Chaos Attraction

The Cockroach of Community Theater

2022-04-16, 2:40 p.m.

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This morning's online class went MUCH BETTER than last week, thank goodness. He got on the ball, stopped throat-clearing after a mere 15 minutes, and had a bunch of paintings he'd done to illustrate each topic he was talking about. He also stuck to psychology and psych issues rather than complicated math, which helped a lot.

The one thing I thought was funny was that dude can't deal with people talking on the chat, but he wants them to talk about his paintings and agree with him! Um....

Linda doesn't have Covid. Yaaaaaaaaaaay and also whew. I didn't even bother to tell Scott about that one.

Set construction went better today. Steve didn't start it until 11, which I agree with since I'm the only one who'd show at 10 and I'm useless on this one. I actually got to do a little painting this time--painting the bar from Beauty and the Beast, painting the coffin and the coffin platform, sharing that with Lindsay mostly.

Attendees this week: me, Brunette Sierra, Scott (yup, he came), Arielle, Isaiah, Lindsay and her husband Steven, who is a general contractor and thus very useful.

I note that last week it took all day long for one piece of furniture (more or less) to get made because we only had 1-2 people who knew how to build anything around. With Sierra, Scott, and Steven around to delegate them onto different projects, we got the coffin done (Scott), the platform to roll it in on (Sierra/Isaiah/Arielle, me pretending to do...something), the headboard done (Scott) and the railing for last week's platform mostly done except Steve hit his limit and wanted to go home (Sierra/Scott). Steven was assigned to the resolving door and set up the cross platform on wheels for that before leaving for the day. It sounds like most of these people are going to attempt to be in at some point tomorrow when free even though it's Easter--I noted that next Saturday is The Biggest Event Of The Year here and I figured he'd get even less people than usual to finish stuff.

Rocky Horror came up in conversation, as Sierra asked Lindsay and Steven how they met and the answer was "Rocky Horror." I didn't (bother to) ask Scott if he wanted to go last night, but since he never wrote back to my message about Rocky being brought back... Anyway, when last night came up, all he asked was if it was his old group, and I said no, they announced last night that group broke up due to pandemic and gave the new group all their stuff. Then he went on about various Rocky experiences, de-virgining, yes, he's heard of Andy getting around the RH scene, etc. That was about as lively as he got--pretty cute there, but mostly he was pretty quiet and off in the back cutting stuff with saws or whatever.

At one point Steve asked him if he had siblings and he said "only child" and Steve said "lonely child," and Scott said, "Very lonely." Awww, I felt so sad for him. Reminded me of his grandmother's funeral.

I note that less and less people are wearing masks (sigh). Steve said that we were the only theater requiring them and it hurts ticket sales, so that had to go (SIGH). Scott was going around without one on most of the time and I actually saw that he had a zit. Ridiculous, but he has such a pretty perfect face I kinda felt better that even he gets 'em once in awhile, apparently.

Mostly I did some painting, helped Jean haul boxes of hats around (and got 4 free pairs of legwarmers for it), occasionally looked for tools or held something in place.. the usual. And got some knitting done, har har.

Quotes:

Steve to Sierra: "Did you get herpes?" because apparently Paul had one break out on the last week of Urinetown. She said they nuzzled noses instead and Steve was all "that was funnier."

Steve told a joke about coffee and camels and "one hump or two," then followed up with "I'll be here all week." Isaiah: "Lucky us."

Steven had some interesting thoughts on work, both being a contractor and teaching: "I teach high school, so it's fun to act like an idiot."
"I prefer working with girls because they're pain averse."
On electricians, they have "the highest concentration of teeth and IQ points." (Scott called this "magnificent.")
Steve to Lindsay: "Thank you for bringing him and marrying him."

Arielle to Lindsay: "What an opportunity to paint your own coffin!"
Lindsay: "Surreal." (Note: she's not actually going to be in the thing and the lid was sealed.
Steve: "Won't open. She's never coming out." I had to make some comments about what happened to her body IRL.
Steve said last time they got a real coffin from someone, but it smelled terrible. "Probably used."

I went out into the lobby to each lunch and heard Jan and Kimmie discuss set stuff.
Jan: "They are tearing off their clothes again."
Kimmie: "Terrific. Very slutty."

Here's the Spanish people know:
Steve: "Como esta usted?'"
Me: "Puedo ir al bano."
Sierra: "Cerveza, por favor."

Steve: "Ask Jan, she knows where all the good screws are."

Steve and Steven had the inevitable conversation about how they don't like going by the other's version of their name.

Scott: "Anyone need to stake vampires?" Me: "Always keep some around, just in case."

Steven asked if Steve cared if people see the wheels on the door. Steve: "If they're looking at the wheels, we're in a lot of trouble. Your wife's gonna be in a negligee."

Steve, going for irony with this: "I can't stand cursing. It fucking bothers me!"

Steve: "It's unusual at the theater, something's straight."

Steve: "We're like the cockroach of community theater."


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