I'll Never Let the Dentist Give Me Fluoride Again

So I've got quite the project right now. I'm stripping. And it's really hard work -- I'm actually working up a decent sweat. And I seriously will have better guns than Bil when I'm done. It's tough finding the right clothes in my closet though -- I don't want to use anything too nice.
Because the chemical furniture stipper that I'm using (get your minds out of the gutter, readers, I'm stripping chairs not me!) is really scary. It's this bright orange gel that smells exactly like the fluoride that the dentist used to put on my teeth after she cleaned them when I was a child. Therefore I hate this stipper. It's vile, but it works pretty well thus far. My goal is to get all this done in the next couple of days while I'm between jobs. (I will be unemployed for all of three days.)

My show Two for the Show, the one that is plagued by a certain dead Scottish thane, is finally closing tonight. I'm sad to see it go. I really like working with the cast and crew -- they are a lot of fun. On the other hand, my short attention span is looking forward to the next big challenge. The opera. Yikes. I'm kinda scared: it's been a while since I've started a new job. I do know a couple of people with whom I'll be working: one of the ASMs lives across the street from me and one of the dressers designed the costumes for Seascape and She Stoops to Conquer. Still, two operas in one month. By the time I learn one, I'll be starting the next. Alas. I gotta be sure to bring a note pad. But when May's done, I have a whole week of freedom before the next contract kicks in. And then I'm on an 8-shows/week schedule. (And a really happy paycheck.)

I was so worried when I moved here that it would be like Boston; that I wouldn't be able to find work because of a day job schedule, or that I wouldn't be able to find work period. But I have only had a little downtime since I got here. And it's really exciting. And opera and AEA shows are fairly lucrative. And that is really happy. I didn't expect to like Chicago, but it's growing on me. But I still don't like the dentist and her fluoride.

That is all.