There is something oddly relaxing in the tech process. Yes it can be stressful and crazy at times when its happening, but I always seem to feel more at peace when a day of tech is done then just a day of regular work. At least out here where I only have the one job of running the show to worry about. Designing is a whole other beast and when that is happening tech can be a nightmare, but for now I am realizing how much I love what I do.

If I only take away one thing from this summer, which is definitely not the case as I have already learned very much in a small amount of time, is that this is truly what I want to spend my life doing. I'm not just in theatre because when I got to college my girlfriend was in theatre and I wanted to take a class with her. Yes, that's where it started, but having since moved on from that I know this is where I want to stay.

I am also getting a bunch of crazy ideas I want to try to incorporate into future designs as well as new ways to trouble shoot things. For example, in November, which is the show that is in tech right now there are two phones on stage that ring, constantly. It would be safe to say the phone(s) is a character within itself. However these phones are multi-line phones and therefore will not ring with a simply Tele-Q to activate the internal ringer. So we wired up the phones to operate as a tiny satellite speaker and are playing a pre-recorded phone sound through them. This also allows for more onstage effects to happen in the correct places on stage without wiring and hiding another speaker somewhere in the set.

Wow, two posts in the first day. Maybe this thing will actually survive.