Ugh...Monday

So, today was Monday. 'Nuff said. School was school: I can't wait to get out. A month and a half to go. Once school was over, I came home and did my homework. I also realized that for maybe the first time ever, my dad forgot to put a note in my lunchbox. Cheesy and childish, maybe, but I like having that connection to my youth. Besides, it's entertaining. At 7, I had rehearsal. I found out from a fellow company member that I got someone to replace me as BOB (Box office bitch, the person who mans the box office) on Saturday, April 28th. I couldn't do it as I had a brunch in honor of my grandma, who is having a burial service immediately preceding the brunch. The actual rehearsal was a dance-thru, and I worked on my flip at the end of one of the songs. See, there's this thing called 60, which is 60 inches off the ground, and then there's this thing called 30, which is thirty inches off the ground. 60 is above 30, obviously. At the end of the song, I go up from 30 to 60, and then jump into the outstretched hands of my fellow cast members. I am then horizontal (parallel to 30). Those cast members flip me around (So, my body is now perpendicular with the floor), I bend my knees, and then some other cast members come in and grab my back, which is facing the audience, and flip it around (6:00, to 5:00, to 4:00, to 3:00, to 2:00, to 1:00, and finally to 12:00, if you're facing stage right, which is the audience's left). I am now standing on 30, and that's the end of the song. Sound confusing? You're not alone. I didn't even understand what they were doing at first, and I was having it done to me! Anyway, that's the way it was SUPPOSED to be. We had never choreographed it before, and at first I was nervous, but then I developed a trust factor, and it was totally great from there. However, it was ending way too late. So, we decided to scrap the flip up and over. Instead, I would jump into their arms as before (from 60, so I was parallel with the floor) and be flipped so my head was at 6:00 and my feet were at 12:00; in other words, I was upside down. I would then put my hands on the floor as if I were doing a handstand, and tuck my head, pull my legs in, and do a somersault. We got it figured out and it was painless. That was the highlight of rehearsal. Today was really a pretty not-much-going-on kind of day. I think I will go to bed now.