looong day

I was supposed to have a 10:30 rehearsal with my duet partner today. Instead we had in 11:30 rehearsal because it took me an hour and a half to make the drive to Berkeley (should have taken no more than 40 minutes). Apparently there had been a big rig accident and fuel spill and it was a traffic clusterfuck. My back and leg actually started hurting from dealing with the clutch in serious stop and go traffic for so long. I inched along a four miles span of 880 for nearly an hour. (And I didn't get off 880 as that was problematic as best and was also a mess. When I finally got past the accident (which had happened nearly three hours prior) it started raining so hard is was near white-out conditions and I had difficulty seeing where I was going and keeping the car under control. Not fun. Fortunately for me, my duet partner was understanding and the studio had a later time slot open so we got some good work in and finalized costumes.

After that rehearsal I had to get to downtown Oakland for Fly Girl rehearsal with our guest hip hop choreographer. It was a very good rehearsal but also quite intense. We worked for a little over three hours and my knees, back, hips and thighs feel it the most right now. I didn't head back home until 5:00ish and had bad rain to drive in on the way home.

Totally fried, we decided to eat out tonight and tried Sweet Tomatoes but S. got super-scared and freaked out. See, last time we were there there was a man with a leg cast with external pinning and it really, really disturbed S. He has a wicked sharp memory for all things disturbing so we bailed on the salad bar plan and went to Chevy's instead which was fairly decent and made up for the fact that I never got lunch today. Then off to Target for some poster board for new "No on 8" signs and other random things.

Right now I am just trying to mentally unwind so I can get some sleep. So, so tired. Three and half hours of rehearsal tomorrow (at least) so I need some rest. One more week to go. I can do it!