"aren't you excited!?! aren't you excited?!?"

[acroyear]

To quote Shelby from Sound & Fury, "I get that a lot..."

Seriously, am I excited 'bout opening day/weekend?

No, not really.  I let that kick in over the 3 day weekend.

The entirety of opening day for me is logistics.  Nothing but logistics.  Props here, props there, figuring out when shows are, figuring out where crowds will be that will make movement difficult, figuring out what to do for the inevitable prop left behind, figuring out if we'll get any new material, figuring out what collaboration requests will come along to fill in our unscheduled 3rd half-hour, figuring out if HMT will have new tambourines or other nifty things to budget for, figuring out which shows and acts are gone in order to answer the inevitable "what happened to ...", figuring out what shows are new and determining how into the "recommended" list they go, figuring where the "10 foot rule" will most affect my partner*, answering over and over again, "yes pub sing is back all season long and yes Hell Froze Over 'cause Jack Rackham is back today", and much more.  Oh, and then there's seeing everybody for the first time in 3 weeks, 3 months, 3 weather seasons, or even 3 faire seasons!

In short, I ain't got time to get excited.  I'll be lucky if I find time to eat.

And closing weekend is worse.

* oh - the answer to that is "everywhere".  duh...

Comments

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

10 foot rule? What is this?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

faireraven is unable to walk more than 10 feet through the site (or backstage) before running into someone she has to talk to.

Corollary of the 10 foot rule is acroyear70 will reach the destination at least 30 minutes before she does, even though he has circled the entire site twice.

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, opening day.

Also known as "dress rehearsal"...

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

10 foot rule?
[edit: er, never mind. saw your response to tchwrtr]

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

Ah! Of course!