a change of pace

So here I am once again about a week between postings but oh well, I try.

So after my break for the weekend and spenging some time with my family, I came back monday and they were putting in tv. Woohoo. Although I still find that it doesn't hold as much appeal as I thought it would. Maybe that's a good thing.

I went into work today at 6:30. Took the 6'o'ckock bus. Boy did I get wet... Still not as bad as the time I had to walk all the way across campus and a car drove by and the water flew over Cole. We were soaked that day.

But I digress... So I got the the theatre today and had no idea what to expect. I got there and just sorta hung around till rehearsal started at 7. The Stage Manager gave me a script and I was going to give actors lines, but my magnifier died. So that didn't work out.

I felt useless so I asked the SM if there was something I could do to help. She said that my job was to learn the show because I'm going to be the light board op. Cool, never done that before.

Oh and I found out that they want to use Doc in the show! Of course i said yes! I'm going to try to get pictures.

Don't go back till rehearsal again thursday evening. Tired... it's been a weird and long day.
Later

Ain't it great when things come together?? :)

Ok, so first off. I'm tired, it's been a Long day and the post that I just posted, I had to re-type. Ok, so here we go about today.

So my day started off with a phone call from Ed.
So this is what I found out. Evidently the tv guys are being a pain and that particular one is no longer in stock. Ed was like, 'sure fine I'll pay an extra 70 dollars just get it here before the 30th or you won't get any money. So hopefully tv will be here sooner rather than later.
Ed and I talk about the "What now?" question everybody keeps asking me. Since my work schedule is changing due to tech starting and summer camp, my mornings are all free. Thus meaning more time to do some career exploration stuff. What that entails, I donno but we will see.
Lanny came and replaced my lightbulb and took my laptop. After Constence and I went through and swept up dog hair (ugh) we were able to go. Since I didn't have anything to do I hung out with Lanny. I got to see what the insides of a laptop similar to mine looks like (very cool). We discovered though that my poor laptop after having just had its hinges replaced is now toast. The inside of the place where the power supply plugs in, evidently broke. So by by laptop. I just-so-happened to be playing with one and it turned out to be the loaner they're going to give me. But here's the kicker with that, since I'm out of school and currently jobless- that needs a computer- they're not going to get me one. That's fair I guess... But my sister has one that something has happened to and we're going up to see my aunt who's a computer guru and hopefully she can make it work for me. If not, who knows.

So I went to work, we painted, and I got a show t-shirt. Winthrop didn't do shirts for shows (wish we had) but the theatre staff got me one. It's a nice shirt. I'm supposed to go talk to the summer teens tomorrow about the summer internship program, so I'm going to rock my new shirt.

When I got home today, first thing I noticed was that the computer was moved, second thing I noticed was a long black cable run from by the tv, over the doorframe, and down to the computer (they do make white coaxial cables, I promise) so... I have internet, yay. That's why there are two posts in one day.

Not working at Town tomorrow or Friday. I'm going home after the meeting at 3, YAY! It turns out though that their's not room for me on the van anyway, so I may get a ride back with Liz Alexander as well as a ride home. Looking forward to getting outta here for a while. I'm sure Doc is too.

Ok, that's it, I'm tired...
Good Night!!
Nancy
PS: tomorrow I'll be at home!!!!

Written yesterday... A Whole Lotta Feelin's Goin' on

June 22- about 9pm

So this weekend I finally decided that I couldn't stand it anymore. So I called Ed and was basically like, I don't have anything to do. (I've been here since the 1st and haven't had tv and I've been 'borrowing' a neighbor's wi-fi so that I could stay connected with the world.

Well, Saturday morning I woke up to find that the internet signal I had been using was now all gone and that was the way I was getting movies and having stuff to do. So now I have absolutely nothing to do, so I called Ed and let him know this.

Well I got cable in last friday, but for whatever reason, the internet wasn't included in the installation. So I have a nice new computer and can't use it.

