Leslie Marie Collins

Nice day for scootering around town.  Not much traffic due to the holiday which makes scootering so much more fun.  The streets were all clear and so you can just coast! Didn’t have to wear a jacket either.  Super bonus.

So I came home tonight to my main squeeze, Hugo, and after not eating much all day, we shared some chips and hummus.  Hugo mostly just gums it.  But he seems to like hummus.  He likes anything really, but something about the sound of a bag of chips brings him darting into the kitchen every time around.  Just hoping for one chip, maybe with a little hummus on it.  He behaves so well when I am eating.  Sits there like a little soldier waiting at my feet for a chip to fall.  After I finish snacking, he’s over me though.  I feel like a used woman.  But that’s just our relationship.  I’m OK with it.

Spent part of my day in tech for my show on Thursday.  My director is wonderful and if one were to picture him, I’d say he looks kind of like Santa but gay.  So a gay Santa.   He’s just been so supportive and always there for me.  It’s nice to have people just believe in you.  He’s one of them.  The other one is Beowulf, my tech guy.  He’s been running the lights and sound for my show for 5 years now.  He recently just changed his name to Beowulf.  I accidentally called him by his old name once and he didn’t like it, so now I just go with it and try as hard as I can to call him Beowulf.  He’s kind of like a disheveled, long haired, sweet young guy that (I believe) just loves my show.  He always makes a priority to work on my show and says he still gets choked up watching it.  I just imagine him up in the booth pushing buttons and crying.  Anyway, these are two people that help me do what I love to do.  Both so unique and wonderful.

I did some teaching today with an actress who is just gifted in the character department. It’s always fun to watch someone blossom into wonderful and rich characters. She just gets it and as a teacher, I love that!

After that, I shared drinks with a snarky scottish man.  Snarky in a good way.  Ya know, with a great sense of humor.  When I first walked up to him, he began sweating uncontrollably. He seemed so distressed that he was sweating profusely that we just talked about his sweating awkwardly for the first 5 to 10 minutes.  Then the sweating stopped and we were able to move on to other topics.  He apologized over and over again for his sweatiness for the next 2 hours, which I found even more charming and hilarious.  I just started doing this internet dating thing, so I have found out that some are winners, some are losers and sometimes you get a pleasant surprise.  This week seems to be my international week of dating and I have been pleasantly surprised.  I can talk to anyone anywhere ( I come by it honestly from my mother) so it is kind of fun to just sit down with someone that you have nothing in common with and then just fish your way through an evening of conversation.  It can be interesting for sure. 

Hugo’s big eyes are staring at me to come to bed or maybe that’s just his way of saying, “I want more hummus and chips bitch!” So I am off!