Finally Belonging Now if I could get some free damn time

I was pleased as punchy to find out that Bill moved back to Texas.
I was feeling poorly because I loved CCBC's theatre space so much and had such great memories there but I was very conflicted seeing everything i had built there look like crap. It looked like crap and it had my name on it. Other people were seeing the crap and thinking that I had built it like that not caring that it looked like garbage and that it was unsafe.
I couldn't stand being called in to do hours that didn't even pay me enough to cover the gas money that it took to drive me there. I left everyday angrier and angrier. I stopped showing up to work on time and the little respect that I had for someone I percieved to be in a more knowledgable position than myself all but vanished.
The huge woofers above the stage casted constant light shadows all over the stage and made focsuing lights on the catwalk virtually impossible. The poor wjobs of welding embarassed even me and I'm not a pro yet. The scale models were not consistant in size throughout the same model and were poorly constructed almost as if the ideas of the set had not been throughly planed. Drafted plates went by ignored. The paint jobs were consistantly terrible!
None of our equipment was being updated or maintained. Drill bits were being melted and not replaced. Every paint brush was at least two years old whispy and falling apart. There were no stock flats or stock anything for our construction larder. The prop trailer is a mess, the shop is a mess everything is filthy. The rigging system had been broken and not even glanced at to be fixed. The lights weren;t standardized so the "meager" light hang for standard events looked spotty and terrible.
The man let CCBC go to hell.

I finally met the new guy and he seems great! He's smart and funny and knowledgable and he cares about the job, he cares about doing th ebest job he can. I'm excited to be able to work with him.

Over at UMBC meanwhile I have entered the semester before my final year. I'm closing in on all the 400 classes that I haven't had oppourtunites to make and I'm so happy. I have finally gotten to meet The infamous teacher in the costume shop who was on sabataical. And I'm being given sewing jobs and learning more every day. I finally feel like I've gotten something significant done with my time.

If only I could do this in all my classes.

I have also been having a lot of teeth problems ( two teeth to be pulled next monday) so I have dragged my feet in getting over to ccbc and refilling out the paper work to get me put back on pay roll. I'll be damn sad if I miss all the construction. I hope the new guy understands.

P.S I pulled out my makeup box today and did a really insane skull for halloween I stunned a bunch of kids. Some people thought it was a mask until I moved and I even scared one kid so bad he cried.
Yay!


_Liz