The eyeliner monologues

Hmm. Midsummer is kind of getting sloppy again... probably amounts to overconfidence earlier. This isn't so good, though, cause our first show is on Wednesday. Two more rehearsals to fix it.

Yeah, opening day is Wednesday. We're doing two shows for the 8th graders and freshmen. So, two shows in the normal school day. I get out of all my classes, though, so it's all good. I guess. And then shows on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Today was technical stuff, basically. Makeup, Hair, Costumes, Tech, Lights, Sound, the works. We had a 4.5 hour rehearsal, and we didn't even get through the whole show. Mostly because the first three were people getting on makeup. There was some pretty elaborate stuff. Mine was just normal makeup. Base, Shadow, Eyeliner. Oh, yes, eyeliner.

Turns out I have improved at putting stage makeup on (I'm not entirely sure how) since last year. It actually looked somewhat natural (by natural I mean similar to neither Marylin Manson nor a plastic mannequein), and it was a lot easier to get off today. No screams of pain, even. Turns out baby wipes work just as well as soap at getting off the eyeliner, with a lot less pain. This... is good. So, I don't have to complain about stage makeup anymore. Huzzah. Woohoo. Yay.

Spent the majority of the remaining afternoon doing yard work for the neighbors. Climbed up on the roof, cleaned out the gutters with the leaf-blower (and after a while my hands, cause no matter how hard you try, pine needles do not blow out of gutters easily), blew some leaves, raked the rest... all in all, two and a half hours, which at $12 and hour amounts to $30. I am suddenly less poor. This... is good.

Anyway, now I'm in veg-mode... again. I haven't driven anywhere since tuesday. I'm itching. That's really strange.