There is this cat...it lives outside my window. Now, I don’t know this for sure because I’ve never seen it. I have only heard it. It is a loud cat. I live on the second floor so I almost think that this cat lives in the apartment above me and I’m hearing it meow through the vents or something. But this cat is a loud cat.
So the past two nights of working late have been pretty fun. I think my favorite part of lighting is focusing. I just like hanging out in a dark theater with only a few people around focusing lights. I especially like it when we are focusing in the catwalks...at CNU. Let me tell you a little something about the catwalk here. First of all, it’s called “The Cove.” Now, normally I would love a place called “The Cove” because it sounds very adventurous. Well, this cove is definitely adventures, but I’ve been to more fun places. To get to this cove, you have to first walk up all three flights of stairs. Not that bad compared to the 5,000,000 flights of stairs you have to walk up at Ferguson. Then you go through this midget door that leads to the attic. Then you walk through this maze of air ducts while having to hunch over to not hit your head. Then you duck under some really low piping and climb over a very large air duct. At this point you are in pretty much complete darkness. You can’t really see where you are stepping. You duck under some more pipes until you come to a hole in the ground. You climb down into the hole and there is a short wooden ladder that wobbles a little. When you get to the bottom, you are in the cove. It’s like a wooden bridge hidden up in the ceiling. It’s wider than our catwalks at Ferguson and I would say probably safer considering that it’s in the ceiling. It gets really hot up there with the lights on though. I will be sure to take pictures of the process of getting to the cove at some point for you visual people. But anyways, I think we finished focusing tonight. All we have left to do before we open the first show is get the correct gel colors in the lights, set up the spotlights, patch the board, and write cues. When you have a lighting designer, a master electrician, and an electrics assistant, that list means I’m working with paints the next couple of days. The designer writes the cues, and in this situation when you have a master electrician, their only responsibility is electrics. They don’t have to do anything else so when there isn’t anything having to do with lighting to do, they just don’t have to do anything unless they want to help in another area. Me on the other hand, I have to work the same amount of hours every day. Since there isn’t a whole lot for us to do, they are sending me to go paint, but only for a couple days...for now. My stage manager (roommate) saw my scene painting stuff on facebook so she is handing me off to the scenic charge (person in charge of getting everything painted). Lighting is a lot of hurry up and wait so I’ve already had the opportunity to get my hands in almost every area. I’ve done some paperwork for the stage manager, built some crown molding, painted some base coats on scenery, tested some sound equipment (which is a part of my job as Sound/Electrics Assistant), and done some sewing, labeling, and ironing in the costume shop. The only thing I haven’t done is props, but I plan to help wrap presents for white christmas. :)
So I’m taking some stronger medicine for my allergy symptoms now. I went straight for the Dayquil and the Nyquil. I’ve been a little loopy the last couple of days so it’s kind of nice to be able to blame it on the drugs. Genny is the only one who knows that’s how I always act. :)
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