March 12, 2012

  • Kill Daylight Savings Time

    I'd like to personally punch and/or slap the person who invented Daylight Savings Time.

    Could the U.S. PLEASE grow up now and get rid of the change in time twice a year??  Could we just stay on Daylight Savings Time year round?  We are no longer a farming based society and life is pretty much 24/7 in this country now, so let's grow up and join most of the rest of the civilized world (Asia does not have Daylight Savings Time) and get rid of this old-fashioned notion.

    I am sick of feeling sick & tired for at least a week after "Spring Forward."  And no, it does NOT help that this is Hell Week.

    11 hours at the theatre yesterday.  Still feels like disaster.  No one is being body miked in this show.  Don't get why.  The first time our orchestra (or Lack Of Orchestra - I'll call them LOO from now on) played last week, the monitors aimed at us onstage were TOO loud and yesterday they were too low.  Everything was off.  Also, why was the band called for our cue-to-cue, resulting in half of them (read: two of them) going home before our first actual run-through?  Having the drummer for the cue-to-cue, even though we did only a few of the songs, made a huge difference.  But who calls the band for the cue-to-cue anyway?  Have them there for the actual first costumed run-through, not the cue-to-cue! 

    Oy.

    So after losing an hour's sleep and being at the theatre 11 hours, I had to drive out to the Giant Eagle grocery store in Bainbridge because the one right in our sleepy little town was already closed at 9pm on a Sunday night.  And what happened??  It wasn't until I got all the way to the Bainbridge store that I realized I'd left my jacket at the theatre - my jacket with my wallet inside.  It was 11:15pm.  Had to drive all the way back to the theatre - luckily someone was still there when I called to say I needed to come back.  Picked up the jacket and decided that since it was so late, I needed to get the dog.  I'd come home at dinner time to walk and feed him, but I felt like I'd really neglected him being gone so long yesterday, so I went home and got him and asked if he wanted to go for a ride, which made him very happy.  Got my groceries, drove back home, got into bed after midnight and my dog decided he had to bark at some imagined sound around 1am.  A very stern "Quiet!" was all I figured he needed, but he did it again about 2am, so I got his bark collar (sprays citronella whenever he barks).  Both times he barked, I was in that state of almost asleep.  Thanks to his barking, I got a total of about 3 hours sleep.  I am NOT happy.

    So, f___ you Daylight Savings Time.