I'm in Hell...
I'm REALLY not looking forward to the next couple of days at work. Today was bad enough. It wasn't helped much by the fact that I didn't get anywhere near enough sleep last night (I was at Marla's again, and kept getting up to check on my horse--and, no, she still hasn't dropped her foal yet. Stupid horse...it can't be comfortable, in this heat, to have ANOTHER body inside you producing its own heat, too...) The hour and a half drive from Marla's to work become more like two hours due to construction slowdowns, and detours due to changing road layouts (exits I thought I was going to use to bypass the construction had been relocated, or eliminated...) Then I got to work and was informed that, not only was this expected to be one of the hottest days of the year thus far, but also that our air conditioning at the theater crapped out last night and the electricians wouldn't be able to fix it until Tuesday (at best...I'll not be surprised if it doesn't happen by then). Not only was this one of the hottest days, it was one of the longest damn days of the year. But there was a little good news to come out of it--our director okayed my makeup design for the Zombie Mambo for Frightmares. This will, for the first time, be truly my design, not a design I assisted with, or collaborated on, or some such, but my design, start to finish, for that show. I'm excited for it! There's also going to be some restructuring of our department, officially...but I don't find out what all is going to happen until next week (I was going to hear it on Tuesday, but due to the holiday being on Monday, our show schedules--and, correspondingly, my day off--are being shuffled this week, so I'm gone Tuesday. So Ken will tell me about it Thursday.) Weird to think, as of this Frightmares, I will have been working for Lagoon for nine years. Doesn't feel like it at all...not even on a hellishly hot day like this one was.
I'm REALLY not looking forward to the next couple of days at work. Today was bad enough. It wasn't helped much by the fact that I didn't get anywhere near enough sleep last night (I was at Marla's again, and kept getting up to check on my horse--and, no, she still hasn't dropped her foal yet. Stupid horse...it can't be comfortable, in this heat, to have ANOTHER body inside you producing its own heat, too...) The hour and a half drive from Marla's to work become more like two hours due to construction slowdowns, and detours due to changing road layouts (exits I thought I was going to use to bypass the construction had been relocated, or eliminated...) Then I got to work and was informed that, not only was this expected to be one of the hottest days of the year thus far, but also that our air conditioning at the theater crapped out last night and the electricians wouldn't be able to fix it until Tuesday (at best...I'll not be surprised if it doesn't happen by then). Not only was this one of the hottest days, it was one of the longest damn days of the year. But there was a little good news to come out of it--our director okayed my makeup design for the Zombie Mambo for Frightmares. This will, for the first time, be truly my design, not a design I assisted with, or collaborated on, or some such, but my design, start to finish, for that show. I'm excited for it! There's also going to be some restructuring of our department, officially...but I don't find out what all is going to happen until next week (I was going to hear it on Tuesday, but due to the holiday being on Monday, our show schedules--and, correspondingly, my day off--are being shuffled this week, so I'm gone Tuesday. So Ken will tell me about it Thursday.) Weird to think, as of this Frightmares, I will have been working for Lagoon for nine years. Doesn't feel like it at all...not even on a hellishly hot day like this one was.
posted by Curtis at 11:30 PM
2 Comments:
Congrats on the design.
BTW, do they cancel shows in the theater when the air craps out or do they go ahead with the show anyway?
They still do the shows. When I first started there, the outdoor theater didn't even have AC backstage...and we had two and a half contiguous weeks of 100+ degree weather there that summer. So, although it stinks that the AC is out, I've been through worse!
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