Tuesday Answers

Shane asked about my daily schedule. Right now, I haven't fully taken over the job, but I've been shadowing the current band master fairly frequently. It seems that when I take over, I wake up, head into the office to work on the schedule for the next day. For the most part this has already been set. I know what production shows are going on (there are 2 evening slots) and what rehearsals are needed for them. Outside of that, it's a matter of scheduling the various individual acts in the little lounges around the ship. This, too, remains failry consistent day to day.

After I'm done in the office, I'm usually good until either 4:30 or 6:30, depending on whether there needs to be a full rehearsal of that night's show. Then, we do the shows. So, the busiest part of the day is from 6:30 on when I could be working each hour until about 10:30. Though, the shows are only an hour each, so after the 7:30 show, I have alittle break. The middle of the day is most open.

I've been going to the staff gym after the last show, after practicing a bit. This makes it harder to get up early since I could be in the gym until well after midnight.

I know my mom had a bunch of questions, but i don't really remember what they were...guess she'll have to wait until next monday ;c) ..or email me.

Oh, and my new weekly ritual is to call Bridgett and Shane on Skype! I haven't been able to get it to work from the ship calling phone numbers, but last night I connected to them using skype. I even got the video to send for a minute, so they could see my cabin.

As far as pictures, everything freezes due to bandwidth, so I might have to wait until I come home.