#lx tech

[cptapathy]

Biblically accurate stage light

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

Absolute SHIT CUNT of a bump out shift tonight 😩 goooooo fuck yourself whoever designed this godforsaken Christmas show

Rostered 9pm-1am, finished 1.30am even though we hadn't actually gotten around to completing everything because there was only 4 of us and our head tech. Didn't get home until nearly 2.30am

Sweated buckets. Smell terrible. Derigging giant fuck off movers that were SO FUCKING HEAVY. Had to CARRY them with another person down dozens of flights of stairs because they didnt give us any winch operators, and then I carried another smaller but no less awful mover down those same stairs just by myself. Hands are rubbed raw. Feel like I've done five weeks worth of arm exercise in one night. And the rest of my body is already feeling like I got hit by a truck

Tomorrow is going to h u r t 💀💀

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

Working on a Dracula production at work this week, and even though it's NOT this production, all I can think about is the one with ✨️ these fuckin guys ✨️

As I'm working 😆

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

My coworker and I were running out of things to do on a maintenance shift at work the other week, so we went on a side quest through the little-used utilities basement that neither of us had been into before, looking for dead work lights to replace. I felt like I was in a level of The Last of Us

Genuinely half expected to turn a corner and see a body sitting against the wall spreading the fungus out from it. Anyway 10/10 adventure would do it again :D

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

APPARENTLY I get to do some lighting console training next fortnight I think

Which is at least a little bit exciting, because I enjoyed doing the console work while I was at uni and because I DO want to learn the consoles in this venue, but also I'm scared of looking like an idiot and making stupid mistakes, because it's been 7 years since I last touched a console, and also I feel like my general learning and knowledge of theatre lighting, even of everyday terms and words, is so far behind what is expected of me in this job

Like there hasn't really been any formal training at all, even to see if I'm up to speed or where I need to work on, and I've had to scramble to remember things or learn on the job from my coworkers when it's needed.... idk I don't want to sound ungrateful because if I had to choose from a handful of 'perfect jobs', this would be one of them, and I'm very lucky that I got the position in the first place

I just feel really lost while at work a lot of the time, like I haven't learnt or re-learnt as much as I should have for being in this position. Ugh :/ fingers crossed the training shift goes relatively smoothly

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

I do a mighty fine job of fucking up my sleep schedule all on my own, sponsored by such classics as: video game hyperfixations; and THEN, once every handful of months, I get saddled with a shift at work that starts at 5am, meaning I'll need to wake up at least as early as 3.30am

Thank FUCK it's only a four hour shift max. I could even get lucky and we finish early. But jesus I'm not exactly looking forward to it aye..

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

Had to wake up at 2.45am to get to work for a 4am start, and I look and feel exactly like you'd expect someone who only managed to get 4ish hours sleep to look and feel like

I'm only at work till 8am, but I'm also still getting over a cold I caught at the beginning of the week so I'm just gonna have to try not to cough up a lung from strenuous physical activity

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

Nothing better than being told you can go home from work early AND still get paid for the last hour, plus all of the downtime from the shift while you were waiting around for something to do

Gonna get a coffee and go look at the game store and book store in the city bc it's a nice afternoon :)