So it seems that my phone call must have had some results because rather than the internet being installed sometime before the 30th, it's going to be installed sometime before the week is out.

So I've got cable but no tv. Evidently as of about two weeks ago, the tv was on back order. So hopefully I'll get tv soon too. I called Ed again tonight to talk about that and about the fact that my lightbulb in my room is burnt out (trust me, I tried to fix it, But I'm too short) so this is a bit frustrating especially since we went shopping last week or so and got lightbulbs but the bulb hasn't been fixed yet. I'm having a hard time waiting for people to do things when I'd much rather just do them myself, especially when I'm capable of doing it. Although I wouldn't be able to do anything about tv or internet.

Ok, ranting done, I promise. Just needed to get that off my chest.

Ok, so now... Summer Camp at Town is offically underway for the "backstage Pass" portion. This is the summer camp where kids get to help with building the set and focusing and hanging the lights, etc.

We've got about four or five kids here this week. Most are about 11 or 12 but we have a 16 year old. They're pretty cool, willing to do whatever we need them to do. I admit myself honored. Danny told the kids that if I ask them to do something, they should treat it as if he had asked them to do it, wow.

My hours this week are weird because camp doesn't start until 1:30. So yesterday I went in at 12:30 and found that I had nothing to do for almost an hour. So today I thought I would catch the 1 o'clock businstead... Well that wasn't the best idea. I think I heard that bus broke down, needless to say I hung out in the heat for 45 minutes.

So I think tomorrow I'm going to go in at 12:30 again maybe their's something I can do.

So as far as yesterday went, we and the campers worked on various things. I know they put casters on bes and screwed in a lot but I don't remember what else they did. Today was neat, when I arrived Danny was lecturing about lighting instruments, specifically Source 4's (no idea where the name came from). Another thing we did was take out the trap. Man is that So much easier here. Danny covers his stage floor with masonite to give it a smooth finish, so all we had to do was unscrew it and the trap lay below it. Their trap is essentially a platform of metal attached to an arm and essentially workes like a scale where the amount of sandbags on one end should make it easy to lift the person on the platform. Because I was the taller of us, Danny and I pushed up on the platform while the kids pulled down on the sandbags. It wasn't bad at all. I didn't do it though... woulda needed a few more sandbags. Although Danny said they lifted an almost 400 lb guy... took six guys to do it, but they did it.

So a piece of news. I was working on my time sheets and so far I've worked 104 of my 120 hr internship. I worked 34 hrs last week and 39 the week before. This week because of camp I'll have about 15 to 20.

All-in all things are going ok. I'm thinking about things. This internship is fun, but I can't help the feelings that are inside me. It's almost like I can hear and feel a voice saying'yes this is fun, but this is not right.' I don't know what it all means but I wasn't aware of having that thought before it randomly popped into my head one day. So, I'm not trying to read too much into it, but I feel compelled to at least pay it a bit of attention.

I've met a lot of interesting people waiting for and riding the bus. People lost their jobs, people going into programs to pull themselves from a homeless situation, people trying to better themselves, and people just doing what they can with what they have.

I feel honored to be with them and hear their stories. I am forever going to be grateful for this experience. Even when people are down on their luck and have nothing to hope for, lost their car and have to ride the bus, they find hope somewhere. Talk about a lesson.

Think I'll go now.
Nancy
PS: Keep faith that tomorrow is going to be another blessed day.

A few days to catch up on

Hi guys,
So I'm not sure what it is about my not being able to keep up with this every day, it's not like I'm extremely busy in the evenings...

As far as what I've done since I last posted, well I honestly can't remember what I did on Wednesday. But something I did yesterday was cool. I used the recipricating saw (jig saw). I've never done that before, that one always kinda made me nervous and I didn't like the idea of trying to follow a line while cutting at the same time. What we were doing was we were taking a sono tube (tall cylindrical tube made from cardboard) and we were cutting 3 feet off of it to make it shorter. To do this, we were using a circular saw and a recipricating saw. Jill used the circular saw to cut the line and I used the jig saw to cut the bracing inside the tube because the blade on the circular saw was unable to cut through the bracing all the way. It was cool, all I had to do was stick the recipricating saw into the space that had already been cut and guide it downward so that the bracing was cut completely.

