Don't Mess With Texas!

Howdy, y'all.

Sorry, I had to. I'm in Dallas today. Well, not really Dallas, cause I can't see much from my hotel, but the address card says I'm Dallas, so we'll believe it.

Life has been crazy... I feel like its been days since I had time to catch up with myself and what has been going on in life and the world. (I don't even fool myself into thinking I might know what is going on in the world at all, for that matter... so we'll just worry about life today.)

I haven't had a day off in over a week now. After the crazy storm in Brooklyn, we had to take a day to dry out our lights and figure out what was and wasn't going to work the following morning. We turned out ok, and only lost a few fixtures. Thankfully. And I was able to get a new phone - which was a huge hassle and cost me $400. But, communication is important...

Then life got strange the next morning. I walked out to the morning bus call to find another person joining the lighting team. It seems I was the only member of our entire crew that was unaware that he was coming to join us. So I had the freak out moment of ummm... am I losing my job and no one told me about it?? Is the crew chief finally being replaced? Turns out neither of these was the case, and Crash was just brought on board to make things easier all around. I haven't quite figured out if it was to ease tension between the crew chief and I or just cause things were moving too slowly and not getting done in the time table that production wanted. Either way, he's great to have around. He has made the working conditions improve greatly for me... we get along, we joke around, he's teaching me things I need to know to improve in my job. And he offers a buffer zone between the crew chief and I, which is definitely a bonus card.

So, four shows later, and I finally get to have a day to relax and enjoy. Yesterday was Bonarroo... and man do I wish the rain hadn't kept me from getting my memory card back from Alyssa as she fled the concert in Brooklyn. It was a site that deserved lots of pictures, as no words can really describe the spectacle that is a music festival like that. I felt odd being a preppy kind of girl, surrounded by hippies. But it was great fun to wander around and experience the different culture. And made even more fun by the fact that we didn't bring in our own lights and I essentially got to have the day off.

We're into the home stretch now. 7 more shows to go. Seems unreal that I've been in so many place in the last month. I can't even begin to think about how many more I'll add to the list come fall. I'm hoping to cross a few more states off my list of place to visit (I only have 6 states left to visit before I have all 50 covered).

Its been way too hot to knit. Not to mention I've had no time. I did add a few more rows to the clapotis. But I've got three skeins left, so I'm going to make it bigger and keep going for another ball and a half or so before I decrease. Technically, I could decrease now, but bigger is better, isn't it?