Pyro ([info]pyroweasel) wrote,
@ 2005-07-21 09:34:00
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Current mood: not happy

I'm not to happy with my life right now
Thats just my less dramatic way of saying I hate my life right now, but I hate that phrase. It sounds way too melodramatic.

But I'm definintely not pleased right now.

Kim called to tell me that Mr Sable scheduled the meeting for the Theatre Guild Borad thingie for next Thursday. While I'm in Cancun. And he wont change it because he wants to get started right away. What an asshole. And when I say that, I really mean that it's particularily rude of him to schedule something when I can't be there due to something that I've had planned for months. And I'm already missing the other thing that the board members are doing together! Which has been bothering me for weeks, because me dear sweet wonderful mother has been putting a lot of effort into the planning of that dispite the fact that neither of us is going to go. Really now, my mom put a lot of effort into making sure we go into that thing. If it wasnt for her, I'm not even sure the rest of the board could be goin. And for some reason this bothers me. She was even planning on being the one making phone calls to organize people to meet/get there. What the fuck?!?!?! Fine, I can understand you helping set it up, but theres no reason to plan the fucking meeting thingie. Well, to me, its like, thats just none of her business how they meet. She's already went above and beyond what she has to do for this situation.

But seirously now. It's not like I didnt feel alineated from this board in teh first like, thirty seconds of being on it. Seriously, becasue I was the last person elected mostly I suppose. And everyone and their mom was nominated for my position. Why? Okay, so I'm just being bitchy and feeling personally slighted for the way...some things... happened. Like seriously, was it necessary for all those people to be nominated? It just sorta made me feel like some people thought that they'd be a better representivite than me. And the fact that I was the last person elected. Fuck man. I'm kinda okay with it due to the fact that I got the only other position I wanted, but I still think its stupid. It makes me feel like its a freaking popularity contest. Which, I believe it is. Point in case (even tho I feel vile for being this much of a bitch) Caroline being VP. Does anyone in their right mind think she'd make a better vice president than me? Seriously now. I dont mean to toot my own horn or anything like that, but this past year I worked harder than anyone else in the guild. At least in the fact that I was always doing the shows, and oftentimes multiple shows at a time. But they chose her. Why? Becuase she got a lead? Because she was the only person who was on stage in every single show during the year? I dunno. Maybe I'm not giving the group enough credit, but I really do think that she was elected to that position moreso because shes "popular" amongst the group, and having been on stage so much, sometimes in big roles, she's seems kinda prominent. I guess I really shouldnt fault anyone for her being more prominent. But I dont think she did anything to earn it. She just got lucky. By that I mean, I dont think she worked any harder than anyone else. Like me. But I keep on feeling underappreciated because I worked my ass off on a lot of things this year for the guild, and how am I getting repaid? By the fucking board meeting being scheduled on a day that I can come because I'm out of the country!! Fuck.

It's just that, I've felt a lil alineated since I started this whole thing. Like when I had two days to go through a million letter application deelies. And what luck, most of em were messed up. So I had to fix em. And then I got Caroline mad at me because she heard from someone that I was "changing her points" well, shit. When you put it like that it sounds so ugly. I was fixing her mistakes. She took points for makeup on every single fucking show. You can't do that. If you did that, every actor would get points for doing makeup. But she got specialty makeup points on one show, that quite frankly, having been involved in that show, I dont believe actually happened. But it took me like ten minutes to explain to her that I wasnt doing anything wrong fixing her points. She was like "how could you do that without telling me" and I was all, "i was just fixing your mistakes, I was gonna talk to you about it before I turned it in or had the rest of the board approve it" but she was like, mad at me. Mad at me for doing my fucking job the way it was suppsoed to be done. I guess I just got that from my dad. Anything worth doing is worth doing right, if not well. And I got that girl mad at me. As well as a few others. And quite frankly, I felt a lil subservient when I was busting my ass to make sure every one on board saw the applications and approved them. Tho, realistically, the point of the whole board looking at em is to make sure no one took too many points, and I dont think anyone is more scrutinizing on those things than me.

But it really does suck, because I wanted to propose/clarify some things on the point system. Like how we should give techies more points or give actors less points for goin to tech day. And how we should have someone or a group of someones set the points that each person gets per show. Because we have the system that says you get a certain amount of points based on your role size, but thus far everyone has used their better judgement to decide what their role size is. So I think like the student director and the membership chair, and maybe someone else, should determine which roles in each show are leads, minor ect. And I'm just writing all this down right now so I'll remember to talk to Kim about it before I leave so she can take care of it since I wont be there.

And I'm trying to remember the other thing. Oh yea, we need to change our patch. I think I'll look up something like what I want our patch to be when I have time today. I've...I dunno. I just sorta bitched to my mom and now shes kinda upset beause theres nothing she can do and that always makes her upset. And she wants to do more, but she cant and I dont want her to. And yea.

