It’s been a long and tiring week, but tonight’s rehearsal went very well, and sort of energized me.

We’ve been behind schedule, for some unavoidable reasons related to illness in the cast, and so we’ve been working hard for the past week. And it’s been busy at work as well. I had been feeling really wrung-out.

John Jones, our director, had a schedule conflict tonight, but we’ve been so far behind, we couldn’t afford to skip the rehearsal. So Janice Cole, who keeps the Fly Arts Center running and who has directed many of the earlier plays there, ran tonight’s rehearsal. It was fun to have a different perspective, and Janice worked with some character motivations and punched up a few of our lines.

Janice is also the contact person for reservations, by the way, so please call her at (931) 703-7613 to make yours (…he said, dropping a hint).

No rehearsal tomorrow night, but I have to work on my sermon for Sunday morning at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Rutherford County. One of my father’s closest friends is the pastor there, and I’ve filled in for him before (as has my father — they are amenable to undercover Methodists).

We’ll have a rehearsal Saturday night. Then, on Sunday, I have men’s club breakfast at my own church, then I will drive to Mt. Carmel to preach, then I will stop by the Times-Gazette for the first few minutes of planning for my 30-year high school class reunion, then it’s back to the Fly for tech rehearsal. Not much of a “day of rest” this week.