I've done my job for so long now that, at times, I forget what I'm doing.

Sometimes, when I find myself moving through my day as if I'm set on auto-pilot, I come to a screeching halt because I've forgotten how to do something that I do every week (and have been for nearly five years). I stop in mid-task, and think, "Now, how did I do that last time?"

I've been doing the same job for so long that many of the things I do have become second nature. I once tried to show someone how to do something that doesn't take me more than 10 minutes. It took me close to an hour to show this person how the task was done. Going through that process made me realize how quickly I'm able to do my work. But it also served as a reminder that I need to stop and think things through once in awhile.

One of the Web sites I visit each day is Playbill.com. Its slogan says it's been "serving theatre since 1884," but I was introduced to it about 100 years after that. (More than 20 years later, anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm a theater junkie.) Anyway, the site is full of the latest news about Broadway, off-Broadway and regional shows, plus fabulous features.

One weekly feature I enjoy is Cue & A. Current theater stars fill out questionnaires with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits. Fan favorites Hank Azaria (Spamalot, The Farnsworth Invention) and Norbert Leo Butz (Rent, Wicked, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Is He Dead?) have filled out the survey, as have former "Laverne & Shirley" co-stars Cindy Williams and Michael McKean.

Recently, Seth Rudetsky, an actor and musician, began writing a weekly column, Onstage & Backstage. In this week's installment, A Tenor, a Soprano and a Mermaid, he mentions two stage actors who, after long runs playing the same character, forgot their lines during a performance. They were each able to recover, but after the curtain fell on the performance, each knew it was time to move on. One of them explained the phenomenon thusly: "If you repeat the same action over and over again for a period of time, you can go into a completely meditative-type trance."

Now, I'm no Broadway star, but I get the point. In fact, I've had to jerk myself out of said trance on more than one occasion. Luckily, I wasn't in front of a 1,000-person audience.

Anyway, after reading that, I couldn't help but wonder: Is it time for me to move on?