10 Days and counting

I'm realizing that at this very moment ten days from now, I'll likely be in the airport in Stockholm, waiting for my connection to Prague. It sounds rather insane to even think such a thing... Stockholm?!? Prague?!? I know that I've been incredibly lucky to have travelled as much as I have, and now to be attending what is, in my field of study/career, THE BIG ONE.... there a little adrenaline involved, I must admit.

Having said that, there's a lot of angst in going.... not about the travel per se... more having to do with the amount of work that needs to be done, signed, sealed, and delivered, BEFORE I get on that plane at O' Hare at 4pm on June 11th....the bags that need to be packed, the socks that needs to be purchased, the money exchanged, and making sure that my other work projects are in a position for me to be completely unavailable to them for 10 whole days ... it's strange, just the thought of being somewhat cut off from easy connection with my normal everyday world... for 10 days, I won't be constantly texting with Janna about everything from Lucy's loose tooth to what to grab at the grocery on the way home. While my iphone will (theoretically) work, the roaming charges in Eastern Europe would make your checkbook perform an instant self-lobotomy. but I'm told that sticking to wi-fi and skype is the best way to go, so we'll see.

Janna and the kids are kinda used to me being in tech rehearsals, working late, and sometimes being gone for long stretches, even when I'm doing a show IN Chicago, but this is different... I'll be in a foreign country, and can't simply drop things to be there if I'm needed. It'll be fine, I know it will.. but the perspective shifts, and in shifting it makes you think.... more to come....