Tech Day

GAH! The hatred I have for the play I'm working on right now...I can't even begin to find a word to describe! The tech rehearsal went from about 9:30am until about 7:15pm (yes, you read that right) and we didn't even break for lunch until 4! (I failed epically at the betting pool we had going on in the booth as to when we were breaking for lunch) Not to mention, I got snapped at by three different people within the first 15 minutes of being there. And then, while trying to work my magic on my part of the technical stuff, actors were pestering me about props and therefore, some of us techs were missing cues because A) we were distracted by props (that was just me, really) and B) because there was too much freakin' noise to hear the stage manager calling the cues! So, that got me some crap too, despite it totally not being my fault that people were talking to me. So, I'm in the middle of trying to run my cues, which I'm only marginally amazing at, and I'm trying to concentrate on which props we don't have and where I'm gonna put the food props. For the love of all that is bright and shiny and holy in this world, people, WORRY ABOUT YOUR PROPS ON YOUR OWN AND LET ME WORK THE SLIDES!!!!!!!! That is, unless it's a prop we don't have, and then, just write it down and let me know when we're in a break. Then, I had to stress because Mom & Dad couldn't find where we were so they could drop off the food for our pot luck, and I couldn't talk them through it cuz, dude, I was working. But, eventually, we suffered through everything and lo, lunch came! Yay! An hour break after taking about five hours to do the cue to cue. Aaahhh...I got to chill. Deep, calming breaths. I am breathing deeply and calming myself so I won't snap at anyone when they ask me irritating questions about props or when they hover over me. Anyway, we go back to work around 5 and start the runthrough. (I failed again at the betting pool on this, too, but not as epically as the lunch one) The runthrough went pretty well, and my mood was improved by some cute and harmless flirting. Eventually, we got through it and put everything away and finally, I got to go home! And now I have to go to work tomorrow morning and repeat this hellish week all over again. Woo.