the awkward laugh

So my best story from today didn't happen at rehearsal at all, but afterwards, at my homestay.  I was playing table tennis with the eight year old (which started off horribly on my part, but I quickly regained my mad back hand skills) while his sixteen year old sister sat on the couch and we discussed our mutual tendency to cry over most anything.  We then got on the subject of Shia LaBeouf, who seems to be the current heart throb of at least four twenty-something women I know.  Well her brother complained that since she like Shia so much, she should want to watch "Transformers" more often. I'd never seen the movie, so I suggested we watch it.

In the scene where he first meets the Autobots, the medical Autobot analyzes Shia's character and proclaims that he seems to want to mate with the female.  The eight year old, who can pretty much quote the entire movie, asked "what does mate mean?"  My response: "Haha," in a decidedly nervous fashion.  It was obviously a good enough response, since he didn't pester me further.

Rehearsal was stellar.  The Seasiders are rockstars and Brendan managed to get through scenes one through three and teach them half of scene four (which I expanded upon and solidified).  I mean they are SO well behaved, and they KNOW their lines.  As always, the Prince Perfect edition of the Perfect Holiday song needs a little love, but they smile and sing loudly.  And those Town Criers...man.  I decided a while ago to never cast any more annoying Town Criers, and these little gils are way better than not annoying.  I think "off the chain" is a good way to describe them.  Plus the merpeople and the royal family pretty much already know their lines, so tomorrow should be awesome.  I won't be crushed if it's not, but I have a good feeling...

(And I am ending with the ever trendy ellipsis.  Or I would be if it weren't for these also cool parentheses.)