Gil and Sarah Jaysmith have adventured from the quiet shores of Littlehampton, on the south coast of England, to the metropolis of Vancouver on the west coast of Canada. Are they ready for Canada? Is Canada ready for them? Read on and find out!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

31 Days Of Panda, days 16-17 (WIN?)

Thursday: daytime was nothing much. In the evening James came round and we had food from Hon's, recorded his vocals for "Choices", and played Top Trumps.

Friday: signed up with a new GP, at long last... Dr James Lai at the Broadway Medical Clinic. He seems nice enough. It took longer than I'd thought and it was the Radical Summer BBQ today, so I stayed at home to make sure she was OK, and she had a nice long nap all afternoon.

During which time I got progressively more panicky about the 1+1 script and how long it all is. I've been trying to be fair to all the characters to let them speak their minds, but it turns out they don't half witter. I timed all the dialog and the thing ran to over two and a half hours without even all the songs written yet. Argh! So when she got up, Sarah thoroughly edited the script and I went for a long walk (retracing the Sun Run route, in fact... it was nice). Now it looks like the show will run to two-and-a-quarter hours at most, which is much more like it. I write too much, then Sarah edits it: the unbeatable combo ;-)

We were due to go to the Rent Patio Party at the Rosedale but we decided Sarah wasn't up to that much transport and general hubbub and excitement, so hopefully everyone there had fun. She returns to Rent rehearsals on Sunday, subject to being well enough, and I'll be escorting her to make sure. In preparation for that, she takes today easy - we'll see how much exertion it is to take in dinner at Kalypso round the corner.

I'm generously awarding myself a win for doing a 10k walk yesterday, but I'd better keep that up. Now it's 2:40 and I have no particular plan for the next four hours. Perhaps it's time for another walk after all...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Can I sue you if you don't like as a Doctor.... (not) your GP.