Ok, let's continue what I was talking about yesterday, shall we?
But quickly... I'm exhausted...
Friday started out pretty dully. I was going to help a friend out with a project for Trojan Vision, the TV channel run by the school, but she wasn't able to get a camera so that was postponed. I don't really mind though. I had my voice lesson at 10 anyways so getting up early didn't make a difference.
The lesson went well too.
It was a really pretty day on Friday... that I remember well. I felt really happy and the weather was beautiful. I sat outside around the music school for quite a while, just taking it all in...
So then I had class. I like classes, for the most part.
To the best of my memory, I spent the afternoon either doing nothing, getting homework done, hanging out, or doing something similar to those items...
I was a bit late to get to the theater to work for Lady Windemere's Fan, though, and felt pretty bad about it... It went pretty well! We figured out set changes for the first time and got accustomed to the area and our jobs. Then we started helping with the lighting process. The cast members weren't called, so I got to stand in as Lady Windemere as they figured out how the scenes should be lit for a few of the scenes. I felt pretty cool, can't lie. It was fun!!
After the rehearsal, I met up with Thomas and we went to a show at 11pm: Macbeth. It was simultaneously a horrible idea, and a fantastic idea.
Fantastic idea: I got to hang out with Thomas, who is awesome and always a ton of fun to hang out with! The show was great, and I really enjoyed seeing some of my friends here performing onstage. And then, I got to swing dance with the guy that played Macbeth. Totally out of the blue. He was dancing with a friend, and I felt jealous since I hadn't danced in a while. I made a comment about it, mostly to myself, but he turned to me and offered to dance a bit. So we did! And it was lovely :)
Horrible idea: It ended at 1am. I was already feeling horribly tired and crummy before the show started, and staying up late made it a bit worse. ...I felt awful, actually. It'd been an exhausting week, so staying up really late two nights in a row wasn't a fantastic idea.
That was pretty obvious Saturday morning, when I woke up still feeling horribly sleepy... Nevertheless, I was called to the theater at 10am! Caffeinated tea in hand, thank our heavenly Father above.
Saturday at the theater was a looong day of teching the entire show. We started at the beginning and moved in slow motion that, in my opinion, was slow even for tech. What made that nice was that I got to get some homework done in the wings, as well as talk and hang out with the cast and crew members. Plus, we got a nice break from 3-5pm to get food and get out of the theater for a bit! Nevertheless, we didn't leave until about 10pm.
Sunday was very similar. Called at 10, and then we ran through the entire show (still tech rehearsals, but at a much faster pace and hardly ever having to hold the show). After our typical 3-5 break, we did it all over again. As it was the day before, homework got done and bonding between cast and crew happened. Hooray!
Sunday was also nicer because I wasn't feeling like I was about to fall over from tiredness the entire day. Actually, I was feeling so much better, and we got out early enough afterwards, that I watched another old Disney Movie! The Three Caballeros, this time. It made me feel so nostalgic at times... except the end. The end was trippy, but oh well.
I'm finding it's so easy to sound like I'm complaining about working in the theater. I'm honestly not. I love being there!!! It feels really good to be working on a show of some kind in a theater again. It feels like home :)
TODAY. Finally. We're updated!!!!!
I love my acting class. I say that over and over again, but I'm learning so much in it: about myself, about my mistakes onstage, about what to look for in other people's performances, about what to look for in my own performance, why theater matters, and on and on and on. Plus, the people in the class are fantastic. All-around great people :)
I went to my THTR 130 Lab time, and it was there that my day got made, just a little bit. I got to smash a bar used on the set of the last show (one that I missed called Infinite Black Suitcase) with a sledgehammer. We smashed it to pieces. It was almost as fun as riding on top of the platforms the week before!!! Also, I'm getting more used to the staple gun! I don't like the gust of air that gets put in my face, but it can't be avoided, so oh well.
After getting lunch I went on a bit of a cleaning rampage in my room. Then it was my Philosophy class, which was much more entertaining than usual.
For starters, the projector keeps acting up in class. It'll black out, so that you can't see the screen anymore for about 10 seconds or so, which isn't really a problem except that a TA is typing up notes that are being projected onto the screen for people to see. We called the Tech people, in class, again to come fix the problem, but later in class there was a funny moment. Jake pointed up to the screen to give a visual example of something he was talking about, and the moment he put his hand up, the screen blacked out. So what he was saying went a bit like this:
"So as you can see here.. bloody hell......"
For some reason, it's really funny to hear my Jake say that. Jake's my professor's name, by the way... Other things that happened were he showed us a video that another one of his classes made as part of some assignment. One of the students starts the video with a SPOT ON Jake impression. You have to have been to a couple of lectures to get it, but I was dying of laughter. He hit all of the little things Jake does on the nose!!! Then, at the end of the class, we started talking about determinism. He gave an idea of an approach someone might have, if determinism were to be true. He called it the... well, I guess I need to keep this blog censored. Let's call it the "Fudge it" theory.
Again, what he actually said was so out of place for him and so comical in context that I, once again, was laughing quite a bit.
Jinny and I went to dinner after class, and then I went back to the theater!!!
Tonight's tech wasn't quite as fun as the nights before... I felt like I made a lot of mistakes. One of them was somewhat big: I forgot to set props on the desk in Act 4. They were still accessible to the actors, since they were in the drawer, but I should've put them on top of the desk... I'm still kicking myself for it. On top of all that, I felt like I was always in the way, or getting distracted all the time (the costumes are so gorgeous!!!) or... I don't know. Whatever it is I do that ticks people off. I just feel like I screwed up... I hate those days. They make you feel like you should just leave the theater and never come back...
I won't, of course, but that doesn't mean I don't feel that way at times...
Maybe tomorrow will go better. I'll just be more on my game, that's all! More energetic, more out of the way, and less distracted....
Someone please tell me I'm doing something right at this school. I'm getting really excited for Thanksgiving and going home...
Fight on, friends.
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