last night's gig at the local was the best fun ever. crowd was ace, and my set went off. i took some risks - tried a couple of new jokes and new angles i'd been thinking about lately, and one i was too chicken to say the last time i was up - and they all seemed to work alright. got some lovely, ego-boosty large laughs and came off stage feeling like i'd slain a very large dragon. rachel berger is the best mc a girl could ask for - after the show i caught up with her and she is very supportive and down-to-earth. last night was also very important because it was the first time all four of us - tanya, geraldine, vanessa and myself - got together and shared a stage. we all have diverse styles and on-stage personalities; our fringe show is going to be unreal! i was really nervous about meeting them all for the first time, i was envisioning spice-girls-esque animosity to spring seething under the surface - but none of that happened, we're all as well-adjusted as chick comedians can ever hope to be, and we're all raring to go with an edge of nervosity. i know that's not a real word, but i like it. another made up word i like is 'hilarify', or 'hilarification'. just thinking about those words makes me smile. they always envoke mental imagery of some sort of possession by outragously amused spirits, causing the possessed to lurch about uncontrolably, laughing so hard that tears squirt projectile from their eyes. hilarificatious!