A mission for Mediocrity

OH! Wye Mills Maryland so much to say. Once upon a time we were at Chesapeake College, and it was quite the experience. Our Crew consisted of a Tech Director that knew nothing about tech. (pause-mini story time: After being asked where the student union was, so we could watch the inauguration, He had the audacity to say: “oh it’s right over there, I almost forgot that was happening today.” Regardless if you hate Obama and/or didn’t vote for him, it’s kind of one of the most historical events of our life time. “I almost forgot that was happening today” is not a valid response.) Back to the list: A woman in her late 30’s wearing heals at a load in who only knew how to talk in a whiney voice reminiscent of a 4 year-old child. Her boyfriend. A man with a British accent, and really long hair paired with a bald spot that made him resemble Gollum. His girlfriend. Rick our mid 40’s less than punctual crewmember, and poor Thomas who tried so hard to be useful. This crew, or as I liked to call them “The island of misfit toys” was running strong for the award of most useless crew. Which is saying a lot since they were competing against Long Island City’s crew, who were trying to be useless. Among there uselessness was a stage without a loading gallery, which is the dumbest design for a theatre I’ve ever seen.
On top of having to load in with the Island of Misfit Toys we were all becoming quite hangry. If you don’t recall from our earlier blogs, hangry is the emotion one feels when they are so hungry they become angry. After a long day of driving and loading in the set, food, doing laundry for the show (cause they didn’t have a washing machine…typical), and some Brothers & Sister watching, we all went to bed. Unfortunately we slept only to be awakened at 7:00am. Not by choice friends. No, no we did not have a show till 10:30. The woman in charge, Cathleen, called every one of our rooms in search Mark. First off the only name close to that is Matt, but the person she really was looking for was Dave. After going down the line calling everyone’s hotel room at 7 in search of Dave, she revealed her reason for calling. She felt that 7 am was a good time to let us know that because the hotel had a continental breakfast they weren’t going to provide any hospitality. None at all between our 10:30 am show and our 7:00 pm show followed by a load out. You could imagine we were far from pleased. So upon her sitting down in the tech booth to watch the 10:30 am show, Matt our amazing TD, passive aggressively told the other TD of our troubles. Being woken up early just to find out there was going to be no food for our little tummies. Prior to our second show there was a mystery platter of veggies, cookies, and pretzels. Now, whether the great Landini magiced this food for us, or this woman Cathleen got the picture is up for debate.
There was no time to actually get dinner since this college was a good 15 minutes away from any civilization. So I took it upon myself to order us some pizza from Dominos to be delivered right at the end of the show. I made it a point to insure that they had my cell phone number and to call me when they were there. I am a very antsy boy so when the pizza was not there on time at 8:10 I went looking in the lobby. The delivery woman was in a kitchen in the middle of a cooking class trying to find the owners of the pizza. Why a cooking class would order a pizza from Dominos is beyond my logic. She did not have the logic to call my cell upon her arrival, so I don’t know why the later surprised me. To top off her genius abilities, she didn’t have a pen for me to sign the bill. Which should have been a given, considering I paid with a card. Did she think I was going to sign it with her lipstick? Maybe a Crayon?
In conclusion there must have been a lot of stupidity in the water of these parts. I mean they were giving it away practically. My friends this may just seam like a long blog of Dany bitching about some dumb people. “Like get over it Dany.” But friends I say “NAY!”
The reason for stupidity can be made quite clear through the mission statement of the school that we were so lucky to stumble upon:
Chesapeake College
VISION: Chesapeake College will prepare students as independent learner who are intellectually competent, technologically proficient, skilled in the application of learning, and who share the values and common goals of our civic culture.
A.K.A: Chesapeake College will prepare student for a life of meritocracy not only in intelligence but with life skills as well, so that one day they will be properly trained to server the world… in fast food establishments across America.

~Dany