the skies have been relatively blue, it hasn't been that cold, but i'm feeling burnt out the last two days, like i'd rather just hibernate. and i feel like there is SO much still to be done and dealt with in terms of the upcoming shows. A PIECE OF MY HEART dresses on tuesday, and is mostly assembled. the others are...nebulous.
the gig at the chinese restaurant's been good, i think it's going quite well, but the owner wants to talk to me (which i think is routine), and it's making me nervous. i'm terrified of having to search for another flexible job if this one doesn't pan out. so think good thoughts for me, i'll keep you posted...
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
working....too much, too little, and everywhere in between (also, SHOW PICS)
i had a job, through the temp agency --finally!-- and it sucked. a lot. data entry on adoption records. one chair, one computer screen, eight hours. over a thousand cards entered a day, double entry (surname, surname, man's name, man's name, maiden name, maiden name, woman's name, woman's name)...the only thing remotely interesting is how obvious i thought it was that some guy at ellis island just made up how your name is spelled (atkins: a-t-k-i-n-s, a-d-k-i-n-s, a-i-t-k-i-n-s).... and that was the INTERESTING part.
however, i wasn't scrubbing toilets or flipping burgers, and i could appreciate that. i renewed my relationship with my iPod (tho it turns out dj spree is NOT conducive to repetitive spelling activities). i met some people i wouldn't have met otherwise (thinly veiled euphamism), and then on friday they found someone else to do the job. and i was relieved in some ways, but had hoped to find something else on my own first. however, the second of the two weeks i had this job was also tech for SCAPIN (photos below), which meant 8 hours of that, 2 hours to do 4-5 hours of work/errands, driving to st. paul for rehearsal and coming home at 11:30 to get up at 5:30 and start over. boooooo. no time to look for other work.
so that friday, after being told i'd been replaced, i came straight here to the coffee house and started checking craigslist. there's an upscale chinese restaraunt three blocks from my place looking for day shifts --i went straight there. grubby jeans, hat on my head (turns out this cute new haircut is more high maintnence than working that early in the morning would allow), no restaraunt experience. boom, here i am. had a good conversation with the woman chef/owner on friday and a great conversation with her on sunday. tonight and tomorrow nights i'll start training. it's minimum wage for 15-20 hours of training and then host starts at 8, plus the servers tip out to the cashier, host, and kitchen. could go up to 10-15.... i'm genuinely excited...the idea of making some one's meal experience pleasant and memorable is really attractive to me, and the owner (tammy) and i definitely got good impressions of each other. so that's cool.
AND NOW FOR THE REALLY EXCITING NEWS!!!
on wednesday night, the costume shop manager from colorado shakespeare called:
"andrea, it's lee dumbrowski, how are you?"
"(laugh) well, i have to be at dress rehearsal in 12 minutes and i haven't figured out what i'm eating for dinner yet"
"hahahah... i know how that goes"
so we talked on thursday morning and she gave me the weekend to consider her offer --monday morning i called back and confirmed that i will be the painter/dyer for the 2006 season at colorado. not the assistant, not the apprentice, THE painter/dyer. the season is THE TEMPEST, AS YOU LIKE IT, & MERCHANT OF VENICE. the designer for TEMPEST uses a lot of paint techniques for (i guess) texture and highlight and shadow, but lee assures me that she's very hands on and will demonstrate how do what she wants. the other two will be more straightforward (dyeing to match...which is actually rarely simple, making something purple that was red, etc).
i am very very very excited and thrilled and you get the idea. i've wanted to be in colorado since... i guess since i was in the rockies in 2003 with laurie and dave and their friends. ROADTRIP! BOULDER OR BUST!
here's some SCAPIN.... it's a great, timeless commedia story, modern translation of Moliere....
(apologies, apologies, now that i've got the whole thing loaded i realized you'll have to turn your head 90degrees because i didn't rotate the images. so sorry....if i go back and fix it now i'll never get the rest of my day done)
there are these two old tightwads, who each have a son and a servant (stay with me, here, Argante's family is in cool colors and Geronte's is in warm, you can't get lost)
and each of the sons loves a girl their fathers don't approve of....
