No fatigue.........but getting close to insomnia.

I have a problem that is keeping me awake so you all get to hear about it! Yay!

So as you may know over a month ago I came down with Glandular Fever. At the time it really sucked. I had the throat infection, the swollen glands, the headaches and the fatigue but the thing that worried me the most was the horror stories. I know quite a few people who have had the old kissing disease and on top of stories I'd read on the internet I thought I would feel horrible for months and, more devastatingly, lose my part in Les Miserable. There were tales of fatigue lasting for weeks, months, years and horror stories of complications and debilitating bouts of recurring throat infections................but none of these things happened to me.

You should know that I am a very healthy person. Granted, I don't live on celery and run 10 miles every morning, but as far as avoiding sickness goes I am an absolute master. I live in a house with two very young siblings who contract everything under the sun and nine times out of ten I manage to not catch it from them. I make sure I get enough sleep and, contrary to popular belief, I have probably drunk less since turning 18 than I used to.........I can't afford it anymore. Until I came down with the Glandular Fever I hadn't been to a doctor in three years and hadn't had so much as a cold in 4 months.

You're probably thinking "what the hell are you complaining about man?" Well that's it. I don't have a problem with being healthy, I have a problem with people presuming I am sick without any knowledge of my medical condition. Basically my director for Les Miserable refuses to let me return to rehearsals until I am 100% fit to do so.

I have been 100% fit for nearly two weeks now.

In fact two weeks ago my doctor declared me fit to return to rehearsals barring any major recurrence of symptoms. I, personally, took it upon myself to take an extra week off to avoid any further risk of contaminating my fellow cast members but since then have been refused permission to return to the production. Now I have about six weeks to learn the blocking for an entire two Act show and make sure I can sing all of my solos and my director won't let me back into rehearsals. I can work hard, but at this point, for the sake of the production, I think it needs to be a case of either return or retire.

So my dilema is this: do I confront my director with the knowledge that I am healthy, have always quickly recovered from illness and am more eager to get back to this musical than humanly possible but in doing so risk offending her and possibly losing my part OR do I keep my mouth shut in the hope that she will eventually come to the conclusion that not everybody suffers for months from Glandular Fever?

Ironically thinking about Glandular Fever has been keeping we awake the last couple of days and there has been no sign of fatigue.

I am consulting my doctor again in the morning to get her opinion in writing. Maybe it will help and maybe it won't.

Till next time...

PROP8

A story that caught my attention in the news this week was PROP8. Basically it turns out that homosexuals in California CAN, in fact, get married without the world ending. This week, in California, Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that Proposition 8, the voter-approved bill to put a stop to gay marriage, was "unconstitutional."

The immediate reaction from the gay community was a highly fashionable, broadway style victory dance. But the rest of us (by us I mean California and a few people with above average intelligence in the rest of the world) were all thinking "Oh cmon the Republicans aren't gonna give up that easily........are they?" Republicans hate the idea of gay marriage. Even mentioning homosexuality in a Republican household is like saying Voldemort too loudly in Diagon Alley and would probably result in someone being shipped off to military school.

But it nothing happened. The Republicans did bugger all. (Excuse the pun.) Of course an appeal was lodged against the ruling but that was pretty much a given. There was no major complaints from political leaders and what was even more amazing was that Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked the judge who made the ruling to legalise gay marriage again.

Deep down you'd like to think that the lack of complaining from the Republicans was just them being decent human beings and a certain amount of humility in what appears to be defeat, but I think its something else. "Unconstitutional". It is a sacred word to the Americans. As soon as you say something is "unconstitutional" in the United States it becomes the most deplorable thing you could possible do like mooning the Queen on St. George's Day while dancing on Churchill's grave.

Unfortunately, for all those gay couples looking to get married in California in the near future, Judge Walker, to prevent what he thought would be a flurry of marriages, put a stay on his same sex marriages ruling until the appeal process could be completed. I understand the whole respecting the course of justice angle he's going with here but that is so hypocritical. Its like inviting your neighbour over for a beer and then drinking them all in front of him. Its practically insulting.

I honestly think that PROP8 is fighting a losing battle. A hundred years ago a black man marrying a white woman was seen to be just a morally wrong by ignorant people as homosexuality is today. Some people just need to get over it. Gay marriage doesn't affect anyone except the two people who are getting marriage. If you think its against your religion then fine, in your view they'll go to hell, in theirs they won't. Either way it has nothing to do with you. If you don't like it then fine don't go over for dinner parties.

Eventually, at least I hope, gay marriage won't even be a point of discussion. It will just be called marriage..........or misery depending on how you look at it. The only reason these sort of propositions even go into effect is because people enjoy creating misery and hating other people. You can stop gay couples from marrying each other legally but I'm pretty sure there is no way in hell you'll be able to stop them from loving each other. Face it this Proposition 8 has already lost, its just presents the illusion of winning for a bunch of 70 year old men with their heads up their asses.

In other news I'm finally recovered from my Glandular Fever. Yay.

Also I will be writing a blog tomorrow about my opinion on the Australian Federal Election.

Till next time...