Today was a relatively short day, or at least it seemed like it. When I got there today, I was given a 4x4 and Danny set the chop saw so that it wouldn't cut through the board completely. So what i had to do with this was starting about 6 inches into the board, I had to cut the board so that a big chunk was missing so that we could rest par of the board on top of something and the rest of it beside whatever it is that the board is being secured to. I don't know if that makes any sense but I have pictures.

We also screwed fence panels together and flew them. I got to work more with the hardware involved in rigging. It seems like here at Town we fly a lot of set pieces, just about everything that can be flown, is. So I've gotten good at attaching the pieces together for rigging, the shackes, the o-rings, the turnbuckles and the quick clips. I remembered something that Biff told my stage craft class about quick clips. "You always screw down, so you don't screw up." What that means is that when you have everything on the clip ready to be flown out, you screw the bolt downward. I'm not sure about this but I think that the reason you do it that way is because if you screwed it upward, over time it will get unscrewed, therefore a hazard presents itsemf, because the stuff on the clip could easily come off.

Oh and I remembered what we did on Wednesday, we finished painting the arches for the Daddy Warbucks mansion. We put the sono tubes on yesterday and Danny put the bases on this morning. It's almost finished. It's going to look great. The gold metallic paint looks really nice.

The picture at the top of this blog post is of the cut that I was doing this morning with the 4x4. I don't think it will let me put more than one picture otherwise I would post more.

Weekend ahead, got computer and cable, but the work order for the internet didn't go through and the tv's still not here yet, so it'll be another weekend of Netflix. Which is pretty cool.

It's Been A while

Picture is a representation of a counterweighted fly system which is what Winthrop as well as Town have.

Hi All,
This is going to be a bit long...
So as far as thursday and Friday go, I did a lot of painting, then building, then flying things, then some more painting and then some more building. It's never-ending, lol.

So as for yesterday (Monday). Danny thought summer camp was starting this week so he had me come in around noon yesterday only to find out that it doesn't start till next week. So Yesterday was a short day. In 3hrs Danny and I built a 16x24 foot wall... I could be wrong about my dimensions all I know is that this thing is Huge. It actually worked quite well. We would add weight to the fly system to accomidat for the weight of the flats (wall pieces that go together to form a single wall) then we would screw them together as they were hanging. Then we would put gaff tape (tape that has thread woven into it so that it will stick to just about anything but doesn't leave a residue like duct tape). I don't recall taping seams between flats then painting over them at Winthrop but I didn't really do much in terms of painting on sets more than just doing a base coat.
So once we got the seams taped and I painted over the tape we would go add more weight and fly it out (or up) so that we could add more flat pieces. Not bad for two people and 3hrs I thought. Also I got to get in the gini lift. It was soo cool. The one here is completely operated by the person in the lift. In the one at Winthrop you could get yourself up, but you couldn't get yourself down or move yourself around. In this one you can. It's something I'd have to do more of to not be nervous in it, it had a tendency to jerk. Oh and I also met Paula, she works at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She brought something for Danny for props and they were talking about outdoor theater and evidently I'm going to be doing some stuff with them this summer too. It sounds neat, we're talking about working in the mornings though like 7am to noon because it gets too hot and it's outdoor theatre. All kinda cool stuff going on. So that was yesterday.

Today I arrived at 9:30-ish and we immediately go up to the platform and my job is to act as weight while standing on a brace (or jack as Danny called it). I thought this part took Forever but what was going on was that for whatever reason, our platform is about an inch different in height from one side to the other. So my weight was doing two things at the same time. One it was helping the flat to fall down and lean backward. The reason for this is that the wall is 16 feet tall (almost 3x my height) so this thing could easily tip forward, kinda scary. So we got one side removed from the pipe then I get off that jack and go to the other one. Well a few minutes into the process there is a yell from Danny then a clang to my left (I was facing up stage) then there is another loud clang kind of over-head then to my left.

