For some reason, I just have to be different. After all - there cab only be one Lighting Engineer.

We’re doing a play again at school. The Sound of Music, this year. (Anyone paying attention will have noticed that my school always does a play this time of year - look in the archive for proof :P ) Yet again, I’m doing lighting, and Tom is doing sound. This time, though, nothing seemed to go right. The lights weren’t plotted - a guy was meant to come in on Monday or Tuesday to do it, and he did not. Webnesday came around. He also did not show. My teacher (rightly) got rather irritated with this, and allowed us to turn them on and plot them ourselves. With a little fiddling, I did so. The next day, Thursday, he showed and faffed around for a bit - unable to fix our sound problem, he put some scenes into memory for us (thankfully, he didn’t screw that up too badly.) Today, we recieve the radio mics for the actors, which worked perfectly, and while setting those up, we fixed the sound problem as well. I’ve got the scenes written down now, so I know what to do. The acting and music side of things is brilliant. So everything finally comes together. No thanks to that electrician.

After school today, Tom asked me a question that really made me think - even though it was only a simple  and innocent question… if the prom were to be soon rather than next July, who would I ask? Naturally, I have to wonder who I’d ask… and it kinda struck me that like Ben said once:

 ”I can’t think of anyone  in this school who you really “click” with, if you know what I mean.”

He’s absolutely right. There is no-one at school who I really get on well with and share interests. Of course, it occurs to me now that 60-70% of the school have the same problem. You would never find a perfect match for anyone with only 160 people.

It’s still kinda depressing, though - it brings me nicely to what seems to be the case around here: I’m tolerated, not liked.

Posted 1 year ago