Tuesday the 16th.... we start the day getting things together to go shoot at the Rachael Ray studios. I have a handful of artists going to be on the show. I am supposed to have 2 people going to be with them and all of their costumes. I am told that i can only have one - that would be me!!!! I told them i would need a rack to transport the costumes too as the dog costumes they want will take up a WHOLE lot of room. So i cram all the dog stuff into three rows in the van - because NO ONE LISTENED TO ME ......regarding the space needed to get these things across town. We are in 2 14 passenger vans, and there are 3 PR people, 9 artists, myself, a prop person, a make up person, 3 rows of dog costumes, 2 already pumped up acro balls that take up 2 seats by themselves, 15 hula hoops, 4 spears, 4 laundry baskets full of accessories and two donuts that the acro balls sit on to keep them from rolling across the floor when not in use. Once i have left i get a semi frantic call from my left hand asking if some of the artists are supposed to have on costumes. I said they were - but of course there was a mis-communication and they had to be sent in a cab with the second dresser that i had wanted in the first place. Luckily Rachael Ray has pushed our taping back an hour and there is no hurry and the costumes here. BUT it ticks me off that it got screwed up in the first place. Stage management says that Cirque didnt want them involved so... that is how things get crazy. A doesnt talk to B and so on. So we are supposed to be out at 4! on the dot...but Nooooooooo of course not. Rachael wants to do some teasers with a few of the artists so some are sent back with one van and the other dresser and all of the dog costumes. The second van will take back some of the others and the first van will return for us. HA!!! Well, it is now 5 pm and rush hour. We have sent back the rest of the artists as we have an invited dress at 730 tonight. We will wait for the first van to return for us. That doesnt happen. It is rush hour as i said and getting across town is nuts - so is trying to catch a cab in rainy weather. we try for a cab while waiting for the van.....signals get crossed with the Rachael Ray staff and they CANCEL the van to come back for us....and we aren't having luck with a cab.....did i mention i still have an armful of costumes needed for tonight's performance? F! F! F!!!!!! this is not good. Luckily i am with the PR people and not really crazed , to much anyway, at the moment. Finally a cab comes and we make it back to MSG just seconds behind the second van. Time to get moving and get everyone ready for the performance. I have missed lunch and dinner and hundreds of questions are thrown at me as i enter the wardrobe room. Good thing i can think fast under pressure and we get everything ready for showtime. Oh well.. it went well... and the Rachael Ray episode will be aired the 23rd.
ok.. so i have been a bit negligent about keeping up with the blogging thing.... but what can you expect from a sleep deprived woman?? Last week on my 2nd to last day of work i went home - i SWORE i had let the dog out..... went to the bathroom, had something to drink, put fresh water and food in her dish, went back out to collect aforementioned dog......she was no where to be found. Now you have to understand that i have a fenced in yard - the dog is up there in years so hopping the fence isn't an option for her.... at least i didn't think so. I went back to the house for a flashlight to be able to look in all the dark crevices of my yard to be sure she wasn't hiding herself, or because she has a tumor that is just waiting to end her life, make sure her life didn't end while outside. I searched, confused, for a good three minutes....thinking where the hell did she get to?? Just to be sure ... i go into the house one more time... and check her bed... and there she is ..laying like a lump....i shake my head in the sad resignation that i realllllly need some more sleep.....maybe come January 10th! OYI !
12.5.10
The crazies have brought in donuts.... i yell a them for bringing in sugar and chocolate....we live on that stuff and its not good.... sugar rushes run rampant...and we are all getting a bit crazed. Elaine from hair dept is leaving and they have chocolate covered strawberries and quiche and scones laid out....that on top of the fact that they will feed us in between shows makes for ALOT of damned food all day. They at least get a bit more sleep that i do now that we are on a regular schedule.... My regular schedule is still the same 8 am - 11 pm....5 days a week on the 6th its only 8 am - somewhere between 3 and 5 pm.. or maybe the latest 7 pm.... ::::huge sigh::::::::
we are at the end of the 11 show week with 2 1/2 shows still ahead of us....Elaine from the hair dept is leaving and the dreaded PAYROLL.......I have broken down though and bought Excel so the MSG people (ie TIM) can send me his files for payroll and i have all the formulas. I am not sure i will trust them all but i will give it a go. If he was waiting for me to figure out all the formulas he would have to wait til mid Jan - which kinda defeats the reason for buying the program. Come next week when everyone complains about things being wrong in their check - i will blame if on TIM!!!!! lol......Technology - fuckit!
i am actually taking off 2 days this up coming week and i will leave as soon after the middle of the third show as i can IF payroll is done... IF people stop asking me questions ...IF we have no emergencies that require us to work other things while trying to complete payroll. we will see... coma-land is calling me tonight.... and maybe it will snow and i will be able to crawl under the covers tomorrow and not be seen til tuesday. :::singing::::: Wouldn't it........ be loverly, love...r...ly, lov...er...ly??
12.6.10
ok.. so on my day off.... i woke up at 830... texted my assistant Ellen at the shop... who promptly told me she was going to shut off her phone if i didn't go back to sleep and leave her alone. Well, thats like throwing down the gauntlet... and of course i had to do some more texting...then i texted another employee to tell her i had "eyes" everywhere......i cant repeat in mixed company what she said then! lol... then i did go back to sleep and woke up at 130.... ahhhh, feeling semi human. went to the bank, the fabric store, Michaels - craft store to shop for work stuff, grocery shopping, toys for tots shopping, and i am exhausted. Time for sleep again so i have strength for tomorrow.
12.7.10
what do i do on my day off from theatre??? why , spend it in a theatre of course. We got a free tkt to see Mary Poppins. It was great but i think i should have stayed home and taken full advantage of the day off... but , hey, you're only young once!
the end....
well, things finished ..this is being written WAAAAYYYY after the show has closed. Which may be a good thing. I LOVED my job....but i hated the way that i found out that someone i THOUGHT was nice... wasnt so. I was rounding a corner and hear someone telling someone else that i wasnt doing any work .......and all the slack was being picked up by others.
This to shall pass.....and those that know me -know ME!
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!
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