| | 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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| | Posted 10/6/2009 11:43 PM - 9 Views - 2 eProps - 3 comments
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