OK, I'm a miserable failure!

Since the new year began and I made those stupid resolutions, I've failed miserably.

First of all, I've done absolutely nothing about making a plan to lose weight. Nada.

And keeping up with my blog. Ha!

I keep thinking my life is just not that interesting that anyone would want to read about it.

But I've got to keep this up so I can keep my job, so I will do better. I will. I WILL!

I had lunch with two of my favorite theater people -- Lisa Cesnik and Troy Heard. I knew that they had corresponded via e-mails and MySpace and Facebook. But they had never met in person. Who better to get them together?

Yes, the person who knows half of Columbus and Harris County and parts of Alabama. Mike Haskey complains that if he goes anywhere with me, he's got to stop every 10 feet so I can greet someone. That's not true. It just depends on where we are.

Lisa and Troy both started theaters last year. Lisa's is the Rose of Athens Theater in Athens, Ga., where she lives, and Troy started the Chattahoochee Shakespeare Co. here in Columbus. I got to listen to Lisa and Troy talk about shows they'd like to produce. Most of them I'd never heard of, but would like to see someday in Columbus.

It was a great time.

When I got back in the office, I finally got an e-mail I'd been waiting for. My good friend Bric Barker had disappeared. No matter where in the world he was, he'd keep in touch with me. But for the last year, silence. I'd send an e-mail. No reply. I finally sent another one and he wrote back.

Bric, for newcomers to Columbus, was the founder of the late, great The Human Experience Theatre.

He's teaching in the first year writing program at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton. Bric says he loves teaching "all the nice little children who haven't bothered to learn how to write in 12 years of school."

His daughter, Persephone, will be 19 on Feb. 13. The last time I saw her, she was about 4. Bric says she's living in South Carolina with his sister, Kelly. That's Bric and Miss P. taken just before her high school prom.

"Life is good," he said.

And he's joking around, just like always. "I was bummed out a few weeks ago, the Barry Manilow concert was canceled due to weather. That shot my whole month! HeHeHe."

At least I'm hoping he was joking about the Manilow concert. I don't know if I could stand if he's a Fanilow!