07-29-21 I wanna be a Producer..
Putted around this morning getting ready for my guests this evening and then jumped in the car with my recycle which if course I forgot to drop off. I did remember to go to UPS and send the 6 packs of smokes I had to buy for my last mystery shop to the head office. They make it easy by sending a printable label. It is interesting that the UPS depot is at the Dollar store now. Fairly easy to go to between 9 and 5:30 and the staff there are lovely. I noticed a lovely photo moment when I passed by the board room today at work so of course I had to stop and take a picture! I had a good laugh when I saw a post from a friend and had to send it by text to my friend whose floor I most recently ended up on. We had a good chuckle.
I really worked hard, so hard that I didn’t eat properly today. I arranged with the guests to meet outside my work so I could guide them through the crazy detour that is the way to my house now. Vanessa and Cameron are very nice, somewhere north of me in age and have a great vibe. I gave them a quicky tour, suggested they do takeout from Family Thai and headed out. There is a vast amount of trust needed in this game. You either just trust or don’t bother. I admit this is the first time I have gone out while there were people here in the evening but I have had to leave for work before others have gone in the morning. Of course if I had been home when the last guests left, they may not have gotten away with my vintage towel.
I made it to the Directors meeting in perfect timing and we all headed to Shenanigans again. Funny to be there twice in a week after not going to a bar in eons. The three directors, production manager and I met to discuss the upcoming season. I am now the producer for the second show with a new director to the theatre. Duncan Chalmers is cool and we joked about being on our first date as we were interviewing each other to see what we brought to the table and if we had good initial feelings about working together. The joke continued as I said he got the trifecta, a Treasurer, Tech Director and Actor/Director for a Producer.
It was so nice to once again hang with these peeps as we all work toward a very successful season. I also love that the Chalmers name holds a special place in my heart. Arvid Chalmers was one of my favourite friends on Salt Spring Island.
Arvid Grotlin Chalmers, 1947-2016
I am excited about the position, I am taking back what I had to give up while I was standing at Stonehenge on Friday the 13th 2019. This is a new time and season. Slowly I will look to replace myself as Treasurer and likely Tech Director as I move more into Directing and Acting, the two things that I have done for free, for pay, for love for over 45 years! I sometimes wonder if in an ego driven world, I do myself a disservice by not flaunting my theatrical resumé. I hear others do it regularly but it always sits wrong with me. I shall be judged by what I do now. AND I shall help to make this season a very successful one at CCT.
I just loved the warning about the grasshopper in my garden.
triumphgal 