Day Two of Tech

As per the theater standard, we're beginning tech and I'm ready for the whole thing to be over.

So Bianca - one of the main actresses in the play - walked by while Simon was in the booth working yesterday. She leans over the railing to look at the video he was working on, which was a sequence from the end where she and the rest of the actors are walking up stairs away from the camera, shudders at the sight of herself, and goes, "God, would you look at that ugly old shoulder?" We both laughed and Simon said something reassuring, and then Bianca goes, "but hey, it's Tina's ass that looks fat."

Julia and Grant - stage manager and assistant stage manager - have the only two headsets in the play, because they have to cue one another and talk to each other about costuming and such. What makes me really jealous, aside from the fact that they get those awesome looking headsets that remind me of my glory days at Chick-fil-A, is that they get to talk smack to each other the entire time. I'll hear laughter coming from the other side of the booth, knowing that they're being snarky about everybody in the middle through those headsets. I remember the days, and I miss that good fun. I keep begging Julia to give me a headset, but she keeps denying me. Sad day.

I got so bored at the theater today. I'm still here, and I've still got four hours left, and I'm sure I'll have more smack to talk about the night after this is all said and done. The director just spent twenty minutes deciding which of two actors would grab hanging rings to attach to a carabiner, and during that time, I got so sleepy that I literally walked outside to run some suicides on the sidewalk. Dear heavens it was bad. Between all the stairs I climb, the walking I do, and now the suicides I'm running to keep myself awake, I'm going to be ripped by the time I leave this city. I'm a little bit excited.

I think I may have found the shoes that I want - Puma ballet flats. Yes, part of my internship time now involves looking at shoes online. Yes, you should be jealous. Now finding them (and then paying for them, actually) is going to be probably the more difficult part. We'll see what happens. I just wanted to give you guys hope on that particular front. Simon told me to get them, because they have sequins on them, and everything is better with sequins on it.

Backing up all the way to the beginning - since I very often seem to tell my days in reverse - I had to come in and get someone to fix the first Sanyo projector again, the one which arbitrarily stopped projecting yesterday and started glaring a bright orange light at me. Warning filter? What does that even mean, we asked? So I trek up to the theater at 10 AM, expecting that Paul the TD will be there to help me. That involved getting up significantly earlier than I'd planned and taking two hours out of my day, but I've really found that in my internship, I do exactly two things: get Simon coffee, and make Simon laugh. Because it will basically take longer to teach me the applications than it would for him to do it himself, I've been mostly watching, getting the niceness on my resume, and running errands. I don't mind. Like I said, I'm just glad to be working. Also, British Aaron's way of dealing with the filter warning problem was to reset the life - basically lie to the projector to tell it that the filter is fine, and then hope that it doesn't overheat it by letting through too little air. When the projector just explodes on opening night, and we're stuck with no floor projections, I will not be the least bit surprised. Aid from the guys who are about to get evicted from their building for not paying rent? Just as ghetto as it sounds.

I ate a calzone as big as my head today. I do so love the food in New York City.