The only times I have ever been told that I have an accent, people tell me it’s a southern accent. Well, today someone told me that the way I say doctor sounds very northern and almost like a Boston accent. So for the first time ever, I was told I have a northern accent. So I guess having a mom from Georgia and a dad from Virginia who both lived in Ohio for about 10 years has given me some really strange accent that has no origin. Being told I have a northern accent though just adds to the coolness of being one of the few people in the company not from Georgia!
I broke a nut today. As in a metal nut. For those of you who don’t know what everything on a lighting instrument is actually called, there is a nut on the c clamp [what you use to attach the instrument to the electric (metal pole)] that is used to pan the light [move it to the right and the left]. This nut has a name, but I don’t say it’s name because I don’t like it. Anyways, I was tightening this nut on an instrument today and I literally just broke off the head of this nut. I picked it up off the ground, walked over to the lighting designer (my professor, Genny) and the master electrician, set it down on the table in front of them, and walked away. Then Genny told me that I needed to keep it as a souvenir from my summer at Peach State. I then decided that I am going to make it into a ring or a necklace so that I can wear it and anytime anyone in the theater department at CNU complains about anything, I can just shove it in their face and remind them that at least our instruments aren’t falling apart in our hands! :-D
We got all the lighting instruments on stage hung and circuited in the past two days. Well, I should say that we got them all hung...I got them all circuited. Circuiting is just a fancy word for plugging them into the dimmers. It’s not hard, but it’s time consuming because you can’t just go along and plug an instrument into the closest dimmer. Some instruments have to be two-fered or even three-fered (plugging mulitple instruments into the same circuit) and then a lot of the instruments don’t reach a dimmer so you have to bring in cable extensions and then after you get everything plugged in you have to go back and make it all pretty by tying all the cable to the electric in an organized fashion. Then, you usually have to add instruments in later so you have to find a way to fit them in and still plug it into a circuit that makes sense. So basically everything is hung and plugged in and all we have left to do with the electrics on stage is focus them (point them in the direction they are supposed to be pointing) and put gel colors in them, but we can’t do that quite yet. But I feel very accomplished for getting all that done in two days with just me and the master electrician. At CNU, we usually have about 10 people attack each electric so we can get it out of the way of the carpenters in a timely matter. I was probably in the way of the carpenters more than they admitted, but I got out of their way when they asked nicely.
After tonight, I will not be getting on facebook until I am able to watch the Lost series finale! I do not want to risk seeing any spoilers. So don’t you dare spoil anything for me!!!!!!! I don’t have a TV therefore I can’t watch the finale until it comes online! Grrrrrr!
Oh, and my allergies have been acting up the last couple of days. The scene shop here doesn’t have a ventilation system so there is a lot of sawdust floating through the air. I have my allergy medicine, but it’s not really helping. One of my roommates is going to give me some Benadryl tonight so we will see if that helps. Tomorrow morning is also our first morning off so we are going to the store and I am going to pick up something to try and help with all the congestion in my head and the coughing. Just pray that it doesn’t get any worse and that it doesn’t keep me from doing my best.
Week one is complete and we get tomorrow morning off so I don’t have to go in to work until 1:00! Sweetness!
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