This is more or less another hiatus notice -- sorry, guys, but as of yesterday Tech Month (yes, month) has started, and as little time as I've had to post and comment on LJ so far, I'm going to have even less this month.

When I can, I'll still log on and read my flist and comment, but it won't be often.

Sorry, guys. :( I'll be back in August!

Me, joking around about not bringing on lights for the pianist: "She'll have plenty of real light, just no fake light. Uh."
The sound designer: "What?"
Me: "It's all real light. None of it is fake. I mean she'll have plenty of natural light, just no...stage light."
SD: "Right. No artificial light."
Me: "Right! Artificial light. Manmade. Except not like fire."
A confused pause.
Me: "Well, like fire, yeah. Only...not."
Another pause.
Me: "My metaphors always get away from me."
SD: "No, I understood you. Stage lights, they're like fire, only not at all like fire."

I am so awkward omg.

But anyway. ( job stuff yo )


OKAY NON-WORK-RELATED STUFF FOLLOWS 'cause I left work early today and 'cause I've been kind of a shitty LJ friend recently.


This is going to be my only comment on the current warnings debate (hopefully) 'cause I've been reading the metafandom posts and getting pissed off by both sides:

( the warnings debate! )


Okay, ana meme to close this post on a slightly lighter note:

List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

1. Claire Littleton (LOST)
2. Seamus Harper (Andromeda)
3. Barbara Wright (Doctor Who)
4. Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
5. Michael Dawson (LOST)
6. Horatio (Hamlet)
7. Karen Vick (Psych)
8. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies)
9. Carmela Rodriguez (Young Wizards)
10. Joey Ice Cream (Black Donnellys)

SO.

To-do list for work tomorrow:
-Figure out how to cable the third electric
-Patch everything
-Inventory gel supply so I can order color

THAT IS A VERY SHORT LIST.

Today we got the third electric in the air again (with the most ridiculously ghetto counterweight system omg), cabled the sidepipes, replaced dead lamps, and got everything focused. Well, everything that can be focused at this point, without a certain number of gobos and also without scenery. BUT IT'S BASICALLY DONE EVEN IF I STAYED LIKE FOUR AND A HALF HOURS LATE TO GET IT DONE. OMG. FASTEST FOCUS EVER. LESS THAN A DAY.

And if I get those three things done tomorrow and get my color and template orders in maybe I can like stop moving for ten minutes and actually have a chance to, like...breathe.

I LOVE MY JOB RIGHT NOW.

I'M SO WIRED RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS.


Unrelated: has anyone seen the movie Piñata: Survival Island? Because I had it described to me last night and it sounds like it might just be the best movie ever. You guys. It's a horror movie about a possessed piñata. A possessed piñata. You guys.


Unrelated: I have the two most recent episodes of Kings in my possession! Which I will watch! When I have more than twenty minutes to myself in a row!


Unrelated: *is incoherent and babbling some more*

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I love you guys. My life would be significantly lacking without you. ♥ You're all so awesome, and I don't deserve you, but I'm so glad to have you in my life.



Unrelated: if you have never done a last minute hang/cable/patch/dirty focus with a crew consisting mainly of shanghaied actors, YOU HAVE NOT LIVED.

It makes me happy that this exists in the world. ♥

OKAY SO.

I'm here! Hi! I'm going to be answering comments as I can, but my connection kind of sucks, so I thought I'd try and get this up first.

I am in Maine, I am at the theater. Well, I'm not actually at the theater right now, I'm in my room. The theater is across the street. ANYWAY. I had a company dinner on Sunday and orientation-stuff and a welcome-you-guys-party yesterday and today was my first real day of work. It went pretty okay? We got more done than I thought we would; I shanghaied a few TAs, tech interns, and an actor to serve as my crew, and we managed to strike all of last year's light rep plot and get up a good chunk of this year's. There was only one major ladder accident and neither the crew nor the theater suffered any permanent damage. Still have two and a bit electrics, two side pipes, and assorted odds and ends to do. That's tomorrow's project, if I can throw together a crew.

Unexpectedly, I have a computer. We stayed at my aunt and uncle's place in Bath for Saturday night, and I was sort of whining at the world, as you do, about my laptop being in California and therefore useless to me, and my aunt recalled a desktop she had in storage that no one had used in like four years and graciously donated it to me. Okay it's a desktop and it's like five years old but IT'S A COMPUTER. It even has a wireless card. I'm not going to complain about anything. I have a computer and Internet, yayyy. (Although the Net connection, as previously mentioned, kind of sucks. I don't know if it's the local wireless or if it's this computer's card, but...yeah.)

