Rehearsal for my show this past Friday was canceled at the last minute.

The director wasn’t feeling well, and he’s like, let’s not do this, which I really appreciate.

I don’t want to be around someone who doesn’t feel well, especially right before the holidays.

So no problem.

However, here’s the problem.

I had spent a decent chunk of Friday getting ready for that night’s rehearsal because I knew we were doing Act 2, Scene 3, and then doing all of Act 2.

Act 2, Scene 3 has some tough lines, and I was really working on getting them in, and then we didn’t run them.

You’re thinking to yourself, well, so what?

You still need to know them.

That’s true, but it’s the kind of thing where you want to study it and then do it, because that also helps lock it in.

Instead, I have to just keep studying the same things over and over.

So that part’s been a little stressful, especially because we don’t have rehearsal tonight, Monday.

We don’t have rehearsal tomorrow night, Tuesday.

We do have rehearsal Wednesday, which is a little sad because Wednesday I will pick up Ani in the very wee hours of the morning at the train station from Boston.

I think Ani’s train gets in like 12.30 or 12.40 or something, and then I get Ani home, and then, I mean, probably Ani goes back to sleep.

I try to go to sleep, and then I have a normal workday.

Yay! And then that rehearsal.

But it’s going to be fine.

Nobody worry.

It’s going to be fine.

You know what else is fine?

The theme song to this show.

It is always funny to me when holidays come up on the calendar, given that I don’t officially have holiday pay because I work for myself.

I mean, I pay myself a salary, so in some sense I get holiday pay, but the business is only generating income when I’m billing for a time.

It is funny to me, though, when I have clients who are like, hey, we have a call on Wednesday, but we were thinking of closing the office early Wednesday.

Could we cut that call?

Why would I care?

You’re paying me a guaranteed amount of hours, whether you use them or not.

And that’s not to be jerky, right?

Like, I wish I could offer rollover hours, but the time doesn’t work that way.

If I’ve committed myself to, call it 30 to 40 hours of calls a week, I can’t really move hours that you didn’t use one week to another week because then I don’t have more than 40 hours of calls, and that’s not good.

But so when people are like, hey, can we skip this call this week?

I’m like, yeah, I’m getting paid anyway.

I don’t care.

I’m not that blasé about it, and I do kind of try to make sure they understand what the circumstances are, but it’s still, like I said, it’s a little bit amusing because, like, why would I mind?

I’ll miss you terribly, dear client, but it’s okay.

I also have, I’m really committing.

I’m committing here publicly.

I committed publicly on LinkedIn, and I’m saying it on this show and to anybody who asks.

I need to book more speaking gigs in the coming year, and I think I will.

But I’m focused on doing more keynotes, more workshops with teams at their offsites, and ideally more of those improv trainings, too.

I did book a second one.

This is actually tomorrow.

I’m nervous about that workshop that I’m doing tomorrow.

I’d be so much less nervous if it were in person, but it is not in person.

It is remote.

It’s going to be hard.

You can do an improv workshop over Zoom, which I know because I’m about to do one tomorrow, but it’s not as easy as doing the improv workshop in person.

So I’m spending some time this afternoon thinking about exactly how I’ll make that work as best as possible.

But it’s exciting to me because I really wanted to do another one before the end of the year, and then one kind of fell into my lap, which is also how the first ones came into my lap.

Things keep falling into my lap.

My lap is basically magnets.

Anyway, that’s all I got, mostly because I’m incredibly hungry, and I want to start thinking about dinner and thinking about improv workshops for tomorrow.

I hope you’re having a wonderful November 24th.

Remember, it’s just four days until my birthday, so you can spend all day Black Friday buying me presents that you immediately deliver to me so that your presents arrive on time.

Goodbye.

Lex.