...and Mercury sextile Mercury, perfecting one after the other in the early hours of Sunday morning. I had three *goals* for the day - rewrite one of the last scenes of Just For You and then submit it to The Athena Project (deadline midnight), set up my Dramatists Guild web page, and do my taxes, the first of which being the only one with any chance whatsoever of getting accomplished as the other two had no deadline.
As it's now Sunday 2/19, there seems little point in going on with this, other than to mention Mercury sextile Mercury turned into skyping and being skyped by distant friends for hours before Saturn finally reared his grizzled head and I began to write the cover letter for the Athena Project submission.
What would I like to accomplish by this workshop production of Just For You? Finding out if I should just move back to England and be done with it, was the short answer, but something told me the Selection Committee would understand that about as well as they'd understand the play, so for about four hours I alternated between elaborating on that theme in Word and watching Night Editor on YouTube.
By 11:30 I'd had as much tortured prose as I could handle and decided there was nothing else I could do to improve the letter. Off went the required documents: copy of play with no contact info - check: character breakdown with no contact info - check: 300 word synopsis with no contact info - check: resume with contact info - check, and cover letter with contact info - check and hit submit, only to be presented with Saturn personified -"The deadline for this submission has ended. If you feel you have received this information in error, please contact the theater directly."
Fortunately for us all, even Saturn makes mistakes (or should that be "fortunately for me, even Saturn makes mistakes as he's in direct square with Neptune for me"?), and an immediate email to the theater resulted in a "Oops, sorry" and a successful submission five hours later. Whether I move back to the UK or not has yet to be resolved.
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