another opening, another show

So that show I've been working on at ManhattanTheatreSource opens tonight. I'm trying to get excited about it, because "every chance I get to be on stage is a blessing!", which is true.

in theory.

I should probably go study my lines a little. Let's see if I can study and answer phones at the same time! I'm so talented.

I hate the press.

So I'm working at MS in Media for this week, and I've gotten pretty good at fielding the highbrowfancypants requests ["Hey, I've got Tom Brokaw's assistant on the line, they want to schedule [insert pretentious financial analyst name here] to discuss the effect of 'security in the home states' on the sales of closed mutual funds and shares in the red states by 5PM tonight, so this is ASAP!"{pronouced 'Ay-saap', 'cause i'm too busy and important to waste time saying the initials.}]

However, I suck royally when it comes to dealing with the reps from smaller, smalltownbackwoods publications. Like the Jews for Jesus lady, who is from some sunday morning Religion show: "I heard a comment that your company is open to individual prayer. I'm working on a piece called 'Satan in the Workplace'[no I'm not kidding], and I wanted to verify that you had a prayer group within the company," What do you say to that?! What IS that?
Or the guy from some Farmpaper in Wisconsin, who always asks me ME, even though I'm only a temp and I have no idea what's going on: "Yeah, Christina, I just want to follow up on my call from Friday [not to be confused with his follow up from Wednesday. OR Thursday.], Maybe I should talk to the head of PR," and then yelling at me when I don't release the information he wants. DUDE, listen, your deadline isn't for 2 DAYS yet, and you're from some podunk paper that they give away free at the supermarket at some nowhere town in Wisconsin. I feel for ya buddy, but sorry, Brokaw comes first.
Jesus.

curtain at 8

I just got nervous.