The annual "I hate summer " post

[suenix]

It's that time again, the last two weeks of the summer stock season.
There are four shows in the rotation now. This means that 5 days a week we do
2 shows a day. And 1 day a week we do 3 shows a day.

Yeah, it is exhausting. The combination of the lack of sleep and the hot weather makes
for a semi zombiefied state. But, as soon as this is over I get 5 weeks off. And included
in that stretch of time is my own personal 'staycation" , DragonCon.

I am working on a new costume, the yellow BSG deckhand. I have volunteered
to be a costume judge at the Colonial Fleet party. And I have also signed up for 2 panels.
Thoughts of this keep me going when I have to get up at 6:15 AM to go help entertain the kiddies.

The drought here seems to be breaking. The bad news is that it is being broken by massive
thunderstorms. I came home from work yesterday to find this:



This WAS a huge pine tree. It sheared off about 20 feet above the ground.
The good news? It fell AWAY from the house. The bad news? It took out two more trees with with
it . Two large water oaks. The back of our lot now looks like this:



I am so not looking forward to the visit from the tree service . This is going to cost a mint.

And to top off all this the power outages knocked out a water treatment plant and we are on a "boil your drinking water" advisory till tomorrow.

I intend to drown all my troubles in the wee hours tomorrow by taking in the midnight preview
of the new X Files movie. I hope it as good as I want it to be.

Cheers






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Comments

[princess-lesa.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Tree service is so expensive.

I hope the rest of your summer shows go well.

[suenix.livejournal.com]

I find out just how expensive this afternoon.

[theatreannie.livejournal.com]

damn 13 shows a week.... only time I've done that I was getting paid by the hour

[suenix.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that hourly wages are not happening.

[lomer.livejournal.com]

I can BE IN two or three shows a day without feeling too much exhaustion, but house managing saps all my energy. (Most likely because it's waves of busy, busy, busy, bored, bored, bored.) On the weekends we do three shows Sat, and two on Sun... so you have my heartfelt sympathy!

And yay for crew costumes! Now, whenever I watch BSG episodes I find myself watching the orange and yellow crew costumes in the background. We just got our orange jumpsuits which are of a much nicer quality then expected. I've also emailed the rubber company about getting six yards of the vest stuff. I'll let you know what they say. *g*

[scrubschick.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* We need to have the tree guys visit, too, but nothing's down. More's the pity because it might have been done by now if one was. *sigh*

Can't wait to see you!