Hey, I don’t like her either.

She’s CLEARLY a bitch.

But, in her defense, she rarely makes an appearance.  And if you bring her out, you’ve usually earned her wrath.

I can count on one hand the number of times it’s happened.  Once, in high school, I told Viv to “do her job”.  Looking back on it, although we were BOTH wrong in the argument, it was not my place to say that.

During CC ‘04 (maybe? They all run together), I was already pissed about the damn “ribbon incident”.  We had this stupid thru-line of a ribbon.  No matter how hard Keboobalah (my young Eb) and I tried to work that damn ribbon, it was an albatross of gigantic, Dickensian proportions.  During my quick change, my dresser (who was wonderful, btw) had to stick that damn ribbon in my hair.  I pull it out during our breakup and give it back to him in the next scene.  Well, I couldn’t get it out.  I kept tugging (trying to make it appear nonchalant), but it never came out.

I went back into the wig room and just showed my ass.  I said I thought the ribbon was stupid, and if we couldn’t get this damn wig/ribbon fiasco down to an exact science, I wasn’t going to do it anymore.  That’s when the wig ladies stroked my forehead, calmed me down, and then pointed at the mirror that there was no ribbon in my hair.  It had actually fallen out during my change backstage.. hadn’t even seen the light of the Playhouse.  I had been tugging at a sprig of berries that was STAPLED on to my wig.  I was actually lucky it didn’t come loose.  Why would I hand Ebeneezer a sprig of berries?

(Just to clarify, I truly ate my crow at that point, apologizing profusely and offering to make things right.  But because this is behavior rarely shown by Normal Sarah, they excused it and laughed.)

Diva Sarah’s been on a rampage this week.

Last night especially was NOT a good night for Diva Sarah. 

On top of being ill from allergies (and I’m wondering now if it’s more than allergies; I’ve been running a low grade fever since yesterday), I had sent out a very pointed, frustrated email to my cast that I had hoped would make a difference in last night’s rehearsal. 

It didn’t.

Things will be okay.  As Ra says, “I can do anything for two weeks.”