I am a dork. Better pictures, too.
I am a bigger dork-- I just made my cat look at pictures of your kitten!
After my drama at the theatre with the full-time job madness, I have some good news! I don't have to have any lab students this semester! They are moving to the props person because their hours don't mesh with mine well. This will cut my work in half, if not more! My interns can be really self sufficient, so we are planning to meet one night a week and do most of the rest of our stuff on our own time, communicating by phone and email ! This is so wonderful, but the funny thing is my bosses feel horrible because they are taking away my help...but they are just making my life so much easier because I don't have to plan lessons or grade anything, and I am still getting paid the same amount. I have been telling them for years that every unskilled person "helping" me doubles my time spent on something, but no one believes me. I just think it takes so much more time to get up to speed in costumes, because the students who are drawn to lights are electrical engineering majors, the ones drawn to set are often mechanical engineering majors, but the ones drawn to costumes are often anthro or psych majors, and there isn't a lot of skill correlation.