Please tell me that they don't do musicals or anything with dancing on that. My ankles are hurting just thinking about it.

All Chorus concerts are done in there and we have a show choir that dances. I rehearse for District competitions in there for about 3 weeks because of the proscenium width and competition requirements. This year the Chrous teacher wants us to do a musical together (Bye Bye Birdie) and it will have to be done in there. (I have no idea how the sets and dancing will be able to work)

The wings were only connected to backstage on one side of the stage, so if anyone had to made an entrance from the other side, they had to just hang out in the wings for the entire act up until that point, and if someone exited and then entered again, the entrance and exit had to be from the same side of the stage.

This is similar to what I have to do in the Industrial Arts room I use for many of the shows.

The room wasn't wired for the built-in headsets, and there were no other headsets available, so any messages I had to communicate to someone in the opposite wing, I wrote down in thick marker on a notepad and held it up while shining my flashlight on it.

Yep, this is us. My tech students will also set their cell phones to vibrate and use text messaging. My stage manager student always does a cell phone check with the crew before a show starts so there are no "surprises".

Sound and lighting are set up on a table in the back of the room and they both follow the script. I sit near them and cue as needed by pointing or whispering the call.

The sound system was that all our sounds were on a CD in a player hooked up to the PA system, and the second night, that stopped working.

I use a stereo or my laptop hooked up to speakers. In the Cafetorium, we use the chorus sound system. The school's system isn't worth bothering with and produces crappy sound anyway.

Erin, you'll take a tax hit if you do. And down the road you could regret it.

Have you talked to the hospital about reducing the bills? Sometimes, you can negotiate a lower bill, especially under dire circumstances. If you go in and explain that you're unemployed, they may be willing to write some of it off. Then you can negotiate a manageable payment schedule. It doesn't hurt to try this, no matter how you pay them. If it's a significant amount, every little write-off helps.

Dear fellow road warrior,

When it is nearly dawn and tropical rain conditions it is really difficult to see your grey unlit car.

No love, The person behind you in the well lit orange car. I know you saw me.

The deal I struck with the kids was that they take the bus unless it is raining. Well Hanna, I'm driving today.

fried egg sandwich:

Pics of my new great niece: [link]

Cutiehed!

Pics of my new great niece

She's beautiful! Congratulations.

cutie!

I hate that Matt knows today is going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Companies should not torture their employees.

Actually, I'm very vocal in my disapproval of rubbers. Only under very special circumstances are they allowed to use rubbers. Generally speaking, I'm of the opinion that rubbers don't improve matters at all nine times out of ten, and that there's no shame in making a mistake, recognising it and putting a line through. This also has the advantage of letting the teacher see what you did. Rather than doing some thinking and writing, and then wasting ten minutes rubbing it all out, and then having bugger all to show for twenty minutes' work.

Sure, tell Bristol Palin that...

I hate that Matt knows today is going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Companies should not torture their employees.

Is this the horrible company that he quit and then went back to?

Oof. Poor Matt. That sucks.