sad things and others
I never got around to writing the sad things entry a few days ago. Now I don't feel like going back and editing it, so I'm just going to delete it and post what I can remember of what was going to go there here.
Mostly, it was that my dad isn't going to be able to come up for Star Wars. I talked to him on Wednesday or Thursday night and confirmed it; plane tickets are just too expensive right now and we've had some other unexpected expenditures lately. I talked to Ian and it doesn't look much more likely that he'll make it either. He offered to come up as my Christmas present, bless his heart, but I know he doesn't have that kind of money (and even if he did, it's way more than he'd spend on a Christmas present). I told him I didn't want him to do that. We agreed that we'd both try to save up a bit of money and just see what we could do. We don't have class that Friday (the 11th) and he doesn't have classes on Thursdays. If his school had a holiday that Friday as well, he could possibly have taken the bus or the train or something. I was hopeful about that for a little while, but when I looked I didn't see a holiday listed on their online academic calendar. So there went that idea. Bah. So we'll just have to see, but it doesn't look promising.
On a completely unrelated note, I've decided I hate projecting. Actually, I would probably like projecting somewhere else, I just don't like projecting for LSC. All the LSC people in the audience feel free to come up at any point during the movie and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I know they're trying to be helpful, but it comes off as critical and frankly I get stressed out enough as it is without people appearing at the door every ten minutes with some problem I've never heard of and have no idea how to fix. I feel like my training was hugely incomplete as it was, but it seems like every weekend I'm informed of some new duty that I was never informed of but should have been doing all along. ("It's too cold in here." Me: "Well, don't look at me, I don't know what to do about it." "Well, it's your job to call and have them turn on the heat." No one ever told me that, how am I supposed to know? And, for that matter, why is that Projection's problem? Shouldn't Night, who handles admissions and manages the physical theater space, handle that?) Seriously, though, if Refreshments burned the popcorn, LSC people wouldn't be coming up to them for the rest of the night saying, "What happened to that popcorn?! Don't you know how to use X function on the popcorn machine?" They'd just shrug and say, hey, sometimes popcorn gets burned. So why is projection different? It's become something I dread and for a volunteer position that's supposed to be fun it's just not worth it. I haven't been to an LSC movie all term, so it's not like being a member has any great benefit to me (we get free admissions, but if you don't have time to go it doesn't really do you any good). I don't know if I'll do it again next term.
Bah. Just talking about it's making me annoyed and I'm too sleepy for that. That's enough for now. Maybe tomorrow I'll have something better to talk about.
Mostly, it was that my dad isn't going to be able to come up for Star Wars. I talked to him on Wednesday or Thursday night and confirmed it; plane tickets are just too expensive right now and we've had some other unexpected expenditures lately. I talked to Ian and it doesn't look much more likely that he'll make it either. He offered to come up as my Christmas present, bless his heart, but I know he doesn't have that kind of money (and even if he did, it's way more than he'd spend on a Christmas present). I told him I didn't want him to do that. We agreed that we'd both try to save up a bit of money and just see what we could do. We don't have class that Friday (the 11th) and he doesn't have classes on Thursdays. If his school had a holiday that Friday as well, he could possibly have taken the bus or the train or something. I was hopeful about that for a little while, but when I looked I didn't see a holiday listed on their online academic calendar. So there went that idea. Bah. So we'll just have to see, but it doesn't look promising.
On a completely unrelated note, I've decided I hate projecting. Actually, I would probably like projecting somewhere else, I just don't like projecting for LSC. All the LSC people in the audience feel free to come up at any point during the movie and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I know they're trying to be helpful, but it comes off as critical and frankly I get stressed out enough as it is without people appearing at the door every ten minutes with some problem I've never heard of and have no idea how to fix. I feel like my training was hugely incomplete as it was, but it seems like every weekend I'm informed of some new duty that I was never informed of but should have been doing all along. ("It's too cold in here." Me: "Well, don't look at me, I don't know what to do about it." "Well, it's your job to call and have them turn on the heat." No one ever told me that, how am I supposed to know? And, for that matter, why is that Projection's problem? Shouldn't Night, who handles admissions and manages the physical theater space, handle that?) Seriously, though, if Refreshments burned the popcorn, LSC people wouldn't be coming up to them for the rest of the night saying, "What happened to that popcorn?! Don't you know how to use X function on the popcorn machine?" They'd just shrug and say, hey, sometimes popcorn gets burned. So why is projection different? It's become something I dread and for a volunteer position that's supposed to be fun it's just not worth it. I haven't been to an LSC movie all term, so it's not like being a member has any great benefit to me (we get free admissions, but if you don't have time to go it doesn't really do you any good). I don't know if I'll do it again next term.
Bah. Just talking about it's making me annoyed and I'm too sleepy for that. That's enough for now. Maybe tomorrow I'll have something better to talk about.