I've told lots of people how spoiled we are with our meal service, but reading  jss1113's latest entry made me realize that I've never mentioned it in here. That and the discussion last night in the parking lot after the show of the 10-15 pounds every employee puts on.

For starters, much like Google our meals are free to employees ( Read more... )

For those of us who enjoy pain (i.e. other SMs :)), my current show has ( Read more... )

Surprisingly, we survived opening! And at the moment the director and my crew are all still alive, although that could change with the director by the end of next weekend if she doesn't stop telling me what to do after every performance. We did have to postpone opening, something that has never happened before in the more than 50 producions I've ( Read more... )

Can someone remind again me why I do this to myself ( Read more... )

I just got back yesterday morning from a whirlwind trip to NYC.  Not a bad trip overall, I had tickets to Spamalot, enjoyed dinner at Babbo(Mario Batali's restaurant), and finally got a good look at ground ( Read more... )

Ah, the joys of working for the movie biz -- I just got out of a showing of Episode III ( Read more... )

I'm just taking a break from my morning of helping to hang lights at the theatre (that's another story -- I'm not even working this show). As I sit here typing, I hear the usual crashes and bangs from across the street drifting in through an open window. I forgot -- that's the one problem around here with summer ( Read more... )

I left out my favorite part -- it's been in the mid 80s most of the day in my cube. Between the data center air handler failure on Wed, and the main building air handler being down most of last night and today, I'm starting to wonder what is so difficult about air conditioning ( Read more... )

My head is about to explode, my eyes want to fall out, and I'm going to fall asleep before either of those can happen ( Read more... )

So I got to start my morning with some minor entertainment on the train. No, not the usual private school kid entertainment, most of them were missing and the rest were plugged into their walkmans. Instead I got to experience a George Carlin flashback from some of the announcements this morning ( Read more... )