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Post by spideyfan914 on Apr 27, 2010 20:27:10 GMT -6
Why, thank you!
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Post by spideyfan914 on Apr 28, 2010 21:43:30 GMT -6
Hey everybody! Wondering where I've been? Well, I'll tell you - I got home at 7 with NO HOMEWORK, so I spent the night working on a short story I thought up yesterday!
It's called "The Longest Kiss", about a couple who attempt to break the Guinness Record for longest kiss (32 hours, 7 minutes, 14 seconds). Read it now in the Story Boards!
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Post by cradleman on Apr 28, 2010 21:46:00 GMT -6
working on it now. it really sounds interesting
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Post by sportsfan23 on Apr 29, 2010 10:15:06 GMT -6
I read it, and loved it! very sad ending, but the writing was great
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Post by spideyfan914 on Apr 30, 2010 22:12:30 GMT -6
UPDATE!!!
Okay, I feel like a jerk. Let me just start from the beginning. A LOT happened this week.
So, as you know, I'm Assistant Director of Easy Virtue. I spent the first week or two observing my fellow ADs, who've both done it before, to get the hang of it, and sometime last week, I started becoming more active. With the show opening on Saturday, it is now officially HELL WEEK!
We wanted for this show not to suck. Luckily, we got all the blocking done a long time ago, and thus had a long time to work on the show, which was AWESOME! So we're all like, "Hey! Let's schedule full runs this week!" and had our first on Wednesday, planning to then do full funs 'til the show.
Well, our On-Tour president, who has her first major role in this show as she's usually Stage Manager, approached us on Monday, complaining that she had a conflict on Wednesday, and requested that we swap the full run with Tuesday's Act III rehearsal. Somehow, I just didn't feel it was right, though I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but the other ADs said it was fine, so I didn't say anything.
Well, I was probably right, actually (or so it seemed on Tuesday anyway), as we wound up not doing a full run - there was a concert that night (the Spring Concert is split into the Blue and Grey Concerts (our school colors) on Tuesday and Friday), so we had to end before we could finish as everyone left. Plus, Furber who never shows up to rehearsal still hadn't received his Act II blocking (I think he just got that today) and had work on Tuesday. Plus lines were due Wednesday, so everyone was on-book.
I actually wanted to go to that concert, but couldn't find anyone to go with it, and since it was just Chorale going (Concert Choir and Crescendo are the better chorus groups, and my best friend had a solo in Jazz Band, all of which went on Thursday) I wound up not.
In other news, the On-Tour president, with whom I'm usually very friendly, was making a lot of remarks to me which were pissing me off, like, "You have bad communication," and "You're too rude to the actors," - things like that, demeaning me and the management as if we're inferior to those she was on.
The next day, we were supposed to run Act III - the one everyone's actually in (except Harris). Except no one showed up. And those who did didn't know their lines even though they were due that day. We finished at 4, and so I did Pit work 'til 6, then went home and wrote "The Longest Kiss" to get things off my mind.
Meanwhile, my best friend - the one with the jazz solo - you know her as Ariella (and by the way, she's ASM, Assistant Stage Manager (and yes, I notice the acronym)) - was mad at me for no actual reason whatsoever. Now she does that a lot - more than once I've overheard or been in the conversation "I hate you," "Why?" "I don't know." But this time it was lasting. She had been acting strangely all week, and when I said hi in the halls, she told me to go away. So when I ask if she's mad at me, she says yes and she doesn't know why and to leave her alone.
Thursday. For some reason, we were running problem scenes even though we were supposed to doing a full run, or maybe doing the Act III which hadn't gotten done the day before. Except even LESS people show up THIS time than on Wednesday. We rehearsed for literally 10 minutes before we ran out of things we could do.
Meanwhile, I ask Ariella if she's still mad at me - and she is. For no reason. And then I get pissed off. And I wasn't the only one - her other friends were also pissed off at her. And then, half an hour later, she suddenly comes up to me and says she isn't mad at me anymore, but it's too late, 'cause now I'M mad at HER (and I don't get mad very easily).
So I go to the Pit to do work, and wait for my fellow worker (my other best friend, actually). But when he doesn't come down right away, I'm just lying on the sex couch with nothing but my thoughts. And I get very angry and very depressed. And yes, the On-Tour president was right - I WAS taking it out on the cast. But I really wanted to take out on Ariella.
