Frank! I have been hired to write articles in 2 different national beer magazines! Just wanted to let you know (since you aren't on the FB so much.)

Congrats, Laga!

preposition

Like Jess' squirrel and tree, I was taught "anything a cat can do to a ladder", up, down, around, on, in, of, over, through, under, at, beside, and so on.

ETA: Best of luck, Theo!

I think my problem with the grammar is partly that the terms for the parts of speech often don't make sense. "Preposition"--what does that mean? What part of that word describes what those words do? "This is the word we use to describe this group of words" doesn't help my mind connect the information together.

And "transitive" and "intransitive" verbs. I couldn't tell you the difference between those types of verbs to save anyone's life.

Frank! I have been hired to write articles in 2 different national beer magazines! Just wanted to let you know (since you aren't on the FB so much.)

Woot! Which ones? You'll definitely need to give a heads up on pub dates (so to speak) so I can keep an eye out.

I love that your doing this now. So. Perfect.

Meeting less traumatic than I was worried about, but nothing settled, so there'll be more to come. All the same, I think I'm feeling relief that the ball is rolling and things will be Settled, eventually.

"Preposition"--what does that mean?

I always think of it as a word that usually comes before (pre) a noun to show where another noun is or will be (position).

Frank, insent.

OK, anyone who missed TLo's 3rd part of the Miss Universe national costume parade should go read it for the ongoing joke re: taste and dignity and Vietnam--who had a kickass dress.

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Back flung, Nora. Very cool.

Jumping back to the tech rehearsal thing. I agree with Aurelia, that part of it is how a director frames it, and I've called directors out on being insulting to the entire design staff by telling the cast that they just have to suffer through tech and then and I quote "get back to the real work." However, that is the exception in my world.

Also, I know that most of the actors I work with understand enough about the process that they a good with sometimes slow techs. As a designer I've also sat through many a normal rehearsal, waiting while one acting beat is massaged, so that I can then see the timing of the next moment in order to build a sound cue that correct. Everyone has to wait at some point.

Beyond this, in my professional work I often only get one 10 of 12 rehearsal, and if I am lucky 2 of them to do all of my work. The cast will have 2 to 3 weeks of rehearsals. Also, the deal that I am making with the director, and hopefully that the entire design staff is making, is that if the show can be given to us for one or two tech rehearsals for us to do our work, then we will give it back at the end of that. I do see some designers who never do the second half of that, once they are involved, they drag their process out across all of the dress rehearsals and previews, and that isn't fair either.