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So after the week from hell (no, really, you don't want to know, it was just bad all around), this weekend was well on its way to making up for it.
There was theater, for one thing. Lots and lots of it, because I'm running sound,* & while that means I'm not running about madly onstage, it is actually no less exhausting or time-consuming than acting is. Also, I get to be bitter bitter tech with Cozy and Kristyn, which is entertaining (Cozy & I go about muttering "cue the fucking sheep" all the time, & we even have Jacki, our lights girl, saying it even though she's never seen Slings & Arrows). We get to have conversations over headsets, which are occasionally interrupted by the greenroom (sometimes an actor, sometimes Kris to chime in), because sometimes we forget they can hear us...
Also, I am firmly convinced that every actor, every one, should do tech at least once in their student career. In fact I'm pretty sure it ought to be a requirement to graduate from a drama program. Because it gives you a completely different & really valuable perspective on the whole endeavour, & also, I can tell you, if you have half a brain & a memory, you will a) never be a diva again, if you were, & b) be much, much more understanding toward your techies, during tech week & after.
Friday was a theater-kid party at Jen's; Saturday was the Gay prom & drag show (from which the subject line comes); today was dinner at home for mother's day.
Also, this morning, I got up early & did homework--I felt really productive. & to cap all this weekend off, I just have to brag a little bit. Just a bit, I promise. Dr. Young, who was the other reader of my paper besides Dr. Kangas, sent me an email with a suggestion for expanding one paragraph, & saying that he'd given Dr. E a copy of my paper with other corrections. I replied to say thank you for reading it, & that I was looking forward to his comments, & he replies with this:
"Thanks. Your paper was so good--in my judgment--that there really aren't any comments to speak of beyond what I emailed you. There are a few very minor corrections."
....I mean. Really? That good? *glee*
& now I have to go write a whole new proposal for Donne before I go to bed. Aiee. The one thing about theater that's not so great? No time for homework during the weekend....
*The Nice & The Nasty! One more weekend, May 17-20, Thurs-Fri-Sat @ 7:30, Sat-Sun @ 2:30. At the Lee Center, 12th & Marion. Only $6 for students! Plus it's hilarious, & I say that having heard it over ten times already, so you know it's good. C'mon. Give us an audience.
There was theater, for one thing. Lots and lots of it, because I'm running sound,* & while that means I'm not running about madly onstage, it is actually no less exhausting or time-consuming than acting is. Also, I get to be bitter bitter tech with Cozy and Kristyn, which is entertaining (Cozy & I go about muttering "cue the fucking sheep" all the time, & we even have Jacki, our lights girl, saying it even though she's never seen Slings & Arrows). We get to have conversations over headsets, which are occasionally interrupted by the greenroom (sometimes an actor, sometimes Kris to chime in), because sometimes we forget they can hear us...
Also, I am firmly convinced that every actor, every one, should do tech at least once in their student career. In fact I'm pretty sure it ought to be a requirement to graduate from a drama program. Because it gives you a completely different & really valuable perspective on the whole endeavour, & also, I can tell you, if you have half a brain & a memory, you will a) never be a diva again, if you were, & b) be much, much more understanding toward your techies, during tech week & after.
Friday was a theater-kid party at Jen's; Saturday was the Gay prom & drag show (from which the subject line comes); today was dinner at home for mother's day.
Also, this morning, I got up early & did homework--I felt really productive. & to cap all this weekend off, I just have to brag a little bit. Just a bit, I promise. Dr. Young, who was the other reader of my paper besides Dr. Kangas, sent me an email with a suggestion for expanding one paragraph, & saying that he'd given Dr. E a copy of my paper with other corrections. I replied to say thank you for reading it, & that I was looking forward to his comments, & he replies with this:
"Thanks. Your paper was so good--in my judgment--that there really aren't any comments to speak of beyond what I emailed you. There are a few very minor corrections."
....I mean. Really? That good? *glee*
& now I have to go write a whole new proposal for Donne before I go to bed. Aiee. The one thing about theater that's not so great? No time for homework during the weekend....
*The Nice & The Nasty! One more weekend, May 17-20, Thurs-Fri-Sat @ 7:30, Sat-Sun @ 2:30. At the Lee Center, 12th & Marion. Only $6 for students! Plus it's hilarious, & I say that having heard it over ten times already, so you know it's good. C'mon. Give us an audience.
