I have a terrible habit

of becoming unreachable in times of working on a show.

Sorry.

I guess it’s just a hazard of the business. I am getting better though.

For instance, the show I am currently working on does not open until Friday, and already I have made phone calls, delivered emails, paid bills, and even sat down in a favorite bubble tea place to blog, and comment.

All-in-All, an improvement to my normal modus operandi of total radio silence in the midst of a production.

But Michael, you might ask, could this dramatic change of events be related to the fact that the aforementioned production has had more free time scheduled into it than any other production here at HGO to date.

Well, yes.

But being handed time on a platter has not always, (usually doesn’t), (never has in memory) driven me to reach out and touch someone.

I find that for the first time in my life I am not surrounded by my usual group of up for anything any time kind of crowd that I usually find myself in. The “leave work, don’t want to go home, but don’t have any money, so buy a 99 cent box of hush puppies and walk around Wal-mart for the better part of 2 hours talking about everything and nothing and riding every damn children’s sized bicycle in the place”, kind of people.

Most people here want to go home at the end of the day. And watch TV. And order in.

Now, to be fair, a lot of them are married, or as good as. And there have been a few standouts, which enjoy a good adventure at the end of a very long day.

But such is not the norm.

Now I know the morale of this story, to make a concentrated and motivated effort to move outside and expand my social circle in this new hometown I have. But as was stated earlier, it has been historically difficult to do such a thing when every couple of weeks I completely disappear from all my existing social extensions.

I am getting better though.