8:30 am- Stumble out the door grumbling about how cold it is and how we should find friends that drive this early. Walk to Campus
9:00 am- Walk into the HFAC and the Makeup Room a.k.a HOME. It's a beautiful place filled with happiness. Janet laughs at my hiccups and we work on stylized makeup- airbrush edition. Avant Garde and stuff like that, i was a bumble bee-my partners design, mine is on Thursday. The airbrush makeup dyed my bangs orange for the rest of the day. oh joy.
11:00 am- Walk into work and party basically for the next 4 hours. Get cross-trained in Tech and make buddies in a department i've never really ventured into. Also found out that Tech has the exact same training as us...but they are all just secret genius'. I love my work.
3:00 pm- Go to my Acting class, back in the HFAC and take a midterm. Which was basically our opinions on how the class is going. Easy peasy. Also watched my TA perform his audition pieces, which was sick. Then got told by Chelsi(a girl in my class and a co-designer for the opera) that Cosi Fan Tutti is starting tonight and we need to be there by 5...i thought it started next week. oh joy.
5:00 pm- Right after class Chelsi and i go to the Green Room under the DeJong concert hall and the actors begin to trickle in. I worked mostly with the guys, main ones and chorus members Guys putting on makeup is seriously my favourite thing in the world, they have no idea what they are doing and basically worship me. It's a hard life, i tell ya. My Philosopher kept giving me sass, but when he figured out i spoke and understood a little Spanish we became friends. The others would wave me over to help them figure out how to do highlights and shadows. I was helping one guy- mind you, i am in their dressing room, but there is a whole other section they can get dressed in...- and my philosopher shouts for me not to look to my right because he's changing. not even in the part where you can change, but just straight up to the right of me. i laughed so hard because i would have had no idea if he hadn't told me because i was so caught up in makeup. Then they started singing, and i was blown away. I then realized once again that i was doing makeup for an OPERA.
While the actors were singing their hearts out Chelsi and i were watching from the audience and criticizing their makeup. Eventually we got bored and went back to the green room and played MASH. Gotta love 6th grade. Apparently I'm marrying Matt, one of the chorus members, i told him- he's down.
I was super tired so i curled up on the floor and took a cat nap. Chelsi thought it was pretty funny how i just curl up in the fetal position.
11:00 PM ish- Charls comes to study and also to drive me home because i'm still in the HFAC. At this point we are just waiting for the rehearsal to be over so we can clean everything and go home.
Also- i started singing Fly by Sugar Ray, then stopped and one of the chorus men/peasants/soldiers finished it and kept singing the rest of it to me. It was a beautiful moment.
12:20 AM- Finally get home. Tired as heck, but writing a blog post.
And that my friends, is a day in the life of Emily.
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