So after we finished getting the wall secured we went over and investigated what had happened. If we've got something heavy hanging in a spot for a little while what we'll do is put a pipe in between the two ropes of the fly system then twist the pipe around and push it between the metal bars that make up the fly rail. Well what happened today was that we had the wall secured to the pipe by having a large reinforced piece of lumber attached to the pipe by bolts and chain then we screwed the wall to the piece of lumber. I'm not sure why but Danny was using a sawzaw to remove the wall from the piece of lumber. I'm not really sure what he was doing, I was on the floor holding the wall from falling forward. So when the wall was detached enough from the pipe the pipe shot up to the grid because the weight on the arbor (the thing holding the weight) was not being balanced by the weight of the wall, the pipe that was wrapped up in the rope came loose then the pipe shot up and the weights came crashing down. Needless to say, we made a lot of noise and I'd be lieing if I said I wasn't scared.

The fly system is something I have a pretty decent understanding of but the idea of flying heavy things above my head still makes me wary. The other part was, I couldn't go anywhere. If I were to go upstage it would be a 6 or 7ft drop to the floor and if I were to go downstage the wall would fall on me so the best place for me to be was right where I was. I bet it was a bit more scary for Danny up where he was. So what did I learn from this experience?
If you're going to do something like this, you should remove the extra weight before it completely detaches.

Other than that excitement this morning before lunch, we moved and electric downstage two pipes and then hung doors on the back wall and then hung doors and installed molding on the wall for the hallway/Miss Hanigan's office. It's coming right along.

Not sure what we're going to be up to tomorrow but I hope it's not a exciting

It's been a week

Hi everybody,
So lets see today was not nearly as exhausting as yesterday. I did a lot of painting today. I didn't really feel like I did very much but I have to admit, after yesterday, I was ok with that.
I was thinking about something today. This is my first experience in actually working in theater all day. From 10am sometimes 9:30, I'm busy doing something until 5 or like today 6. I decided that I'm glad that this experience is working out this way. The reason I say this is because when I was in school I worked in the shop 2hrs twice a week and 4hrs during a single day. Here I'm working about 6 straight hours every day. That is a big difference. I'm glad the difference is so big because this is going to help me decide if this is the sorta thing I want to do for a while or go in a different direction, I don't know, but I'm glad to have this experience.
I send my wishes for safe travel to my fellow intern Jill as she and her dad travel to NYC to see Phantom and two other shows that I can't recall the names of. It's going to be weird with her not being around.
I have to say I'm glad that I'm working with Jamie and Danny. They're picky or anal as they refer to themselves. I appreciate that. I want to know how they want things done, this helps me to figure out what my limitations are.
I already know that scene painting can be difficult for me. I need someone to check over my work and they'll gladly do it.
As for all that things are good I think I may be coming down with a cold. Not sure if it's the rapid changes in temp from outside to ac inside or if its being around all that saw dust every day. Who knows.
Think that's about it for today. We'll see what I get up to tomorrow.
Chat with you all later!

Phew... What a Day

So I realized this morning that I forgot to talk about what I did yesterday. I hate to say this but I only remember a few things.
I was painting some windows for our set when I first arrived, then I assisted in the legging up and attaching the smaller 4ft tall platform to the already-existing 6ft tall platform that's about 24ft wide. We also had to build a step down from the 6ft tall platform to the 4ft tall platform. I honestly don't remember what else it was that I did yesterday. Ah but one big thing, the renovation to the fly system is complete.

