I wanted to write out a life update, but it occurs to me that I'm much too tired to actually write full paragraphs. So, instead, just some thoughts in no particular order on life out in Spring Green.
-I'm getting much better at reading radar, and knowing when it will start raining on us in rehearsal, and how long it might last. Much better meaning I don't suck at it now. The other day we had a "particularly dangerous situation" during tech for Much Ado, and we had fun monitoring the radar and seeing whether the baseball-sized hail would be hitting us. (It didn't...it went north). And yes, we had a tornado warning that night, certainly not my first since being here.
-One of my favorite things about the performance reports we do out here is that we record under "Miscellaneous" any time we hear a whippoorwill call. It happens about twice a night. We also record the mosquito rating (1 - 10). The SMs have been putting down all ones (meaning not bad at all), but I must say that last night during tech I got eaten alive. Apparently that was a 1. Shrug.
-Another highlight of last night occurred after rehearsal. I got out of work around 1:15 am to head over to The Shed for a drink. By the time I had that one drink, they were closing, so I drove home to Plain (a 15-20 minute drive) and arrived around 2:15, thinking I would go to bed. Instead, seeing a friendly group of people on the porch, I hung out with them until 5:15 am, at which point we realized we could go out for breakfast. So we did. And I got home at 7 am. And it felt like I was back in college, except I don't think I ever stayed up so late/early in college, so REALLY I guess it felt more like Muhlenberg Summer Music Theater. Sigh.
-One of the brilliant examples of how unique last night was was how we decided to climb the hill near our conventy home to the chapel... through a graveyard... and sit in the dark chapel with the lights turned off. That only lasted a really short amount of time, but seriously.... can you picture ME, of all people, thinking that running through a graveyard up to a deserted chapel on the top of a wooded hillat4 am would be a good idea? And then sitting there in the DARK? And yes, we RAN up the hill. My calves hurt today.
-As for the animal count, I still see lots of creatures both during rehearsal and on the drive home. One of the beautiful things about working in outdoor theater is that during a run-through of the play onstage, the actors will be joined by butterflies flitting through the scenery. Or at night, bats. Or, in the case of yesterday's tech, a huge luna moth.
-I still don't have as much color as I'd like, although I'm SLIGHTLY tanner than last week. How is it possible that I work in an outdoor theater yet I'm still so pale?
-Tomorrow we continue tech for Misalliance, having finished tech for Much Ado. THEN we tech Merchant of Venice! - I'm exhausted.
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer is amazing. Seriously. I can't wait to start watching sesaon 4.
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