I'm guessing you have my last name by now, Allyson!

She does!

Sophia, when I was the wardrobe mistress for a theatre festival, my real title was "wardrobe site manager". In terms of Costume Shop Manager, I don't think I've ever worked on a show that had one. Most sewing crews had a "crew head" that performed these functions, but were hired on a job by job basis, or the designer her/himself was the de facto crew head. But yes, the running of the costume building crew and the head of costumes during the run of the show are two totally different things.

There's got to be technical theatre books out there that define all of these jobs that you can plunk down in front of the craxy theatre people who make you jump through those hoops.

Sophia, maybe you want to look at job desriptions posted here:

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There's got to be technical theatre books out there that define all of these jobs that you can plunk down in front of the craxy theatre people who make you jump through those hoops.

I want to drive home and get my "Costume Technician's Handbook"

Also, I like "wardrobe site coordinator"! It is great.

The weird situation is that I am trying to help them out- they want to make the position full time in the next couple of years, and I probably won't take it. But if they are looking for someone and advertise for a Wardrobe Mistress, even if they have the correct job description, I think they will not get the right position. They will, in fact, get someone like me, who has a lot more experience in Wardrobe and Design than, say, sewing!

My sister and I encountered this chick at a football game at Lambeau a few years back. She was so drunk she was completely incoherent, lying on the floor, and her friend kept refusing to do anything other than say "come on, you're okay, you're okay". We tried convincing them first - "look, I don't care if you're underage, that doesn't matter right now, she needs help." And it turned out they weren't even underage, which just increased the WTF of it all. I stayed with them to make sure they didn't scurry away (well, scurry/drag) and sent my sis for the nearest cop.

People=stupid.

Panic and drunkeness are a really sad combination -- add enough of either and you can't even tell you're not thinking logically.

In a sense, it's a mercy the girl was dead on impact, so that at least her friends' delay didn't make any real difference to the outcome.

People=stupid.

True fact.

Question: Does it seem like bad form to come back to the office with a new hair cut, after almost two weeks out sick? I'm trying to decide if I'm just picking because I'm annoyed in general.

and is that Linda Rondstat?

I have her rendition of "Poor Wandering One" from that production on my nano.

I love her singing, despite the fact that "Blue Bayou" was nearly the death of me a decade ago.

So it turns out that kryptonite actually exists. No, really.

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Researchers from mining group Rio Tinto discovered the unusual mineral and enlisted the help of Dr Stanley when they could not match it with anything known previously to science.

Once the London expert had unravelled the mineral's chemical make-up, he was shocked to discover this formula was already referenced in literature - albeit fictional literature.

"Towards the end of my research I searched the web using the mineral's chemical formula - sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide - and was amazed to discover that same scientific name, written on a case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luther from a museum in the film Superman Returns.

"The new mineral does not contain fluorine (which it does in the film) and is white rather than green but, in all other respects, the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite."

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Finding out that the chemical composition of a material was an exact match to an invented formula for the fictitious kryptonite "was the coincidence of a lifetime," he added.

The mineral cannot be called kryptonite under international nomenclature rules because it has nothing to do with krypton - a real element in the Periodic Table that takes the form of a gas.

Wow! too bad we actually can't call it kryptonite!

Also, Thanks, Sue-- The backstage job site seems to have done the convincing!