ZOMG EVENTS CRAM 1
Because I was too lazy to update after they actually happened.
11-2-07: TIC Leopard Party
Anyways, Tansen and I dumped our backpacks at home, then BARTed to Berkeley and arrived at People’s to find Alex, Max, Dennis, and Tiff. Of course we hadn’t though to keep our backpacks just so we could use waiting time to do homework. Alex, Max and Dennis had laptops, and Tiff was writing something. Tansen occupied himself with a sandwich that was, like, rapidly deteriorating inside the foil, and…I forget what I was doing. I know I got a drink. o.O
Brandon came next, and kudos to Janvi, who got lost on the way. XP Frank came too. We spent about an hour:
- on the holiday Coke can tower (our Christmas tree)
- watching Brandon, who ordered a regular chicken wrap and a spicy chicken wrap that somehow came as another regular, eat the first and get partway through the second before swapping with Frank
- watching Alex’s laptop manage to cause hardware to malfunction
Rofl.
After that we went to Vivian’s and crashed for a while. I was hecka tired, so I dozed off while they were playing Settlers. I woke up when Alex walked by and said, “Hey, Alina fell asleep!” I have an automatic wake-up response when I hear someone say my name. From class, you know. XD Trev dropped by too, with frozen yogurt ice cream. He didn’t finish, and asked us if we wanted some. Next time bring real ice cream, Trev. Then we’ll help you finish it ;P.
It was fun! My favorite event of this get-together was just seeing everyone again. I’ve been pining after the summer so much this school year, so it was nice just to be able to get a little part of that again.
11-10-07: ICE volunteer event
ICE’s first volunteer event of the year! I think nine of us met up at school, but we only had rides for 8, but it turned out okay because one guy volunteered to stay behind. We drove down to Oakland, I think to the west side, and for the next few hours we packaged food in boxes. They already had all these jars and bags, ready to be packed. All we had to do was stack boxes one on top of another, 9 per layer, and make sure one of everything got into each box.
At first, Dijnee and I worked with another group from Berkeley High. I can’t say we were very efficient - more than once, we had to reopen sealed boxes because they were missing things. At the end, we had two jars left, so we had to go through every box to find out which ones were missing those two things. When we finally finished, Dijnee and I went to help the rest of the ICE people finish their boxes. That went much more smoothly - we only had to do everything once, and it went by fast.
I think it went well. It felt productive anyways. :)
11-10-07: Antigone
I’ve never actually seen the entire play through. I’ve only run the sound board once during practice, but it was only about 3/4 into the play when I had to leave.
It was fantastic! It’s a big change from watching it during rehearsal to watching the real thing. I’ve seen the scenes so many times, but they were just as enrapturing to me as to anyone in the audience.
Richard got a big kick out of watching me jump when Erik jumped out behind me and shouted.
Luckily I didn’t miss my cue this time. I was late once, but it was a vague cue, so it didn’t really matter whether it came before or after the line. This weekend I only did the first half of the play - next week I should be running the second half.
Hopefully some TIC people will be watching? ;P