theyellowhobbit

Oh dear God, please let me survive the show.

Sunday was load-in. I did not get any of my own work done, despite having tons of downtime. So much downtime that I wasn't needed at all past 4:00, but I didn't know that until we gave up at 11:00pm or whenever we gave up running through the show. And by running through I mean doing lighting, since we still have not had a dress rehearsal yet. We only get one. Tomorrow. Yeah, the day before the show.

( some photos )

That second one is actually going to be my bio photo. And that's a neanderthal skull casting (ie, made out of epoxy and not bone) that Janet Monge has loaned me. I keep it in my living room, since I don't want it to get stolen.

I'm frazzled. I'm so behind on this thesis. Though today I found one useful thing. That's it. I even forgot my socks in Houston Hall and didn't realize until I walked outside. At that point I was just like "screw it." They're socks. I doubt anyone will steal them from our auditorium.

And now I'm sending platypuses pictures. Whee! No sleep for me.

I just got back from the cast party, which was at groovin_reuven's apartment [by the way thank you so much for hosting.] I'm guessing there were about 30 people there, and since his apartment was small people were sitting on the floors, and the music wasn't so loud and there wasn't dancing, so it was quite a laid back cast party. And there was tons of pizza for everyone, warmed up in the oven.

I was on time for davening this morning. Not just on time, but EARLY. I got there before 9:00am, there were like 3 guys around. So I sat through all of shacharit. Well except for getting up a billion times to drink water because I was dehydrated.

Last night, I had the most awful dream. I woke up from it at 7:20am, and usually I'd go back to sleep this early, but this time I was so afraid I'd just go back to that dream that I decided the extra sleep wasn't worth it. I was shaken up until tonight.

( uberscary nightmare, which words can't convey )

my deli-roll meal was a success. i didn't label the deli-rolls, and each one was different, so everyone just passed them around and tried all of the different ones. And the one person who I was out to impress really liked my deli-roll, which made me very happy. A said there wasn't enough sauce, and then I think cynara_linnaea or possibly JL[female] or someone else yelled at him for not being nicer to me after I made 12 freaking deli-rolls. I just figure if he really cared that much then he shouldn't be eating my deli-roll anyways.

we went through most of them, but there's a little left over in 408's fridge that i have to retrieve. It's my lunch for Mongefest on Tuesday!

Then we hung out afterwards in the lounge, or the "fun room" as we renamed it. Mostly talking about the show, and other things as well.
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Of course, I only had an hour between when I got home and when I had to go to Iron Gate, except it was really much shorter. And then something happened that I won't get into that took 15 precious minutes. And thus I had no time to go to FG before the show to pick up cast party food and flowers. I figured I'd get flowers at WaWa.

WaWa, much to my dismay, doesn't have flowers. And any place that did wouldn't be open. And I had to stay to make sure the pizza got here. So when i got back to Iron Gate I was in tears, and then A.J. saw me and was really nice, and then masteraleph tried to find someone else to get the flowers, but he ended up not, and JG said that 7-11 sells flowers, and they're much closer.

Unfortunately, there was only 1 rather dead boquet at 7-11, and I needed 2 boquets, the un-dead kind. So I had to go to FG after all [this was all after the pizza had arrived during intermission. I was very pissed off by the end of it and wanted to kill everyone who was making me do things. I mean fine, I have a job. But that job is costumes. Somehow I also became the general doeverythingsincei'mnotneededbackstage girl. And there's only 1 of me, and I really can't be at 2 places at the same time. But I got everything, and there were flowers.

I never get flowers, though. The cast got flowers for opening night. The stage manager and director got flowers tonight. But no flowers for me. I suppose I shouldn't care so much, and I got a really amusing book [the worst case scenario book!] but I also want flowers. Maybe not flowers for doing costumes, but flowers because it's my birthday soon [14 days!] and valentine's day soon [9 days] and yes I know valentine's day is really a christian holiday, but it's so secular now, and I want to get flowers and chocolate. I'm probably not going to, but I can always dream, right?

meanwhile I don't have actual birthday plans. my birthday is on a sunday, so we can't really go out [and i still have Sunday Night Learning] and the JG's birthday is the next weekend, so we'd be celerating hers. So I guess no birthday party. :( at least my parents are buying me tons of kippah yarn in israel if they can find it [i can find it easily, but then again i lived in jerusalem for 2 months].

And of course, another story that i'm not going to tell now. Because I always have stories.

Teatron!!!!

It's a robot that makes tea. And I would like some right now.

Performance #1 of The Chopin Playoffs was a success, aside from Mr. Wong (A.J.) not having a hat. That's kind of my fault, kind of the auditorium's fault, and kind of the %$&%^#%$#^ %$%$%^^& who stole the Fez's fault. He's supposed to wear a Fez [you can see it in the playbill being modeled by our beautiful cast members] but after Thursday's rehearsal, it went missing. No one has seen it since then. And it belongs to Rabbi Seif. I have been looking and looking and looking and have not found it.

Tonight I told Rabbi Seif, who was like "what can you do? These things happen. Don't beat yourself up, Rachel." Of course, by then I was on my way out of the office, and I burst into tears in the auditorium [which was unlit and empty at the time.] The fez is from Morocco, so it's not easily replacable. I feel horrible. Further proof of my irresponsibility.

Somehow I made it to call, and I had nothing better to do so I sold tickets at the door. We ended up with around 35 people, which isn't bad for a Wednesday night, except that the theatre seats around 200 people so it looked rather sad. Tomorrow's early show will likely have the same kind of turnout. But Saturday night should be sold out.

masteraleph and A.J. came up with a strategy for acting last year. It's called "not sucking." The idea is not to suck. And everyone pulled off not sucking. Yay!

I could put up more bloopers, but I've forgotten the majority of them. Check out levana_b's post from a few days ago if you're interested in seeing our wit.

Fun bloopers

arigi: I have something else to do
A.J.: A woman?
arigi: Sorta...
Everyone bursts out laughing
arigi:is that my line?
levana_b gives him the actual line. "I have something else planned"

A.Z.: Fern, I have been with many, many girls...

A.Z.: That's my mother, she's nuts!