As for today...
It was a weird day. Yesterday Danny told Jill and I to wear jeans because we were going to be up on the grid and it's dirty up there. So I wore shorts to the theater, it's Columbia, wasn't about to wear jeans and have to stand in the sun. Oh and the bus came much more on time today. I think I only waited about 10 minutes this time. Yesterday it was 15.
So I get there this morning and first thing Danny and I do is climb the 48 feet to the grid. This means climbing a ladder that's attached to the wall up 20 or so feet then almost another 30 feet to the grid. Needless to say, I miss Winthrop's option of taking the stairs.
Then after I got to help load weight onto the fly system, Jill arrived and she and Danny went up to the grid to do the same thing. The reason for loading the weight onto the system was because we were moving the lights from one pipe to the pipe directly down stage of it. (That means closer to the audience).
So while Jill and Danny were up there I was continuing to transfer lights. It's not hard, just untighten a bolt, unclip the safety and put it on the pipe directly in front of it. After we transfered the lights we plugged them into circuits. These have numbers on them. This is important when setting up the way the lights will look for a particular scene. You turn certain circuit numbers on and off to get different lights to turn off and on, it's not as hard as it sounds.
After we did that, a truck arrived delivering 4,500 pounds of stage weights. Not sure how heavy they are, but needless to say, they are heavy. Oh and all of this moving was done by hand. We took a lunch break then we proceeded to move the weights on stage. Well in the process the wagon (platform with wheels underneath it) broke. So the Pallett with 3,000 pounds had to be taken apart and every single weight moved the the still working wagon we had.
I'm not really sure how long it took us to do that but we had to take a break after we got the 1,500 pounds unloaded, then we had to transfer the 3,000 pounds to the other wagon, then take them off the platform and put the where the stage weights go. Thank God the pin rail for the fly system is on the floor. I don't even want to fathom us having to put them somewhere else other than the floor.
It was actually kind of funny, when myself and someone else tried to make the wagon with the weights on it move, I would push myself backward. Once we'd get it rolling it was ok, but that was the hard part.
After a 20 minute or so break to catch our breaths Jill, Danny and I put some collumns together to be used for a set piece then we put the hardware on them so that we could attach them to the fly system. The only problem was we had to go up to the area between the grid and the floor to load more weights, so up the ladder again. Then we came back down and it still wouldn't move, then we had to back up again. The third time we tried to do it, we realized that I had one rope and was pulling one way and Danny had the other side and was pulling opposite, so no wonder we weren't going anywhere, oops.

So today was a longer than usual day, normally I'm done at 5, today it must have been closer to 5:45 because I got back to my place about 6. Needless to say, I'm sore and tired.
That's it for now.
Oh and the picture is of the pallet with the 3,000 pounds on it.

A Day Off- so what did I do?

Today has been a quiet day.
I slept in, that was quite nice I must say.
My parents and grandma came today. We went to the No Name Deli for lunch. It was good and the service was amazing. I'll go back anytime.
After lunch we drove by the theater so my parents could see it. Then after that we drove through USC's campus. Town Theater is right on the edge of the campus.
They left about 1 or so and for the rest of the day, I just hung out. Watchin stuff on Netflix.
Then tonight about 8:30 I made my first ever meal completely without anyone around to help out. It was awesome, I stuck to one of my favorites, spaghetti. It was a lot of fun and I learned some very important things. A stove with eyes like this one cooks faster than the one we have at home which is a cook top. Two I learned that you don't have to have the temperature set as high to get the food to cook just as well. It was awesome, I've never smiled so much while making and eating dinner. The best part yet, I have leftovers!
I may work with Danny tomorrow, I called and texted, so who knows. If not, I've got some laundry to do and probly go around with my swiffer thing. All-in-all, it was a nice quiet day. Although, I'm looking forward to going to church on Sunday with my friend Jason and riding back and possibly chillin' with my friend Emily.
Night all, going to bed.

