a fews days ago i lost my phone. totally gone. thank gawd i was early to attend a theater meeting in the south loop. i wandered from building to building, taking random elevators trying to remember where the silk road theatre workshop office was. their address & phone number were in my phone. ugh.i decided to ask to use the internet & phone at a local book store when i ran into fawzia, just a kick ass human being & fabulous actress who is also involved in the same theater workshop. we found the place together. oddly coincidental, the phones at their office were broken so i couldn't make out going calls to find my phone &, unrelated, we couldn't get into the building because someone from their office forgot to hang up their...phone...to buzz us in. phone-tastic drama!
i used our stage manager's phone to call my phone to no avail. hours later, she sent me an email with a man named chris' phone number. he found my phone in the bike lane of augusta blvd & kindly picked it up. he called her phone since it was on my phone's caller ID (& it wasn't even the last number! he kept calling til he reached someone. so sweet!). i called him, using my neighbor's phone & zipped over to his house to get my electronic lifeline.
he gave me the most exquisitely detailed directions to his difficult to reach house & i brought him a giant bag of fresh basil. he called me his hero for bringing him fresh basil & refused the money i offered him. i gave him a big hug, telling him that he's a fine example of the humanity's greatest. yes, we are a great creature.
