Stage fright

I was reading today's secrets, and came across a group of e-mail messages in response to this:

Tonight is my first night as stage manager. I've never been so scared in my whole life. So what did I do before I left? I looked at postsecret. If they're brave enough to send in their secrets to the world, I can be brave enough to do this show.

Two other stage managers responded saying "yeah, me too—after seven years."

I used to give training courses at a computer company in the west of England, and although I loved training I too never got over the first-day-jitters. Even after five years of teaching at least seven days out of every fifteen, I still spent the hour before the start of each new session on the toilet.

And that's all I have to say about that.