auditions begin at 1. khadijah and i met yesterday to debate the issue: how to cope w/ a low number of auditionees? well, logically: reduce the number of parts. we consolidated roles and more people have signed up so i have much to hope for (i think.)

bought a long burgundy topcoat yesterday at the church thrift sale for $5. it's missing a button but otherwise works, altho becca turned her nose up at it for being "formal." ross and stefanie fox, who came over for lunch, approved (ross was acting conciliatory b/c he hadn't meant, he said, to upset me by arguing so much.)

also bought jitterbug perfume, one of old favorites by tom robbins, for a quarter.

later the band started practicing loudly in ross's room and i fled to kohlberg. i started writing a poem comparing my period to a traveling circus in that it appears suddenly and is enuf of a spectacle to startle and absorb my body's full attention for a time. before i could conclude, ross appeared, followed by becca, and we launched a length, fullscale discussion on monogamy (monamory?) rebecca and i had one view, ross another, to wit: becca and i focused on the potential for "bad" (pain for either or both of girls involved); ross focused on potential for "good" ("i know there might be no way for this to end up pretty, but it's pretty now," sez he.) i have trouble compartmentalizing; i couldn't understand. maybe it's a boy thing?
by the end, we were all three dancing on the tabletops to Rubber Soul. no hard feelings. no recriminations. we just have different opinions.

dinner later w/ sam and maria who performed for us at Rose Tattoo, our equivalent of amateur nite. met up w/ ben at the pterodactyl hunt -- a crazy swat tradition in which everyone tries to kill various "monsters" in an effort to accumulate enuf "wealth" to try to defeat the "pterodactyl". becca and i wandered around w/ orange ribbons in our hair.
ben and i ended up in his room talking talking talking. don't even recall what time we fell asleep. i'm still in the clothes i slept in (well, somewhat) so i should go change. gaaaa auditions. gaaaaa three papers due this week. this is going to be interesting.