Work at Town Day Two

Today was an interesting day.
It started this morning. Constance- apologies on spelling, who is the person that is in charge of the house I'm living in. She came over this morning to teach me how to use a new piece of equipment that reads bar codes and will give me information about whatever item it is pointed at. I was busy getting ready and learned something very valuable, make your lunch the night before.
So I got to the bus stop at about 9am. The bus is supposed to arrive at 9:15. Today however, I believe the bus driver must have been new because the bus didn't arrive until 9:35, so it was 20 minutes late.
I got to the theater and we were loading pipes that were from the fly system. We took those pipes in a u-haul to the warehouse that the theater owns. Interestingly it is about a block from the theater where the USC football team plays.
While at the warehouse, we loaded two large heavy staircases that are on casters. We're going to use them for Daddy Warbucks' house. One of the staircases had a railing so we had to take part of the staircase off so that it would fit in the truck. Needless to say, that was interesting. I'm glad that we did the moving of the really heavy stuff in the morning.
Once we got back to the theater, we put the staircase back together and we took a break for lunch.
After lunch, we meaning Jill and I were assigned the task of cutting pieces that were going to be used as facing for one of the staircases. The other had facing and we wanted them to match. We had to cut six pieces, so I cut half of them and had Jill cut the other half. After they were cut, it was time to attach them to the staircase. I've done this before so I asked Jill if she wanted to and she told me that she had never screwed something in before. I admit I was confused for a moment until she explained further that she had never helped in the building of sets before, only in the strike (taking the set apart after the last performance). So once I heard that, I had her do all of the screwing in but I was there to give suggestions and help when need-be. I thought that was a good idea, there were only six pieces and four screws per piece, so it wasn't that bad and she seemed to be feeling a sense of accomplishment. It's fun to help her learn this stuff. I remember people teaching me things and I find it fun to share my knowledge.
Once we finished with the staircase, Danny was still gone returning the u-haul so we were bored for a little while until I remembered Jamie (Danny's wife- the scenic artist) mention that she wanted one of the staircases painted. So Jill, Jamie and I painted it. It was fun, and now I can add my orange shirt to my collection of shirts with paint on them.
Once Danny got back, we put up some stringers that would tie our 8x8 platforms together. These things were Heavy. Boy I'm glad that some other guys just-so-happened to drop by for a few minutes. It would have been almost impossible for Jill, Jamie, Danny, and I to do that all by ourselves, who would have screwed it to the platforms?
So once we got those two put on with screws I went through and drilled holes for bolts and helped Jill put bolts in. Then after those were secure, I cut two more 2.4s that would be where the two 4x8 platforms are going to rest. This is complicated I know, I will take pictures, I promise.
But anyway back to the story. I think it's really awesome that Danny is kind of letting me take the lead on projects and doing the things that Jill just doesn't know how to do. I'm very honored to think that someone thinks me competant to do these little projects all by myself. The really gratifying part for me is that I actually know what we can do to fix stuff but still find things that I don't. Like for instance, I learned how to use a belt sander today. Never done that before but I liked it.
That's one of my favorite things about this experience. Yes, I know how to do a lot of stuff, but there are still many many things that I don't know how to do. And the way I've learned to do things isn't the only way. I appreciate getting to see how a project can be done using different techniques.
So no work tomorrow. My parents are coming to visit and bring me stuff I forgot. They were supposed to come Saturday but since they're coming tomorrow, I'll be able to work with Danny then. I've just got to figure out if the bus runs the same on Saturdays as it does during the week.
That's it for now, I'm about to crash as I type this.
Have a good night all.