And so I'm kinda not happy. Like with my life in general right now. Because things have been upsetting me. Or pissing me off. And while I've been trying to be mature about things, its fucking impossible for me to be mature about every fucking little annoying thing. It's impossible for anyone. I'm holding myself up to an unrealistic standard.

And I just need to get shit done right now. I'm done bitching. Since I've talked to my mom about it, I kinda feel like all it does is mess otehr things up.




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(Anonymous)
2005-07-22 06:56 pm UTC (link)
Um, you're being a bit unfair, don't you think? Caroline may not be the kind of person who looks like a leader, but that doesn't mean it isn't so. I personally have been trying to get her to leave and join CAT w/ me, but she has actually told me that she has a responsibility to the board and the guild to stay.

That's called commitment I believe...

Either way, you didn't want the job in the first place, so I don't see the big deal. No offense, but her job doesn't really get to do anything anyways. Besides, she's the perfect person to be representing the actors that get the leads, because it sure seems to me that you're trying to prevent them from getting as many points out of jealously. I understand the point system has its problems, but not to the point where you need to be lowering points for things such as actors going to set and strike. Sorry, but to go out of their way to help when they don't have to seems like a nice thing, because without them, crew wouldn't be able to get it done alone in one day. Prime example, Birdie's set. Even Godspell's.

I'm not trying to sound mean or put you down Sharon, cause I really do like you as a person. You just sound a little bitter without totally looking at both sides.

Although I totally agree with you about the schedualing of your meetings. But hey, I've always thought him to be an ass.

- Andrew

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[info]pyroweasel
2005-07-22 09:22 pm UTC (link)
Of course I was being unfair and stupid. Thats the entire point of bitching. You say what you feel even tho its stupid and unreasonable because youre in a shitty mood.

And yea, realistically, I didnt want the job in the first place. I'm mature enough to realize that the only reason it makes me sad is because ... of stupidness i cant put into words right now, and I was feeling bitchy. I'm actually on some level happy I got elected to my position because I know that I'm gonna not slack off and get the job done beter than it has been in a lil while.

And I'm not trying to prevent the leads from getting as many points out of jealousy. I'm not trying to prevent them from getting as many points at all. Maybe I should clarify what I meant, I mean that someone should be there to say this role is a lead role and this role is a supporting role, lest you have people who basically have supporting/cameo roles trying to take lead points. (for example, someone tried to take lead points in Caesar who had a relatively small sized role that was only in like 3 scenes)

But as someone whos worked on both sides of the curtain I think its stupid for actors to be getting full crew points for one day of work. I believe thats crap. Thats one day of a crew persons seven day commitment. I think giving an actor the full 2-3 points that a crew person gets for a full week of work for just working a day is unfair to the crew person.

Thats what I was talking about with adjusting the point system. Becuase other than that, I think its more or less okay. As for any and all Caroline related things, I've admitted before and I'll admit again, I am kinda jealous of her. But mostly because I've always thought she was a whole lot luckier than me. And shes had a lot of opprotunities that I wish I had. It dosent necesairly mean shes more committed than I am tho. Or less really to be fair.

And nothing else I would say is really relevant except for the fact that yea, I am a little bitter. But it's because I feel like I've put a lot into this whole organization without getting a lot back, and I keep on putting more and more into it. But I know that all I need to to is remember that I'm doing it because I love it and not to get any kind of recognition, or impress the people in charge so they can finally give me a that lets me explore my acting ability. But its sometimes hard not to feel at least a little bitter when the people in charge keep on telling you how wonderful you are and how they admire how hard you work, then repeatedly screw you over in a variety of ways. Like planning a meeting without me.

But sometimes I just feel like my spirit is being repeatdely crushed, so I just gotta whine about it to keep me sane. More or less sane anyway. It's not so much that I wasn't looking at both sides, its just that I get mad at myself when I'm too fair to a sitution when I'm trying to wallow in self pity. Sometimes I just have to get the feelings out, as stupid, pointless or unfounded as they might be.

But yea. I guess thats all thats relevant. And I know you werent trying to sound mean or anything. I just wanted to make sure you realize that I wasnt really trying to attack anyone or be really mad at anyone or anything, I was just really cranky. I've been cranky a lot lately. And for a lot of reasons.

This comment is too long. So its over now.

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(Anonymous)
2005-07-23 12:40 am UTC (link)
I see a bit better now what you were trying to say, although I still disagree on the crew points thing. I think if anything, they should get points for going to set/strike as well as fulfilling their duties, because set/strike is a big thing, especially the setting. I know they're required to go, but instead of giving everyone the same points, just allow them to get the same points as the actors that attend set/strike.

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