Happy Opening!

So we were in at 8am again today. I'm getting used to this so its not too bad.

We already had County of Kings set up from the night before so we go right in to the set up and focus for the show. I thought it was going pretty fast - I was just matching focuses to other lights. But the stage manager was geting really stressed out that we weren't going to finish. So I kept trucking along. I guess Sean in the genie was having trouble so it was slow going for them, and thatvmay haw been what was stressng him out. So there was a problem with a bulb in a light I was working on and I was aheadish and Jarrod snapped at me when I couldn't figure out what bulb I was using...it was just high tension.

The stage manager requested that Jarrod program because it was faster. So he obviously didn't trust me and I was frustrated because I love programming. But oh well. I observed and learned a little bit about the keystrokes and everything. There was a problem with the gels, but we got it worked out pretty quick and it should be set for the rest of the rep.

So then we got in to the tech reheasal
And the stage manager had more light cues than we programmed. Andhe didn't know which ones were programmed or not. So he called all of them and I hadto figure out when my go was real or not. A lot of the times his cues were off or wrong or he would say the wrong number or the wrong label.  It was awful. He would say standby when it should have been a warn, he said go when there weren't goes, he saidbthe cue number 30 seconds before the go so you're waiting like the cue is imediate and it's not. It was so hard not to like...say something. But we have to be polite. So finally, he called the show next to me in the booth and I just read my cues over his shoulder to clarify what he was calling. It's going to be a long run.

The show was okay. A couple screw ups, but we blamed it on the SM. After that we did the change over to the Taylor Mac show in 30 minutes which was rockin. So we just kind of..hung out until the next show.

I did my pickle before the show and it was awesome :) I will post pictures later. Sean did the Taylor Mac pickle and it was also awesome. But he tried to do three pickles together and only the first one lit. It was too bad, bit it was still cool. The Khmeropedoes pickle is tomorrow and then we're done with pickles until the second rep.

So yeah. I got to watch the Taylor Mac show and it was great- controversial, funny, entertaining. Back at the house now chilling with the house mates, and I don't have to go in until 12:30 tomorrow. Awesome. Easy posting from now on, loves.