Today was so dang loooong! How do people with real jobs handle it?
Oh, there's a kerfuffle going on in the extended Ashe clan over Thanksgiving. Now that things have calmed down, both my DH and my sister's DH want to have dinner at their parents' houses (as in, Rich told his parents he'd eat there, Cody told his dad we'd eat with them). I'm fine with that. In fact, let me count the ways: I don't cook, shorter drive than the one to HMB, kids love playing over there, plus good food. But my sister doesn't want to go to her in-laws, so she's really upset. Oy! I just hope it resolves itself soon so I don't have to keep thinking about it.
Today still is long. I'm at 12.5 hours now with approx another hour to go. "God bless us, every one" my ass.
Burrell, I hope the kerfuffle abates quickly.
But to answer the question, I think it's still a conjunction with an implied clause. The noun (well, usually a noun) after "because" is just shorthand for a longer clause.
Agreeing with Steph. Because yeah.
"I can't have nice furniture because my cats destroy it" became "I can't have nice stuff because cats." "Because" isn't doing anything different than it ever did.
I love you all. Just because.
"God bless us, every one" my ass.
I head into my Christmas Carol next week.
Tonight I'm sitting in the back row of a show at UCLA, not my show, I'm a faculty advisor on this one, but still, the next three nights sitting in tech.
I am getting cranky and cynical, because my first reaction was just- be glad you are not costumes,where you sit through hree days of tech and no one cares or pays attention...
where you sit through hree days of tech and no one cares or pays attention...
Oh I've been there. I had at least one director that insisted he needed sound in the room for all three 10 of 12 days on a musical, then thought it was funny when we played one sound cue at 10 AM on Friday and we got to the next one at 9 PM on Sunday night.
My boss is ... not healthy. So I'm pulling double duty for now.
Is there anyone anywhere (except possibly the asshat director(s) ND worked with who had a deeply questionable idea of what funny is) for whom tech is anything but torture? The actors definitely aren't having any fun. It's all move here; stand there; be essentially replaceable at any time with a dressmaker's dummy but don't you dare leave; as long as you're up there just say that line -- and now say it again, over and over, until you want to stab the person who wrote it with an icepick; we don't need you yet but you can't leave because your next scene is in two pages (and in tech two pages is exactly like two minutes on a football clock, which may be two actual minutes or may be more like ninety, or possibly tomorrow).
I blame ND's director(s). Or possibly Tino.
