(Ssssh� don�t look now� but it�s snowing.)

It�s November. Start your engines! Let’s see… 50,000 words divided by thirty days is 1,667 words per day, or approximately 6 double-spaced pages, or 3 1/2 single-spaced pages. Ha! My problem as I lay awake last night was that I couldn’t remember of it was six single-spaced pages, or double-spaced. I’m fine. Three to four single-spaced pages daily? That’s a slow day for me. I am feeling much more confident about this project now.

I forgot to say �white rabbits� this morning, so heaven only knows what I�ve done to myself. Good thing I�m not a superstitious person.

Last night�s live TV studio performance of The True Story of Dracula on COGECO 13 in Kingston by the Midnight Players went brilliantly, if I may say so myself. I saw the opening prologue, which is just me doing a trance-like monologue with our eerie violinist and smoke from the smoke machine, and it was fantastic. In fact, I have been informed that if we ever do a Buffy thing for fun, I get to play Drusilla. Yep, spooky and trance-like; I’ve got it down pat. We have all been promised copies of this tape within the next two weeks, and I can�t wait to see the rest of it. I did have the fortune to catch a bit of JDH�s interview in his folklorist persona, which comes right after my trance prologue, and he looks slightly crazed and very intense as he talks about Vlad. His use of his hands in the clip was fantastic, and those shadows created by the lighting from beneath� brr! I saw it live, but seeing it on tape is a completely different cauldron of apples.

It was an odd experience, actually. I�ve done live theatre; I�ve done film work; I�ve live done radio work. This was a strange amalgamation of the three, and at times it was hard to figure out where to aim: Am I acting? Am I reading a script? How much am I allowed to move? Where do I look? Evidently I did just fine. I looked fantastic, I sounded fantastic, and if they ask us back for a Christmas special, I�m there! (With a few differences � like times get confirmed with us, and we know weeks in advance that we need to come up with our own costumes, and so forth…)