End of Summer, 2010
Summer was good and I did many good things. Then I went to Montreal and did fun things. Then those fun things weakened my immune system so I got a bad virus for about a week and a half that made me super sick. Somebody nice visited me a few times and was very sweet during it. Subsequently, I missed my Frosh week. Aaand, I really don’t care too much, I’m not too upset over it.
September, 2010.
September looks like this:
To say September was busier than I thought it would be is a complete understatement, October was worse, but still.
First I had to get used to commuting to school. I was a spoiled kid whose dad would give her a ride to high school every morning, it was nice. Commuting, not too terrible, but squishy and only getting worse as it gets colder.
Ryerson campus isn’t too too big, my classes are pretty close together, hurrah. But finding them was a bit of a mission nonetheless. My classes are interesting, if not completely boring for the first 2 weeks of them. But moving past that, I found out which shows I am too work on. The first of which is the “hard” show. You’ll be working with the best of the best, but we start NOW and we don’t end until the end of November. Are you prepared? Now then, are there any volunteers for even more work? You there, yes, you. Good. Say bye bye.
And thus my first position at theatre school, apprentice stage management and production assistant. Third week of school and I found my self sitting in rehearsals watching, learning, assisting. Also lifting furniture, a lot. (A lot.) Thrown in there was one all day Saturday shop call, a full day lighting hang (Joy!), a completely hungover and sick gel-cutting morning, sewing buttons in a wardrobe call. A bunch of changeover calls. (Two shows are going on at once, so, more furniture lifting.)
Mixed into there is one amazing night meeting the older students and getting drunk with new friends of the next 4 years, getting drunk with my friends of 2 years already, and overall enjoying the whole university thing while trying to hand in assignments.
October 2010
Let’s start October with another crane, where the young hero learns that it way too fucking cold to be climbing cranes anymore. I’m waiting till spring.
Let’s continue with a sleepless month of progressively longer and harder rehearsals, trying to make a good impression on my senior staff, and less and less free time. October 20th our show opened and my backstage ninja debut began. Finally, the workload is cut off by about a third. But being active backstage is not easy. Not while trying to do midterms and more and more assignments.
Halloween! My favorite holiday was spent trying to recover from a cold because if it got any worse I would be in trouble.
November, 2010
More work, more tests, more homework. I did not sleep a lot in Novemeber, but, we finished the show with resounding success! I’m pretty sure I impressed a bunch of people, which is really good! I did all my assignments, I haven’t skipped any classes. I’ve actually been doing pretty well for myself.
Why is it that high school made me so ridiculously tired every day? What a miserable environment to foster learning or living. I love theatre school, it’s a quirky place. Everybody is going through the same stress, and most people are pretty nice about it. I’m glad I am where I am.
2 more weeks to go, and soon, the semester ends! Exams begin! Intense.
Fare thee well