Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Keeping Busy

So with this faltering economy, I've been trying to find ways to keep myself busy. Lately I'm getting about 3 days a week at work. And that's not the number of days I'm scheduled. On average, I am scheduled 1 day a week and the only thing saving me right now is the number of call-in's to work. A lot of full timers are being scheduled in shifts they wouldn't normally be on and rather than do the work, they are nice enough to call in and let part timers take the shifts.

But in the mean time, I'm trying to keep busy. USITT is just around the corner and I've already booked my hotel and tickets for Cincinnati, OH. I'm also getting certified in CPR and looking forward to hitting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland before we leave.

We (as in the FCCT crew) are also gearing up to help out at the Theater Festival at Fullerton College for local High School students. My friends and I will host a mini session for techs in the afternoon. Something we are modeling after attending USITT last year. Zach and Steve attended a mini-session on light focusing and found it to be lacking true organization.

Our hope is just to get this started, it may turn out to be an Question and Answer session this time to find out what we can offer the students in the future. Maybe we can start the first high school version of a USITT session weekend?

It's amazing what we can come up with when we just have a lot of free time on our hands. And the funny part is, the only thing that has left me feeling really accomplished in the last few days was fixing the TV reception in the follow spot break room at work.