Hyacinth (in brown, beloved of Octave, who turns out to be Geronte's daughter) and Zerbinette (in black, who turns out to be the long lost child of Argante)
so the servants, Scapin the schemer (in the brown) and Silvestre -not so bright, but easily beguiled into playing along (in the blue) embark on a big adventure of tricks and schemes (including putting one of the old men in a bag and beating him with nerf bats...it's priceless)
and, as "a comedy requires" it all ends well... couples married, Scapin married off to Hyacinth's serving woman
Nerine (who enters periodically as a mystery woman looking for "Signore Pandolfe"-- Geronte's alias), and the fathers happy.
Leandre the Scrub and Zerbinette the Gypsy Girl (mysterious and sexy Nerine in the background)
Octave the Stylish and his lovely Hyacinth
however, i wasn't scrubbing toilets or flipping burgers, and i could appreciate that. i renewed my relationship with my iPod (tho it turns out dj spree is NOT conducive to repetitive spelling activities). i met some people i wouldn't have met otherwise (thinly veiled euphamism), and then on friday they found someone else to do the job. and i was relieved in some ways, but had hoped to find something else on my own first. however, the second of the two weeks i had this job was also tech for SCAPIN (photos below), which meant 8 hours of that, 2 hours to do 4-5 hours of work/errands, driving to st. paul for rehearsal and coming home at 11:30 to get up at 5:30 and start over. boooooo. no time to look for other work.
so that friday, after being told i'd been replaced, i came straight here to the coffee house and started checking craigslist. there's an upscale chinese restaraunt three blocks from my place looking for day shifts --i went straight there. grubby jeans, hat on my head (turns out this cute new haircut is more high maintnence than working that early in the morning would allow), no restaraunt experience. boom, here i am. had a good conversation with the woman chef/owner on friday and a great conversation with her on sunday. tonight and tomorrow nights i'll start training. it's minimum wage for 15-20 hours of training and then host starts at 8, plus the servers tip out to the cashier, host, and kitchen. could go up to 10-15.... i'm genuinely excited...the idea of making some one's meal experience pleasant and memorable is really attractive to me, and the owner (tammy) and i definitely got good impressions of each other. so that's cool.
AND NOW FOR THE REALLY EXCITING NEWS!!!
on wednesday night, the costume shop manager from colorado shakespeare called:
"andrea, it's lee dumbrowski, how are you?"
"(laugh) well, i have to be at dress rehearsal in 12 minutes and i haven't figured out what i'm eating for dinner yet"
"hahahah... i know how that goes"
so we talked on thursday morning and she gave me the weekend to consider her offer --monday morning i called back and confirmed that i will be the painter/dyer for the 2006 season at colorado. not the assistant, not the apprentice, THE painter/dyer. the season is THE TEMPEST, AS YOU LIKE IT, & MERCHANT OF VENICE. the designer for TEMPEST uses a lot of paint techniques for (i guess) texture and highlight and shadow, but lee assures me that she's very hands on and will demonstrate how do what she wants. the other two will be more straightforward (dyeing to match...which is actually rarely simple, making something purple that was red, etc).
i am very very very excited and thrilled and you get the idea. i've wanted to be in colorado since... i guess since i was in the rockies in 2003 with laurie and dave and their friends. ROADTRIP! BOULDER OR BUST!
here's some SCAPIN.... it's a great, timeless commedia story, modern translation of Moliere....
(apologies, apologies, now that i've got the whole thing loaded i realized you'll have to turn your head 90degrees because i didn't rotate the images. so sorry....if i go back and fix it now i'll never get the rest of my day done)
there are these two old tightwads, who each have a son and a servant (stay with me, here, Argante's family is in cool colors and Geronte's is in warm, you can't get lost)
and each of the sons loves a girl their fathers don't approve of....
Hyacinth (in brown, beloved of Octave, who turns out to be Geronte's daughter) and Zerbinette (in black, who turns out to be the long lost child of Argante)
so the servants, Scapin the schemer (in the brown) and Silvestre -not so bright, but easily beguiled into playing along (in the blue) embark on a big adventure of tricks and schemes (including putting one of the old men in a bag and beating him with nerf bats...it's priceless)
and, as "a comedy requires" it all ends well... couples married, Scapin married off to Hyacinth's serving woman
Nerine (who enters periodically as a mystery woman looking for "Signore Pandolfe"-- Geronte's alias), and the fathers happy.
Leandre the Scrub and Zerbinette the Gypsy Girl (mysterious and sexy Nerine in the background)
Octave the Stylish and his lovely Hyacinth
Saturday, February 04, 2006
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