She has been freaking out about this solo for a month. Actually freaking out. I figure that's probably why she's mad, but I'm still angry she had to take out on me, and now I'm wondering if I should even go to the concert. Still, I promised I would (yes, a month ago - I was planning on going anyway), so no matter how pissed and depressed I am and even though I really just don't want to see her and don't care enough about the other groups, I figure that I have to go anyway, and that I'll just say I came for my friends in the CCP (the chorus program) and pretend that I didn't even pay attention to her solo. Really, I just want to make up and be friends again, but I figure I'd just apologize tomorrow.
Concert comes and I sit with all my On-Tour friends. When Jazz Band starts, I reluctantly listen. The entire time. She doesn't have a solo. While I'm confused out of my mind and trying to figure out what's going on, she come out during the other groups and sits down next to me. And as much as I want to be angry, I have to ask what the hell happened. The conductor cut her off. To shorten the song. Without telling her.
I couldn't be mad after that. So now we're friends again.
Friday - today. More rehearsal, this time a full run. It's Hell Week. We get people, at least (though some decide to leave and come back for Act III, then don't come back for Act III), but they still don't know their lines and they're still not taking it seriously. Plus, with the APs next week, we all know that they're not gonna be coming to rehearsal. And our dear president is still at my throat about being rude to the cast memebers.
So after rehearsal, she approaches me and we talk, and I snap. I let out my frustrations and tell her just how pissed off I am. And she tells me that she's sorry, and that it wasn't intended that way. She was only trying to help us out, and she'll try not to sound condescending in the future.
So now I'm angry with myself. I'm not gonna lie - I really have been a jerk through all this, and it just isn't me.... I'm NOT a negative, at-your-throat person - that's not how I work. I've been stressed and depressed and angry, and I took it out on the cast even though they didn't.... well, actually, it was their fault. Quite a lot of it was their fault.
Still, I want to try and start over. Tomorrow, we're having a rehearsal of Act III ('cause we need it), so I want to try to make a fresh start. I'm not supposed to be the negative, down-spirited, frustrated one - we've got our director for that (because it IS his way, and it's actually what I hate about him). So hopefully this will all turn out well. And hopefully the show can still be amazing. After all - we've been in worse situations before!
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Post by Kranstin Kardashian on Apr 30, 2010 22:52:07 GMT -6
You and I must have different definitions of "happened".
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Post by jukenami on May 2, 2010 11:12:05 GMT -6
Pffft.
High school drama.
And jee, all this is like, for your school?
Here, the county cut our schools' sports.
Yeah, all of them. No more sports.
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Post by spideyfan914 on May 2, 2010 11:15:34 GMT -6
By drama, do you mean theatre or soap opera-esque drama?
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Post by jukenami on May 2, 2010 11:27:51 GMT -6
Soap opera-esque drama.
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Post by spideyfan914 on May 2, 2010 11:33:09 GMT -6
Yeah, I've been getting that a lot this year. All the angsty freshmen have decided they like me.
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Post by spideyfan914 on May 9, 2010 9:51:06 GMT -6
So yesterday, I lied down on the sex couch and thought about things, and decided that people suck and that I hate everybody. But then I found that hating everybody is too hard, so now I'm back to loving everybody again. But because I no longer hate everybody, now I'm depressed again, which is what set me off to hate everybody in the first place. I'm confused.
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Post by cradleman on May 9, 2010 13:43:58 GMT -6
the sex couch?
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Post by spideyfan914 on May 9, 2010 17:59:24 GMT -6
In the pit.... I've mentioned it before.... People have sex on it....
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Post by cradleman on May 9, 2010 18:13:41 GMT -6
that's a little gross. no offense.
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Post by Nickpick on May 10, 2010 9:17:04 GMT -6
Nice... You have alot of emotions happening at once, i get that alot too. I currently hate everyone lol but i know in 20 minutes once someone says 'Hey Nick' i'll be happy. And it's good to get what's on your chest off. You need to express your emotion and let your feelings out because holding them back and botteling them in will only make it worse and do damage. Trust me, i know something about holding back emotions. Plus your show won't suck, i highly doubt it'll fail.
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Post by spideyfan914 on May 10, 2010 15:10:04 GMT -6
'Hey Nick'
Um, yeah, that wasn't what I was upset about.... And the show did go fine....
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Post by Frostbite200 on May 10, 2010 18:12:00 GMT -6
Is it just me Nick?, or are you on here a little more now?
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Post by spideyfan914 on May 10, 2010 19:36:36 GMT -6
This board has been slow lately.... I'm sending out an invitation to ToonZone guys! ;D
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Post by Nickpick on May 11, 2010 10:22:27 GMT -6
am i on here alittle more? i haven't really noticed!
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Post by cradleman on May 11, 2010 10:43:55 GMT -6
actually, you are on here a lot more. when we started you were here like once a week, lol.
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