Again, really glad I do costumes. In college, we had to hang and focus one light to pass the tech theatre class, and I was so nervous about falling that I made one of the tech people hold my feet while I was leaning out over the light from the cat walk.

So I got a box of stuff from my parents full of freebies they've acquired (they're packing up the bedroom and bathroom to put in new floors.) In addition to a NRA pocketknife (yes, my dad joined the NRA. It's hilarious, given him) and fancy hotel soaps, there was a google "orb." White plastic ball with LEDs inside. When I put it on random color mode, it makes Loki INSANE.

Awesome. But I'll have to put it in a drawer at night.

I only got scared on the high grid over the fly gallery. Hanging lights in the grid didn't scare me at all. I've known techies who climbed around on them like monkeys. I think people take more precautions than we knew to back then.

In younger days I sometimes did rigging for rock shows, climbing thru triangle truss 100' over the arena floor with no fall protection. I'm not afraid of climbing, but I have encountered lifts and ladders that made me nervous. And a couple of stage floors that I don't think were safe to have lifts or ladders on.

I was also a little afraid of power tools. I think this stems from having 2 shop teachers in high school who were missing fingers. I didn't mind the drill/drivers, but I did not like saws, except the jigsaw, which reminded me of a sewing machine.

It was weird because costumes was on the tech track and not the acting track, but tech theatre had nothing to do with costumes (although I am glad I took it because I understand what the other departments do), and I was not the best at it, being scared of everything.

When my sister (the one I live with) was doing theatre in college, her job was to walk around the set and find anything that was unsafe. She would always find something, like stepping through a poorly reinforced platform or nails sticking out of things.

But I did summer stock in a place that had no resources, where we got no sleep, and did crazy things that would have gotten us killed if anything has slipped just a little bit!

Theatre can be so much fun.

tech theatre had nothing to do with costumes

The technology is very different, but for design everyone needs to be part of the same program.

I knew brawny set builders who were afraid of a sewing machine.

I did get a needle thru the tip of my finger while sewing once.

Yes, I still think I harbor a little resentment that I had to learn to use all the tools, and pass tests on what type of screw to use when, and there was not a unit on costumes, so no one had to learn "my stuff". It has been very valuable for design and just working with other people

ETA: So my lobby is to add costumes to tech theatre, not make us separate.