The tech rehearsal last night went well (on my end, anyway). Since I was added on such short notice, no one knew I was going to be there so I got alot of surprised hugs (and one surprised dance) and alot of, "Why aren't you here with us on this show?" and "What do you mean, you're only here for tech week?" Nothing warms my heart like some good ( Read more... )

Because I am a crazy person, and I figure it's not like I have a day off anyway, I am headed over to help out with a tech rehearsal for a show I am not actually working on. Got a voicemail today asking if I could relay messages between the sound designer and the sound board mixer via walkie-talkie (presumably so the mixer doesn't have to deal with ( Read more... )

I just realized why I'm so grumpy. I haven't had a day off in two weeks. And I don't expect to have one for another 10 days at this rate. This surely pales in comparison to the something like 47 days in a row I worked during Christmas Nightmare Dreamland in 2006 (and that had much longer hours than I've pulled these past two weeks), but still. ( Read more... )

Why take a much needed day off when I could take my first ever call as a union stagehand?! Okay, so I'm not actually in the union ("Yet," she added hopefully). But a girl's gotta start somewhere, right ( Read more... )

Today I was declared our ASM's Knitting Mentor. I got her started on knitting in the round with double pointed needles with fun and soft purple mohair-type yarn ( Read more... )

Or, as my coworker Shmalex calls it: Koolhaaaaaas.


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~ Stage Left = Craft Corner. Just sayin'.

~ In a moment weakness I taught someone how to crochet.

~ And then I gifted her some bits of yarn to get her started on her own baby stash (consisting of some variegated acrylic, mohair, and two balls from the Curious Creek haul). Even in the early stages, she was overjoyed to have new yarns to play ( Read more... )

And I take up the whole damn sofa.


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1) Right now my mom is on a plane to China. You know what that means! Chinese yarn!

2) It makes me really, really nervous when there's nothing else going on except a pretty girl watching me knit.

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