I'm very tired and also kind of wired so I'm going to post this and go back to trying to pick through my flist.

AFK until further notice.

:(

Spent the past two days at teh Niki's. Very emotional. I miss her already. :( A lot going on.

Leaving on Thursday, spending tomorrow packing and laundrying and things of that nature. Start work on Sunday. Aaaahhhh. Still don't have Sally back.

Um. Working slowly backwards through the flist to check out everything I missed.

Oh, yeah, the Tonys. Thrilled by Karen and the HAiR tribe's wins. Pissed about Hunter and Raúl losing. Very much not happy about the Billy Elliot sweep, but not as pissed as I would be if it had been a Shrek or RoA sweep instead. (Although seriously? WEST END TRANSFER. The book, the orchestration, the set design, the lighting design, the choreography, it's all YEARS OLD. Why is it winning creative Tonys again?) Neil was a great host -- best laugh of the night was his dig at Piven, and the song at the end was amAHzing -- and N2N and HAiR and WSS had great performances. I wish they'd invited [tos] to perform. Also, Lin was adorable AS USUAL and I geeked out over Hunter and Jeff being ADORABLE.

I...don't know.

So, the Tonys are tomorrow. Neil Patrick Harris is hosting, so that will be fun, at the very least.

There's only three categories I'm really, really invested in this year -- best book of a musical (HUNTER. obviously.), lead actor in a play (Raúl DAMMIT COME ON YOU GUYS GET ON THE BALL), and featured actress in a musical (Karen!). Best book is [tos]'s only nomination, so I'm double-rooting -- I'm rooting for Hunter because I love him and he deserves it, and I'm rooting for Hunter because [title of show] needs to take a Tony home. Is this Raúl's year? I HOPE SO but given how they keep nominating and then not awarding him I won't actually be surprised if he doesn't win -- disappointed and annoyed, but not surprised. And I just love Karen and want her to have a Tony Award and be happy.

I want HAiR and Next To Normal to take home a nice selection of awards each, but I'm not picky about which ones.

If Shrek or Rock of Ages sweeps the awards I'll never watch or emotionally invest in the Tony Awards again. (This might be a lie.)

WHAT THE HELL, TONY AWARDS.

I just...I...No, really. WHAT THE HELL.

It's not like I really expect brilliance or integrity from you. No, I understand you're an awards show and therefore it's all politics and money. BUT WHAT THE HELL?! No, guys, touring productions are not more important than the creative awards.

Dammit, watching to see Hunter win best book was one of the things I was most looking forward to this year and now you're taking that away from me?

To sum up: YOU SUCK.

I was going to make grilled cheese for lunch, but first I had to wash dishes and after finishing up the idea of actually spending time preparing grilled cheese wasn't very appealing. :( Sigh.

I have tagging to do in the Rift but can't brain properly for it right now. I fail.

YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS. IMDB SAYS THEY'RE MAKING A FRAGGLE ROCK MOVIE. YOU GUYS. A FRAGGLE ROCK MOVIE, YOU GUYS.

Yesterday while we were out my dad bought a Wii Fit. Today we're playing around with it. (I just brutally lost the 2-person run to my dad. I do, however, hold the family record in hula hooping, having beaten my little brother quite thoroughly. And the ski jump is fun 'cause we all suck at it awesomely.)

I'm so out of shape, it's amazing. XD

Trying to write. Not getting much done. Still adjusting to the new keyboard. 'S odd.

So, I am writing to you from a rented Sony VAIO. Dear Sally is now in the hands of Genesis, who have been alerted to my date of departure and have promised to try and put a rush order on it, and after a ridic amount of paperwork with Rent-A-Center, I am now the proud possessor of...this computer for the next two weeks. I am calling her Maggie, for some reason. IDK. Maggie runs Vista, which...I don't know if I can get used to Vista in two weeks. It's very odd. It took me forever just to figure out how to connect to the wireless network and change my desktop background.

So far I have: connected to the wireless network, changed my desktop background, downloaded Firefox and assorted necessary add-ons, and installed my external drives. Um. Yay? Still need to install iTunes and who knows what else.

I miss Sally already.

Sally has died without explanation five times since Saturday. So far. Five times in less than a week. During activities as varied as burning a CD in iTunes, writing an e-mail in Firefox, playing a computer game, watching a DVD, and doing nothing but having a Notepad document open. WTF. This is Not Acceptable. Current plan: Backing everything the hell up right now, dropping her off with Genesis on Saturday, looking in to renting a laptop to get me through until she's fixed.

