Sorry readers for the delay. Sometimes it takes a fire alarm to get your ass in gear... so two weeks back in and so far i've seen some pretty ugly sides to both my education and more recently,god-damn-drunken-womb-clingy-dregs-of-the-gene-pool, erm... my living arrangements.
So far my time back has taught me how much i hate schism...or more lightly gossip. It hit me yesterday how much that's been eating at me and how inescapable it's going to be in this career. It seems that every theatre techician is going to know every other theatre technician's relationship status, who hates who, every quip and quarrell anyone has on any crew, or whatever else made high school complicated. Being the backwards individual i am i almost completely avoided that drama in high school so i'm not equipped to handle it just yet i guess. I suppose it's something i'm going to have to grow into and then out of. hopefully not. I enjoyed dodging that bullet. Maybe i just have my back up because i feel hard done by for being stuck into two soft crews in a row. Guess being short and weak and dare i say dainty doesn't a carpenter make. Could just be the fact that i'm on the other side of a few opinions among the general populace. Still just a rough spot though, theatre is where i belong and no one for the good nor the bad is really going to do a hell of a lot about it. Looking back on it maybe is just people in general I don't like. hmm...
Anyway I've decided that a list of do's and do not's for living in a building with a thousand other people might help others avoid living in college residences.
1. Do become aware of the fact that in high concentrations people of any age tend to become stupid. Stupidty leads to lots of messes that will have their own categories.
2. Don't assume that because you would like the place you live to be pleasent that others will agree. In large concentrations people tend to prefer the opposite. Gotta love that bystander effect!
3. Do pest proof your living arragements. People are gross. they bring their bugs with them. Pest proofing should also include sound proofing and a shut the fuck up stick that you can use to hit the walls, ceiling, floor, window, to make noisy neighbours do just that...shut the fuck up. You should also conceal any indication to pests...i mean... outsiders that you live where you live, they will come to your door when you are hung over among other things. Normally at times when you don't want them there basically.
4.Do Fire proof your living arrangements. Yes. People in high concentrations are stupid. Stupid people can't be trusted with any sort of combustables. your fire proofing should also include sprinkler proofing. Tonight I have learned from other's misfortune to keep EVERYTHING off the floor.
5. Just don't live in a building that houses more than say... five people...
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