Okay, so I auditioned for Two Gentlemen of Verona last night.  And I knew I didn’t get any of the women’s roles even before I left.  I mean, who casts me as an ingenue?  As a doormat?  That’s a laugh-even if I acted my ass off, everyone would know I could just kick the shit out of the asshole treating me like a doormat because of the way I look!  You know you’re not getting cast when even YOU wouldn’t cast yourself!  I mean, I was there until the bitter end (along with most everybody else), and I was honestly thinking, “Well, it’s nice of Norman to keep me around and let me keep reading because I know him.”  I mean, really, I am not exaggerating!  I really knew I did not fit any of the roles and that I’d pretty much sucked in my readings TRYING to fit the roles.  But in the weird twist of fate that seems to be my burden/blessing with Shakespeare plays, I have been asked me to be Ursula, the non-speaking servant (although he’s going to give me a line), an Outlaw (who speaks a teensy bit), and a singer (don’t barf, I can carry a tune!).  Really, this is quite funny because in high school, in all the Shakespeare and all the other plays that didn’t have a strong woman in them, I was cast as: a serving wench or a man’s role turned to a woman’s.  In fact, my stage debut in first grade was as a (boy) outlaw (strange how that comes around)!  I also played a serving wench (oh, but the head serving wench!) in Taming of the Shrew (to be fair I was also Assistant Director), Hippolyta in Midsummer (might as well be a serving wench for all the lines she has), Lt. Rooney in Arsenic and Old Lace (male) and, the one that gets everybody, that no one will believe:  Reverend Hale in the Crucible.  IN THE FUCKING CRUCIBLE!  Yeah, it was the best damn role I was ever given, too.  Okay, now I’m rambling.  But anyway, the point.  So at the audition, it even had the “me tall girl, all boys short” vibe that kept me from getting cast in high school.  I felt GIGANTIC!  Weird…  But I accepted it, so watch out Waller Creek, Julie’s gettin’ out her serving wench costume again!