Scheduling Conflicts

I have a problem: I'm supposed to start my tour for Hardball on September 22, but that's also the season premiere for NCIS.  I confess that I'm a fan.  Some of my friends say the dialogue is wooden and the action predictable, others that the show is hard on women, but I still love it.  Because we left Ziva in a Somali torture cell, I'm not sure I'm strong enough to go to Old Orchard to read from Hardball

while her fate is in the balance.

Agent Todd was murdered, Agent Cassidy was killed in an ...