Well, yesterday 3/25 was my birthday and seeing as today is 3/26, it's not today.

I had to work yesterday... *sigh* and it POURED, I swear I thought Noah had finished the ark! I got through the day, it was not too bad, but since our rabbit show was yesterday I would really rather have been there.

I guess the rabbit show went well, mom and Chels went to get rid of our 4 remaining rabbits. She got rid of both of hers, but mine came home. Oh well, feeding 2 rabbits everyday is not a big deal, I can do it in one trip to and from the water and feed bucket. Phoebe, my doe (female) Black Havana did well, she took 1st place, which suprises me, but it really depends on the judge. Cole my black Havana buck once placed 1st place, got best of breed and a 'leg'. (A leg is like, *grand champ* in the certain breed. At the end of the show all the BOB's from every breed go compete for best in show. Sort of like a dog show.) But for the 2nd show, (there are usually 2 shows within a show), the judge DQ'ed him! Whatever.

Anyway... when I got home from work I got ready and mom, dad and I went to Widders night. I mean, it was either say at home ALONE on my birthday, or go. So I went. I bartened, it was interesting.... got tips...and that was nice... bought raffle tickets and came home with 2 pedicure sets, a clamper shirt, and some stickers. *What say the brother?* "Satisfactory!!!!" I guess that's the clamper version of "Amen."

Worked this morning too, we have SOOOOO many more dogs than normal.... it sucks!

So, that's all....I have to go get ready... I am going to the swap meet.... there, I realize, in fact, just how glow-in-the-dark I am!

Adios!

Ash

Schools great, work bytez and I got a tattoo.....

Oh... did I say tattoo...?

Yes, I said tattoo... See below....


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Techie Gone Bad

I really need 48 hours in a day...24 is just not enough...

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The show went well this weekend... we had 4 shows in 3 days... Sunday we had a 1pm call and after well all ate at the theatre and by the time we were done the actors had to get back into costume and I had to re-set the stage so we could do it all again... I was SO ready to go home before we even started the first show....

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I have begun going to this new "church"...though it not really supposed to be considered a church, that's kinda what it is...

Here is a little bit from the phamphlet:::::

"In religious Science we believe that we live in a spiritual Universe, ruled by creative intelligence which operates in a pattern of law and love that we can rely on. Sometimes we call this God or Divine, (Whatever you'd like to call it) but reguardless of it's name, it is constantly surrounding and supporting us. We have never seperated from this source......"

"The Universe is fundamentally spiritual. It has intelligence, purpose, beauty, and order. Whether we call it God, Nature, Spirit, Energy or Universal Intelligence, all emanates from this Spiritual Universe."

I think it's really kewl, and so kowone freaks out, Religious Science IS NOT Scientology.

The church is really neat and very small, they have seating for 120, but it never fills up...granted I have only been there 2x.... It will take some getting use to just because the congregation is so close and they don't shake hands, they hug...

I had at least 6 random people come up and talk to me and one was blunt enough to come out and ask, "Do you like hugs?"

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It's getting late, and I must go get ready for school.... then work... blahakkk....

Techie

"Well that woman done told be a bare faced lie....
I've been asking myself man, WHY WHY WHY....
She broke me daddy, she got me flat....
But whatcha gonna do when you love a woman like that?

Whatcha gonna do Leroy? Whatcha gonna do Leroy?

Well she told me she was goin' to the grocery store....
We got grits in the cupboard don't need no more...
She got dolled up--put her perfume on...
It's 3 in the mornin' an' that woman ain't home...
I oughta leave her cuz I got all the facts, but whatcha gonna do when you love a woman like that?"


HAHAHAHA, well that's not exactly how it goes, but it's close... that is a song that the 2 daughters in the show I am working on sing... It's so funny! Me, Tim and David, (2 of the actors) always stand backstage and sing it to Janet, the lady who plays Nancy, whose daughter is playing one of the daughters in the show who is the one singing the song. I think she gets a kick out of it....

