Keyed

Let me tell you about my day with my keys.

This morning I walk out of the house at 6:20am and lock the door behind me. I have done this 3 times in the last year and every time I am more disturbed by my lack of... brain? I mean it's not like the keys aren't hanging RIGHT BESIDE THE DAMN DOOR. I call Jesse who is at work doing inventory. He comes home to let me in. I get my keys and go to work.

When I get to work... lo and behold, I've left my work keys at home. So I go up to the office and the office manager there lets me use hers to unlock my room and the auditorium so I can have class. I plan to drive home during my planning to get the work keys because I need them for the show tonight. I come back from talking to Jack and the money chick in the office to find that my car keys are nowhere to be found. I specifically put them down on a big pile of party beads during my last class and they were gone. I think, "Maybe someone kicked them into my props closet on accident." Only I can't look in said closet because the lights are dying and flickering like a horror movie. I wander around the buidling lost and wallowing in self-loathing, thinking that some dumb kid stole my keys. The money chick tells me to look again then get with our SRO to see if he can shake down some kids.

I get a flashlight and go into the shallow domain of my props closet. I look under the old fashioned laundry bin, which also has a horror movie air about it. I look under the metal shelving, then I start to dig in bins. The first one was the last one. From what I can tell, this group of girls who is doing an office scene picked up the keys because they thought they were props for the scene. My keys were in the bottom, under the printer, clock, tiara, scarves and binoculars. Crisis averted.

THEN---- for the show I'm doing with the kids, we have scripted a very specific mode of getting the COW (computer on wheels-- I know, right?) to the center of the room and the screen for the projector down all with little disturbance to the show. The problem? We added an element at the last minute AND I FORGOT TO LEAVE MY KEYS IN THE DAMN PROJECTOR BUTTON. See it doesn't move unless there's a key. So... when I realize that my more than perfect student is not turning said key, I feel them in my pocket. I hop up on stage thinking I'll sneak around... nope. Because I have the kids on risers in the back all the way up against the wall, I can't hide behind the curtains. Our terrible stage also has one one exit, out the center back door. I have no choice. I walk across the center of the stage and go behind the risers to the curtain break. Here's the worst part...

The last minute element I mentioned? It's a thick tyvek sheet with stuff glued to it to resemble a "Jock" hallway. It's very krinkly and VERY LOUD. I make a huge racket as I climb behind the risers where we have it strategically stored so that people in my makeshift wings WON'T disturb it and make noise. Sigh...

All in all it was ok, but I feel so rattled by my lack of... brain? I mean, I pride myself and am totally bitchy about my attention to detail and then I go and lose the keys AGAIN after the show. They were on my desk, but still.

In other bad news: I ate pizza, 3 slices of Vinny's free pizza. I also had like 4 cups of punch. You have to have this punch and know that it is totally and completely irresistable. I don't even know how to put that in the calorie counter.

So... grand sum of today: Ok in spite of epic failures.