Tomorrow is the longest day of the year.
Every year, Theatreworks (the esteemed theatre company that Katie works for) runs an educational program that goes into local schools and helps young playwrights realize their ambitions and potential by staging a few select plays.
What this means for Katie is that she has to wake up way early (like, when high school classes start!) and truck a bunch of food and props down to the theatre. The actors then rehearse all day before actually putting on the performance at around 7 PM or so.
Katie then stays late to help clean up after the performance is over and cart any of the necessary props/extras back (or takes them overnight if it’s too late to actually return them).
It always goes well and its a fantastic opportunity that I wish I had known about (or that my school had participated in something like this) when I was young, but it’s a very long day. While I may whine a bit about having to go to work super-early and stay later than usual, Katie’s the one that’s actually doing all the hard work.
So, send her happy thoughts tomorrow. I send her happy thoughts every day, but if a lot of people do it tomorrow, maybe it’ll make the day go a bit faster.