I did much better last night. In fact, I changed some of my jokes and added a joke about Germans (which got me laughs and clapping). One new joke about men in the US military was met with total silence though. Crazy. Also, I messed up one of my jokes -- so the opportunity for more laughs tonight is pretty good. Since tonight is a Friday night, the crowd should be good. We had about 35 people there last night and several other comics who we've all met through the festival were there and they gave me some good feedback and some props. So, on the suck-scale, it was about middle of the road. Of
course, I'll never be happy until they're throwing roses at my feet and hoisting me in the air.
Yesterday I got up and went into town. Notice a pattern? I decided that I should get a bus pass instead of buying a ticket everytime and I went to the train/bus station in the city center. The areas around the city center are called "town." So, you have to be really specific when you want directions. You're going away from the action if you "go towards town." As I'm sure you can guess, I have learned a lot of things the hard way here.
I spent a lot of time yesterday going over my act and settling down. I went to dinner with a Scottish fellow I met the night before and I was instantly sorry. He is a really nice but the guy wouldn't shut up. What made it worse was that I could hardly understand what he was saying. Of course, no amount
of "what?", "pardon?" or "excuse me?" seemed to give him any type of hint to slow down or to shut up. Oh well.
After the show I went out to another comedy club with some of the comics and we heard some comics who were not very funny. Then, we had pizza and walked home. Sort of a boring day actually.
I'm planning on trying to book a day bus tour to the highlands today. One of the comics showed me a cool brochure and he's planning on taking this trip which leaves at 9 in the morning and comes back at 7 in the evening. Which gives me plenty of time before my show. It would be nice to see the
countryside. I might take a day off next week and take a train down to London and stay there overnight too. What the heck!!
This morning I got up and was drinking a diet pepsi for breakfast when Tanyalee (the "little person" in our house) came out of her room all disheveled. She gave me a stern look and said "When do you people get up?" I said "noon." Then we both laughed.....I guess you had to be there...or you can just picture Tanyalee laughing...because that's funny. The deal is that we are basically vampires here. We stay up all night and go to sleep at 5 or 6 in the morning. Getting up at noon is simply an act of extreme willpower. I don't want to miss the entire day.
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