Condoms and Wig Tape

Well, they definitly have been the theme of the past few days. I've been skipping gym to pay for them, since it costs to go bowling and I spent all of my extra cashmoola on condoms for the lav body packs and wig tape to attach the actors to the mics. Last night was our first (and only real) dress rehearsal, complete with makeup, sound, lights, crew, etc. That in itself was interesting, since a bunch of the crew have been ~ahem~ slacking off and not coming to rehearsal. But, on the other hand, I love seeing a show come together like it did last night. Of course there were some kinks we had to work out, and I spent most of intermission yelling on my headset in the vain hope that someone backstage would notice that obscene words were coming out of the stage manager box, but on the whole the run through wasn't bad at all.
However, there's always that one thing that makes the mostly smooth clip come to a screetching halt...and last night it was the lighting cues. Mr. Evans was gone yesterday, and the sub let some freshmen (who we believe to be viola players) into the booth to do sectionals. Now I have known a fair number of incredibly smart, talented, mature, responsible freshmen, but on the whole, they don't have the brains god gave to retarded chickens! Well, we're not entirely sure how they managed it, but one of them managed to erase and entire acts worth of light presets. Yes. They were gone, and we had to reprogram the board in about 5 minutes. All I have to say on that subject is that Jett and J.P. are AMAZING!
At this very moment the freshmen in question are probably having a little chat with mr. jordan and mr. evans...if I were them I'd be more afraid of mr. evans!

Ok, so, today I was in the library typing up Governing Alice (at the present rate I'm going, I'll be done by next summer) and the librarians start getting on my case about a 2 dollar book fine. I told them that I won't have any money until next week, and I must admit I got a little snappy with them, and finally they told me that they had started not letting people use the library if they had fines. So without a word I got up and left. I love being like that to people like them who think that I'm so worthless. What they don't understand is if they treat me like crap, I'll do it right back.
After I storm out in a wave of righteous annoyance, I went to Mr. Lytle's room to use his computer (its a great thing being an ATP kid, we can get away with murder and he wouldn't care.) They were talking random stuff like props and Lytle would sometimes throw a question out to me like "whats the number one rule in theatre" at which I yelled back "for the love of all things holy, if it isn't yours, don't touch it!!!!" It was kinda funny. But the real kicker was when the class was over. There was a Trojan wrapper in the garbage because I had shoved a wrapper into my pocket last night and this morning I found it and threw it away. The guys in his class were like "WTF why is there a condom wrapper in the garbage Lytle?" So, without batting an eye, Lytle points to me and says "Ask Sarah, she's the expert in condom usages!" They were totally freaked at this point and I laughed and told them about using them for body packs. I love being a theatre kid...we have the do the weirdest stuff in our free time...like lying upside down on a staircase to paint the underside of a railing (I did that yesterday too) and buying condoms for use with microphones. Our lives are weird and we find it oh so very amusing.
Well, I've bored you enough for one day gentle reader
Adieu
Sarah