yawn.

Y’know I’m starting to see a trend between when I choose to take my meds and when I decide to actually sit down and write a blog.

Ah, I need to start my year prep soon. Get back in shape and update my theatrical superiors on everything I couldn’t be bothered to summarize in May.

Or, superior really. I don’t get to be the person who knows things anymore, I *have* to be the person who knows things. And because of some absurd levels of dumb luck, people think i know more about my field than I do.

See, about a week ago, I competed for a stage job opportunity, and I fell asleep during a part of the training. Combination of dark room and caffeine withdrawal. And of course it was light training, the one thing I have zero experience in.

So I walked into that activity with almost no idea as to what I was doing. And I was told to put lights on an area. Putting lights on an area for a presentation means a spotlight. Maybe not a super dramatic one but a spotlight nonetheless.

Except apparently you can’t see lighting changes from the back, and I was convinced I did something wrong and gave up. I made the lights do the pretty color thing which is the only thing I semi knew how to do. I’m a theatre IV student and I can make the lights do the pretty color thing.

(the correct explanation is I can write color cues for the cyc. I didn’t get this far by speaking intelligibly )

After I made the lights do the pretty color thing two times, the activity ended. I’m grossly oversimplifying but we’d be here all day if I actually described last Monday in a satisfying way.

So I get let go. Story for another time. But they send out an email to everyone who was let go talking about all the good things they did that day. And like three out of the six people complimented the lights, one even asked if I had studied it before.

Now, I adore the compliments and most of them seemed entirely genuine, but here’s my predicament. How am I supposed to explain how I did lights that one time, but suddenly can no longer do lights? And explain that without admitting to my momentary narcolepsy?

I suppose I’ll have to get in touch with some certain people and inquire about some things. Like how much sleep can be realistically recommended before events like these.

-TG

Comments

[Twilight Glimmer]

One of these days I should write a post as pretentiously as possible using all the complex jargon I can muster just to see if anyone would be able to translate it into understandable terms. It’d be a fun little experiment dontcha think?

[Zapper Frost]

Or, superior really. I don’t get to be the person who knows things anymore, I *have* to be the person who knows things. And because of some absurd levels of dumb luck, people think i know more about my field than I do.

Unfortunately, you just explained a large number of society