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When’s the last time I made a REAL update?
These past couple of weeks have been interesting. Work has been insane. On a Friday a couple of weeks ago, it was one person’s last day. He transferred/was promoted to our Stamford branch. I’m gonna miss him a lot. Besides me, he does the most work so me and him were a great team. And on that same day, someone was fired. We all knew it was coming, she had done many things wrong that warranted being written up and being fired, but it’s still sad to see anyone be let go. So that day was crazy. Since then, because we’re short two tellers now, things have been very hectic. I’m busier than I ever was. Our schedule is different now, so that means I have to work more late nights per month. A teller from another branch came to help us out for these last two weeks and she was awesome! She was definitely a big help. I hope she can come back soon.
So now we have two open positions. One guy applied and they offered him a job. He starts tomorrow. I hope he’s good.
On Mother’s Day I took my mom to see a local community production of The Wedding Singer. It had mostly teens in it. And yeah… it was bad. I knew it would be but for some reason I really, really wanted to see it live on stage. The only decent cast members were the people who played: Holly, Sammy, the Grandma and Linda. Robbie was okay too. I’m not going to say anything bad about the cast members who weren’t good. I do enjoy some of the songs though.
I also saw a high school production of Beauty and the Beast. They did Beauty at my old high school two years ago and even though I LOVE the show itself, some things (aka some cast members) were pretty bad. However, this production was… dare I say… AMAZING. I was really, really impressed. I kept asking myself how this was a HIGH SCHOOL production. All the kids could actually sing AND act. Belle’s voice was very nice and mature sounding for her age. Same with the beast. Probably the cast member who stood out the most to me was the guy who played Gaston (probably because I was very attracted to him and I don’t know why). The sets were incredible. They created everything themselves and pulled them on ropes (I could only see a rope once, that’s how I know that), but otherwise it looked like actual sets moving by themselves in actual tracks on the stage. They also had many lighting effects and fog, etc. They even the things used when people fly (not that anyone flies in Beauty but they did use it for other things, it was awesome). The blocking and choreography was really well done. I can’t think of anything I didn’t like about this production! It was truly amazing. To be honest, it’s better than some of the things I’ve seen on Broadway this year, haha.
The only thing that sucked about the experience: we were in that school for 4 hours. I left my house around 6:45 to pick up Jo and I didn’t get home ‘til after 11. The doors were supposed to open at 7 and the show to begin at 7:30. Well… the doors didn’t open til around 7:15, perhaps later. It was so disorganized getting everyone seated. The show didn’t start ‘til about 8. The 15-minute intermission was a half hour long. And then they had speeches/raffles/stuff at the end (but we snuck out). Way too chaotic and long. Also, I usually get very emotional towards the end, but the high school girls sitting in front of us ruined it for me. The girl directly in front of me was talking throughout the entire act. I couldn’t hear her because the show was so loud, but just from her waving her arms and leaning from side to side to whisper in her friends’ ears was VERY annoying. Shut up and stay the fuck still! LOL. Also, the auditorium was very hot and stuffy (and I’m NEVER hot, lol).
Aside from those couple of complaints (not with the show itself, of course) Jo and I had a really great time. It was Jo’s first time seeing this on stage and she was amazed, lol. Good times.
This kinda turned into another theatre-related post, lol. My bad. More coming soon.
These past couple of weeks have been interesting. Work has been insane. On a Friday a couple of weeks ago, it was one person’s last day. He transferred/was promoted to our Stamford branch. I’m gonna miss him a lot. Besides me, he does the most work so me and him were a great team. And on that same day, someone was fired. We all knew it was coming, she had done many things wrong that warranted being written up and being fired, but it’s still sad to see anyone be let go. So that day was crazy. Since then, because we’re short two tellers now, things have been very hectic. I’m busier than I ever was. Our schedule is different now, so that means I have to work more late nights per month. A teller from another branch came to help us out for these last two weeks and she was awesome! She was definitely a big help. I hope she can come back soon.
So now we have two open positions. One guy applied and they offered him a job. He starts tomorrow. I hope he’s good.
On Mother’s Day I took my mom to see a local community production of The Wedding Singer. It had mostly teens in it. And yeah… it was bad. I knew it would be but for some reason I really, really wanted to see it live on stage. The only decent cast members were the people who played: Holly, Sammy, the Grandma and Linda. Robbie was okay too. I’m not going to say anything bad about the cast members who weren’t good. I do enjoy some of the songs though.
I also saw a high school production of Beauty and the Beast. They did Beauty at my old high school two years ago and even though I LOVE the show itself, some things (aka some cast members) were pretty bad. However, this production was… dare I say… AMAZING. I was really, really impressed. I kept asking myself how this was a HIGH SCHOOL production. All the kids could actually sing AND act. Belle’s voice was very nice and mature sounding for her age. Same with the beast. Probably the cast member who stood out the most to me was the guy who played Gaston (probably because I was very attracted to him and I don’t know why). The sets were incredible. They created everything themselves and pulled them on ropes (I could only see a rope once, that’s how I know that), but otherwise it looked like actual sets moving by themselves in actual tracks on the stage. They also had many lighting effects and fog, etc. They even the things used when people fly (not that anyone flies in Beauty but they did use it for other things, it was awesome). The blocking and choreography was really well done. I can’t think of anything I didn’t like about this production! It was truly amazing. To be honest, it’s better than some of the things I’ve seen on Broadway this year, haha.
The only thing that sucked about the experience: we were in that school for 4 hours. I left my house around 6:45 to pick up Jo and I didn’t get home ‘til after 11. The doors were supposed to open at 7 and the show to begin at 7:30. Well… the doors didn’t open til around 7:15, perhaps later. It was so disorganized getting everyone seated. The show didn’t start ‘til about 8. The 15-minute intermission was a half hour long. And then they had speeches/raffles/stuff at the end (but we snuck out). Way too chaotic and long. Also, I usually get very emotional towards the end, but the high school girls sitting in front of us ruined it for me. The girl directly in front of me was talking throughout the entire act. I couldn’t hear her because the show was so loud, but just from her waving her arms and leaning from side to side to whisper in her friends’ ears was VERY annoying. Shut up and stay the fuck still! LOL. Also, the auditorium was very hot and stuffy (and I’m NEVER hot, lol).
Aside from those couple of complaints (not with the show itself, of course) Jo and I had a really great time. It was Jo’s first time seeing this on stage and she was amazed, lol. Good times.
This kinda turned into another theatre-related post, lol. My bad. More coming soon.