I got a raise! Nearly a dollar an hour! Which, when totaled up, is not nearly as impressive

Over the course of a year, it is. That's great! Congratulations!

Hello all!

I have not been nattering because I have been in tech rehearsal hell for a week, and then I got sick!

We lost so much time at rehearsal because the stage was raked to a sharp degree, there was water and fake blood and a pool on the stage, and the actors kept falling down the stage into the pool! So much blood. So much water. SO many bruises and towels and laundry! I wish I had photos to show you this set.

I am far too old and out of shape to do 7 days in a row of 15 hour days, all on my feet!

Congrats, Connie!

Also yay Connie! I now have Seven and a Half Cents from Pajama Game in my head [link]

Congrats, Connie!

Those renderings are very cool, Gud. I'm still mad about the time I moved and bought a bunch of furniture and my boyfriend at the time was in interior design school, and he helped me NOT AT ALL. (In his defense, design is not the same as decorating, but still! He had resources and probably a better visual sense than me.)

We lost so much time at rehearsal because the stage was raked to a sharp degree, there was water and fake blood and a pool on the stage, and the actors kept falling down the stage into the pool! So much blood. So much water. SO many bruises and towels and laundry! I wish I had photos to show you this set.

That sounds incredible.

Back when I was in college, we did a production of a play in the courtyard of our old library. It had a ramp various actors were supposed to run up ... but it was a little too steep. The actors kept slipping. Much cursing ensued and no few bruises. For some reason, the ramp couldn't be flattened out. So someone had the bright idea of sprinkling laundry detergent on it (it was painted white, so that was one of the few things we could get that wouldn't show up).

Then it rained.

And we had suds running down the ramp. Killed some of the grass.

I don't remember how it was eventually solved, although I'm pretty sure it was. The play was performed with minimal incidents.

Prior to computers I cut out little pieces of furniture to scale on paper.

I do floor plan drawings on graph paper. Haven't figured out how to use these new-fangled computer programs yet, although I'd like to. I think I even own one or two, just haven't, you know, figured them out.

Yay raise! Boo tornados! Yay people being safe after the tornados!

Wow, Sophia!

I kiddingly said I'd have to call in sick today when we were standing in the drizzle during the fire drill yesterday, and now I feel terrible. Stupid karma. What did I ever do to it?

In better me news, the DVD of the movie of the first book of the Louise Penny series I'm currently obsessed with is waiting for me at the library.

That looks really cool, Gudanov!

I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to handle the whole healthcare debate again.