to catch you up

so much has happened in merely a few days...

-the lead actor didn't answer his door when the car was there to pick him up to take him to the airport - but then he did. he was in the shower.
-the actor and his mother ended up flying - i found this out when i emailed to ask about their eta and they said they were on standby in chicago and would be in town in about two hours
-the actor and his mother arrived sans cat
-a dog did arrive, though. one of the actors' girlfriends flew in for the night and brought her dachshund to set
-i had to drive an actor to whole foods and he kept asking me to smell the cheeses with him
-the costume designer approached me this morning to ask how easy it would be for him to "ease out of the film"
-we have a brand that is angry at us and the costume designer has their products throughout even though we don't have clearance to use it
-the actor and his mother have requested to change to a 'nice hotel' because of the 'bed-bug epidemic that's sweeping the east coast.'...we're not on the coast.
-the production designer had accepted the fact that the film did not have all the tennis rackets required for the TENNIS movie and called the director to tell him
-the director forgot to tell everyone that the reason people were cast was because they had their own tennis gear (problem solved)
-this morning, the script supervisor and the first ad and i all commiserated about being in tears and feeling crazy when we got home last night
-a puppy-like pa volunteered to make all the copies of the script for the reading, and we realized an hour before that the scripts were copied at an angle, missing pages, blurry, and out of order
-as of this morning (second day of shooting) we still had two roles not yet cast, which are in scenes to be shot today...know anyone who wants to play a stripper who doesn't speak?
-one actor informed us that he doesn't eat eggs. previously unknown. funny since it was the night before he had a scene where he had to eat a great deal of EGG fu yong. (yes, i emailed everyone in this scene and asked about allergies, food issues, etc. somehow the egg thing never came up)
-the actor's mother made the second ad put the umbrella on the call sheet so there was no issue about it actually getting to set
-i'm sitting about a hundred feet from set, inside in air conditioning. feel very nicely removed from it all
-i also became in charge of casting, as of two hours ago