5.27.02

i logged 89 hours at work this week. that’s what i get for asking for this promotion, i guess. i’m exhausted, and this week have alternately been frustrated, confused, lost, excited, amused, proud, awkward, uncomfortable, and a whole array of other emotions that come along with a new job and a really steep learning curve. i have 27 actors i’m responsible for scheduling into costume fittings, rehearsals, dance rehearsals, vocal rehearsals, photo shoots. i know where all 27 of them are on stage at all moments of the play, which props they carry, and when the sound, light and sets change. i’m rehearsing two plays simultaneously (much ado and twelfth night), i have three assistants, an electronic leash (cell phone), my own office and finally a paycheck that actually pays the bills. not that i’ve had a lot of spare time to spend cash anyway. much ado opens in 12 days, after which my schedule ought to slow down considerably. still no internet access at my house, and i have to get out of this fluorescent box that is my office now.

tomorrow is my first day off in 15 days. no one had better call me before noon. i’m going to unpack my apartment and go see star wars and do NOTHING that is theatre-related at all.