Saturday, March 18, 2006

State of Flux

To leave or not ot leave? I'd hate to say I regretted heading home for four days, but when all of the effects of a relaxing weekend wear off in the 5 hour delay at the airport and missed 12:04 train I feel like I'm even further behind than when I started and even less sane. There is no spring break for us. Wednesday the costume shop dove right back into the show, working 9-6....more time than we spend in classes and shop combined. Today is the infamous bagel saturday. The estimates are that this will be the longest shop day in 8 years. Current bets are on 2 am. Which leaves Sunday to finally get to the mound of homework professors pile on before break. And the dance concert that the shop supervisor refuses to talk to me about because we are so wrapped up in Scapin at the moment. From the sounds of it, the shop is gearing up to jump right into Peace Prize. Half the shop doesn't even realize I've had my designs done for the dance concert for the last 3 weeks. But everyone in the design program leaves feeling screwed over. I think the sweat shop mentality of this week is the kicker. At least grad students paid for it. The undergrads are paying for this abuse. Three have gone on anti-depressants in the last year. But we never speak up to those who have the pwer to change it...

5 Comments:

Blogger nichole said...

I heard about your transit woes...that sucks. I'll be pulling for you this week.

March 19, 2006 at 12:30:00 PM CST  
Blogger Nicki said...

Ah, tech week! I hope your needle stays true and your thread stays strong...I'm sure you had a great time at home, even if you don't remember it. :)

March 19, 2006 at 4:14:00 PM CST  
Blogger Laura said...

So hard to know if it's worth it to travel when you have to leave and come back it such a short space of time. I'm debating the Easter thing and no one in my family thinks it's "worth it" to come out here. It's a 10 hour train ride to Milwaukee.
Sigh. Good luck to you. (Happy Birthday!)

March 20, 2006 at 9:06:00 AM CST  
Blogger Sarah said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!!!

March 20, 2006 at 11:49:00 AM CST  
Blogger Andrew said...

Happy birthday babe! Things will look up soon, I can feel it.

March 20, 2006 at 1:05:00 PM CST  

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