I have no life

This week basically sucked. Between rehearsals and work, there really hasn’t been much time for anything else. So much for taking a break and “just working a day job.” My one day off this week, President’s day, ended up being just another work day. Mark, our conductor for Butterfly, is stressing out a bit about the whole production. So we, the Pineda siblings plus “the white one,” Val, were Mark’s bitches for the day. We were each given a set of orchestra parts to edit and notate per Mark’s instructions as he determined how to re-orchestrate “bare” moments in the score. Yes, it was just as exciting as it sounds. Don’t get me wrong, we were happy to help out. It was just that this particular work session followed a full 40-plus hour work week at the office, a three hour Friday night rehearsal, a Saturday filled with prop shopping, an extremely long and uneven high school production of South Pacific and a five hour Sunday rehearsal. By the time Monday afternoon rolled around (which got us through about three quarters of the first act of the score) we had lost Val to cyberspace and Trish to the seemingly more exciting prospect of writing and emailing press releases. Sad, huh? I’m so looking forward to Thursday when I finally get an evening off, having had Butterfly rehearsals both nights this week after work. Oh, to be a normal, lazy, overweight American.