Thought that would be a nice warning.
The beginning of this week was long and difficult. I think Monday was probably the most relaxing of the week but thats only because MOST things hadn't quite started yet. The majority of my important schooling on Monday consisted of sound/lighting rehersals during Interval, Lunchtime and after school. Nikau Lip Syncing kicked off on monday and I have to admit, Monday was probably the most dissappointing Lip Syncing performance. After school, I had to stay back and help a group that would be performing on Thursday rehearse. Yay me?
On Tuesday, I had to get up early because I got a call from senior management saying somthing about "attitude talks" at school. I, naturally, still waking up and wanting to go have a shower, didn't really understand much about what whoever was on the line was talking about. By the time I arrived at school, I was pretty sure of two things:
1. My response to their request was something like: "Mrghmrbleghsuuuremrghblagoodbye". After that, I had my shower (Stuff coffee! Hot water FTW!)
2. I didn't have any attitude problems at the time, so what the heck were they talking about? If they wanted to talk to someone who had attitude issues, go find a druggie. They currently hang out in Jill Sweeny Block.
Of course, it about two hours later that I found out that it was some guy talking in the hall during period four about something. I didn't really care what it was about. I just got one of the year tens on the sound/lighting team to deal with it.
Naturally, though, this guy spent the WHOLE period talking. This gave me pretty much NO time to set up for Nikau Lip Syncing. Fun fun? Not really. But it got done, literally just in time. After school, I went to work. Now, dont get me wrong, I love work on tuesday. But I literally had no energy. I could see the warning screens in my head saying the following:
"Warning! Energy levels critically low! Opening emergency reserves!"
"Warning! Emergency reserves critically low! Seek relaxation before critical meltdown!"
"Warning! Approaching critical meltdown. ETA: Five Days"
"Warning! WHY ARE YOU NOT RELAXING YET?" Anyone smart will instantly recognise that in five days time, it would be the weekend. So hopefully I could get a short break. However, that didnt stop me from dragging myself around during the remaining week.
Wednesday was probably the most difficult. Assembly was as boring as usual, I spent interval in rehersals, Mr Attitude guy went overtime again and Nikau Lip Syncing was late. After school, I went straight to work. This is the day when I dont like work. Why? Because my entire group is made of energy excessive physcopathic little kids. Seriously, if I knew a way of SYPHONING the energy out of them, I'd have them hooked up to the machine 24/7 and the output plugged into me. After work, I had to run back down to school to do my drama assessment. For the sake of staying alive, I activated the emergency conversion systems:
"Activating conversion system: drawing energy from fat, regardless of importance. Estimated energy output: balanced with consumption"
This might seem werid to anyone else, but it's the process in which my body breaks down what little fat I have into pure energy at the same rate that I use it. It's a little painful but it keeps me going. Especially when under the hot lights for over twenty minutes. To make it worse, I was acting the part of a guy who had excessive energy. This was problematic. After the performance, I checked my weight and found that I lost about three kg.
Thursday was no better. Boring assembly, rehersal in hall during interval, Mr Attitude guy went overtime, nikau lipsyncing was late. However, I must admit that todays lip syncing was pretty awesome. On the plus side, I didnt have to do any more rehersals anymore! Yay! After school, I dumped my twenty kilogram bag in the drama room and got dinner from Subway.
Note to anyone who likes food: "Chicken and Bacon Ranch" from Subway is DIVINE. Especially if your in my position. I think it was the best thing I ate all week. Of course, it gave me enough energy to keep me alive. The problem arose when my drama performance began.
"Warning! Energy levels dangerously low! Conversion system inoperative due to lack of conversionable material!"
What did this mean? I means that all that Subway was used to repair all the damge that sustained during the week, also including physcological damage. I had used all the sustenance on staying alive a bit longer.
"Overriding security measures. Activating conversion system. Converting materials"
Screw the safety warning. Fortunately, I managed to get through my performance okay, but that wasnt without doing a less good job than Wednesday night. I crashed into bed and nearly threw my pillow at mum next morning when she wanted me to get up.
Friday was probably the best and worst day. It started great because I got an extra hour to sleep in! That meant an extra hour USING NO ENERGY! Probably not the most worthwhile thing since I was running on almost nothing already. Assembly got screwed up BIG TIME. As soon as I got to school, I was told that there was TWO assemblies - one was in the gym. Of course, they fortunately had a sound desk in the gym. However, once I got there, I found that some IDIOT had messed around with the sound desk and completely ripped it to shreds. I was about to fix it when Mr Merchant suddenly comes along and tells me not too, as he is sure that I am going to break it.
WHAT THE FRAK!!!!! I MEAN, COME ON! IM A FLIPPIN SOUND TECHNICIAN!!! FIXING THIS SORT OF THING IS MY JOB!!!! YOUR A P.E TEACHER WHO SPENDS HIS TIME RUNNING LAPS!!! WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS STUFF???
Ranting complete. In the end, I decided not to yell at him, but simply leave it and inform the dean that I couldnt get any sound gear for them because it was broken - beyond repair. (Look, if he wouldnt let me even attempt to fix it then there was no point in me fighting about it).
Fortunately, there was no rehersal in the hall during interval. Thank you God. You are awesome. Lunchtime was the Nikau Lipsyncing finals. I decided to skip 30mins of class and come early (Also to get some rest). Once everything was setup, we began and I have to admit, it was pretty cool. However, we just finished the final song and suddenly Mr Dykes comes onto the stage, rips a microphone from one of the MC's and says that everyone has to go to class. No, we could not find out who won even though this was the biggest event of the term (Screw mock exams) and no, we couldnt enjoy ourselves. He was booed off stage and bits of paper were thrown at him. In the end? We continued. STUDENT RIGHTS FTW!!!
The team that I had rehersed with all week didnt win, but I didnt really care. I just wanted a rest.
I got home, relaxed a bit, turned off the lights and went to bed early. A fly attempted to annoy me but I jammed him in the ranch slider door. I wasnt in a good mood. He isnt now, because he is dead.
And in the end?
"Energy levels normalising - Restocking emergency reserves - Enacting repairs"
"Estimted final energy levels: Duration - three weeks"
Except I have mock exams this week.
Dammit.
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