Over!

I'm done! No work today, no work tomorrow, a whole week where I can
sleep and watch movies and explore Scotland and do whatever!

Some statistics from the past month: Since I arrived, July 19th, I
have had 3 days off and worked night shift 9 days. I have no idea how
many hours I worked, but I imagine it averages to something like 10
hours per work day. That would be about 410 hours then? Over the
course of the festival I saw 3 shows outside of C venues (the company
I worked for) and 43 shows in C but outside the space where I was a
technician. In my space I saw 21 of the 22 shows that showed over the
course of the festival, so a total of 77 individual shows. If you
factor in the shows where I was the operator and those shows I saw
multiple times, I saw a total of 104 performances over 27 days, for an
average of 3.85 shows/day. One show I saw in -1, Honk!, I saw in two
halves. The first time was their dress rehearsal when I got pulled
out to work, the second time was the last day, when I sat in on all my
shows. I ended up dozing through the first half, since I'd already
seen it. Another show that I supposedly saw, The Positive Hour, I
completely forget. Maybe if someone who knew it jogged my memory I'd
recall bits and pieces, but right now, virtually nothing. I do
remember being really tired when I saw it though. The show I saw the
most times was Mazaika, the accordianist and violinist in -1, since
they were there for the entire festival, always needed an operator,
and were on during days. I saw them a total of 13 times.

Well, that's all the stats for now. Yesterday morning we all finished
packing and cleaning the apartment and moved our stuff out to main C.
The apartment should be in pretty good shape, except I let someone in
another flat borrow my duvet (she didn't get it back to me in time)
and I didn't have time to reattach all the pneumatic door closers that
are required on every door for fire safety (the constantly slamming
doors got oppressive quickly, I disconnected most of them pretty early
on). After finishing some work for the day, a little cable striking
here, lifting there, cleaning elsewhere, I turned in my key, bade my
farewells, went out for tea with a few people, then moved over to my
friend Brian's flat, just 10 minutes up the main road. It's nice, and
somehow feels more like the other times I've been in the UK. I'm no
longer surrounded by theater people all the time, I think that's part
of it, and it's more spacious and there's a subtle smell that somehow
seems familiar. Anyway, as I may have mentioned, I know Brian from
the Boland School, the TEFL training school in China, where we were
students together. He's just finished his computer science masters
degree at the University of Edinburgh. Today I've mostly just been
doing e-mail, repacking, and we watched the second two Back to the
Future movies (we watched the first last night). I haven't seen them
in ages. Anyway, time to sleep until whenever I wake up. Sweet.