Blah.

At least she's still under warranty.

...I swear I have things to say that aren't Laptop Woe, but...yeah.

...does anyone know if there's a quick and easy way to save or export Firefox bookmarks?

I'm trying to back everything up and I have no idea how to do that with my bookmarks. :/

NVM. Am stupid. Figured it out.

That meme that's going around:

In a nutshell: I list 15 of my pairings and you all tell me if you see reoccurring trends/similarities/parallels/cliches in any of them.

1. Charlie/Claire - LOST
2. Harper/Beka - Andromeda
3. Ian/Barbara - Doctor Who
4. Kyle/Tess - Roswell
5. Jack/Tosh - Torchwood
6. Jimmy/Joanie - The Black Donnellys
7. Rembrandt/Wade - Sliders
8. Jack/Joseph - Kings
9. Olive/Alfredo - Pushing Daisies
10. Tobias/Rachel - Animorphs
11. Carlos/Molly - The Dresden Files
12. Kit/Dairine - Young Wizards
13. Spot/Racetrack - Newsies
14. Walter/Molokov - Chess
15. Roger/Collins - RENT

It's ridiculously hard to narrow down my pairings to fifteen, let me tell you.



Spent the last two days with my Niki. ♥ I LOVE YOU NIKI I MISS YOU ALREADY. We need to live closer to one another. Or she needs to come get me more often. Whichever.

Problems with Sally continue. In negotiations with Genesis to get her fixed. Cannot survive without my laptop, guys, but don't want problems to continue and/or get worse.

This is the background information you may need for this anecdote:

1) My family is not terribly talkative. Or whatever. We're not the kind of family who sit around regularly and have lengthy conversations about...anything. At all. I swear days go by when we don't actually say anything to each other. We get along okay, we just don't talk.

2) MTV aired all six Star Wars movies this weekend. Episodes 1 and 2 on Saturday, 3 and 4 on Sunday, 5 and 6 today.

Now that you know that.

We watched all six Star Wars movies this weekend, and actually had conversations about it.

These included such things as the little brother and I getting into a shouting match over the validity of midichlorians (I REFUSE THEM, he thinks they make sense), my brother realizing for the first time that Liam Neeson played Qui-Gon Jin (which somehow spawned an argument where my dad and I tried to convince the little brother that Liam Neeson's wife passed away earlier this year; he refused to believe us until we broke out the Wikipedia), my dad (who is not a Star Wars fan, I think this was the first time he'd seen any of the movies) quizzing the rest of us about character allegiances, shouting at the screen over what a bad actor Hayden Christensen is, discussion about the Star Wars costuming departments, critiques of various actors' post-SW careers, a discussion of Han's badassery on Endor derailed by "I think Leia has AWESOME HAIR", general agreement that That One Ewok Death in ROTJ is the most heartbreaking moment in all the movies, a Cliffs' Notes version of the ending of ROTJ that included Luke and Vader playing catch and Luke refusing to allow Han to marry his sister, constant repetition of the fact that Leia isn't really a princess anymore after Alderaan blows up, a debate over how Leia could remember her mother when Luke couldn't, looking Harrison Ford up on IMDb to find out his height, and, of course, the obligatory shouting at the screen when Luke looks over to see the ghosts of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin, and THERE'S HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN WTF GEORGE LUCAS YOU SUCK.

It was BIZARRE. But awesome. My family doesn't generally do geek conversations like this!

...I don't have a Star Wars icon and that's sad. :(

Also sad: my internet is working verrrrry sloooowwwwwly.

Not sad: my dad and I went out briefly and got through six-and-a-half tracks on the NBCR of HAiR. Will listen to the rest tomorrow on the way to TEH NIKI'S. YAY NIKI!! <3 <3 <3

I wish I could say I had gone to a festival and booed Bob Dylan for playing the electric guitar. Wouldn't that be an awesome story to be able to tell? That would be an awesome story.



Happy Memorial Day, Happy Towel Day, Happy Geek Pride Day, Happy Anniversary Of The Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May, Happy Frank Oz's Birthday, Happy every other significant May 25th event. A lot happens on May 25th, doesn't it.

Tomorrow I get to see my Niki!!!! <3 <3 <3

You know what's annoying? When your computer stops working for no discernible reason.

WTF, Sally. WTF.