When I am asked Hey Ash, what'd yah do this weekend? I am truthfully say... Well, I sang and danced along to Burl Ives....
Wow... I do need a life... I'm listening to Burl Ives!!

The shows went really well... I was suprised...
Friday Mike called about 5:20 and asked if I could come down early to help with lights and then he and Elicia and I could go get dinner... I was actually already on my way down... We went in and while he was working on the lights Elicia helped me set the stage.... then we walked across the street to El Presidente... aka Flinstones....

Saturday I got up and headed down to P-ville by 8:15... and my Grams and I went to the casino... When we came home we went shopping and I got some cute stuff... I got stuff to make cookies for my actors and we went to her house and she helped me make them... they turned out good... I made Chocolate Chip and Sugar cookies, and put them in bags with some candy.... and then when I took them out to my car and put them in my trunk... While also locking my keys in the trunk... See, while we were gone my Pop and sister took my car to have the oil changed... well I took my car keys off of the main key ring... and when I opened the trunk I put the car keys with the clicker in the trunk and grabbed the rest of my keys... so I called AAA... and waited.... and waited.... then I called back.... and waited some more... all the while I am FREAKING out because I was barely going to make it to the theatre on time as it was.... so I called the theatre and told the director what was going on and he set the stage... and didn't do a very good job might I add... Anyway, I ended up leaving about 6:45pm in my Grams' car... I made it there about 7:27pm.... just enough time to run in and get on headset to tell them I was there and was going to round up the actors.... PHWEW!!!


Anyway... homework time!

Oh, but first... something funny....

Of all the things I have dealt with in all my time of being a stage manager... last night was a first for me....

I had called actors to their places and began the show, before I even took my headset off, someone taps me on the shoulder.
"Ashley," Nancy says, "Frank is here, and he is drunker than crap."

"Hold on... he's drunk?" He came to dress rehearsal DRUNK!?!?!?
'Scuse my french, but he was p$$ a$$ DRUNK!!!!

So, the first time he grabbed and hugged tightly one of the actresses and telling her that he wanted to spend the weekend with her, etc... EWW!!!!

I got on headset and told the director and he came back real quick to talk to the fumbling, mumbling actor... "I am quite drunk, Oh, I promise I won't do it again" he says...and the director believed him and let it go!!! He's drunk! Aye....

So, the entire greenroom was cleared out, except him, not only was is drunk, but he smelled AWFUL!

Throughout the rehearsal actors came to me to tell me that he was trying to touch and hit on some of the woman actresses, (he even grabbed one of the men! The guy did not like like, and he was gay!) ... so I went on headset and told the director... he didn't say much, and he really did not seem to care. I was like, this guy walked out of the dressing room in a shirt and underwear yelling "Hey, I think I remember this show!"

Holy crap! I HOPE he remembers this show!!!!

Anyway, the director told me to just "see what happens"....

Well, he did not quite crash and burn, which I think we where all secretly hoping for... but he dropped all but 2 lines....good thing he has a very minor walk on role...

So, throughout the night things only got worse.... I tried to stay clear of him... all of us did...

He touched my arm a couple times and I looked at him and said "No, you need to move."

By the end of the night he was crying in the dressing room...

He said some very innapropriate things... everyone was pretty irritated....

What bothered me most....::::: And maybe I'm too sensitive, and maybe I should have kept my mouth shut and not put my nose where it does not belong...nevertheless...

