’ll be easy.

And then once I’m in there, I’m looking around the room, I try the phone, I see an autographed picture of myself that she has.

It’s signed and autographed, it’s very cool.

And then I discover pills, and there’s this whole balancing act where I’m trying to get up out of the wheelchair to reach the pills.

And then I’m going to fall into the wheelchair.

And every time I’ve done it so far, it has worked.

But man, if that wheelchair ever slipped, ouch.

And then I’ve got one other scene where I’ve got to go out into the kitchen in the wheelchair and I find a knife.

And I’m testing putting the knife in my sling and pulling it out over and over again.

Sort of like it’s a sheath.

So I’ve got to rehearse that.

And then there’s spoilers for Misery, if you’re coming to see the show and have never read the book or seen the movie, or I guess seen the play.

Then I have to murder her with a typewriter.

I don’t know if murder is the right word, although I do murder her.

I have to kill her in my own self-defense.

And that’s by smashing her face in with a typewriter.

And every time it comes up, the director’s like, don’t worry, there’ll be at least six inches of clearance.

There’ll be six inches of clearance between her face and this 30 to 50 pound typewriter.

That’s not a lot.

And that’s also relying on me to do exactly the right thing.

So we haven’t choreographed that yet.

And I believe that will happen tonight as well.

So yeah, good times all around.

Anyway, I’m excited because those are the only things that I really feel like I don’t know how we’re doing in the show.

And I’m excited to finally lock them down.

And again, the show goes up at the end of the month.

So we’ve got plenty of time, plenty of time.

And in the worst case, if in rehearsals I accidentally brain her and do end up murdering her with a typewriter, we’ve got time to cast somebody else.

Jokes, hashtag jokes.

Don’t arrest me.

Anyway, have a wonderful rest of your Wednesday.

As always, I remain your friend, Lex.

So you thought I was going to play the song there, but I didn’t.

You have no idea when it’s going to come.

You could interrupt me at any point and you would totally not expect it.

So you thought I was going to ruin myself at any point there with the Lex, but I didn’t.

I didn’t do that.

So you have no idea when it’s going to come.

Not now.

Not now.

Not Lex.