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May 03, 2009

Ridiculous

Whose stupid idea was it (hint: mine) to put up a show the weekend before finals?

      We have no dressers.
      We have no one for props.
      I have major projects due on Tuesday that I'm returning on Thursday, and
      final exams due on Thursday that I'm due to return on Tuesday of next week.
      And in the meantime, we're teching the show today.

My show. The one I insisted on doing because I wanted to be doing something. The show I thought would be my last in Moscow.

Fortunately, the costume designer has put together stuff for one actor so that she doesn't need a dresser for her quick changes. My costumes are a bit more up in the air right now, but I have faith in Ariel. (Our costume designer.) I'm working on getting props.

Which means that after our 8:30-10:30 am rehearsal yesterday (which followed hard on the heels of Friday night's 6:30-10 rehearsal), I came home, made a list and went shopping. I got about half the items on the list, and then I came home for a break and to sort of reconnoiter. At which point the pace of last week finally got to me (12-14 hour non-stop days) and I lay down on the couch to take a nap. I didn't nap, I never can, but I did do some purely for pleasure reading, which was nice. That and snuggled with some cats who were Very Happy Indeed that I was home and still enough to snuggle.

(Things I missed in the meantime: Renn Faire, which is fun to wander through and laugh at; exercise; a bridal shower; a senior recital--though that was a time confusion. I thought it started at 2:00 and realized at 2:20 that I wasn't going to make it. It actually started at 4:00 which I learned at just after 5:00.)

I hung out with Dave last night, not going anywhere, just eating in the living room while researching swine flu zombies. (Honestly, people, it's a well-done hoax, but it's still a hoax.) And then I was back to gathering props from our own possessions and doing laundry.

Just before bedtime I made the show mondel bread. Since I started it about 10:30, I violated one of my own rules: No new projects or new phases of current projects--except the cleanup phase--after 10pm. Which is probably why I managed to pour roughly double the amount of almond oil into the mix. The lumps of dough did not want to stick together, I burned the loaves and there was almond oil everywhere. BUT, they're baked and less crumbly than last week and I have slightly more than the necessary number of attractive pieces to use for the run, along with a plastic tub full of the not so perfect pieces to use during the four remaining rehearsals.

That was last night.

So far today I have updated my list, gathered/created some more props for the show, boxed up the mondel bread, fed Katala, started another load of laundry and folded one that had been in the dryer. Also typed up all of this. And I've only been up for 90 minutes.

I need to take a shower.

I need to do some more shopping, but Dave's got the car right now so he can get some other props and lumber for a bookcase he needs to build for the show. I'm not sure when his rehearsal starts, but I'm called at four for a cue-to-cue followed by tech. Which means, now that I think about it, that I need to make dinner to take with me. Because I'm going to have to eat it on the fly.

I need to work on my lines.

I need to clean the bathroom. I haven't cleaned the bathroom in two weeks (maybe more).

I need to finish the various projects I've been working on for gifts.

I need to clean the kitchen. And straighten up my workspace.

I need to deadhead the daffodils. And rake the leaves that are still in the yard and prune the suckers and watersprouts off the cherry and crabapple trees.

I need to clean up and vacuum the living room.

I need to just sit and stare at something for a while. And maybe take a walk.

I really hope we can find a props person for this production. So many people are busy with various end of the school year assignments and projects, but I can't do props and star in this show at the same time. I can't. I can't be schlepping all of the perishables around campus and also warm up for the performances. (This particular theatre has no refrigerator or access to running water aside from the drinking fountain in the hallway next to the bathroom. The one the audience uses.) I can't have the various edibles/drinkables ready for Act Two because I can't be running around in full view of the audience during intermission. Well, I suppose I could be, but it's not the ideal solution.

Okay. Venting over. Well, more whining really. But that's over too. Because Dave's back with the car and I need to get back to work.

Posted by sally at May 3, 2009 09:17 AM

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