My God.

It’s July already and time to take some stock of the year so far.

Nah. That’s silly ’cause all you be hearing about is theater, theater, theater. I haven’t even taken any time off from work other than the few paid holidays we get.

This boy needs a vacation in the worst way.

The arrival of July also means the arrival of the summer musical at HART. It’s hard to believe that one week from now we will be costumed and performing for people. You’d better get your tickets (on sale tomorrow)! It’s probably the only time you will ever get to see me in a singing and dancing in a dress and high heels.

Take a wild guess who has had a pesky cold since last Wednesday. Me!

It’s made things fun, fun, fun … what with “The Producers” in rehearsals (at least until 10:00 p.m. or later every night) and the general blah, blah, blah of life. I spent the weekend resting up but that doesn’t really seemed to have helped at all. Currently I am dealing with lots of congestion and a roving sore throat.

That’s right … roving.

This is Chris Evans (seen here in the so-so movie “Push”). He is your eye candy distraction for today.

Last night’s rehearsal went a lot better. Yeah!

So, yeah … I am super frustrated with the way “The Producers” is going.

Last night’s rehearsal was for choreography for the numbers in Act One. Bear in mind that “Opening Night,” “King of Broadway” and “Along Came Bialy” have all been choreographed … three weeks ago. Well, last night they spent two hours running and re-running those numbers. Meanwhile, “Keep It Gay” and “Der Guten Tag Hop Clop” still haven’t been touched. We finally got around to “Keep It Gay” about 10:00 last night. Gah!!!

I am usually not and overly fussy person when I am in a show. But considering the fact that we only have this week and one more full week before tech … I am getting a little wound up. Just seems like a lot of time is being spent “refining” things that can be worked on during a normal run of Act One as opposed to taking large amounts of time for those numbers when others haven’t even been staged.

This sucks!

‘Cause I was so excited to be get cast in the show. Now I just want it to be over.

1. The H1N1 scare at work ended up being just that … a scare. We found out on Tuesday that the co-worker didn’t have to go get tested after all. Makes me wonder why she told us that she was being tested in the first place.

2. I finished up Season One of “True Blood” and it was really awesome. I am now on to reading the second of the Southern Vampire Mysteries books, “Living Dead in Dallas.”

3. Being smitten really sucks … and I mean REALLY SUCKS.

In what little free time I have, I’ve been watching the first season of the HBO series of “True Blood” … and it’s pretty damn awesome.

It also doesn’t hurt that there is some pretty nice eye candy in the show as well.

For the record: Sam Merlotte wins out over Jason Stackhouse … hands down!

Sam Merlotte (Played by Sam Trammell)

Jason Stackhouse (Played by Ryan Kwanten)