no pix yet

i'm still trying to figure out the posting pix thing. aaggghhh! some days, i hate being me. i have trouble understanding the steps, and it's so frustrating. i guess i'll have to get someone to show me first, then i'll be able to do it....i hope. gee, this looks good for school. if i can't figure out how to post a stupid pic, how am i gonna remember all the stuff i have to do for classes?

the fringe experience

spent a week working at the fringe drama festival. did not enjoy the experience at all. i like working with the mendel, but the 25th street theatre organization was horrible to deal with. they made it virtually impossible for volunteers to see shows, due to the ridiculous limitations they imposed. such as you could only book the day of the performance, and since there were advance sales, often the really good shows were already sold out beforehand. and the organizers "reserved the right" to sell the specified number of volunteer seats. (i've always hated that term "reserved the right"....very vague, and makes sure that the organization can do whatever they want anyway, since they've reserved that right to do so). what really made me angry was the way they handled my complimentary tickets, which i won from a tv station. when i went to the venue to redeem them, they wouldn't honour them. said they were all sold out. so they hadn't held back seats that had already been purchased for the giveaway. i was told i could go to another play...which is not what i wanted. i won the tickets, so i could go see the play i wanted to, and was unable to with my volunteer pass. i bumped into someone from the board of directors, and they wouldn't let her use her superpass (which is supposed to cover all plays, all the time)! so it's more about the bottom line, 25th street, isn't it? they just want to sell the seats...as i discovered, they make $2 for each seat sold above a certain number. so they don't care about the volunteers, or honouring comps. i was really mad. made quite a scene in the box office in victoria school. guess they weren't prepared to deal with my raging temper!