The lead actress has MULTIPLE costume changes and has to change right in the wings. When I came off from changing the set I grabbed the headset to give lights the go cue... well I noticed that he was WATCHING her change... Now, I think there is a difference between seeing and watching....there is a difference between seeing someone change, and watching someone change.... so, since her dressing table and things where no more than 4 feet from mine, I stepped in the way so he could not watch her. Who wants a nasty drunk ooogling them? He said something like, "am I in the way?" and I said "Yes"... when she finsihed dressing, she asked me what that was about... I told her... to my suprise, she told me she did not care, in fact, she said she didn't care if the entire cast watched her change...Woah... okay then... So I said "well, that's not the point, its not right of him to do that, there is a difference between seeing and watching, its the principle" and she said "Well, then apparently we have different principles"...and she continued... so I finally said "You know what, thats FINE...." And I turned back to my script...And if she would have dropped it there, I probably would not have thought too much of it, but what she said next...she should have just slapped me in the face... One of the actresses walked in and stood next to me, (not a straight one, might I add, but she's really nice, just to make my point)...well, the lead actress looked at me, and then at her and said "Hey, you wanna watch me change?"

THAT was what made me mad... maybe I am being impractical, or putting my nose where it does not belong, or maybe MY morals and principles are wrong... but that right there was wosre than her physically slapping me in the face... I walked off after that... and she knew I was mad. She tried being really nice by telling me how much she appriciated me being the SM.

Tonight is opening night... I hope it goes well....



Undrunk-toosensitive-putshernosewhereitdoesnotbelong-techie

Yesterday I submitted the FAFSA and today I submitted a renewal petition for my Board of Governers Grant... I REALLY hope I get BOGG, again, that would be SOOOOOO awesome!

I don't expect anything from the fafsa, my grades are good enough, aka 3.0 +, but my parents still make to much money to be considered. The thing is, is that yes, they make plenty of money, just not enough to live AND send me to college. Granted we have money put away for me that I am using for college, but that money will run out soon enough.

Last weekend I applied for 3 scholarships. One was an essay; I have to write about something I had passion for. Or, something like like, whatever the exact promt was, prompted me to write about keeping art-ish classes in schools and the importance of cognative and social development for children, as well as a theraputic tool for the physically and mentally ill. THAT was SO hard to wrtie in only 600-800 words! I had a good 3,000. The other two were short essay paragraphs: One was about being a Liberal Studies Major and what you plan to accomplish, and the other was for future teachers and why that was important to be.

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We began tech rehearsals and full dress rehearsals for Marvel Donagan. The first tech took about.... Well... I was there from 1pm to about 6-ish... Long and tedious and frusterating.... Things change and knowone gets told, people are too slow, ect ect ect....

Last night went to fastest by far. We continue to have big problems, but none of them are mine, *knock on wood*

The lights are okay...just a few probs... sound...ONLY the director could screw up sound that bad and not be in BIG BIG trouble... we will be sitting backstage and suddenly music will play... Aye, yi yi....

The actors are slow... and tend to miss cues... During one scene a husband and wife walk on stage and "run into" 2 other characters in the club scene.... WELL, the 'wife' got my attention and was like, "Hey, where's my husband?" Oh crap, I think, where is he, he's gonna miss the entrance and they can't stall this.... So I flew backstage and he was sitting still getting his shoes on chatting it up with some others.... I coul dnot for the life of me think of his name, and I was SOOO flustered, I began snapping my fingers, finally everyone turned around and I pointed at him and said, "YOU, onstage, NOW, your going to miss you entrance!!!"
So, he tries to finish tying his shoe and putting on his jacket, and I was like "RUN, your late"
...Well, he missed it... but luckly the women onstage covered well, though he blew it when he went onstage because he said a line that his character should not have know yet....

WhatEVER... I think I was home by...10:30pm ish...

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So, my 19th birthday is coming up soon.... I ordered a Djembe (Gym-Bay) online, it's one of those drums that sits between your knees and you drum with your hands... I got it from a dealer on eBay... they have this new thing where you can make an offer on a Buy-It-Now item... I made an offer of $50, and the lady took it....
It's an authentic Djembe, hand made in Bali with a goat skin drum head. I am SO excited...
One of the girls in the show I am working on has one, and I told her I thought that was really kewl... and she said when I got it she would take me to the drum circle with her... Cool!

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School is good....

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Work, is work....

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Homework time!

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TEchIE