The fact that it is Wednesday means two things to a performer. One – it is essentially the beginning of the work week since Monday is the official day off. Two – you have a long way to go before your next Monday off! Yup, I’m a bit tired. Our schedule has been full of exciting stuff in the last few days – tech rehearsals, a fun trip to Boston’s The Beehive (a hip and swinging arts bar/cabaret) to perform some opera and promote the show, pulling out our costumes and wearing them for the first time in a few months. And yes, we did have Monday off…but the pressure is on. It is tech week.Most performers I know are pretty adept at riding the wave that is tech week. It’s always amazing to me when I witness actors and tech crew who can smile suitably and tell clever jokes as new elements bombard our pleasant little rehearsal-accustomed life. The spectacles just got scratched, there is blood red lipstick on my cool grey skirt, I can’t find the right light to stand in for the scene with Don Juan in front of the car, can’t hear the orchestra during the last quick section of the Act I finale…stuff like that. In the end, they are only distractions on the journey to the opening and the larger task of telling a story. But it does wear a person out.Meanwhile, my “life” or the mundane regular existance that I am trying to maintain carries on. Today’s goals are simple: figure out how to get reimbursed by the USPS for a wrecked cuisiart I sent to Cambridge with insurance (thank goodness), and babysitting for castmate Momoko over the dinner break while she and her husband celebrate his birthday – Happy B-day Keith! Too bad baby Audrey isn’t in the show – man, that’s a cute baby.OK – time to get going…need to get a little rough with this day and show it I mean business. To the post-office!!!