July

This has been a crazy month. It started off with 16 hour days, doing double changeovers and getting  very little sleep. on the 7th, I was injured when a pulley block for the orchestra net was dropped 8 feet onto my back. I wore a sling for a day before a second doctor said that was stupid and took me out of it. Since then i have been cleared for work and we have been cranking out the shows and rehearsals. We open our 4th show this Saturday.

on Monday the applications are due for the apprentice scenes, and I am applying to be a stage supervisor or a carpenter. I am excited to get to do some work of my own and see if I have what it takes. This place is amazing and fun, but some of the hardest days I have ever known. All 18 of the stage crew are very talented and well trained so sometimes we get in each others way. It is a difficult balance of leadership and cooperation. It can get tense and sometimes go a little too far, but the most important goal is to stay professional.

We had our mid season evaluations the other day and I had a really great review. My supervisors said they believe I am one of the stronger leaders and one of the better trained crew members, so now it is my job to help elevate the other members to my level and make them better. It was really nice to hear that. Especially since it is hard to judge how things are going.

On a fun note. I get to be in costume for one of the shows because they like to make their shifts look realistic to the world as much as possible. So I am wearing a nice suit and 3/4 coat. As I go out on stage to set a scenic piece, apparently All the audience (at the time it was the production staff) started paying attention to me because my hair was long and wavy and I was upstaging the lead female while she was singing. So they made me put up my hair. I thought that was fun.