Saturday the 17th of May

 Here it is, a bit after 11am on an overcast, miserable day in Santa Monica.  I got out at 7:30am this morning for the last ride prior to flying to Tokyo on Monday.  My helmet, gloves and pants clips are packed and I am looking forward to some slow, casual, weekend bike riding in Japan with Joanna and Ziwei next weekend.

We got the final order of appearance list for tonight's show and I am 9th to perform out of 10.  At first I was 'annoyed' as I wanted to go on early and get it over with......then I realized that Jonathan Leigh Solomon, the workshop coordinator and professional comic, placed an experienced perfomer, not from our class, as #10......and likely thinks that I will give the most polished performance from our class.

Of course I am prepared and expect to give a great performance!!!!!  But the unanswered question is will I generate laughs???  I think I can write funny.  I believe I can pause properly and generate laughs from my unexpected comments......will that happen or will it be a polished spectacle with an audience wondering what the fuck I am trying to do?  

Obviously, only time will tell.....also, obviously, this has my total attention!  I am not fearful of getting in front of an audience - I've been doing this seemingly forever.  Even if it is a 'dead' audience without smiles, it doesn't bother me as I've performed before dead audiences before.  I am just curious - was my writing good?  Have I rehearsed enough?  Will my timing be correct?  If it all goes perfectly (alas, nothing ever goes perfectly) then there is a possibility of 15 laugh moments.......how many will work?

That's it for now........I guess you will have to wait until tomorrow to read what's happened.....and hope I do not have a senior moment and forget to ask someone to count the 'laugh moments' of my performance.....

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