A Hooker’s work is never done

My show is finally finished. I have maybe one hour of touch ups left, but all in all, I am done painting/charging my first show. I am drinking a glass of cheap champagne Right Now to celebrate. It went well (mostly)…I had an awesome crew (aka my ubertalented friends) and we really rocked some scenic painting this past week. As the soft goods came in two weeks late, we had a paltry seven days to paint the show in it’s entirity, which sounded impossible to me at first, until we got the drops down and starting painting. The drops came out beautifully….one sky scene, 20′x30′, and one roll drop/show curtain, 20′x28′, with the show’s name stenciled in large letters across a black background. It looks hot. Additionally, we had to paint a smaller section of the sky drop on a 9′x10′ piece of muslin, and then wallpaper it onto a wardrobe, so that it effectively blends into the drop behind. It looks great, if I do say so myself. I’m very proud of the work that myself and my crew got accomplished in such a short time, and there was only one small foul-up, for which I was fully responsible (which is better in the Grand Scheme, otherwise I’d have been pissed!), that set us back for a hot second, and for which I freaked out for a good solid day, but it turned out just fine and all is well. HoJo, my advisor, as well as the show advisor, looked at the drops and wardrobe in the space today, and told me it all looked lovely…thank goodness. I was really sweating it, even though I could see with my own two eyes we had created a thing of beauty with the sky drop….impressing HoJo is important in life here at School. Anyway, it’s a huge relief that I successfully completed the first show of the season, my first show charging, and my crew seems to still like me, and the designer and director and advisor are all happy, and I’m proud and completely satisfied with the work we did this week. Just the One Week…that’s the most impressive part. Way to go, us.

Now I have to quit pretending that I have amnesty from working really hard in my classes due to The Show. I mean, really it was just the excuse I was feeding myself to feel better about the excessive amount of time I’ve been spending with Ole Blue Eyes. It’s been a daily thing for more than a month now, and even though we are Not calling a spade a spade, we’re Together; everyone knows it, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, it’s the truth that everyone around us sees. I like her alot, but I wasn’t really meaning to get So Involved with anyone, especially ‘anyone’ that already has a boyfriend, and happens to be graduating in seven short months. Of course, my life has to stay interesting somehow (and when I say interesting, I suppose I mean vaguely torturous and painful), but man! she’s good times. We are good times together. It’s hard to have so much fun with someone, have so much in common, enjoy each other So Very Much, and manage not to fall shamelessly in love. Cuz I don’t wanna be in love with someone that is already in love. I don’t buy the Enough Love To Go Around theory, unfortunately for myself.

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