October 6, 2009
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Oy... I am so tired. This show is draining, on top of work and recent allergy attacks. I think the show can still come together. It's been ugly, because we've had a number of actors out whether due to prior commitment or due to apathy on their parts. We're so tightly cast (we had to drop the part of Tubal for lack of a person to play him and we're doubling up our female characters to be servants) that we can't replace them no matter how little they excuse their behavior. Pile on to that our director being entirely not forceful enough, a stage manager who professes that it's "not her job to deal with props" and steps out during the show for smoke breaks every 10-20 minutes, our costumes being late... it's not as much of a fun time as I would like. What really gets my goat is that some of the actors haven't even bothered learning their lines. I can understand them not respecting the director. I can almost understand them deciding that the practices aren't worth their time (there is a lot of time wasted during most rehearsals), but taking on a job and then not learning your lines? That makes them look like incompetents! Meh, we'll pull through I know, and I'm in a worse mood than usual at the moment, so I'm painting a terribly bleak picture, but it is still frustrating. Were it not for the good friends in the cast who help me keep my spirits high, I might succumb to apathy myself.
Speaking of good friends, I have also had the good fortune to secure a date last Saturday. ^_^ I thoroughly muffed things from the long walk searching for a coffee shop that was not where I thought it was to my cards being refused at first at the Chinese place we stopped at (they didn't take Discover and my ATM card was replaced recently), but the girl professed that she had a good time and that she would like to do it again. *GLEE!* She's a terribly nice girl. Pretty, intelligent, religious... it makes you wonder what she sees in a shlub like me. Heh... and for my part, I'm relearning how to go about this dating thing again. I'm terribly out of practice and I'm having to figure out that balance between long term and short term thinking again. Ah, but I'll speak no further for fear of jinxing it.
Work is somewhat another matter. I... I'm just having a hard time being inspired lately. I do fine as long as I'm solving the problems of other people, but when it comes to my own assignments, I feel like I'm turning out lackluster code. Functional, but it could certainly be much better work. Oh well, evaluations will be coming up soon. Maybe I will learn more then.
Overall, life isn't all that bad. It's just a wee bit frustrating from time to time.
Maybe if I wrote more so as to share my burden with my faithful readers out there...
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Good luck! I hope the show comes together (even though it sounds like it's off on a rocky start). How long do you guys have until it's officially running?
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Ah... we open this Friday. So, we have two more days of rehearsal to pull things together. I know that we can do it. I just don't know if people will be motivated enough to do it.
And, incidentally, after sleeping on it, I'm not quite as incensed with the show. I probably spoke more than I had planned to say in my irritation, but I have a policy of not retracting my words in these posts. If nothing else, the Internet has ways of preventing information from being lost and I prefer to add a qualifying statement rather than to look like I'm trying to revise history. I have great respect for many of my cast members. I have respect for anyone who takes on jobs like being a Director or Stage Manager. I reserve the right to still be annoyed at them for perceived faults or slights. I... feel like I would be better off directly confronting the people in question, but part of me hates confrontation. And honestly, I knew what I was getting into from the start, at least most of it. Bah... all I have to do is ride things out for a little while longer. I think that once the show is over and done with, resentments will fade.
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