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I am going to post my shit first then I get to write my tech crew a fun email. We had what can only be summed up as a not so good show last night. But the interesting this is WHY the show wasn't good. It wasn't because we missed cues (okay we missed a couple), or that someone broke something (well one prop), or even that someone got hurt (um, damn, yeah that happened too). It was because people let too much of their personal lives seep into the show during performance time and they were too busy with all that then the show at hand. Unlike my director who blew up at everyone and made everyone feel horrible, I have to think of a way to spin this so that it comes across as login rather than emotion. Emotion is not going to solve the problem or help us for the next show. It's just going to isolate and piss people off more which is not the desired result. I think I have it figured out but I need a little more time to think it through.

Now my day on the other hand for the most part was pretty enjoyable. The kid and I had an adventure in the city for the most part of the day. We headed up around 9 on the morning train and proceeded to just bum around. We went to the Disney store, some clothing stores, had a great burger, got a new piercing, talked, relaxed, and had fun.

Oh that? Yeah, I got a new piercing. Right ear, tragus, 14g captive. I like it. It balance my ears out now. To people without tattoos or piercings it's hard to explain, but there becomes this mental urge for symmetry. Recently some group announced the 'most beautiful woman' based on science. You look at a picture of this person and you're like wow she is gorgeous. No makeup, no fancy clothes, just beautiful. Then they explain why - it's because she has perfect symmetry in terms of how far her eyes are apart, the lip top to nose ratio, her ears to cheek ratio, etc. Because of the layout of her face, we are instinctively drawn to her. Same thing when you have tattoos and piercings. You end up striving for this type of symmetry in them. Hence, new hole in my head.

We got home around 3 and both of us rested before the show. We had taco bell for dinner because we didn't want to eat anything really, and then headed up to the show. Things started out okay. I was on music for the first part of the show and even though it was a new theater, I managed to get patched into their sound system without too many problems. Then people started showing up. Our people. One was drunk, one had a migraine, two are dating now and that's creating tension, one was hanging all over the kid's XBF - just a shit ton of personal drama that ended up falling on me as a department head to deal with instead of enjoying myself.

We got our asses chewed out after the show but I felt good about one thing. I handled it very calmly and in an adult fashion. What I hope the rest of the cast saw was our director losing it while I was being cool and not yelling back or being a douche. I hope that they have a certain respect for me in regards to how I handled myself given the situation. That's all I can ask for in a case like this.

Got home again around 3, went to bed.

Time to send that email...