Work and Wyrd Sisters ramblings

I have just spent the most mind numbing hour on the phone taking down 257 messages from the answering machine. About a month ago, the company answering service went down and no one picked up on it until recently (technically I should I noticed, but I didn’t due to work load). So of course, people calling up for tickets, retail and general enquiries slowly started to load up. And when the phone was answered, we’d get some ratty comments.
I’ve had to stop for a break as my head was on the brink of a melt down. There’s only so many times you can hear ‘message left…at…9.34…a..m…on the 13th…April…2..00 and…7’ *apply date and time required* in one sitting.

On other news, although I’ve been working under one boss this past year or so, the company’s main Managing Director has returned for 4 months and there’s something strangely comforting about having the boss who you’re desperate to make a good impression on, smiles at you in a meeting and makes full eye contact with you, when she’s been trying to watch you out the corner of her eye so will instantly look away when you glance at her.
Of course I made a couple of mistakes when she first arrived back to work from maternity leave, but that was only out of an overload of nerves. I’ve done a couple of hundred things now to make up for that so I think I’m making headway.

And moving on:…lines are coming along nicely. Of course I’m not 100% confident YET as I’ve only had about a week or so with them, but I haven’t put the book down. I had been reading Terry P.’s A Hat Full of Sky and had been a few pages away from the finish when I put it down to start work on the script. The script has now become my travelling, lunch time and bed time read and Tom has done wonders going through them with me. I’m aiming off book this Sunday. The sooner I stop relying on the script, the sooner I’ll gain confidence for the show and be able to concentrate on characterisation. At the rate I’m going, hopefully that should be a safe goal. Please note, this isn’t ass kissing, this is nerves of ‘oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit just a little way before the show itself!!’

(there’s something strangely comical in looking at the spell check for the above sentence ‘Of course I’m not 100%...’ and having it read back ‘Of course I is not…’
Goes to show you can’t depend entirely on spell check as it can go Koboldy on you *larp reference*)

On top of that, due to show nerves steadily building (I think mainly because I’d like to rehearse more, but won’t have as many full cast rehearsals with everyone as I’d like), my appetite is going up which is a massive pain in the arse, mainly because I’m at work 8 hours everyday, I don’t get to snack as much as I’d like to. Usually I have some bread and butter or pull something out of the fridge whenever I like. At work I can’t. So the larper in me comes out and tries to keep me going until I have the lunch Tom makes everyday, then I buy a sandwich from the guy who comes round everyday. But it’s a bastard waiting until then. For those of you who don’t know the larp reference, when you’re at a large event with more than one faction, the most likely thing to happen when you’ve finally settled down for a burger after waiting for about 5 hours since breakfast is someone will scream, ‘Void gate!!’ and unless you want to miss out on the fun to have your food, you need to chew what you’ve eaten then go into battle. Usually there’s at least one person who says ‘you guys go, I’ll look after these’. You can never really allow yourself to get hungry at an event, or at least eat the second you get a chance. That’s why it’s a big bonus to carry around bars of snacks or packets of fruit etc.

However, more great news is that my new boss has given me the show week off. I hadn’t taken it off before as I figured I’d be ok working and having a couple of late nights with just a few lines. Now things have changed and after my nerves on Sunday, I realised if I’m going to be this tired after a rehearsal on Sunday, going to work, then doing tech and the show after is going to kill me.
This is yet another element which has started growing the seed of excitement towards the show inside me. I’m looking at the show as a bit of a holiday. I’m going to be away from work, sleeping in late, I’ll have time to actually do things until the evening when rehearsals/show begins so it’s great!
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Anyway, I shall cease my scritchings as I think this is long enough and if I continue, scary things may ensue.

On wards and out.