Relief!

 It is official so I can post it. Our band leader (keyboardist) Jim has been fired for being an insufferable jerk. The five of us were starting to panic that he wouldn't get fired because he is a decent musician and we thought the powers that be would value that over our good spirits. I am not wired to hate people, mostly I like everyone but I have never in my life so obviously hated someone. He yelled at us about things that weren't true, picked fights with us in front of the cast... the list of horrors goes on and on. Sandy will be filling in for him for the next couple of days and then Chad the band leader from last year will play the summer with us.

The crew went out for Mexican this afternoon in celebration. It's a beautiful day, we ate good food and we never have to see Jim ever again. The summer is looking up. The only one missing is Roger since he doesn't live in the compound with us. He lives in Medora where he can be a grouchy old (but very lovable) British man who goes to bed at 9pm. I'm very fond of him. It would be nice to have him with us but he (very reasonably) doesn't want to listen to us kids shouting fart jokes at each other at 1am.


There is no way to describe how stressful it was to have Jim up in our business all the time. I kept just bursting into tears over nothing and then laughing REALLY hard about things. Like when you are 12 and you get embarrassed because you can't stop laughing at a joke? That's been me. (although some things really were that funny, Ed's Chinese laundry moment is one for the books. I've been laughing about it for three days.) Everything was just so tense all the time that it was coming out at weird times. Now we can relax and give a great show to the audience.