doggies

Dog act very strangely around me. In a good way I think. Today, I stepped on a plug and as I hobbled to a Duane Reade for some ibuprofen and bandaids, a dog walking completely normally ran to the door of Duane and refused to move despite its owners tugging, pulling, and cajoling. I finally approached the door and the owner apologized for the dog blocking it and I said that's o.k. I Love dogs! At which point the dog literally jumped on me - and hugged (not humped) my leg and wouldnt let go. I knelt down and talked to it and petting its head and all the cute things I would do to a roo if I actually owned one. The dog refused to to leave. I finally told (Sara) that it had to go - and off it went. Another time, I was in an ice cream shop and the dog (A CORGI even!) came RUNNING into the ice cream shop and did a very similar thing. I think maybe dogs know just love them so much and want one, so they come running up to me and their owners always apologize profusely for their behavior - and I explain it is PERFECTLY fine - I am HAPPY to have a dog's attention! I don't mind slobber on my nose or paws on my jeans. But they just LOVE to come running up to me on the street - despite their owners protestations that their dogs "never do that." It makes me happy that they do it to me!:)

I spent this afternoon (after a wonderful celebratory CHEESEBURGER with the accompanist of IOLANTHE - I needed a cheeseburger after straw hat) comforting the only other person I actually KNOW who did her Straw Hat audition today...she got no callbacks.:-( She is now convinced she sucks and should quit. To be perfectly honest - she is actually REALLY good! She can sing and has a lot of versatility! (Give her a style - she can sing it!) I think it was just an odd random audition - and who knows why some people got (15!!!! a the girl yesterday was gleefully shouting) and some none. Everyone I heard was great.

I've also become BIZARRELY addicted to orange juice. I think the weather outside is SO GROSS and depressing - the Vitamin C and citrusy taste allows me to pretend I'm somewhere tropical - or Florida. I wonder if Vitamin C can actually cure the winter blues - which are hitting me HARD this year. But I am craving orange juice more than ice cream AND chocolate...so weird. If given the choice - I'd choose the juice of the orange. (I've tried REAL oranges - but they don't do the trick. Maybe it's because we only get crappy oranges or out of season oranges here. They aren't sweet and juicy and succulent - they are dry and bitter. I also tried 50% calories orange juice - but sadly it was 50% the deliciousness.)

Winter Blue GO AWAY! And don't come again another day!