Barefoot in the Park went GREAT.

Seriously, I couldn't have asked for a better show. And with onyl twelve days to memorize the lines (all 374 of them), I'm surprised it went as well as it did.

A variety of friends from the theatre at which I can usually be found came to see it, which was cool, and they all, unequivocally said it was the best performance they had ever seen me give.

I've done upwards of 25 shows in my life, so that's something. I felt enormously blessed to have been part of such a great cast, and to have been able to such a great show (and get PAID for it- imagine, getting paid to do the most fun thing in the world- what a laugh!).

Also, zK, I think it was, who had the dream? or was it Lizzie? I don't totally remember. Whichever it was, that's a common thing among us actor-types, known as "The Actor's Nightmare." It commonly besets actors just before the opening of a show, or in the middle of a run. You're all set to go onstage, only suddenly you realize that you don't have the lines for this scene down, and you have only about ten seconds to memorize ten pages worth of lines- your costume isn't on, and did I mention that there are critics in the crowd as well? It's basically everything that can possibly go wrong with your performance is going wrong with your performance.

Out of the three years I've been doing steady nonstop acting, and the two years of on again off again acting I've done, I've only had that dream twice, which is almost unheard of in acting groups, and neither time did it involve not knowing lines. It always has to do with not having a costume, and the show about to start.

But anyway, that's how it went. If you want more details involving some of the more interesting things that happened, you can check it out on my Xanga (you'll have to jump back to the weekened of May 17 - 20, and again around the 29thish for details (sorry can't be more specific, because I dont' remember what the dates were and I'm too lazy to go look)).

ALright, onto the rant.

So, I'm writing an Adventure Game. It's my first full length adventure game, and it's, I think, pretty good. It's got three main parts to it- the first town, the forest, and the second town, and I think there may be a secret area in the game, though I haven't quite worked that out yet (and I know how much you all LOVE secret areas).

Anyway, I had everything all coded out. I had the three main sections done, and all the puzzles incorporated, and when I playtested it, it was all working perfectly. It was a thing of beauty, and I'm really proud of myself.

HOWEVER. Bloody microsoft thought it would be funny to go through and delete half of the forest files, and I didn't know about it until I was playtesting that area. Now, this would not be that big a deal, except that the forest is almost 100 locations large (it had to be for the challenge-but-not-quite-a-puzzle I wanted to put in there). I'm missing like twenty of those locations now, and I don't know where they are, or what happened to them. I know they were there last night, because when I was playtesting it, I noticed taht forest28.sma was missing, but was still on the master copy on my other computer. So I transferred it over, and put it with the others, counting through all the other forest spots. They were all there.

This afternoon? Bam. twenty of them, just deleted. Gone with no warning.

It's not that big a deal, cause I have the originals saved on MY computer, instead of the one downstairs, but STILL, I want them all to be there, and not have to be retransferred like that. It just irritates me.

So, I hate microsoft, wish it would die a horrible terrible long torturously painful death, and that I was the one doing it.

Anyway, backs to wrok.

-Rifty