Internship Day One- Town Theatre

Today was very cool. It felt very familiar to me.
I got up this morning about 7:45 (early, I know). Danny- the TD (Technical Director for all you non-theater folks) picked me up at my place around 10 or so, I don't really remember.
We got to the theater and I hadn't been there very long until I met the other intern. Her name is Jill and she goes to Coker college. She's a theater major also. She's a Sophomore. It was really nice to get to hang out with her because she hasn't done a lot of tech-stuff, so I got to help her do stuff.
Like today for instance, we were using the raiail arm compound miter chop saw. She had never used it before and was afraid of it. I just kind of gave her pointers on what to do and how to hold the wood against the fence and the way I was taught to cut wood on the saw. Interestingly, Danny was taught a different way than I was. I pull the saw forward, then chop down with the saw and push backward toward the back of the saw. He does it the other way, he chops down with the saw, then pulls forward with the saw. I tried it. It felt weird to me and I felt like the wood wasn't going to stay against the fence that way, but to each his own I guess.
Another interesting difference was that instead of using 2x4s to build platforms, he uses 5x4 board, which is more commonly used for decking (Thank you Dad for telling me that) I did notice that using that seemed to make the platforms a little bit lighter. Which is important when you're carrying quite a few around.
Another exciting thing going on at the theater right now is that the fly system is being re-strung- meaning the ropes and pulleys are being replaced. The guys are also adding 7 more line sets, meaning that the theater will now have 18.
This theater is pretty small, just in terms of dimensions. The Prosenium is 25ft wide and I think he said 15 feet tall. I don't think he told me how deep the stage is but there is only about 9 feet of wing space (and we thought we had it bad at Winthrop). The neat thing about replacing the fly system is that the way it's weighted is being updated to the system I was familiar with at Winthrop. For weights here, they used sand bags. I threw away about 20 or so today, they're messy when they leak.
I also got to meet the sound guy Chuck. I had been warned that he wasn't a nice guy (donno what it is about those sound guys), he seemed pretty nice to me. We were talking about some of the things I had done and the possibility came up that I may run sound for a few nights during the production. He said that he'd be glad to show me how to use the equipment, his sound board is something I've never heard of before. He also mentioned something interesting about certain frequencies that are no longer being allowed to be used because of emergency stuff. I think he said it was somewhere around the 1700mhz range, but I could be wrong.
Needless to say, today was a lot of fun.
Tomorrow I ride the bus to work instead while Danny gets a U-haul. We're going to move some scenery from the shop and take it over to his warehouse, and then bring some stuff back. I've seen the model, this set is going to be cool, and there will be a lot of flying.
Oh and this is really cool. His Gini life is so cool, you can drive it while standing inside it! Winthrop needs a cool one like that!
All right, think I'm gonna watch a movie or something.
Update more later.
Later

From Yesterday June 1- Day One Moving in and Geting Settlet

Today has been a Long day. It started out at about 7:45 this morning, but I should also mention what happened at 1am last night.
Evidently, Cole and Doc got into the box of Honey Nut Cheerios, and with Cole being a diabetic, it was really scary. He couldn’t walk, and I was very worried.
Needless to say it was for naught because he was fine by the time I woke up this morning.
Liz Alexander came and got me this morning around 9 or so. We got to the Commission about 10:40 or so. I met up with Clint the Mobility guy and we re-ran the route from the Commission to the theater, then from the theater to the bus stop, then back to the Commission.
After we got back, I got some lunch. Instead of having lunch in their cafeteria as I was used to, their cafeteria was supposed to be renovated, so for now they’re eating in the gym.
Then after lunch, I went with Margaret and we discussed the rules regarding my living in this house. I also signed a “lease”. I put it in quotations because the house and the lease and all of the things involved are designed to simulate living in an apartment on your own. It’s pretty cool. It’s pretend income but a few things are real. I have an allowance to be able to travel back and forth using SCCB transportation, I’m given a certain amount of money for groceries each month. Evidently I provide bus fare though. It’s not so bad it’s about $.75 one way. So it’s about $1.50 a day if I travel to and from work on the bus.
I’m not sure if that’s going to be an every day thing or not, but the good thing is that there is a Wachovia on my bus route, so if I need more quarters, there’s a Wachovia where the bus stop is. It couldn’t have been better.
It’s pouring outside and has been thundering pretty loudly for the last little while. I’ve gotta finish putting away my clothes, then I’ll probably take a shower and head to bed and call it an early night. I’m expecting visitors around 9 or so. My boss, Danny is supposed to be here around 10 to pick me up.
Think that’s about it for now. Ta Ta, write more tomorrow.
Nancy- 8:52 PM EST, Tuesday, June 1, 2010