summer fun
so i've been rather busy this summer. between summer school the first 5 weeks of summer, trip to illinois for a week, babysitting, hanging with friends...but its been fun. i had freshmen orientation at asu where i received my fall schedule and made a new friend. its weird calling myself a freshman again. thank god its for college!!! i cant wait to start! last friday i worked the UFest concert. its always been called Ozzfest, because of Ozzy Osborne, but this year he's not touring so they changed the name to UFest. Jojo and i went to Ozzfest last year. But this year i actually got to work behind the scenes!! its an all day and all night concert. doors open around 9:00-9:30am and the concert lasts until 11:00pm or midnight-ish. its at the cricket pavillion, which is outside and there are 2 stages. i worked on the main stage. my brother mark and i started work at 7:45am (i was soooo tired!!) and we worked until 1:00pm. we unloaded all the trucks, which contained amps, speakers, lights, all that stuff. it was very heavy equipment. once everything was unloaded, we began to set everything up. mark and i helped with video. we helped build this gigantic (i mean it was enormous!!) video screen. i plugged in the cables and helped set up the screen. it was so tiring and very strenuous (sp?) work, but it was incredible to see the concert from the other side. to be backstage and see the whole set being constructed. talk about stagecraft!! this wasnt just some high school play. this was a major concert where thousands of people are gonna see my work. famous bands are gonna be playing on that stage!! it was such a cool feeling!!