Ahh Thursday. I'm back at work after three days off. I tried blogging about the Funny Bone yesterday at home, but it seems I am too accustomed to doing it at work. Stupid Pavlov. Anyway; here goes.
Saturday at the workshop, we had guest speaker John Morgan, the ragin' cajun. He was very cool to listen to and made several very good points about performing your stand-up instead of delivering your it. He invited the class to come check out his show at Fairview Heights. Tom Milster and I were there and the show was pretty cool. Then I checked out Peter Berman at the Midnight show in Westport. Peter actually remembered me from the last time I was in town, which was pretty cool. His show was pretty good, especially for a midnight show.
To Tuesday: Tuesday morning I woke up in a State park on a float trip vacation with my family. The plan was for all of us to float together until about lunch, when I and my sister (and her kids and husband) would split off and haul to get to the pick up early so we could get on the road. Matt Behrens said he'd get me on stage, but I was afraid I wouldn't make it back until 9:00/9:30. We got off the river at 3:00, waited an hour for a bus, took a forty minute bus ride and were on the way out of the canoe-rental lot by quarter 'til five. Long story short, we made excellent time and 20 minutes out of St. Louis we called ahead for Pizza Hut. We got to my sister's and the pizza was practically waiting for us. Anyway, I got in a shower and was at the funny bone by 7:30. I went up about 12th and had a really good set. I worked on the things Behrens brought up in class, and only did about three minutes (there were about 16 comics, so looking back, I'm glad I went a little short). I got a lot of compliments on my set, which rocks because I think my stage presence is coming along. I hung out in the Jazz club a bit afterwards, but split around 11:00pm. I had wednesday off, and spent most of the day catching up on Tivo.