Settling in

Slowly, we're all getting used to the routine at APT. I grateful to have a car this time around. It makes visiting Andrew and using my cell phone all the easier. I had briefly thought of purchasing a pay-as-you-go phone, but even with gas as high as it is, it is cheaper to drive the 10 minutes to find a pocket of service on my current phone. That and the phone cards I had all bumped the service fee from pay phones to 35 minutes per call.

APT has gone wireless throughout the administrative buildings as well, making internet a little more accessible. The hardest part to get used to in such a small town is that most stores close at 5 or 6. Seeing as we work until 6:30, that makes it difficult to take advantage of the local retailers. Still we have Mondays off.

The costume shop is in full swing. From the sounds of it, most of the draping teams have gone through the mock up/muslin fittings and will be doing fabric fittings this week. We start teching the first show in two weeks and don't stop until the end of June. The first three shows look very promising, though I was skeptical of Romeo and Juliet and Matchmaker at first. Julius Caesar looks like the biggest challenge of the season, but with several pounds of plastic for armor, several gallons of blood and a full body cast of Caesar, it should be quite the spectacle. Too bad that it the last show they're opening. I head back to Jersey the weekend after it opens. Though It makes sense that this would be the shortest run---it has the most consumables compared to the rest of the season.

At some point I need to print out a letters for the designers here that I wanted to hand my resumes off to. I also received a return to sender on the resume addressed to Gregg Barnes. That was disappointing. I would have loved an interview with him, but honestly I could not picture myself working on Legally Blonde the musical.