Molli and chickens

Back to work yesterday. It wasn't quite as bad as I was anticipating. I worked mainly on fixing the mailing list. We ended up with lots of duplicate entries and the process to merge them is quite slow. I also look up addresses for some that didn't come through. It's not unpleasant or stressful, just tedious and not great for my back. Every now and then, I write a check or do something else, which makes a good break, but does interrupt my train of thought.

Yesterday I went out to buy trash bags and a few other things at Kroger, before having lunch at HQ, where we talked about how to improve the space and the work flow. It is a little tricky because it is Russell HQ as well as the CCDC office and we are hosting a field organizer for the Democratic Party of Georgia. Obviously, all those are important and overlapping, but it's confusing for volunteers and visitors, who sometimes don't know which office they want. And someone needs to take out the trash.

After work, Ray and I stopped at the Farmers' Market. There is one downtown on Tuesday evenings. It's much easier for us to stop on our way home than to make a special trip on Saturday morning. It was really hot--in the 90s. We got potatoes and bread and zucchini and eggplant. Peppers we have from our own garden.

We had a quick supper with Captain and Vanessa and then headed out to audition for Annie. I had gotten an email that morning that they needed more adults for the ACT production. I asked Ray and he said, "Okay!" Of course, they always want men, so he was asked if he would learn a few lines and be a Cabinet minister. He agreed and then Terry (the director) said they might make me one too. Ray pointed out that one of FDR's cabinet members was a woman, Frances Perkins, and we had seen a previous Annie production where they ignorantly portrayed her as a man. So I will probably be her. We sang and danced with the group audition too, but the dancing was particularly hard for me.

It has been a while since I was in a play, maybe not since I started blogging, and it makes me happy that we will be doing it again, especially together. You will have to remind me in a month or so, because there is a point in every show when I think, "why did I say I wanted to do this?" But I prefer having things to do in the evening; otherwise I just sit there and watch TV every night. I can probably knit some backstage or play on my iPhone. And it should not be very stressful, compared to some parts I've learned.

We didn't have to stay long and were home before 9. Captain and Vanessa were watching Wipe Out and tennis. I went to bed before 9:30 and slept well. It was cool enough to have the windows open overnight.