26 Hours

I spent 26 hours this past week working as an over-hire at SCR. An over-hire is the term assigned to people who are hired to work in the shop or electrics world in addition to the people that are on staff. In my case I was working with lighting in the electrics world. At SCR there are three people that are considered staff in this department. One master electrician for both theatre spaces and then an additional person that would be termed the master electrician's assistant/board operator for each theatre space; in the case of SCR this equals three full time staff members. Over hires are added to the crew when building a show and sometimes to operate spot lights and other special things that may be needed for a production. Basically I spent Tuesday and Wednesday hanging and cabling lights, Thursday was spent making snowflakes painted on backdrops sparkle with Christmas Lights and Friday was spent focusing all the lights we hung. I got lucky and was asked by the designer to be an extra body on stage so he could essentially focus two lights at a time which meant I got paid to stand around Friday night. It made our 6pm-Midnight time frame much more bearable. I think I only actually touched 4 lights yesterday which was a nice break considering the bruises I gave my self the previous 3 days. I was told I did very well - hopefully that means I will be hired in the future if opportunities work with my intern schedule.
On Wednesday we finished early and I got stuck in traffic driving home. It always amazes me how many cars can be on the freeways at one time. At one point I was stopped for the duration of 4 songs on the radio. Somewhere during song 2 I realized I was right next to this:

Thats right - Long Beach:

 population 492,652

elevation: 29